{"id":22816,"date":"2023-02-07T14:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T19:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=22816"},"modified":"2023-06-22T13:11:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T17:11:54","slug":"announcing-my-next-book-the-complete-guide-to-amigurumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/announcing-my-next-book-the-complete-guide-to-amigurumi\/","title":{"rendered":"announcing my next book: The Complete Guide to Amigurumi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u2728 The <del datetime=\"2023-06-22T17:08:09+00:00\">Complete<\/del> Essential Guide to Amigurumi:\u00a0COMING LATE 2023 \u2728<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Since writing this post, the title of my book has now changed to <strong>The Essential Guide to Amigurumi<\/strong>. I&#8217;m keeping the old title in the remainder of this post, but &#8216;The Complete Guide to Amigurumi&#8217; is now &#8216;The Essential Guide to Amigurumi&#8217;<\/em> \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/planetjune.com\/list\/?p=subscribe&amp;id=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sign up here<\/a> to be the first to know when it&#8217;s available for pre-order!<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>In 2010, I wrote a best-selling amigurumi reference book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/the-complete-idiots-guide-to-amigurumi\/\">The Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to Amigurumi<\/a>, filled with tips and techniques for making and customizing amazing crocheted toys. Although now out of print, it was the definitive reference guide to amigurumi techniques. To this day, it&#8217;s the only book of its kind, but it&#8217;s now very dated:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was printed in black and white on lower quality paper (that&#8217;s what how-to books were like, back in the day!)<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s missing a dozen years of amigurumi innovations and recommendations that I&#8217;ve come up with since then.<\/li>\n<li>It was saddled with an unfortunate name (Idiot&#8217;s Guide) that made it sound like I believe you to be an idiot, when <em>nothing<\/em> could be further from the truth.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s been out of print for a couple of years now, and as a result the price for the remaining copies, even used copies, is ridiculously high.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gone through the long process of getting the rights back for my content, and now that&#8217;s sorted, I can finally create the amigurumi reference book of my dreams!<\/p>\n<h2>ANNOUNCING: The Complete Guide to Amigurumi<\/h2>\n<p><b>The Complete Guide to Amigurumi<\/b> will be crammed full of all my techniques and recommendations for making fantastic amigurumi, with close-up step-by-step photos, clear, concise instructions, and a variety of adorable and original amigurumi patterns to experiment with.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a mockup of a few pages &#8211; if you&#8217;re familiar with CIG to Amigurumi, you can see how completely different (and 100% better) this book will be, even before I add all the new and updated content:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/CGA_samplespread.jpg\" alt=\"sample spreads from the upcoming book The Complete Guide to Amigurumi by June Gilbank\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m uniquely qualified to write this book:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been a pioneer of amigurumi since the days it first emerged from the shores of Japan.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a prolific amigurumi designer at PlanetJune, with over 200 <a href=\"\/shop\">unique nature-inspired patterns<\/a> to date.<\/li>\n<li>My background as a technical writer allows me to create exceptionally clear and accurate crochet patterns and tutorials.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been developing and refining amigurumi techniques since 2007, and I continually come up with new <a href=\"\/help\">tips and techniques<\/a> to improve your amigurumi.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m an expert in amigurumi instruction, with over 100k YouTube subscribers to my <a href=\"\/youtube\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PlanetJune amigurumi tutorial channel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m an experienced instructional craft book author with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/publications-and-media\/\">4 previous titles<\/a> published with Quirk Books, Alpha Books and DK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I know I have what it takes to make this book a reality. Even so, I have a lot of work ahead of me over the course of this year, to bring my concept to life. I&#8217;m one month in at this point, and things are progressing well, as I hope you can tell from the sample spreads above!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Complete Guide to Amigurumi<\/strong> will be an essential companion for your amigurumi journey, whether you&#8217;re looking for a beginner&#8217;s guide, searching for tips to improve your results, or even considering getting into amigurumi design yourself! I&#8217;ll be compiling my expertise on all these topics into a high-quality reference book that you&#8217;ll refer back to again and again.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to bring this book to you, and I hope you&#8217;re as excited as I am to see it brought into the world!<\/p>\n<p><em>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/planetjune.com\/list\/?p=subscribe&amp;id=6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for updates<\/a> now and I&#8217;ll send you quarterly(ish) updates on how the book is progressing, with sneak peeks and info on how you can be the first to pre-order The Complete Guide to Amigurumi &#8211; and maybe even join the book launch team this fall!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2728 The Complete Essential Guide to Amigurumi:\u00a0COMING LATE 2023 \u2728 UPDATE: Since writing this post, the title of my book has now changed to The Essential Guide to Amigurumi. I&#8217;m keeping the old title in the remainder of this post, but &#8216;The Complete Guide to Amigurumi&#8217; is now &#8216;The Essential Guide to Amigurumi&#8217; \ud83d\ude42 Sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft-business"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23098,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22816\/revisions\/23098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}