{"id":2840,"date":"2010-04-13T13:44:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T17:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2023-04-04T16:25:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T20:25:28","slug":"crochet-for-bears-blog-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/crochet-for-bears-blog-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"crochet for bears blog tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quick aside first: have you noticed I&#8217;ve made a favicon for PlanetJune? It was a challenge coming up with something recognisable at such a small size, so I just made a little bear in my site colours:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/favicon.png\" alt=\"planetjune favicon\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I think it&#8217;s cute! I hope it&#8217;ll help people to spot PlanetJune in the vast sea of websites out there. That&#8217;s one more task I can cross off my to-do list \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The real point of this post is to let you know about the blog tour for Amy O&#8217;Neill Houck&#8217;s new book, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307462129?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=plane02c-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307462129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crochet for Bears to Wear<\/a><\/em>. The tour starts today at <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100416163852\/http:\/\/blog.craftzine.com:80\/archive\/2010\/04\/book_review_giveaway_pattern_c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Craftzine<\/a>, where you can download a free pattern from the book!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307462129?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=plane02c-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307462129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/crochetforbearstowear.jpg\" alt=\"crochet for bears to wear\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amy has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehookandi.com\/crochet-for-bears-blog-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">list of all the daily stops<\/a> on her blog tour. There are some fantastic crochet bloggers represented here, so visit all the stops and, as an added bonus, you might find some new blogs to follow!<\/p>\n<p>My stop is next Monday, when I&#8217;ll be reviewing the book and testing one of the patterns. As you can see from the photos below, my <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=11_19&amp;products_id=3\">Fuzzy Bear<\/a> loves accessories, so I&#8217;ll be crocheting him his own custom-sized piece of clothing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/paint_story7.jpg\" alt=\"fuzzy bear painting\" height=\"150\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/paint_story9.jpg\" alt=\"fuzzy bear paints\" height=\"150\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/xmas2008.jpg\" alt=\"fuzzy bear at christmas\" height=\"150\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Fuzzy Bear loves to play dress-up<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll also have a copy of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0307462129?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=plane02c-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0307462129\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crochet for Bears to Wear<\/a><\/em> to give away to one of my lovely readers, so don&#8217;t forget to check back here on Monday for a chance to win! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick aside first: have you noticed I&#8217;ve made a favicon for PlanetJune? It was a challenge coming up with something recognisable at such a small size, so I just made a little bear in my site colours: I think it&#8217;s cute! I hope it&#8217;ll help people to spot PlanetJune in the vast sea of [&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":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","tag-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","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=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22987,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/22987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}