{"id":3000,"date":"2010-05-06T11:49:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=3000"},"modified":"2015-04-20T08:52:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T12:52:23","slug":"cute-plush-hamster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/cute-plush-hamster\/","title":{"rendered":"cute plush hamster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It just occurred to me that I haven&#8217;t really shown you this hamster yet. You may have spotted him (in progress) in the demo video for my <a href=\"\/tool\">Detail Stuffing Tool<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QcV46EaooVs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I wanted to make a stitched project to use in the demo video, to show people that my tool has uses beyond stuffing amigurumi. Coincidentally, only a couple of days earlier, I&#8217;d saved the link to an <a href=\"https:\/\/nuno-runo.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/hamster.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adorable hamster pattern<\/a> at <em>Nuno Life<\/em>, even though I had no plans at the time to make one. And then the perfect excuse came along: a cute hamster toy and the prop I needed for my video, all in one!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/plushhamster1.jpg\" alt=\"plush hamster by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When I was clearing out my old bedroom at my parents&#8217; house last year, I brought back all my old craft supplies from when I was a kid: rubber stamps, spirograph, cross stitch supplies, and a small stash of fur fabric and felt from my pre-teen toymaking endeavours. It seems strange that I&#8217;ve had these materials for around 20 years (let&#8217;s not think about how old that makes me sound!) &#8211; is that old enough to call them &#8216;vintage&#8217; craft supplies? Ha!<\/p>\n<p>I found that I had the perfect golden hamster-coloured fur fabric and pink felt in my rediscovered treasures. I&#8217;ve always hoarded supplies, to the extent that I used to not use anything in fear of making a mistake and &#8216;wasting&#8217; it, so it&#8217;s especially satisfying to finally be able to use some of my precious, carefully guarded materials. <\/p>\n<p>The pattern was easy to follow (just remember that, as with most Japanese sewing patterns, the pattern shapes don&#8217;t include a seam allowance, so cut <strong>outside<\/strong> the lines to add your seam allowance) and the minimal instruction was enough to piece it all together. I snipped two tiny eyeholes in the fur before stuffing so that I could use safety eyes with backs. The nose (made by the pattern seams) seemed too low to me, so I cut a tiny piece of felt and made a higher nose. Finally, I trimmed the fur around the eyes so they weren&#8217;t obscured.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/plushhamster2.jpg\" alt=\"plush hamster by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a small and satisfying hand sewing project, and look how cute my hamster is &#8211; especially those little ears!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/plushhamster3.jpg\" alt=\"plush hamster by planetjune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to make one too, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/nuno-runo.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/hamster.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Runo&#8217;s free hamster pattern<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It just occurred to me that I haven&#8217;t really shown you this hamster yet. You may have spotted him (in progress) in the demo video for my Detail Stuffing Tool: I wanted to make a stitched project to use in the demo video, to show people that my tool has uses beyond stuffing amigurumi. Coincidentally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000","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=3000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}