{"id":3392,"date":"2010-08-30T10:56:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=3392"},"modified":"2024-11-02T22:32:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T02:32:54","slug":"cactus-collection-crochet-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/cactus-collection-crochet-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Cactus Collection crochet patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been planning a cactus collection for a few months now – I know I’m not exactly the first person to come up with the idea to make a crocheted cactus, but my idea was to make my designs more realistic than the cartoonish cacti I’ve seen before.<\/p>\n

I always like to base my patterns on solid research so they look as realistic as possible, and when I started to investigate, I found a huge number of really interesting-looking cacti to crochetify: I started out sketching 8 different types, and then had so many great ideas for how to create them, I couldn’t decide which to cut!<\/p>\n

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I spent a lot of time developing different techniques and effects for each cactus, so I hope you can see that it’s not<\/strong> the same basic pattern with tweaks for size and shape here: each cactus is completely different from all the others.<\/p>\n

8 plant designs plus 2 pots seemed a bit excessive for one pattern – that’s almost a book, not a pattern! – so my solution was to split the patterns over two cactus collections: you can buy your favourite collection without breaking the bank, or buy both (at a huge discount!) and mix-and-match cacti from each collection to create your perfect cactus garden.<\/p>\n

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\nCactus Collection 1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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\nCactus Collection 1<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Each collection comes with both the individual-sized pot pattern and the larger cactus garden pot pattern:<\/p>\n