{"id":4618,"date":"2011-05-03T08:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T12:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=4618"},"modified":"2025-06-06T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:29:26","slug":"kingfisher-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/kingfisher-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Kingfisher crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I get to restart working full-time at PlanetJune &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell you how much I&#8217;ve missed it! <\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t sure what to do first &#8211; I feel like I&#8217;m months behind on everything &#8211; but then yesterday, we were lucky enough to glimpse a very special bird: a kingfisher. Please excuse the quality of these pics; it&#8217;s a tiny bird and we couldn&#8217;t get close without it flying away&#8230; I snapped these at full 18x zoom:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/sa_images\/sa_kingfisher.jpg\" alt=\"malachite kingfisher\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/sa_images\/sa_kingfisher2.jpg\" alt=\"malachite kingfisher\"><\/p>\n<p>It seemed like a sign that my first order of business should be to publish my kingfisher pattern, don&#8217;t you agree? You may notice that the colours and markings in the photos above don&#8217;t quite match my design below: was saw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=malachite+kingfisher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malachite Kingfisher<\/a> (common here in southern Africa) but the breed I designed is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/images?q=common+kingfisher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Kingfisher<\/a> (the UK variety) who&#8217;s more teal coloured than blue, and doesn&#8217;t have a red beak. And now onto my design&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/IC10_kingfisher.jpg\" alt=\"inside crochet issue 10 - kingfisher by june gilbank\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I designed this Kingfisher pattern last year. It was <a href=\"\/blog\/designing-a-kingfisher\/\">first published<\/a> in Inside Crochet magazine, but written in UK crochet terminology and missing all my step-by-step assembly photos. Now I&#8217;m publishing it in standard terms and PlanetJune format!<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfcenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/kingfisher1_sml.jpg\" alt=\"kingfisher crochet pattern by planetjune\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/kingfisher2_sml.jpg\" alt=\"kingfisher crochet pattern by planetjune\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This bird can stand all by himself, without using any wires or internal armatures to strengthen him, so, if you omit the safety eyes, he&#8217;d be a kid-friendly toy as well as a decorative piece.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly proud of this design because I incorporated a clever new method I developed to make the orange\/blue stripe on the body match on both sides (as amigurumi-style stitches don\u2019t stack on top of each other, if you crocheted both sides the same way, one side would slope up and the other would slope down).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;products_id=163\">Kingfisher crochet pattern<\/a> is now available to purchase in my shop. I hope it&#8217;ll be the first of many PlanetJune bird designs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I get to restart working full-time at PlanetJune &#8211; I can&#8217;t tell you how much I&#8217;ve missed it! I wasn&#8217;t sure what to do first &#8211; I feel like I&#8217;m months behind on everything &#8211; but then yesterday, we were lucky enough to glimpse a very special bird: a kingfisher. Please excuse the quality [&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":[2,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-patterns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618","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=4618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25099,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4618\/revisions\/25099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}