{"id":4650,"date":"2011-05-27T09:20:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2011-05-27T09:26:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T13:26:10","slug":"planetjune-stories-melissa-frelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/planetjune-stories-melissa-frelo\/","title":{"rendered":"PlanetJune Stories: Melissa Frelo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s PlanetJune Story<\/strong> is from Melissa Frelo of Aurora, IL, and it’s a case of perfect timing: it’s a guinea pig<\/a> story, and I also have a guinea pig photo to share with you today. We found a wonderful Wildlife Sanctuary in Hout Bay called World of Birds<\/a>. I joined as a member so I can go back often – it’s the largest bird park in Africa so it’ll be a while before I’ve explored all the amazing free-flying walk-through cages and aviaries. They rescue animals as well as birds, and for some reason (abandoned pets, maybe?) they have a huge cage full of guinea pigs:<\/p>\n

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\nGuinea pigs galore!<\/em><\/p>\n

Unexpected, but very cute! The guinea pigs all seemed very contented, running free in their giant outdoor area and then going back inside for food and water – I think they have a good life there.<\/p>\n

And now a segue from real guinea pigs to crocheted guinea pigs!
\nMelissa writes:<\/p>\n

I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed making the fuzzy guinea pigs. I ordered the pattern from your website and made the piggies for my childrens’ Easter baskets. Although I have experience crocheting, this was my first attempt at amigurumi. Your instructions were very detailed and easy to follow and the results were great. I attached a few photos of the real piggies and their crocheted friends. Thanks for the wonderful pattern!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And thank you, Melissa, for sharing your story with us. Here are Melissa’s guinea pigs, Roxie and Gracie, and their crocheted counterparts – it’s hard to tell which are real and which are crocheted! <\/p>\n

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Melissa did a great job with matching the markings to her piggies’ markings.<\/p>\n

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Just look at those sweet guinea piggy faces – so adorable! My guinea pig pattern<\/a> has been a bestseller for years now, but if you haven’t jumped on the guinea pig train yet, you can get on board and pick up the pattern in my shop<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Do you have a PlanetJune Story<\/strong> you’d like to share? I’d love to hear it! Please email your story to june@planetjune.com<\/a>, together with one or more high quality photos showing what you’ve made from PlanetJune patterns. If I choose your story to feature here on the blog, I’ll send you your choice of pattern from my shop to say thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s PlanetJune Story is from Melissa Frelo of Aurora, IL, and it’s a case of perfect timing: it’s a guinea pig story, and I also have a guinea pig photo to share with you today. We found a wonderful Wildlife Sanctuary in Hout Bay called World of Birds. I joined as a member so I […]<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-planetjune-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650","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=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}