{"id":5724,"date":"2011-11-21T07:47:37","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=5724"},"modified":"2017-04-28T06:27:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T10:27:10","slug":"holiday-patterns-and-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/holiday-patterns-and-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"holiday patterns and tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve created so many Christmas-related patterns and tutorials over the past 5 years, I thought it might be helpful to see them all together in one place.<\/p>\n<p>Before I get into the roundup though, I&#8217;d like to ask a quick favour: I&#8217;ve been shortlisted for <a href=\"https:\/\/insidecrochet.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/15\/its-time-to-vote-crafty-blog-of-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside Crochet magazine\u2019s 2011 Blog awards<\/a> and, if you enjoy my blog, I&#8217;d really appreciate your vote. It just takes a click to vote; no signup necessary. <a href=\"https:\/\/insidecrochet.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/15\/its-time-to-vote-crafty-blog-of-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vote here<\/a> &#8211; thank you!<\/p>\n<h2>PlanetJune Christmas Crochet Patterns<\/h2>\n<p>My 2011 holiday pattern isn&#8217;t quite finished yet (thanks to a gardening accident to my finger which forced me to reschedule my tutorial photography session for the pattern), but I hope to publish it before the end of November, so you&#8217;ll still have plenty of time to make it before Christmas!<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, here are my other Christmas patterns from my regular ranges:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=index&amp;cPath=11_20\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/xmas_patterns2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/xmas_patterns.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nTop row: <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=11_20&amp;products_id=98\">Christmas Trees<\/a>, <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=11_20&amp;products_id=156\">Christmas Baubles<\/a><br \/>\nMiddle row: <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&amp;cPath=11_20&amp;products_id=69\">Poinsettia<\/a> (donationware), <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=11_20&amp;products_id=50\">PocketAmi Christmas<\/a><br \/>\nBottom row: <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&amp;cPath=11_20&amp;products_id=70\">Christmas Pudding<\/a> (donationware), <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&amp;cPath=11_20&amp;products_id=73\">Candy Cane<\/a> (donationware)<\/p>\n<p>And from <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=index&#038;cPath=30\">PlanetJune Accessories<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/pjac_reindeerantlers.jpg\" height=\"205\" alt=\"PlanetJune Accessories Reindeer Antlers crochet pattern\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/lipbalmholders1.jpg\" height=\"205\" alt=\"lip balm holder crochet pattern by planetjune\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=30&#038;products_id=178\">Reindeer Antlers<\/a>, <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=document_product_info&#038;cPath=30&#038;products_id=186\">Lip Balm Holder<\/a> (donationware &#8211; and a perfect stocking stuffer!)<\/p>\n<p><em>By the way, there&#8217;ll be another Christmas CAL for all my holiday patterns in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/planetjune-crochet-designs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlanetJune Ravelry group<\/a> from December 1st, and I think I&#8217;ll throw in some prizes like <a href=\"\/blog\/christmas-cal-roundup-part-2\/\">last year<\/a>. You&#8217;ll find crochet-along details on Ravelry from Dec 1st, and I&#8217;ll post with a link here too once it&#8217;s all set up \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>PlanetJune Christmas Craft Tutorials<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/poinsettia2009s.jpg\" alt=\"punchneedle poinsettia by planetjune\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/poinsettia2008s.jpg\" alt=\"polymer clay poinsettia by planetjune\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/poinsettia2010.jpg\" width=\"225\" alt=\"felt poinsettia by planetjune\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"half\" src=\"\/blog\/tut_images\/xmaspom.jpg\" width=\"225\" alt=\"pom-pom christmas tree tutorial\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Top: <a href=\"\/blog\/free-punchneedle-patterns\/poinsettia\/\">Punchneedle Embroidered Poinsettia<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/tutorials\/polymer-clay-poinsettia-tutorial\/\">Polymer Clay Poinsettia<\/a><br \/>\nBottom: <a href=\"\/blog\/tutorials\/felt-poinsettia-tutorial\/\">Felt Poinsettia<\/a>, <a href=\"\/blog\/pom-pom-christmas-tree-tutorial\/\">Pom-Pom Christmas Tree<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think that&#8217;s it! I hope you&#8217;ll find a project (or a few) that you&#8217;d like to try for your Christmas crafting this year. And please, don&#8217;t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/insidecrochet.wordpress.com\/2011\/11\/15\/its-time-to-vote-crafty-blog-of-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vote for me<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve created so many Christmas-related patterns and tutorials over the past 5 years, I thought it might be helpful to see them all together in one place. Before I get into the roundup though, I&#8217;d like to ask a quick favour: I&#8217;ve been shortlisted for Inside Crochet magazine\u2019s 2011 Blog awards and, if you enjoy [&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":[2,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-patterns","category-tutorials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724","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=5724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}