{"id":6817,"date":"2012-04-22T06:40:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T10:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2026-03-09T15:53:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:53:15","slug":"planetjune-stories-cherie-fishlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/planetjune-stories-cherie-fishlock\/","title":{"rendered":"PlanetJune Stories: Cherie Fishlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <strong>PlanetJune Story<\/strong> is from Cherie Fishlock and comes to us from Australia. (Isn&#8217;t it amazing how crafting connects us all into one big global community?)<\/p>\n<p>Cherie writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve been crocheting for a year and am self taught. June&#8217;s book, <em><a href=\"\/cigtoamigurumi\">The Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to Amigurumi<\/a><\/em>, was my go-to guide when crocheting amigurumi especially after I discovered the brilliance of the invisible decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to June&#8217;s amazing emperor penguin pattern I won first prize at the Royal Show in Canberra, Australia in the beginner&#8217;s crochet class. I also won champion. It was great seeing the penguin amongst all the crocheted blankets.<\/p>\n<p>I just want to thank June for the well written pattern. I must confess that I crocheted it at the last minute and her clear instructions made the process so much easier especially since I had never done colour changes before.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately I couldn&#8217;t give June the credit she deserves; I wrote on the entry that it was designed by <a href=\"https:\/\/planetjune.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planetjune.com<\/a> however that was not displayed.<\/p>\n<p>Considering it was the first show I had ever entered I must say I&#8217;m now hooked. \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am impressed: my <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=16&#038;products_id=181\">Emperor Penguin<\/a>, with its white belly and black back, is my most ambitious pattern for colour changes and Cherie obviously handled them like a pro to scoop the prizes with her lovely penguin.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations, Cherie &#8211; I&#8217;m really glad that my pattern could help you showcase your crochet skills and capture the attention of the judges \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/stories\/cherie1.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune stories\" \/><br \/>\nCherie&#8217;s Emperor Penguin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/stories\/cherie2.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune stories\" \/><br \/>\nCherie showing off her prize-winning penguin at the show!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/stories\/cherie3.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune stories\" \/><br \/>\nExcellent achievements: certificate, ribbon and rosette.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>All very well-deserved, I think, don&#8217;t you? Please leave Cherie a comment if you&#8217;ve enjoyed this post! <\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have a <strong>PlanetJune Story<\/strong> you&#8217;d like to share? I&#8217;d love to hear it! Please email your story to <a href=\"mailto:june@planetjune.com\">june@planetjune.com<\/a>, together with one or more high quality photos showing what you&#8217;ve made from PlanetJune patterns. If I choose your story to feature here on the blog, I&#8217;ll send you your choice of pattern from my shop to say thank you!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s PlanetJune Story is from Cherie Fishlock and comes to us from Australia. (Isn&#8217;t it amazing how crafting connects us all into one big global community?) Cherie writes: I&#8217;ve been crocheting for a year and am self taught. June&#8217;s book, The Complete Idiot&#8217;s Guide to Amigurumi, was my go-to guide when crocheting amigurumi especially after [&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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6817","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\/6817","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=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26763,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions\/26763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}