{"id":69,"date":"2007-03-02T11:42:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/monkeying-about\/"},"modified":"2015-04-18T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T13:53:20","slug":"monkeying-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/monkeying-about\/","title":{"rendered":"monkeying about"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst venturing deep into the heart of the jungles of Ontario, I managed to\u00a0photograph these two monkeys in their natural habitat (click for full-size images):<\/p>\n

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…Okay, so what gave it\u00a0away?\u00a0The\u00a0‘natural’ floor lamp the monkeys are clinging to? \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0<\/p>\n

I decided to try making\u00a0something a bit different for a change. Don’t worry, the cute fuzzy patterns will still keep coming; I just wanted to see\u00a0if I could make a more\u00a0realistic animal (as more of an ‘art’ thing).<\/p>\n

I made these from Patons Carmen (possibly the softest yarn in the world!) with Bernat Satin for the faces and feet. I wired all the limbs and the tail so the monkeys are poseable, and daddy monkey\u00a0can carry his baby on his back, just like in the real world.<\/p>\n

I know these won’t have the same universal appeal as the Fuzzies, but what do you think of them? Please let me know in the comments or by e-mail…<\/p>\n

And, on another note, thanks to everyone who has entered my contest so far! You’ve given me some great ideas for my next patterns. Current favourites seem to be cat, dog, monkey, skunk and penguin. There’s still time to enter, if you haven’t got around to it yet – the contest <\/a>is open for another week, and remember, there’s a free pattern of your choice up for grabs for the winner!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: <\/strong>Looking for the pattern? You can find the Fuzzy Monkeys crochet pattern<\/a> in my shop.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whilst venturing deep into the heart of the jungles of Ontario, I managed to\u00a0photograph these two monkeys in their natural habitat (click for full-size images): \u00a0 …Okay, so what gave it\u00a0away?\u00a0The\u00a0‘natural’ floor lamp the monkeys are clinging to? \ud83d\ude09 \u00a0 I decided to try making\u00a0something a bit different for a change. Don’t worry, the cute […]<\/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":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-crochet"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}