{"id":6938,"date":"2012-05-02T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=6938"},"modified":"2024-11-02T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T02:33:15","slug":"may-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/may-update\/","title":{"rendered":"May update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few quick items this month, as, behind the scenes, I&#8217;m juggling over 20 designs in various stages of completion, and trying to get my blog redesign finished so I can finally use my new logo&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Wildlife-Along CAL<\/h2>\n<p>Choose from my menagerie of wild animal patterns to crochet and meet us in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/planetjune-crochet-designs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlanetJune Ravelry group<\/a> for the <strong>Wildlife-Along<\/strong> crochet-along, running until the end of the month&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/groups\/planetjune-crochet-designs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wildlife-Along CAL at PlanetJune\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/WildlifeAlong\/CALWildlife.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find all the patterns &#8211; and a few more that didn&#8217;t make it into the above collage &#8211; in the <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=index&#038;cPath=17\">Wild Animals<\/a> category of my shop. And if you&#8217;re thinking &#8220;CAL? Huh?&#8221; or &#8220;What&#8217;s Ravelry?&#8221;, see the <a href=\"\/blog\/faq\/planetjune-crochet-along-faq\/\">PlanetJune Crochet-Along FAQ<\/a> for everything you need to know \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>With close to 100 new members in my Ravelry group over the past week (welcome to all of you!), I hope this CAL will be even better than usual!<\/p>\n<h2>Review and Win contest<\/h2>\n<p>April&#8217;s &#8216;Review and Win&#8217; winner is <strong>Erica A<\/strong>, with her <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=12&#038;products_id=193\">Baby Bunnies<\/a> review:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=12&#038;products_id=193\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/babybunnies.jpg\" alt=\"Baby Bunnies crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A very cute pattern that is enjoyable to make. The instructions are clear and detailed for both the crochet and the assembly. I love how the subtle shaping results in such a cute and realistic finished object. The three variations give added interest and value.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congrats Erica &#8211; I&#8217;ll email you to find out which pattern you&#8217;d like as your prize \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>To be entered into this month&#8217;s draw for a free pattern of your choice, just write a review of any product in <a href=\"\/shop\">my shop<\/a> &#8211; thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Commissions<\/h2>\n<p>With 2 designs completed, the new <a href=\"\/commissions\">commissions process<\/a> is still going well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=198\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/koala1.jpg\" alt=\"koala crochet pattern by planetjune\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=11_17&#038;products_id=199\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/platypus5.jpg\" alt=\"Platypus amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added a couple of new options to replace the animals I&#8217;ve already designed, but I&#8217;ve had requests for many more. I&#8217;ve put up a poll on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/planetjune\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my Facebook page<\/a> to find out if you&#8217;d prefer to have <strong>more<\/strong> choices, or if too many in the list at once would get confusing &#8211; please vote (or comment here if you don&#8217;t use FB) if you have an opinion on that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few quick items this month, as, behind the scenes, I&#8217;m juggling over 20 designs in various stages of completion, and trying to get my blog redesign finished so I can finally use my new logo&#8230; Wildlife-Along CAL Choose from my menagerie of wild animal patterns to crochet and meet us in the PlanetJune [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938","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=6938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23938,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6938\/revisions\/23938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}