{"id":7722,"date":"2012-08-21T14:26:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=7722"},"modified":"2012-08-23T06:20:16","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T10:20:16","slug":"amigurumi-sea-otter-crochet-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/amigurumi-sea-otter-crochet-pattern\/","title":{"rendered":"Amigurumi Sea Otter crochet pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my latest commissioned design &#8211; say hello to my <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=205\">Sea Otter<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=205\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/seaotter1.jpg\" alt=\"Sea Otter amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pattern is a little later than scheduled, I&#8217;m afraid; I just wasn&#8217;t able to write up the pattern until I got over my bronchitis enough to have a clear head. Turning the new techniques I use to create my designs into clear and easy to follow instructions is impossible when my brain isn&#8217;t fully functional. But hopefully you&#8217;ll agree that it was worth the wait \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve wanted to make a sea otter for years &#8211; they are truly adorable. Have you seen pictures of a pair floating together, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Sea_otters_holding_hands.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holding hands<\/a>?! Awwww!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sea Otter fun facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sea Otters are both the smallest marine mammal and the largest member of the weasel family.<\/li>\n<li>Their fur is the densest of any animal and traps a layer of insulating air bubbles within it to keep the otter warm in the cold ocean waters.<\/li>\n<li>Sea otters almost never leave the ocean. They float on their backs to rest, groom and sleep.<\/li>\n<li>Their diet is shellfish and crustaceans. They often use a rock as a tool to crack open the hard shells.<\/li>\n<li>They have special kidneys that allow them to drink sea water and process out the salt!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To help with my design, I made a list of essential sea otter features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sea otters have small sensitive front paws that let then catch their food by touch.<\/li>\n<li>To aid in swimming, their back feet are large, flat and webbed, and their tails are broad and strong.<\/li>\n<li>Their colour varies from beige to very dark brown, and the fur on their heads lightens with age.<\/li>\n<li>They have a diamond shaped nose and small ears. They can close their nostrils and ears when underwater.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=205\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/seaotter2.jpg\" alt=\"Sea Otter amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope the sea otter&#8217;s playful nature has come through in my design &#8211; especially in the back feet! I think sea otters really need to have something to hold on their tummies for maximum cuteness, so I&#8217;ve also included a <strong>bonus pattern<\/strong> to make the simple clam you can see in my photos &#8211; you can make the closed and\/or open (empty) version.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=205\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/seaotter3.jpg\" alt=\"Sea Otter amigurumi crochet pattern by PlanetJune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you pledged towards the commission, you should have already received your copy of the pattern. Otherwise, if you\u2019d like to make a sea otter of your own \u2013 or a pair to hold hands \u2013 you can now pick up the <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;cPath=17&#038;products_id=205\">Sea Otter crochet pattern<\/a> from the PlanetJune shop! <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not quite ready to buy though, how about queuing Sea Otter on ravelry so you don\u2019t forget about it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/badges\/redirect?p=sea-otter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/api.ravelry.com\/badges\/projects?p=sea-otter&amp;t=.svg\" style=\"border: none;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s my latest commissioned design &#8211; say hello to my Sea Otter! This pattern is a little later than scheduled, I&#8217;m afraid; I just wasn&#8217;t able to write up the pattern until I got over my bronchitis enough to have a clear head. Turning the new techniques I use to create my designs into clear [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-patterns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722","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=7722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}