{"id":7741,"date":"2012-08-07T07:14:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T11:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2012-08-07T07:14:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T11:14:45","slug":"august-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/august-update\/","title":{"rendered":"August update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s going on chez PlanetJune? Things seem quiet here lately for a combination of reasons. Getting bronchitis has upset my plans a bit (e.g. no July video tutorial as I can&#8217;t really talk at the moment without coughing or wheezing), but I&#8217;ve also been working on lots of things that just aren&#8217;t <em>quite<\/em> ready yet, so good things are coming! Here&#8217;s a little peek at some of my upcoming designs:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/wip_aug12.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune crochet work in progress, August 2012\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new <strong>shawl<\/strong> design just needs cover photos and then it&#8217;ll be ready to launch<\/li>\n<li>A new <strong>floral donationware<\/strong> pattern with accompanying crochet-along &#8211; coming very soon<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been working on a <strong>scarf<\/strong> during the Ravellenic Games which will become another new donationware pattern<\/li>\n<li>The commissioned <strong>Sea Otter<\/strong> pattern is in the works (and looking very cute so far)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve started crocheting another new <strong>shawl<\/strong> design &#8211; it&#8217;s beautiful so far but it&#8217;s going to be very large, so it&#8217;ll be a longer-term project for me<\/li>\n<li>And I have a few other fun <strong>secret projects<\/strong> which I&#8217;m not ready to share yet&#8230; (If the photo above looks surprisingly short on amigurumi, that&#8217;s why &#8211; don&#8217;t worry, I&#8217;m not abandoning my animal designs!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I&#8217;m not just sitting around feeling sick and sorry for myself (although there may be a bit of that going on too) &#8211; I need to keep taking things slowly until I can breathe properly again, but I&#8217;m still making progress on things, and I will have exciting new patterns for you soon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h2>Review and Win contest<\/h2>\n<p>August&#8217;s &#8216;Review and Win&#8217; winner is <strong>Aleksandra S<\/strong>, with her <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;products_id=189\">Succulent Collection 2<\/a> review:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;products_id=189\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/succulent_collection2c.jpg\" alt=\"succulent collection 2 crochet patterns by planetjune\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>** This review is only for the string of pearls and the small pot as I didn&#8217;t make anything else yet **<\/p>\n<p>Stunning and very realistic result, very quick &#038; easy pattern. I want to make more strings of pearls now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>After only reading the tutorial \/ looking at the photos:<br \/>\nI was amazed how June managed the colourful pattern on top of the living stones &#8211; it&#8217;s so easy and ingenious! I would like to say I was pleasantly surprised but the quality is just great as always \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congrats Aleksandra &#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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s going on chez PlanetJune? Things seem quiet here lately for a combination of reasons. Getting bronchitis has upset my plans a bit (e.g. no July video tutorial as I can&#8217;t really talk at the moment without coughing or wheezing), but I&#8217;ve also been working on lots of things that just aren&#8217;t quite ready yet, [&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-7741","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\/7741","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=7741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}