{"id":8855,"date":"2012-12-12T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2015-04-17T08:24:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T12:24:02","slug":"thread-crochet-poinsettia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/thread-crochet-poinsettia\/","title":{"rendered":"thread crochet poinsettia"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you may remember that I have a tradition of crafting a new poinsettia every year, to mark the holidays. Here’s the collection to date:<\/p>\n

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Top (L-R): 2006 kanzashi poinsettia<\/a>; 2007 crocheted poinsettia<\/a>\u00a0
\nMiddle (L-R) 2008 polymer clay poinsettia<\/a>; 2009 punchneedle poinsettia<\/a>
\nBottom (L-R) 2010 felt poinsettia<\/a>; 2011 beaded poinsettia<\/a><\/p>\n

Although you can’t tell from these individual photos (and I don’t have them all to hand to take a group shot), there’s one sore thumb in my poinsettia group: the crocheted poinsettia. It wasn’t until after I’d made it that I decided to start this collection, so it doesn’t match in colour or size. All the others are 2-3″ diameter; the crocheted version much larger, at about 6″ across!<\/p>\n

I decided to rectify that this year, and scale down my crocheted Poinsettia pattern<\/a> by using thread and a small hook instead of the worsted weight yarn specified in the original pattern. I like #8 perle cotton because it’s available in many colours, so easy to find appropriate shades, but it’s too fine for me to crochet with – I get hand pain when I try to crochet with very fine yarns and tiny hooks. This time I determined to be sensible – it’s so important to listen to your body and stop when it hurts, before you reach the point of doing real damage…<\/p>\n

And here’s the result: the 2012 PlanetJune Poinsettia<\/strong> is a thread crochet poinsettia. If you’d like to make one too, just follow the Small Poinsettia<\/em> instructions in my pattern<\/a> and use crochet thread and a small hook.<\/p>\n

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For this poinsettia, I used 2 strands of #8 perle cotton held together<\/strong>, and a B (2.25mm) hook<\/strong>, which gave me the perfect sized poinsettia (2.75″) to fit in with the rest of my collection. I limited myself to a maximum of 2 leaves per day, with only minimal discomfort as a result. And now I’ve proved I can do thread crochet again, provided I keep it to just a few minutes at a time \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

There’s still time to make your own small poinsettia before Christmas: with only 12 leaves instead of 18, it’s much faster than the standard large version, and it still looks good. You can find all my Poinsettia designs as PDFs<\/a> in my shop, or use the links above for the free online versions.<\/p>\n

And that makes 7 poinsettias! I wonder which craft I’ll try for next year’s design…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you may remember that I have a tradition of crafting a new poinsettia every year, to mark the holidays. Here’s the collection to date: Top (L-R): 2006 kanzashi poinsettia; 2007 crocheted poinsettia\u00a0 Middle (L-R) 2008 polymer clay poinsettia; 2009 punchneedle poinsettia Bottom (L-R) 2010 felt poinsettia; […]<\/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":[2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-other-crafts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855","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=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}