{"id":9599,"date":"2013-03-05T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T14:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=9599"},"modified":"2013-03-05T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T14:28:09","slug":"march-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/march-update-3\/","title":{"rendered":"March update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PocketAmi Re-releases<\/h2>\n<p>My pattern re-release project is making progress, and today the PocketAmi (individual Sets 1-6 and the multipack deal of Sets 1 &#038; 2) are all available in the new format, and any you&#8217;ve previously purchased are ready for you to download! Log back into your <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=login\">PlanetJune account<\/a> at any time in the next 2 weeks and you&#8217;ll see the download buttons for all your past PocketAmi pattern purchases have been re-enabled, so you can click and download the new versions. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/pocketami_patterns.jpg\" alt=\"PocketAmi amigurumi crochet patterns by PlanetJune\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about the pattern reformat project, or you received the patterns through a different mechanism (and so don&#8217;t have an order for them in the PlanetJune shop) but you&#8217;d still like the new versions, I&#8217;ve set up a <a href=\"\/blog\/faq\/pattern-re-release-faq\/\"><strong>Pattern Re-Release FAQ<\/strong><\/a> that should answer all your questions. I&#8217;ll keep it updated throughout this project and add any further questions that arise.<\/p>\n<h2>Craft Business Help<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ve amassed quite a collection of helpful information posts on various aspects of running a craft business, but I just realised they aren&#8217;t too easy for you to find, as my <em>Craft Business<\/em> category also included posts about my own business. To solve this, I&#8217;ve separated the old Craft Business category into <em>My Craft Business<\/em> and <em>Craft Business Help<\/em>. Now you&#8217;ll easily be able to find my helpful articles! <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/craft-business-help\/\"><strong>Craft Business Help<\/strong><\/a> includes my advice on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/selling-crafts-and-patterns-online\/\">Selling crafts and patterns online<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/beating-craft-business-overwhelm\/\">Beating craft business overwhelm<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/the-secret-of-my-success\/\">The secret of my success<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/pricing-amigurumi\/\">Pricing amigurumi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/paypal-and-rights-for-digital-sellers\/\">PayPal and rights for digital sellers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/3-tips-for-aspiringdesigners\/\">3 tips for aspiring designers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/blog\/inspiration-influence-vs-copying-drawing-the-line\/\">Inspiration\/influence vs copying: drawing the line<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and more! So if you&#8217;d like my advice that may help you with your craft business, check out the <strong>Craft Business Help<\/strong> category from the <em>Categories<\/em> menu in the right sidebar, or the <em>Blog > View by Category<\/em> menu at the top of this page \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<h2>Stash Replenishment!<\/h2>\n<p>You may have guessed that one of the hardest things for me about living in South Africa is the lack of access to the craft supplies I&#8217;m accustomed to. So I took full advantage of my husband&#8217;s business trip to the US and restocked my stash a little &#8211; two years with no shopping is a very long time, so I had some catching up to do (within the limitation of suitcase size)!<\/p>\n<p>Now I have new needles, hooks and notions to play with&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/crafthaul3.jpg\" alt=\"new yarn and notions from the US\" \/><br \/>\nNew yarn shades for future amigurumi designs&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/crafthaul1.jpg\" alt=\"new yarn and notions from the US\" \/><br \/>\nAnd some yarn for new accessories&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/crafthaul2.jpg\" alt=\"new yarn and notions from the US\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Actually, the KnitPicks Reverie yarn (fluffy baby alpaca!) on the right is destined to become my next knitted sweater, but I don&#8217;t have any specific plans for the rest as yet. The funny thing is that I ordered my non-amigurumi yarn over several weeks from several different online shops, and I had no idea until I unpacked Dave&#8217;s suitcase that I seem to have something of a teal obsession going on &#8211; I picked all my yarn from the same colour family without realising it! I guess that means you can expect to see several new teal-coloured PlanetJune Accessories popping up over the coming months\/years&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>Review and Win contest<\/h2>\n<p>February&#8217;s &#8216;Review and Win&#8217; winner is <strong>Sara T<\/strong>, with her review of my <a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;products_id=232\">Baby Cephalopods 1: Octopus &#038; Squid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/shop\/index.php?main_page=product_info&#038;products_id=234\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/babycephalopods2.jpg\" alt=\"baby cephalopods crochet patterns by planetjune: octopus, squid, cuttlefish, nautilus\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Baby Octopus &#038; Squid are on the left in these photos.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These are so much fun!! Directions are clear with lots of pictures, and the finished products are adorable. They worked up for me in about an hour and a half, and they are the cutest cephalopods I&#8217;ve ever seen! I am very satisfied with these patterns.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congrats Sara &#8211; I&#8217;ll email you to find out which pattern you&#8217;d like as your prize \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PocketAmi Re-releases My pattern re-release project is making progress, and today the PocketAmi (individual Sets 1-6 and the multipack deal of Sets 1 &#038; 2) are all available in the new format, and any you&#8217;ve previously purchased are ready for you to download! Log back into your PlanetJune account at any time in the next [&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-9599","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\/9599","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=9599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}