{"id":4467,"date":"2019-03-09T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2019-03-08T19:06:27","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T02:06:27","slug":"crocheted-amigurumi-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=4467","title":{"rendered":"crocheted amigurumi bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>once again this year i decided to try crocheting a teddy bear for my girls using lace weight thread.  i started with a bunch of patterns, used bits and pieces from each and did a lot of improvising<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/33447298278\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"amigurumi bear felted\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7919\/33447298278_603801bc64.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"500\" alt=\"amigurumi bear felted\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nFor a yarn that normally felts if you look at it wrong, this was surprisingly hard to felt. I tried several sessions of wetting then tumbling inn hottest dryer with lots of balls\/towels to agitate, then spent 1\/2hour+ wetting and rubbing till my thumbs were raw just to achieve a slightly fuzzy look. Moral of the story to <em>keep<\/em> mal lace from felting badly, crochet with a small hook!<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/33447298578\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"amigurumi bear felted\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7895\/33447298578_59a8d13fd8.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"500\" alt=\"amigurumi bear felted\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nhe also came out a lot bigger than i had planned. i was hoping for a 3 inch bear when i started, but quickly realized he was going to be at least twice that size. i like him anyway, but he&#8217;s def too big for my girls to play with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>once again this year i decided to try crocheting a teddy bear for my girls using lace weight thread. i started with a bunch of patterns, used bits and pieces from each and did a lot of improvising For a yarn that normally felts if you look at it wrong, this was surprisingly hard to felt. I tried several sessions of wetting then tumbling inn hottest dryer with lots of balls\/towels to agitate, then spent 1\/2hour+ wetting and rubbing till my thumbs were raw just to achieve a slightly fuzzy look. Moral of the story to keep mal lace from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4469,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4467\/revisions\/4469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}