October 2010 – PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog

Fall CAL roundup – happy Halloween!

October 31, 2010 @ 11:21 am · Filed under: CAL roundups

The Fall CAL in the PlanetJune crochet designs group on Ravelry is now over! Participants crocheted along using my Pumpkin and PocketAmi Halloween patterns. Check out my roundup below of all the cute and spoooooky finished projects. (If I’ve missed yours, please email me or leave a comment with the link, and I’ll add it […]

lion and lioness crochet pattern

October 26, 2010 @ 1:13 pm · Filed under: Crochet, Patterns

You may remember from the Reepicheep I crocheted that I’m a Narnia fan, and with The Voyage of The Dawn Treader movie coming out in just over a month (yay!), what better time to make my own Aslan? I really think that every lion needs a lioness, so the idea for a pattern including male […]

how to crochet the loop stitch

October 26, 2010 @ 7:05 am · Filed under: Crochet, Tutorials

Link easily to this tutorial in your patterns: www.planetjune.com/loopstitch I’m so glad people liked my crocheted i-cord video tutorial! Putting my voice up on YouTube for anyone to listen to was a bit (okay, a lot) out of my comfort zone, but I’m starting to get used to it… In time, I’d like to make […]

how to crochet an i-cord

October 20, 2010 @ 10:59 am · Filed under: Crochet, Tutorials

Link easily to this tutorial in your patterns: www.planetjune.com/icord Have you ever tried to crochet a really tiny tube or cylinder? I find that single crocheting in a ring with 5 stitches is challenging enough; let alone trying to make a 4-sc cylinder, or, almost impossibly, a 3-sc tube. Knitters are lucky; they have a […]

book launch aftermath

October 8, 2010 @ 2:42 pm · Filed under: Crochet

Box of books, fresh from the publisher I’m so happy with the response my book has got so far! Amazon shipped a lot of the pre-orders early which meant that some people actually got their copies on the release day, so I’ve had four 5 star reviews on amazon already, and many more comments and […]

my book: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amigurumi

October 5, 2010 @ 5:12 am · Filed under: Crochet, My Craft Business, Reviews

I can hardly believe I’m finally getting to write these words: my crochet book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Amigurumi, is out today!* It’s been a very long process that’s taken me to this point, and part of me still doesn’t believe it’s real, although I do have this proof: Yay! Look what I made […]