March 2016 – PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog

PlanetJune Stories: Domino Joyce

March 23, 2016 @ 9:01 am · Filed under: PlanetJune Stories

Today’s PlanetJune Story comes from Dr Domino Joyce, an evolutionary biologist by day and crocheter by night, who found a novel way to use amigurumi to educate children (and adults) about evolution! I’ll let Domino explain: I’m an evolutionary biologist at the University of Hull, UK and I’ve wanted to learn to crochet for ages. […]

Ribbed Ripple/Turtle Beach pattern

March 9, 2016 @ 8:09 am · Filed under: Crochet, Patterns

Since I published my Baby Sea Turtle pattern two years ago, several people have attached the turtles to afghan squares or blankets showing the babies hatching on a beach and making their way to the sea. It’s such a sweet idea, as the turtles are quite flat, so they work well as an appliquéd element […]

Captioning YouTube Videos

March 1, 2016 @ 9:05 am · Filed under: Craft Business Help, My Craft Business

Yesterday, I spent the entire day transcribing all my crochet video tutorials so I could add closed captioning to my videos. From now on, if you’re hard of hearing or have any problems understanding my accent, you can turn on the subtitles (it’s the ‘CC’ option on all YouTube videos) and read along as I […]