January 2017 – PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog

Celebrating 10 Years of PlanetJune

January 30, 2017 @ 3:55 am · Filed under: My Craft Business

I can hardly believe it, but today marks the 10th anniversary of the day I self-published my first crochet pattern, Fuzzy Bear – and the day a new career path began to open up to me. After two years of running PlanetJune as a side-business, I quit my day job and struck out into the […]

Heart Cactus Collection crochet pattern

January 16, 2017 @ 9:10 am · Filed under: Crochet, Patterns

My first design for the year is the Heart Cactus Collection, a sweet addition to my popular Cactus and Succulent Collections, with two new types of heart-shaped cacti in a lovely rounded pot, together with matching 3-dimensional hearts in two sizes. Perfect for your Valentine, or to show someone you care at any time of […]

new and improved PlanetJune Commissions

January 11, 2017 @ 7:50 am · Filed under: Crochet, My Craft Business

PlanetJune Commissions has been revamped to be easier, faster and more fun. The basic premise hasn’t changed – you can help to choose and crowdfund new PlanetJune crochet pattern designs by ‘voting’ with your commission pledge! But I’ve reworked the mechanisms to make it more fun for you from now on, and so you won’t […]

2016: year in review

January 1, 2017 @ 6:11 am · Filed under: My Craft Business

It’s easy when you’re immersed in a business every day to jump straight into the next thing, keep tightly focused on the next task, and not really see how far you’ve come. This Year in Review post is the one time I actually stop and think about what I’ve accomplished over the past year… In […]