January 2019 – PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog

The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi [ebook]

January 30, 2019 @ 9:17 am · Filed under: Crochet, Patterns

After my fun but challenging experiments with extreme amigurumi last year, I set out to see if there was a way to make super-sized amigurumi that was easy and fun to do, and develop instructions I could pass on to you. After lots of experimentation, I developed the technique of Giant Amigurumi. Look! About Giant […]

Amigurumi Clean Edge Join tutorial

January 21, 2019 @ 9:06 am · Filed under: Crochet, Tutorials

Usually in amigurumi, the goal is to join pieces with an invisible, seamless join, so you can barely tell where one part ends and the next begins. But sometimes, especially with a piece of a different colour, you can get a neater finish by not smoothing the join, and instead making invisible stitches so it […]

silver thermal pullover

January 15, 2019 @ 8:51 am · Filed under: Knitting

After ‘graduating’ from my long term project to teach myself to knit through designing and making 12 sweaters, I wasn’t at all bored with sweater knitting, so my next project was bound to be… yep, another sweater to add to the pile! As soon as I arrived back in Canada I loaded up on Michael’s […]

Heart Cactus Collection crochet pattern update

January 9, 2019 @ 8:53 am · Filed under: Crochet, Patterns

I’ve just updated my sweet Heart Cactus Collection pattern to add a new cactus option, so now the collection includes three different heart-shaped cacti (plus matching large and small 3-dimensional hearts). These cacti make a quick little crochet project, with their perfect heart shapes, rounded pots, pretty flowers, and minimal sewing required. If you haven’t […]

2018: year in review

January 1, 2019 @ 8:30 am · Filed under: My Craft Business

Today marks the first day of my second decade of full time self-employment! I’ve just read back over all my previous Year in Review posts and it’s been an epic journey so far. I sometimes forget how much time and heart I’ve put into PlanetJune to reach this point, but I’m pretty proud that here […]