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Archive for January 2022

100k YouTube Subscribers!

Look what’s arrived! That’s right, I can’t quite believe this, but I now have over 100,000 YouTube subscribers! And YouTube have sent me a shiny silver Creator’s Award to commemorate the achievement – how cool is that? I actually hit 100k in December (I have over 101k now!) and I wanted to do something to […]

more Giant Amigurumi!

There’s something about giant amigurumi that’s just so appealing. I love how quickly you can make a huge soft toy or decoration! So on December 1st I tweeted: I may have just decided to crochet a giant purple mushroom and a giant blue gecko… These seem like entirely reasonable and useful items that need to […]

in memory of Maui

We had to say our final goodbye to our beautiful cat Maui this week. Although we knew it was coming, we’re still completely devastated to have lost our boy, and I know that many of you have got to know and love him over the years too. If you’ve been following me for any length […]

Reindeer Games 2021 roundup

The first annual PlanetJune Reindeer Games crochet-along has just finished, and it was a huge success! It was a lovely sociable way to end the year, and provided a good escape for everyone from all the usual end-of-year stresses. Over the 2 month CAL, we had a very active time – 48 pages of chat! […]

2021: year in review

Writing my Year in Review post every year helps me to see what I’ve accomplished, think about what I’ve learnt, and decide what I’d like to do differently in the following year. Who’d have thought that this year would be, in many ways, harder than 2020?! This year, I’ve only published 7 new patterns all […]

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