January 2025 – PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog

Crocheted Eyes for Amigurumi [tutorial]

January 30, 2025 @ 4:57 pm · Filed under: Crochet, Tutorials

Link easily to this tutorial in your patterns: www.planetjune.com/crocheteyes If you’re looking for an alternative to plastic eyes for your amigurumi, there are lots of ways to make child-safe options: for example, you can embroider the eyes onto the head, cut out felt circles and stitch them on, or needlefelt a felt circle or ball […]

re-padding a coat collar

January 13, 2025 @ 11:24 am · Filed under: Sewing

My favourite everyday puffy winter coat is still going strong after 6 years apart from one thing: the padding inside the collar has worn out and split apart so there’s no insulation at the back of my neck. I don’t believe in ‘disposable’ fast fashion and I really like this coat, so I put up […]

Reindeer Games 2024 roundup

January 4, 2025 @ 11:01 am · Filed under: CAL roundups

The fourth annual PlanetJune Reindeer Games crochet-along has just wrapped up, and it was the biggest to date! (The Reindeer Games is a relaxed end-of-year CAL where you can participate by crocheting projects from any PlanetJune patterns or any of my books.) Over the 2-month CAL, we had a record-breaking turnout, with 72 projects from […]

2024: year in review

January 1, 2025 @ 8:00 am · Filed under: My Craft Business

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. This is my 16th Year in Review blog post – one for every year of my full-time self-employment. Back then, I couldn’t have […]