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Fall woodland crochet photoshoot

I spent most of the day yesterday setting up this scene in the PlanetJune forest (no regrets!) and I couldn’t wait to share it with you! This photo captures the essence of what I love about fall – the gorgeous colours and the cozy warm feeling of the season. I hope you love it too… […]

Crochet Tools – last chance!

This is your last call to order from my Crochet Tools shop before it closes tomorrow (Wednesday) night. If you’re reading this after June 15th, click here to sign up to be notified next time the shop opens! Below, I’ll give you a quick rundown of what I have on offer this time – the […]

16 years, 1000 blog posts

16 years ago today, I hit ‘publish’ on my first post to this blog. Short and sweet, I said: I hope I’ll be inspired to be more creative by keeping track of my crafts here. I think I succeeded in that hope! Here are just a few of my favourite projects from the past 16 […]

Custom Enamel Pins

I’m so excited to have developed a new product line that I’ll be launching soon: PlanetJune Enamel Pins! They’ll be perfect to add to your jacket, your project bag, or to add to your pin collection. Looook what I made! I love how stylish the PlanetJune logo looks in pin form with the shiny silver. […]

designing the PJ logo

I just realised that my PlanetJune logo is 10 years old! To celebrate that anniversary I thought I’d give you a peek behind the scenes and show you how I designed my logo. I’m a complete amateur when it comes to graphic design, so it took many attempts to come up with a good logo. […]

update: Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi

This is a quick announcement to let you know that I’ve just updated my ebook, The Complete Guide to Giant Amigurumi. What’s New? I’ve added 2 new pages of instructional techniques (what to do if your original amigurumi pattern has wired limbs, and how to add an optional lining to contain the stuffing), and an […]

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 […]

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