To everyone who is still waiting for the Fuzzy Monkeys crochet pattern: I haven’t forgotten you! Life has been hectic for the past couple of weeks. I have some big personal things going on: we’ll be moving house soon; my sister just visited; and I finally got to see the hand doctor. So, while the […]

After a strange hiccup this morning where my blog reverted to one month ago, everything now seems to be okay. Please let me know if you find any problems! Also, if you signed up for the New Patterns mailing list last night or today, you might want to sign up again just to make sure […]

The server that hosts PlanetJune.com is having some “issues”, so my webhost is moving my website to a shiny new server which will hopefully be more stable. As a result, PlanetJune.com may disappear for 24 hours or so. Do not despair! I will return and everything will be right in the world again 🙂

I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got home today. And it was perfectly timed to cheer me up (my wrist is hurting again, thanks to some work-related strain on it yesterday): Photo taken in dappled sunlight to prove that the sun really is out – yay! It’s a package of cute […]

life update Some of you already know that I have been really suffering with the carpal tunnel in my right wrist for the past 3 weeks. I haven’t been able to crochet or do any crafts and it’s been driving me mad. It got to the stage where I couldn’t type with my right hand, […]

Look what I got in the mail today! A lovely package of kimono fabric scraps from Eloise in Japan, so I can finally make some of the lovely projects from my chirimen Japanese craft book. There are 23 pieces in all, in a huge variety of colours, textures and prints. They are all so lovely! […]