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 the PJ Ravelry group and an additional 74 from the PJ Discord group, making a total of 146 completed projects:

Isn’t that impressive? We had lots of entries made from my new 2024 patterns (e.g. gourds, stars, ducks and geese) alongside a wonderfully varied selection of projects from my books and older PlanetJune patterns. You can see them all, along with the CAL statistics, in the Reindeer Games 2024 Gallery, which includes credits for all the participants and all the (virtual) medals they won for their achievements!

New for 2024

I introduced a submission form to the Reindeer Games site. For the first few years, I awarded medals manually (with help from volunteers), selecting the correct stall and antlers for each project and tracking multi-project awards by hand. As participation grew, this was becoming too demanding (especially during the holidays!)

I’m happy to report that the new submission form and automated record-keeping system made it easy and fun for me to manage everything by myself this year. Now I’m looking forward to this special CAL continuing to get bigger and better in future years!

Join us next time!

The next Reindeer Games will start on November 1, 2025, so look out for my announcement next October if you’d like to take part in the 2025 CAL (or sign up for my monthly newsletter now so I can send you a reminder!)

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2024 Reindeer Games – we all did amazingly! It’s an absolute delight to be a part of such a warm, engaged community, and to see everyone enjoying my crochet patterns and making such wonderful projects from them 🙂