PlanetJune by June Gilbank

HAPPY CHRISTMAS! I hope you’re having a wonderful day. What better way to celebrate than by looking through the wonderful projects made for the 2011 PlanetJune Christmas Crochet-Along? Thank you to everyone who joined in; as always it’s so much fun to see what you’ve made!

(For speed, I’m just giving credit with participants’ Ravelry usernames.) Let’s take a look:

AKmtnnymph made this clever Santa-themed Gift Box

theMarkofSMB used my Christmas Trees, PocketAmi Christmas, and Yeti and Bigfoot patterns to create this set of ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ characters

Fatals-attraction made this lovely group of Christmas Trees

arbitrarily’s PocketAmi set

Enphra made a set of 3 Gift Boxes embellished with ribbon roses

crochet-girl made some PocketAmi (with the Elf adapted into Santa)…

…and more PocketAmi by crochet-girl!

BanuyeGharbi made these two Gift Boxes but will be re-working the pink one at a tighter gauge so it holds its shape as well as the lovely blue one does!

jukatca made this sweet display of a Christmas Tree and Gift Box (and a collection of all my non-crocheted poinsettia tutorials!)

yaney used variegated yarn for her Gift Box

PocketAmi by esmerelda62

Lightblue made black-tipped Reindeer Antlers

CrochetChrisie’s Gift Box is topped with my felt poinsettia

Very effective use of rainbow-coloured yarn from klopferli

Candy Canes by theMarkofSMB

And now for a big pile of Poinsettias, Christmas Puddings, Candy Canes and Christmas Trees:

theMarkofSMB and Fatals-attraction

crochet-girl and BiologyJAP

rhianoran and mistyyarn

theMarkofSMB and Foxtrot400

Fatals-attraction and petrOlly

Fatals-attraction and rastakt

CrochetChrisie and petrOlly

Wonderful work by everyone! I always love seeing all the projects together like this

If you missed out on the CAL fun, don’t despair: the next CAL starts on January 1st, and there’s still time to vote on the new theme here (you’ll need to be a member of Ravelry but it’s free to join).

Prizes!

And now to the winners! I made a list of all the eligible projects and used random.org to draw 2:
First prize ($10 gift certificate) goes to Fatals-attraction – congratulations Linda!
Second prize (free pattern) goes to theMarkofSMB – congratulations Monica!
Runner-up prizes go to everyone else

I’ll email Ravelry message the winners with their prize details (and the runner-up prize discount codes to all the other CAL participants) within the next couple of days, but now it’s time to spend a quiet summer Christmas afternoon at home in the sunshine with my little family – I hope you’re enjoying your day too!