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Archive for January 2026

Reindeer Games 2025 roundup

The fifth annual PlanetJune Reindeer Games crochet-along has just wrapped up, and it was a lovely way to end 2025. (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 total of 85 completed […]

2025: year in review

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. 2025 has been a year of invention in my patterns – almost all of them include new techniques that took much longer to […]

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