The 2012 Olympic Games, and the yarny Ravellenic Games, have now drawn to a close. I’d like to salute all the members of Team PlanetJune, for participating through competing and/or cheerleading.

Team PlanetJune roll call: abjCrochet, AKmtnnymph, AliciaLee418, anda76, arbitrarily, BanuyeGharbi, BettyH553, BiologyJAP, BryansMummy, camaharet, celloulee, CrochetChrisie, CrochtColorJunkie, Emzibee, Enphra, esmerelda33, Fatals-attraction, Foxtrot400, Grendy05, haleysuzanne, hattalahutta, Heidi, HotPinkCrayola, JennHanus, jukatca, JRPautos, klopferli, Luna1130, MintSauce, MorganAdel, petrOlly, planetjune, PinkytheLizard, PixyKayte, rastakt, robinandersen9, saudistitcher, SugarAngel, taliasparkle, theMarkofSMB, themegababe, tripleb, Veggie, vshopmeyer, yaney, yasminlangley

Team PlanetJune Medals:

Overall, we attained 90 medals in 16 different events – an amazing achievement!

Photo Gallery

I’ll show you my entries first so I can explain them quickly. The Kingfisher is a replacement for my original that was lost after I sent it to be photographed by a magazine. I’m so glad to have finally had a chance to remake him:

And my other entries were new designs: the (as yet unnamed) scarf will be a new PlanetJune Accessories donationware pattern next month, and the Sea Otter is a commissioned design (pattern coming very soon!):

Here are all the other team entries – notice how people have challenged themselves through quantity of projects, making more advanced accessories, completing old WIPs, or modifying my patterns to include beading, felting, miniaturising, and more…

Luna1130 & hattalahutta

PinkytheLizard & theMarkofSMB

hattalahutta & theMarkofSMB

CrochetChrisie & HotPinkCrayola

Fatals-attraction & CrochetChrisie

theMarkofSMB & petrOlly

CrochetChrisie & AKmtnnymph

Fatals-attraction & CrochetChrisie

theMarkofSMB & abjCrochet

arbitrarily & Enphra

CrochetChrisie & hattalahutta

arbitrarily & tripleb

tripleb & Fatals-attraction

PinkytheLizard & theMarkofSMB

rastakt & theMarkofSMB

theMarkofSMB & SugarAngel

CrochetChrisie & BettyH553

theMarkofSMB & themegababe

petrOlly & petrOlly

Fatals-attraction & theMarkofSMB

CrochetChrisie & Fatals-attraction

CrochetChrisie & klopferli

camaharet & PinkytheLizard

petrOlly & theMarkofSMB

yaney & petrOlly

petrOlly & jukatca

theMarkofSMB & Fatals-attraction

themegababe & BettyH553

Veggie, CrochetChrisie & PinkytheLizard

BanuyeGharbi, MorganAdel & Luna1130

yaney, BiologyJAP & CrochetChrisie

Isn’t that an impressive collection? (Both in terms of quality and quantity: remember, these were all made within the just over 2 week timeframe…) Excellent work, team! 🙂

Prizes!

Thanks to Michelle of Suncatcher Eyes for sponsoring Team PlanetJune! In addition to her beautiful handpainted eyes, Michelle carries a full range of high quality black and clear animal eyes for your amigurumi.

All eligible projects were entered in the draw, and the six winners are:

• $10 gift certificate for the PlanetJune shop: PinkyTheLizard
• A free pattern of your choice from PlanetJune: hattalahutta, klopferli
• 10 pairs of eyes (your choice of colours and sizes) from Suncatcher Eyes: theMarkofSMB
• 5 pairs of eyes (your choice of colours and sizes) from Suncatcher Eyes: petrOlly, SugarAngel

Congratulations to the winners – I’ll rav PM you to sort out your prizes!

All other Team PJ members with projects pictured above will receive the runner-up prize of a PlanetJune discount coupon (I’ll send it as a rav PM, so look out for it there!)

I’m sure the whole team would also like to extend a special thanks to our co-Captain, CrochetChrisie, who helped answer everyone’s questions about the Ravellenic Games rules and took the pressure off me – there’s no way I could have managed the admin for this by myself! To show my gratitude, I’m awarding Chrisie with a surprise gift – Chrisie, it’ll be in the mail shortly 🙂

Competing for medals in the Ravellenic Games was fun, but a little stressful too! If you’d like to participate in a more relaxed no-pressure crochet-along, join us in the PlanetJune Ravelry group for the BotaniCAL from now until the end of September – we’re crocheting beautiful flowers, plants and fruit…