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\nPhoto courtesy of Lion Brand<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
The Summer of Dinosaurs CAL was a massive success, with well over 100 entries! I’ll be posting the winners of the contest and a roundup of our amigurumi dinosaur army here in a couple of days \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Keeping it simple for the summer, the August crochet-along is a free-for all! That\u00a0means free choice: you can join in by making any PlanetJune patterns, including finishing up WIPs you\u2019ve already started.<\/p>\n You can make\u00a0any PlanetJune patterns from my shop (amigurumi and accessories), any free patterns from my website, or any of the patterns from my books – lots to choose from! Luckily Ravelry has a nice list of all 212 patterns on my designer page<\/a> if you feel like browsing \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n (Until I wrote that paragraph, I had no idea I had so many designs. That’s an average of 25 designs per year for the 8.5 years I’ve been a crochet designer… Wow!)<\/p>\n You’re automatically entered in the next monthly draw every time you write a review<\/a> for a PlanetJune pattern you’ve enjoyed – and you’ll also be helping future customers make an informed decision about patterns they are considering buying.<\/em><\/p>\n As I didn’t post a monthly update in July, I have two winners to announce today \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n June’s winner is Heather R<\/strong>‘s review of my Lion & Lioness<\/a> pattern:<\/p>\n Having made both the lion and lioness, I could not have been more thrilled with this pattern! June’s pattern is both realistic and adorable. This pattern includes loop stitch for the lion’s mane – something I had never attempted – but the instructions are very clear, and there is even a video online which is incredibly helpful. I found the pattern easy to follow and loved the end result!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n And July’s winner is Jaclyn M<\/strong>‘s review of my\u00a0AmiCats Calico\u00a0Cat<\/a> (far left in the above photo of the AmiCats Collection<\/a>):<\/p>\n This was the first pattern I bought from PlanetJune, and I was not disappointed! The pattern is very easy to follow, with lots of pictures and detailed instructions. I was very pleased that my cat came out looking like the picture. In fact, I was so pleased that I bought two more AmiCat patterns!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Congratulations, Heather\u00a0and Jaclyn\u00a0– I’ve emailed you both to find out which pattern you’d like as your prize!<\/p>\n This month, I’ll be busy with three AmiDogs\u00a0design\u00a0commissions, and I’ll be working on some new amigurumi, PlanetJune Accessories designs and non-crochet craft projects for next\u00a0season. I’m hoping to squeeze in a visit to my family some time this year, so I have to try to get ahead now so I can afford to take some time off later – I love being self-employed, but it does require careful planning… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Anyone for (Crocheted) Fruit? I was honoured that some of my crocheted fruit patterns were used to create the farmer’s market-themed window of the Lion Brand Yarn Studio store in Manhattan! (All the non-PlanetJune fruit and veg were freestyled by the creators of the window display.) I’d love to see this window in person, wouldn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Read all about it in the\u00a0Crochet World newsletter<\/del> (no longer available)<\/em>, or try my free patterns to make your own:\u00a0Amigurumi Pears<\/a>,\u00a0Amigurumi Citrus Collection<\/a>\u00a0(and\u00a0Amigurumi Apples<\/a>\u00a0– not pictured above, but the perfect way to round out your crocheted fruit salad!)<\/p>\nSummer of Dinosaurs CAL<\/h2>\n
Free-For-All CAL<\/h2>\n
Review and Win contest<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nWhat’s Next?<\/h2>\n