{"id":15387,"date":"2015-08-06T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T12:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=15387"},"modified":"2016-10-15T11:47:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T15:47:46","slug":"summer-of-dinosaurs-cal-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/summer-of-dinosaurs-cal-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Dinosaurs CAL roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer of Dinosaurs crochet-along was a huge success, with new dinosaurs joining the herd pretty much every day, until we had an amazing 129 completed projects by the end of July! Here&#8217;s an overview of all 129 dinos completed during this CAL so you can admire our epic yarny Jurassic Park (if you&#8217;d like to see any of the projects in more detail, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ravelry.com\/projects\/search#status=finished&amp;photo=yes&amp;view=thumbs&amp;sort=favorites&amp;tag-list=pjdinocal2015\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a> to view the CAL gallery in full, but you&#8217;ll need to be a Ravelry member to see them):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"372\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/dinos_roundup9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"246\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What an amazing collection! I love the variety: colours, styles, sizes, customizations, and photo staging. And top quality\u00a0crocheting by all involved!<\/p>\n<h2>The Prizes&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15160\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/PJsummerofdinosaurs_prizes.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune Summer of Dinosaurs CAL - prizes\" width=\"500\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/PJsummerofdinosaurs_prizes.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/images\/PJsummerofdinosaurs_prizes-136x150.jpg 136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was a prize CAL, generously sponsored by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lion Brand<\/a>. The Grand Prize yarn will be provided by Lion Brand and shipped directly to the winner, and I&#8217;m providing all the other prizes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Grand Prize:<\/strong> 3 skeins <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/yarns\/vannaschoice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanna&#8217;s Choice<\/a> (the yarn I used to make all my dinosaurs!) and 1 skein of the gorgeous new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lionbrand.com\/textures-yarn.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Textures<\/a> yarn plus a PlanetJune crochet pattern of your choice<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second Prize:<\/strong> a PlanetJune Amigurumi Essentials Kit plus a PlanetJune crochet pattern of your choice<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third Prize:<\/strong> a PlanetJune crochet pattern of your choice<\/li>\n<li><strong>Runner-up Prizes:<\/strong> there are no losers at PlanetJune! All other participants who complete one or more entries in the CAL will receive a 10% discount code towards your next order from <a href=\"https:\/\/PlanetJune.com\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlanetJune.com<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">I grabbed all 129 entries and pasted them into Excel so they were in numbered rows, sorted alphabetically. Then I used <a href=\"https:\/\/random.org\" class=\"autohyperlink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">random.org<\/a> to generate 3 numbers between 1 and 129 (inclusive) for the winners. And they are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/blog\/CAL_images\/SummerofDinosaurs\/summerofdinos_winners.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"185\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grand Prize winner:<\/strong> #31 <strong>kathertine<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Second Prize winner:<\/strong> #74 <strong>NeofelisNebulosa<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Third Prize winner:<\/strong> #98 <strong>pandabugcreations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the winners! Look out for a Ravelry PM from me so you can give me your details for your prizes. And to all the other participants, I&#8217;ll be PMing you too, with your runner-up discount code \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to all of you who particiapted, for making this crochet-along so successful &#8211; it&#8217;s been an absolute pleasure to see all these wonderful ami dinosaurs popping up over the past 7 weeks!<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always a crochet-along running in the <a href=\"\/ravelry\" target=\"_blank\">PlanetJune group on Ravelry<\/a>. If you&#8217;d like to join a\u00a0current or future CAL, please join our group and participate as often as you want &#8211; we&#8217;d love to see your projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summer of Dinosaurs crochet-along was a huge success, with new dinosaurs joining the herd pretty much every day, until we had an amazing 129 completed projects by the end of July! Here&#8217;s an overview of all 129 dinos completed during this CAL so you can admire our epic yarny Jurassic Park (if you&#8217;d like [&hellip;]<\/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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cal-roundups"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387","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=15387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}