{"id":26324,"date":"2026-01-07T09:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T14:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=26324"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:45:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T02:45:36","slug":"reindeer-games-2025-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/reindeer-games-2025-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Reindeer Games 2025 roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth annual PlanetJune <a href=\"\/reindeergames\">Reindeer Games crochet-along<\/a> 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 <em>any<\/em> PlanetJune patterns or any of my books.)<\/p>\n<p>Over the 2-month CAL, we had a total of <strong>85 completed projects<\/strong> split between the PJ Ravelry group and the PJ Discord group:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/RG25-roundup.jpg\" alt=\"PlanetJune Reindeer Games 2025 project gallery\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t they all look wonderful? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Rudolph&#8217;s Gingerbread House<\/strong> (home\/d\u00e9cor projects) was the top stall this year, gathering half the entries thanks to lots of entries using my new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/free-crochet-pattern-gingerbread-tree-christmas-tree-ornaments\/\">Gingerbread Tree Ornaments pattern<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/planetjune-stories-susannas-giant-crochet-christmas-tree\/\">Susanna&#8217;s giant tree project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Santa&#8217;s Toy Shop<\/strong> (toys) came in second, with a nice selection of dinosaurs, cats, mice, and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Prancer&#8217;s WIPs Wrapping<\/strong> (completing works in progress) rounded out the top 3 stalls, which I&#8217;m very happy about &#8211; I always hope this CAL will help to motivate people to pick any languishing WIPs back up and get them finished. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can see all the projects, along with the full CAL statistics, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/reindeergames\/index2025.php\">Reindeer Games 2025 Gallery<\/a>, which includes credits for all the participants and all the (virtual) medals they won for their achievements!<\/p>\n<div class=\"halfright\" style=\"padding-left:20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/RG26-logo.png\" alt=\"PlanetJune Reindeer Games 2026 logo\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>Join us next time!<\/h2>\n<p>The next Reindeer Games will start on November 1, 2026 (and I bet those ten months will fly by!) Look out for my announcement in October if you&#8217;d like to take part in the 2026 CAL (or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/news\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up for my monthly newsletter<\/a> now so I can send you a reminder).<\/p>\n<hr style=\"clear:both;\" \/>\n<p>Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 2025 Reindeer Games &#8211; all your projects are beautiful, and I hope it encouraged you to finish some older WIPs or inspired you to try a new-to-you pattern. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s always a joy to end each year with my online friends in the PlanetJune community, crocheting along with you, and I&#8217;m already looking forward to the 2026 games! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26324","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\/26324","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=26324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26340,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26324\/revisions\/26340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}