🏆 Winners: “Using Up Scraps & Upcycling” Community Challenge (August 2025)

Dear all,

Wow—what a collection of ideas! Thank you so much for all your entries to the challenge . The deadline was August 31, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.; a random drawing was held today from among all valid entries.

The winners are (each receiving €10 of Crazypatterns store credit):

• 🏆 veronika-t15 – Memory Teddy .
  
• 🏆 Hundsstern – Dog accessories made from old jeans .
  
• 🏆 Schnuckelina – Stained wooden tray → storage basket .
  
• 🏆 kerstin-huerholz – Family picnic blanket .
  
• 🏆 WollwunderPetra – Lantern .
  

Congratulations! 🎊

Here’s what happens next:
Your €10 store credit will be added to your Crazypatterns account within 3 business days —you don’t need to do anything else.

Transparency:
The winners were selected at random from all valid entries in the challenge thread, including the submission “Upcycling with a Twist: Turning Food Scraps into Eggs .”

Thank you all so much for participating—the challenge will remain open as a collection of inspiration. Feel free to keep sharing your before-and-after projects and use the hashtag #CPUpcycling if you’d like. 💚

And on to the next one: Our next community campaign is already underway—“DIY Gifts from the Heart” (“Gifting with Love”) . Show off small, handmade gifts with a brief story behind them and enter the drawing for 10× €10 Crazypatterns store credit . Submission deadline: Sunday, September 14, 2025 (inclusive). Joining in is easy: post directly in the campaign thread or start your own thread and mention the campaign there. We look forward to your heartfelt gift ideas! 💝

Your Crazypatterns Team

Original thread: “Community Challenge: Using Up Scraps & Upcycling – 5 × €10 shopping credit ”

🥳Congratulations to all the winners 🏆 

Congratulations to the winners!

Oh, I’m so happy I won. I’ll treat myself to a good sewing tutorial with the 10 euros at the next opportunity. Congratulations to all the other winners as well.

I really enjoyed this inspiring hands-on campaign. There are so many creative ideas here that are worth sharing in this way. Thanks also to CP for the next campaign—I’m sure we’ll come up with lots of wonderful things to show and share there, too.

Best regards, Ina

I won—I’m really happy about that and will take a look around when I get the chance to see what I’ll choose as my prize.

Congratulations also to the other winners—it’s great that so many of you participated and shared your ideas with us. I really enjoyed the campaign and am glad there’s a follow-up. 

Oh, how wonderful—I’m so excited! Thank you so much!

Congratulations to the other winners 💐

I’d also like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to all the winners.🥂
You’ve earned it.

Congratulations to all the winners.
Let’s see if I can manage to create something again.
These are great campaigns to get us motivated during the summer lull.

Congratulations to all the winners. 👍
You’ve earned it.