🎉 Announcing the Winners: Community Challenge “DIY Gifts: Small & Personal” (€100 Store Credit)

Dear community,

our November Community Challenge “DIY Gifts: Small & Personal” has now ended – and we are overwhelmed by your wonderful, thoughtful, and creative entries. Every single idea showed how much heart and joy there is in small handmade gifts. Thank you so much to everyone who joined in, read along, liked, and commented! ❤️

We are very happy to announce the winners now.

🏆 Community Choice (3 × €20)
The entries with the most likes as of the deadline on 11/16/2025, 11:59 PM.

1. Schnuckelina – “A Chest of Drawers Made from Matchboxes” – 32 Likes
   
2. Schnuckelina – “Warming Insoles” – 27 Likes
   
3. beate-wenzel1 – “Fair Isle Socks” – 24 Likes
   

Congratulations on these wonderful, popular entries! 🎉

🎯 Jury Picks (2 × €10)
Selected by Operator & Moderator.

• Kanori – “Dream Orchid for a Birthday”
  
• gudrun-krueper – “Warmth for Little Baby Heads”
  

Beautiful handmade gifts with lots of feeling – congratulations! 🌸🧶

🎲 Random Draw (2 × €10)
Randomly drawn from all valid entries.

• SaniyTila – “Cookies for Colleagues & Family”
  
• Schwalbe1 – “Crocheted Advent Wreaths for My Children”
  

Congratulations to you both – and have fun shopping! 🎁✨

❤️ Thank you all!

You made this challenge something truly special.
Your ideas were creative, warm, loving, and inspiring – exactly what the cozy season is all about.

Whether knitted, crocheted, baked, crafted, or sewn:
You showed how much joy there is in small handmade gifts.

We look forward to many more activities with you and hope you’ll join us again for the next challenge!

📩 Note for winners

You will shortly receive an email with your prize credited to you.
Have fun browsing and shopping on Crazypatterns!

Warm regards,
Your Crazypatterns Team 💙✨

P.S.: The next community event starts in December – this time with the theme “Festive & Upcycling”. We’d love to have you join in again with your creative ideas! 🎄✨

Congratulations to all the other winners! There were sooo many wonderful entries, and so much passion put into them!
I’m really happy about my win and want to say thank you in advance for all the likes I received.
You’ve built a great forum, and I really like the website too—keep up the great work!

So, big kudos to all the participants and the entire Crazy-Patterns team! 

Congratulations to the winners from me, too.🥂💐

It was another great challenge. Thank you for sharing your inspiring creations.👍

Congratulations to the winners,
unfortunately, I somehow just don’t have enough time for work, housework, crafts, and Crazypatterns, so I only check in occasionally when I’m looking for something specific 😒
But I thought the campaign was great, and I’m excited to see what December brings (I promise to do better)
Wishing everyone a lovely pre-Christmas season

User gudrun-krueper thanked us for her prize over in the thread The Warm Baby Heads. 

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I’d like to thank you for the prize and also congratulate everyone else. Thank you very much! 
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I’d like to thank everyone who took part in this challenge and rewarded my creative ideas and creations with a “like.” ❤️

That’s the only way I could have won. So, a big thank you to all of you! I’m already looking forward to redeeming my prize—it’ll definitely be a sewing pattern for me. 

I really enjoyed the November challenge because everyone opened their hearts and showed us all something personal they’d crafted for a loved one. You can tell from every single one of these beautiful and original items the love and care that went into making them. That’s why every piece is always filled with so much of the affection we feel for the recipient.

With that in mind, I hope we all continue to find joy in our creative projects and in giving gifts. 

Warm regards, Ina

Congratulations to the winners.

Congratulations to all of you!