I’ve been part of the Gift-a-long since the beginning, it starts today!
There is a 25% off sale on many, many designer’s single, self published patterns, the code is giftalong2018 you will be able to find and sort them easily because they will be in a bundle; all of the sorting tools of Ravelry will work on it for you. Then there is a a wildly chatty KAL/CAL on all those patterns (not just the ones on sale, any of the for pay patterns of those designers). The forums are so chatty that there is a slow lane thread. There are so many prizes that even I have won stitch markers and downloadable patterns.
I’ve been thinking about the gift crafting and the GAL for a long while, here are some of the posts: