Podcasts about sugilite

Join Daria and Ivy as they watch and talk about Friend Ship and cover such topics as the Steven's-perspective-only rule, the original purpose for many of the lethal features we saw on the spaceship, where Pearls might be in the Gem social structure, the eventual resolution between Pearl and Garnet, Amethyst's maturity, what Peridot meant when she said the Earth has an expiration date, Steven's increased confidence in his shield abilities, Peridot calling Steven 'a Steven', philosophy on the Gems' weapons and body language, Pearl's poor self esteem and Garnet's confidence, what Peridot is really up to, and Sardonyx' return. Probing Question: Given that Amethyst's anger seems to have been blamed for Sugilite's destructiveness and Pearl's duplicity poisoned the Sardonyx fusion, do you have any thoughts on what Garnet might need to improve on to make her fusion experiences better? Today's recipe: None. Today's merchandise: Steven Universe sock set (representing Peridot's lost foot), plus follow-ups showing complete sets of Funko Mystery Minis and Original Minis now that their complete sets are no longer spoilery for Daria. Follow us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/notsogiantwomen

We all love Amethyst, however there are other amazing violet crystals that all offer fresh perspectives and support, especially in terms of our spiritual growth. This week we explore three of these crystals, Charoite, Lepidolite and Sugilite WANT A GUIDED MEDITATION WITH CHAROITE OR SUGILITE? Download them here: https://music.apple.com/au/artist/adam-barralet/969009931 Or purchase the CDs here: http://bit.ly/ShopAdam FOLLOW ADAM https://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralet https://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/ https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/   FREE weekly e-newsletter exploring crystals, essential oils and more http://www.adambarralet.com/   BRING MAGICK HOME My books, oracle cards and more https://www.adambarralet.com/offerings-from-adam-shop My favourite essential oils https://www.adambarralet.com/ordering-doterra   KEEP IT SIMPLE! All my details and offerings can be found here http://linktr.ee/adambarralet

Join Ivy and Daria as they watch and talk about Cry for Help and cover such topics as Daria's opinion of Sardonyx, how fusion works between a Fusion and a single Gem, Amethyst and Steven's role in the episode, the issue with Sugilite, Sardonyx's awareness of the fourth wall, the Crying Breakfast Friends parallels, the danger of Peridot, Pearl's rationalisation of her awful betrayal, Garnet failing to see Pearl's motivation with her Future Vision, and Amethyst's first solo. Probing Question: Do you think there's any rhyme or reason to how many eyes and limbs Fusions get? Today's recipe: None. Today's merchandise: Crying Breakfast Friends shirt, Steven Universe Plush Keychain (Series 1), and Night Lion. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notsogiantwomen Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NotSoGiantWomen Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQx98oKtCZo

⭐Subscribe to The Crystal Clarity podcast on Apple Podcast, or Spotify Watch the episode here on YouTube! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, & share! CCP Blog - Episode 3 Lapis Lazuli And Grace In Your Life What if you're already good enough? What if you absolutely don't have to do anything? What if the good things in life just shower on you without you asking for it? That is what grace means. You don't have to be good enough to receive grace. It just comes. It is something that Sarah Thomas loves to talk about because not many people open themselves up to receive grace. If anything, they are more often blocking grace from their lives. In this episode of the Crystal Clarity Podcast, we dive into the concept of grace, how it is connected to the Divine Mother, and how lapis lazuli acts as a trigger for grace to flow. The next time you wear lapis lazuli or give it to someone, you'll know its power and what it can do in a person's life. Tune in! This episode is all about unkinking that hose that is stopping or pinching the flow of grace in your life. The flow of grace that is coming from heaven, Earth, and nature all around you. This episode is about unblocking those chakras and letting them all receive this tremendous grace. It is all about surrendering to all of the things that you don't have to earn, that can be easy, and that are all around you. It calls for one beautiful, elegant, rich stone, which is lapis lazuli. Let's pull together the link between lapis lazuli and one of the primary qualities of the divine, which is grace. After the episode, you will have a good sense of when to get someone a lapis lazuli ring, when to put it on them before bed, when to make them a lapis lazuli anointing oil, or weave some lapis lazuli stones into their next birthday card. --- I'm excited because this episode is about grace. I want to define grace and us all good on the same page. Lapis lazuli is going to come shining in, uplift us, and love on us from this place of grace. I want to bring up this rags-to-riches concept. If you start from a hard place and you end up somewhere that is full of riches and treasures, I think of my little Chihuahua, Maria, who I rescued from a hoarder situation. She came out of a trailer that had 100 other dogs in it. She came to me. She was already old, gray, blind, and had a lot of health problems, and she had been living in these horrible conditions for, who knows, maybe her entire life. She was losing her hair. Lapis lazuli is going to come shining in, uplift us, and love on us from a place of grace. It was a sad situation, but we fell immediately in love and had smiles on our faces from the first day. By the next day, she is eating incredible food, toys, balls, and twenty beds around the house. She was in my arms all the time. It is like she went from rags to riches. She landed in the lap of the divine from her little perspective. Everything in the house smelled a million times better than in that trailer. She had all the food she wanted. She had complete safety. Something happened in her life where she got hit by grace. Grace is this opportunity to receive because a lot comes to you. It is time to receive that love, blessings, and miracles. My mom went to a retreat with her church. She didn't know what she was getting into. She got there and it was the pastor's wife that ran the retreat. It turned out that the only thing it was about was God's love, and it was about receiving God's love. They got there, and it was the surprise giant banquet of food. It was laid out for them. She said she felt like royalty. It is like rags to riches. Royalty is another big word that is going to come up a lot around lapis lazuli. She walked into that room and there were grapes, cheeses, fruits, chocolates, and all these things. She was like, “I was overwhelmed. I couldn't believe they set that all up for us.” Tears came to her eye. There is beautiful music. They get massages. She didn't know it was going to be all about receiving the love of God. That was all about grace. That pastor's wife was like, “This weekend is all about grace, and it is all about receiving.” Grace showers down on us, and it doesn't have to be earned. That is what grace is. It showers onto us. Have you ever had to do anything to make the rain, rain? No, it hits you. Have you ever had to do anything or been enough to make the sunshine? No, the sun shines on you. It is free. You don't have to earn it. It is tremendous love. You don't have to be good enough for grace. Grace is free. It showers down on us and it doesn't have to be earned. That is the definition of grace. You don't have to be good enough for it. It's loving you and given freely. It is a whole perfect reflection of the divine. Grace is a reflection of the divine. It is a primary quality of the divine because however you see that in your life or you see what the divine is, the divine is connected to infinity and eternal life. It is eternal energy. It is completely pure abundance, and it has so much to give. I was meditating and thinking about some things as I was getting started. This thought came into my head. I was like, “What if you are already good enough?” Because I was trying to be good enough, my mind and myself were trying to be good enough to get something started. I didn't realize I was doing this. Thank goodness for the grace right of this voice. It was like, “What if you are already good enough? What would you do if you were already good enough?” Everything shifted in my day because I sat there for a second and I took that seriously. “What if I'm already good enough? How would I be on this day if I was already good enough?” I relax and I start to receive the grace of who I already am. What is already available to me, so I don't have to earn what's coming up in the day? What if you are already good enough to start, heal, succeed, be happy, and change? What if there is nothing that you even have to do? It is mind-blowing to the Western mind. It is completely derailing to the self because the self or the mind feels like it always has to do enough and strive. It will never be enough. This immense grace is often forgotten. Because the self or the mind is loud, we forget about this immense grace. Some of the greatest teachers in my life and the people that I consider tapped and connected to the divine help me remember. One of the main things they have shared and helped me remember is to allow and receive grace. She has a lot to give. Receive the miracles, that this could happen to you and this could be easy. Let that grace in like that sun is always shining on you. With grace, all you have to do is open to receive it. Grace is this powerful magical quality of the divine. It allows us to know that things can happen easily and without cultivation or hard work. Things can happen without you having to earn it. It is free. How is the grace flowing in your life? How is it flowing for you right now? Have you forgotten about grace? Have you forgotten to receive all of the miracles and possibilities sitting there waiting for you to open to them when you are asking yourself, “How is the grace flowing in your life?” If you see someone who is a little bit stuck, they are in that loop of like, “I have to suffer to transcend,” you might start to open up the grace portals with lapis lazuli. It always comes in with this beautiful message of surrender to grace. It is all around you. Surrender to it and let it in. It is truly one of the major qualities and attributes of the divine, not the divine as we think of it in heaven, but the divine that is the Earth. The Earth feeds all of us every single day. The grace coming from the Earth is immeasurable. Open your body and all seven chakras to receive that grace. Lapis lazuli is a stone that is going to bring you up to that beautiful possibility of receiving grace, receiving it easily in your life. It is the trigger for grace to flow. If you put on that lapis lazuli ring or that jewelry, put it on somebody in treatment or on yourself before bed, it is the trigger for that grace to flow. It allows you to surrender to that grace, and it reminds you of it. Lapis lazuli is a stone that brings you up to the beautiful possibility of receiving grace. It is the trigger for grace to flow. When I was in Egypt, I was in a few museums. Everything is lapis lazuli. It is huge on all of the royalty, kings, and queens. Everybody was wearing lapis lazuli. When I was in India, all of the avatars and riches were lapis lazuli. It is like saying, “I'm receiving the grace of the divine. I'm allowing myself to sit not in rags anymore but in riches. I'm allowing myself to be royal.” In China, Tibet, and all around the world, lapis lazuli is when we allow ourselves to receive the grace of the divine. Riches is an important word. The color of lapis lazuli is so rich blue. Imagine finding that in the Earth that is incredible blue, it's like, “What a gift. What a precious treasure.” It is precious that it didn't even need to be changed to become a paint pigment. It became lapis lazuli paint pigment. It is rich. It was prized and beautiful. It is valued that painters back in the day would only have a tiny bit. They have to save up for a tiny bit of lapis lazuli paint pigment. When you only had that tiny bit, you would not paint your whole canvas with it. You would save it for these little moments like, “I'm painting the Virgin Mary. I'm going to use my last little bit of this to paint this scarf on her neck or paint her blue eyes.” It was like saying, “This is extremely valuable. I'm going to put it on what is most valuable.” When you put lapis lazuli on yourself, you are like saying, “I'm valuable. I can receive blessings and miracles. I can allow myself to go from rags to riches.” Sugilite can be a rich color purple. Cinnabar and hematite can be rich red. Gold is rich. Anytime something has a rich color, it is going to put richness into us. Watermelon tourmaline can be rich green and rich watermelon. It puts richness into us in the form of physical tonification or spiritual material richness. That richness of color is a translation of richness in us. We all want a rich life. I don't care who you are. You want your life to be rich. It might be completely different from what richness looks like to you to someone else. I know for my partner, a rich day would be if she could sit and read her book in the little nook of the couch. Smell the pages of the book, read one book, get out another book, and be in her world of books. That is rich to her, and have the house be quiet. I'm a teacher at college. I go to the college campus. I'm around people and we share ideas. That is rich for some people. I'm a Gemini, so that was my example. Other people might be like, “What was rich for me was that this crew and I built this tree house together. To see everybody working together was rich.” We want our lives to be rich. It is different for us, but that feeling of like, “My life feels rich.” That felt nourishing and rich. You are going to get that from these rich stones and rich in color. lapis lazuli is rich. It is connected to the divine mother aspects and the grace that flows from the divine mother. The grace that flows from the divine father is connected to sunstone. The divine father's grace is a lot about shifting our consciousness, waking us up, making us clear, and making us lucid. The divine father shares a lot of gifts of consciousness and grace around waking up, like consciousness, activations, boons, blessings on what we have, blessings on what we create, and growing things like that. The divine mother and the grace that she shares can be a lot around material wealth, having enough to eat, clothes, and shelter, elevating that to having wealth, riches, and prosperity, which is enough to give away to share and take everybody to Italy for the summer. It's to have that prosperity to give away, and she loves to give pure pleasure like “Here is an incredible bath and food.” Receive pleasure of the senses. The divine mother gives the pleasure of that incredible, beautiful, stunning stone lapis lazuli that is that beautiful rich blue color. Some people say it is the most stunning color that the Earth has made. It has this gold, which is pyrite. There is even some sodalite in lapis lazuli, which looks like there is some quartz in there. Lapis lazuli is a rock. It is not one mineral. It is full of different things. It looks like you are looking up at the night sky. You see incredible glittering stars, and the Milky Way galaxy stretches across the sky. The gold riches inside this beautiful blue. What could be richer than that looking up? It is like we are receiving this heavenly grace. The divine mother aspects of grace are connected to lapis lazuli. The divine father aspects of grace are connected to lapis lazuli and connected to sunstone itself. Pleasure, beauty, rags to riches, having enough, having wealth, having prosperity. The divine mother, I feel sometimes she was like, “Receive and enjoy it. You don't have to work hard. That is grace. You should receive and enjoy it.” What would happen if you let go and surrendered? Where could grace take you in your life? When we come up to conversations like this, there is a place where I can lose some people. When I talk about this, letting things come and being worthy to receive all of this grace because the light and shower of grace are strong. One of its superpowers is it will illuminate the shame and the unworthiness programs inside of you. It will illuminate the “I'm not good enough” programs inside of you. That is the beauty of grace. Look how it is able to root those out and bring those into the light. When you see that unworthiness program, that is a giant part of the process. Some people would say, “It is the whole process.” To see it is to be free of it. When you see that “I'm not good enough” program, that is a giant step. You should be cheering and celebrating because it means to see it is moving through. Grace and lapis lazuli have a way of bringing us up to face our shame, unworthiness, and all of this not good enough stuff that is embedded in the programming of the self. That is the same for all of us. There is no self out there that doesn't have shame, unworthiness, and not good enough to move through it. It can be to different degrees, but it is truly not personal to you. It is a quality of the self, the one giant program that we are waking up to. A wonderful time to bring out lapis lazuli is to say to someone, “You don't anoint yourself with riches. Receive this love.” What if somebody gets an amazing partner and they are blocking it? What if someone has this ability for something to be easy, and they are blocking it? Receive it. Somebody might be doing well in their business, but they are not receiving that piece that would allow them to make money, make that change, or get that first down payment on a house. Lapis lazuli is the moment to say, “Remember, there are miracles. There is so much grace out there that you don't have to earn. It is coming.” Open all seven chakras to receive that grace. When I say that, you might feel a couple of the chakras that are like, “I'm not receiving that grace.” Now that you have come to this episode and you have thought about this a little bit, you are going to start seeing lapis lazuli around. You are going to start noticing this always in riches, queens, and beautiful jewelry. I hope that there is a moment for you to become conscious of that question that I asked in the middle of the episode, like, “How is the flow of grace going in your life? Are you allowing it to be easy? Are you allowing the divine to shine its love on you? Are you receiving all of the energy in nature that is all around you, that wants to feed you, come up through the Earth and air? Are you receiving that? Are you letting that into your body?” We have to wonder, with these stones, did some human pull out this stone and say, “That is beautiful?” Humans started making up this story about what this stone does, or did this stone come up out of the Earth with the transmission inside it with a higher consciousness of receiving grace inside of it from the Earth or celestial realms? Did that transmission hit us and start moving in us as we started to interact with the stone? You got to wonder. Maybe it is our imaginations, and our imaginations are the same as these divine transmissions or it is all one. I wish you so much grace, and I will see you in the next episode.

When you know what is happening in the heavens, you can prepare with gifts from the Earth. This episode explores the major astrological influences of November 2022 and which crystals and essential oils to align with to make the most of each energy shift. Here is a summary for November: 1st – Hekate turns retrograde (until 18th Feb) – Black Moonstone & Magnolia 7th – Samhain (Northern Hemisphere) – Chiastolite & Cypress 7th – Beltane (Southern Hemisphere) – Tugtupite & Cistus or Rose 8th – Blood Full Moon in Taurus – Star Ruby & Rose 23rd – Jupiter goes direct – Sugilite & Rosemary 24th – New Moon in Sagittarius – Astrophyllite & Spanish Sage or Rosemary 30th – Pallas Athena goes retrograde (until 15th Feb) - Amethyst & Lavender or Manuka See the crystals and oils on my visual monthly forecast on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralet To book a reading with me, please click here: https://calendly.com/adambarralet/private-reading-with-adam-barralet Learn more about Samhain here: https://youtu.be/PlOISTEeXUs Learn more about Beltane here: https://youtu.be/eVpoJJhm9Vk FOLLOW ADAM https://www.youtube.com/user/adambarralet https://www.facebook.com/mycrystalconnections/ https://www.instagram.com/adambarralet/ FREE weekly e-newsletter exploring crystals and more http://www.adambarralet.com/ BRING MAGICK HOME My books, oracle cards and more https://www.adambarralet.com/offerings-from-adam-shop My monthly online crystal sale https://www.facebook.com/groups/137571803636756/ My favourite essential oils https://www.adambarralet.com/ordering-doterra KEEP IT SIMPLE! All my details http://linktr.ee/adambarralet

Balance your strengths and weaknesses with a beautiful birthstone from Bliss Crystals. More details at https://blisscrystals.com/blogs/bliss-blog/12-crystals-for-virgo-season (https://blisscrystals.com/blogs/bliss-blog/12-crystals-for-virgo-season)

Discover the two premier violet flame stones that work to heal heart space energy in the 5th density vibration...the density of twin flames. Learn how these stones help to not only align your chakras, heal your auric field, and raise your vibration to discover more about your purpose in being here on the sphere! For the topic, Lorelei goes back to her roots and her heart, astrology. Since she was teenager, she enjoyed learning about the zodiac and how they contribute to who we are as unique individuals. Lorelei goes into detail about your Sun, Moon and Rising (Ascending) Signs (aka your big 3), modalities, elements, planetary rulership and each zodiac sign. Get ready to learn a lot more about your sign! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/3rdeyewithlorelei/support

Karma is a reaction to an energetic charge, a vibration, that you emit often without conscious realisation.Pledges and vows,  throw away comments that create verbal contracts and emotional cords can be causing you to remain trapped in a karmic replay.In this podcast I explain how it all works and how to use crystals to free yourself from subliminal programming or karma that you have either created for yourself or been subjected to from another.I also mention how important it is to become more mindful of your words and the impact the vibration behind the words is having on yourself and others. CRYSTALS: Use Sugilite or Purpurite to become enlighetned to any areas of your life where karma is in play. Then use an Obsidian Arrowhead and Pink Kunzite, to lovingly release and restore harmony and freedom. I think you will be amazed by the results.If you would like us to supply you with the crystals we would be honoured to bless them and send them to you. Please email:  bachorders@yahoo.com 121 sessions. If you would like help and to book a 121 session : LINK https://www.britishacademyofcrystalhealing.co.uk/personal-121-tuition/COURSES  Maybe you would like to join us for a Beginners, Advanced or Internationally recognised  Qualified Therapists Course : LINK https://www.britishacademyofcrystalhealing.co.ukI am truly happy to be in service to you ....The rewards for the work we do with Crystals are Love, happiness, good health and wealth ....And I am forever grateful xxxx 

Lorelei discusses the amazing sugilite and how it brings our awareness to spiritual love and wisdom. Find how you can bring more of the purple ray into your life to heal and find more love in yourself and others. In this brief episode, Lorelei discusses recognizing places and people and how they may be a link to your past lives. Through the phenomenon of deja vu, we become more cognizant of where we have been or whom we have known before and how we can uncover more of ourselves and our purpose through paying attention to this phenomenon. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/3rdeyewithlorelei/support

Join Daria and Ivy as they watch and talk about Coach Steven and cover such topics as Amethyst and Garnet's relationship (and how that influences their Fusion), how Sugilite is different from Opal, how a Fusion might exist in some capacity even when she is not fused, Amethyst's attitude toward fusing with Garnet versus fusing with Pearl, Daria's theories on the consequences of staying fused too long and whether it's healthy, Steven looking up to Sugilite, the racial coding of the Gems, whether the musical numbers are generally being sung in-universe, and why certain characters get to be Funko Pops while others don't. Today's recipe: Lars' Lunch Break (herring, sandwich, donut): https://love-takes-work.tumblr.com/post/190712803507/larss-lunch-whats-that-you-say-lars-once Today's merchandise: Sugilite and Opal-related mini posters. Watch this episode as a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFUNJL4NAe4 Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/notsogiantwomen​

Today we talk about Sugilite we talked about the different types how to tell real from fake how to cut it polish it what it’s value is, and more. We have a few lapidary tips today some awesome glue and some Rock tumbling tips. Believe it or not in our fossil news today we talk about a dinosaur rump hole? So a newly discovered dragon fish literally a living fossil and more. Check out all our social media links they can be found on any one of our blogs at radicalrocksusa.blogspot.com thank you for tuning in and remember rockhounds don’t die they petrify. Or PayPal donation link https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=TZYCR68FC5NNS__;!!BZ50a36bapWJ!-wMCBO8xiAsuztQfoH9ZOxeDAyKN7-c88p4WMfdJmXode1IlTS4nYGd9_PTvMZZGnA$

What you’ll learn in this episode: What resources Valerie used to teach herself jewelry making. What sacred geometry is, and how it influences Valerie’s work. The process behind creating “The Gauntlet,” a bracelet featuring stunning Queensland black boulder opals. How jewelry is similar to architecture.  About Valerie Jo Coulson Valerie Jo Coulson is an American designer whose brand is strongly defined by her personality and philosophy. She has worked as a studio jewelry designer, metalsmith and lapidary for more than 35 years. Her background is in Fine and Decorative Arts with particular interests in art history, architecture and design. All of her pieces, unique as they are, have strong emotional and literary connections and are created first and foremost for herself, but “within the context of communicating a collective consciousness.” Valerie‘s traditional fabrication methods and the prolific and intricate use of stone inlay, as well as her choice of materials make a strong visual impact.    Hey Additional resources: Website Twitter Facebook Instagram Transcript ‘Heaven and Earth’ bracelet fabricated in 18k Gold inlaid with Australian Opal, Sugilite, Turquoise, Tiger Iron, Black Jade and Jasper.  The 'Firenze' Bracelet, Sterling Silver, inlaid with Tiger Iron, Purple Agate and Cady Mountain Agate. 'Best of Show' 2017, Saul Bell Design Awards. In reverence to a nearly lifelong enchantment with the artists and architects of Florence Italy, cradle to the Renaissance. 'The Echinacea' Teapot and Trivit, Sterling Silver with oxidation, inlaid with Pink Rhodonite and Chrysoprase. 'Second Place' Holloware/Art Objects, 2019 Saul Bell Design Awards. The seen and unseen order of nature and the cosmos; interrelation and interdependence. 'The Gauntlet' Cuff, 22k Gold, 14k Gold (inner band fabrication), Queensland Black Boulder Opals, Ruby, inlaid with Black Jade, Chrysoprase, Coober Pedy Opal and Almandite Garnet.

Learn about the Crystal of the Day Sugilite and it’s healing properties! I hope this crystal is for you! The crystal cards used for this are called Crystal Oversoul Attunements by Micheal Eastwood. And this Crystal of the Day series is inspired by Bretman Rock. Enjoy! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/natalya16/support

Steven has a new room to play in! How could that go wrong? We also have a BRAND NEW FUSION!! And stay tuned as Anna realizes the most staggering secret ever to be revealed on Steven Universe...Music: "Happy Ukulele" by Scott Holmeswww.scottholmesmusic.com

Hello folks, come on into The Crochet Circle Podcast. Here are the show notes from Episode Fourteen - Unchained Melody?   In this episode, I cover: Yay Crochet or Nay Crochet; FOs; WIPs; Feeding the Habit; Tunisian CAL; Festivals; Big Up and What's Good?   This podcast is sponsored by my online crafting company, Provenance Craft Co.  Thanks to everyone who tunes into the podcast whether it is through Stitcher, Podbean, Spotify, iTunes or the YouTube Channel. Your support and engagement are really appreciated and makes running a podcast very special and worthwhile.    If you would like to support the podcast, you can do that through Patreon:   1 - Yay crochet, yay crochet, yay crochet and a wee bit more yay crochet! I love to learn, and so when I come across a new technique I like to dive in and understand its pros and cons rather than just accept that is naturally better.   I was coming across comments on Instagram about how many people preferred to start their projects with a chainless foundation, rather than the traditional chained foundation because it was quicker and they preferred the finished effect.  Hmm, time to get my hook out and investigate.   The below photo shows you the times, sizes, pros and cons that I found between chained and chainless foundations.        Bella Coco has a great YouTube tutorial on how to do a chainless foundation.   2 - Finished Objects I always get through more projects that I think.  Through the guise of #StashBingo I have been using some really lovely yarns that otherwise would have remained at the back of the Stash Palace.  I have really loved working with the Jamieson & Smiths Shetland wool and it comes in a fantastic range of colours.     1 - J&S 2 ply Jumper Weight (100% Shetland wool): Blue is shade FC41, dark green is shade 65, light green is FC62 and the fawn is actually J&S 3 ply jumper weight in undyed shade 2008/Katmollet.  I was testing out whether the 3ply was better for the beginning of the cowl because the colourwork strands mean that the patterned areas are heavier and contain more yarn.  My conclusion is that it is best to double up on the 2ply where needed rather than use the 3 ply. 2 - J&S 2 ply Jumper Weight (100% Shetland wool)  Cream is shade 1A, orange is shade 125 and the dark red is shade FC62.  I have been working on these projects as part of #StashBingo but also to design projects that can use up yarn straggles and look good.   I also did a bit of investigating on the best place to buy Jamieson & Smith wool from and the cheapest source was Purlesence.  They offer free UK and EU postage for orders over £25 and I believe that their non-EU shipping is also very reasonable.  25g of J&S 2 ply is only £2.90.     3 - This was a Corriedale pencil roving that I bought from Queen of Purls in Glasgow, but it doesn't seem to be listed on their website anymore.  I used it to crochet a hat for my niece Darcie, which you can see below. If you like the look of this yarn then you may want to try Erika Knight for John Lewis XXL which is a slightly chunkier version or Drops Eskimo.  The pattern is Super Chunky Bobble Hat by Jo Janes on Ravelry.        4 - Wolle Rodel Sport and Strumpfwolle in shade 16915  75% wool and 25% polyamide. 5 - Regia 4 ply 75% wool and 25% polyamide in Ocean (06629).  I think this is what the yarn is...   The pink yarn is West Yorkshire Spinners Signature 4 ply, 75% wool (35% is Bluefaced Leicester) and 25% nylon in shade 545 Sarsaparilla.   To share the love with listeners and watchers of the podcast, I want to test giving out a 50% discount code for my patterns.  I am starting this off with my latest pattern Doppio Colosseum and so between 3rd and the 17th March (midnight GMT) you can get 50% off the pattern in Ravelry by using code DOPPIO50%. This is what Doppio Colosseum looks like and it requires 200g/800m of a 4ply fingering weight yarn.           3 - Work in Progress I have two main WIPs on the go at the moment, one crochet and one knitted.  From now on in the podcast, I am only going to talk about my knitting projects when they have become finished objects.  I want to make sure that the podcast remains predominantly about crochet but I still need to be able to reflect on the other things that I craft because they also give me inspiration for my crochet makes.   Here is my second #StashBingo project (project bag number 4).  This is some really course British wool that I picked up at Wonderwool Wales almost two years ago with the thought of making housewares with it.  I then dyed up some of the wool when I ran the dyeing workshop last September.  There was no real thought to how I dyed it, I was just helping to exhaust some of the wool in Gill's dye pot. The result is lovely with a shift in the depth of colour as you get to the outer parts of the skein because the dye couldn't penetrate the inner part of the yarn cake as readily.   I am holding two strands of wool together to make this rug, starting with two strands of undyed.  When the first cake of undyed had been crocheted, I added the lightest of my dyed wool in and continued to crochet with two strands - one undyed and one dyed.  This is adding a really nice sense of balance to the rug because the undyed yarn is visible throughout the whole piece.  I have then moved onto the next darkest skein of dyed yarn, and so on and so on.  I love it! This will be an FO on the next podcast.     Here is my knitting WIP.  It is Stream by Isabel Kramer and I am using one of my sock club skeins from Life in the Long Grass and Socks Yeah! in Sphene (104) the mustard colour and Sugilite (112) the plum colour.      4 - Feeding the habit I am still being good.  I have bought Top-Down Crochet Sweaters by Dora Ohrenstein and my subscription of Pom Pom Quarterly has turned up and here is a link to the Hanbira cardigan. I continue to focus on the MANY gorgeous yarns in my stash.     5 - Tunisian CAL is GO GO GO! This new CAL started on the 3rd March and runs until the 16th April.  We are being expertly guided by Sol through this CAL as she already teaches Tunisian crochet, has tutorials on her blog and is providing patterns for the CAL. Tamara (long-term listener and group member) has also pulled together her top Ten Tunisian Crochet Tips as a blog post, so give that a read too. There are three categories: 1 - Sol's Cobbled Streets Cowl which is free of charge pattern and needs one skein (400m) of 4 ply yarn, a 4mm (G6) hook and a 30cm cable, though you may be able to use a long-shafted hook instead. 2 - Sol's Ocaso shawl which is a paid-for pattern and needs three (1 x Yarn A and 2 x Yarn B) skeins of 4 ply yarn with about 380m per skein.  You will need a 4mm hook (G6) and an 80cm cable.  Use code TCCPODCAST to get 50% off this pattern in Ravelry. 3 -  Anything goes.  The pattern of your choice, it just has to be Tunisian crochet. A Ravelry thread has already been opened and you can use #tccTunisianCAL on Instagram.   If you are looking at joining in under category three, then you may be interested in a couple of new patterns: 1 - Zoe Halstead has a Tunisian shawl in Inside Crochet issue 87. 2 - The Crochet Project has a new Shawl book coming out and there is a Tunisian Crochet shawl in that.     Here are the yarns that I am thinking about using:     The one on the left is Denim 4ply (50% Merino/50% silk) 100g/400m by The Wool Kitchen and this is definitely going to become a Cobbled Streets cowl.   The second two yarns are another sock club skein from Life in the Long Grass 100g/400m and some Araucania Yarns Ranco 100g/344m (PT 2109) but the jury is out on these colours as I may change my mind.  Again.   6 - Festivals I didn't make it to Unravel but Helen did and has added a review to the thread in our group in Ravelry and also to get a new blog - thank Helen!   I am heading up to Edinburgh Yarn Festival on the 11th March and will be pulling together a vlog on my antics.   I will also be vending at Wonderwool Wales on the 22nd and 23rd of April and you can find me at stall H2.  Come and say hello!          7 - Big Up Here are some blogs and podcasts that you may want to check out:   Helen's making blog Making at Number 14 Chrissie Crafts on YouTube talking about her crochet and embroidery projects. Crochetcakes on YouTube talking about her life in Puerto Rico, crochet and knitting.     8 - What's good?   I am back in the room and that is what's good!      Until next month.   Fay x   Instagram: Crochet_Circle_Podcast   YouTube: The Crochet Circle Podcast Ravelry Group: Search for The Crochet Circle Podcast in Groups Pinterest: Crochet_Circle   Twitter: Crochet_Circle        

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