Vlog - Yarn shopping in Lancaster

02/28/18 • 10 min

I won't produce show notes for this one. The shop details are on the cover photo and the video is a quick 10 minutes on YouTube if you fancy lookng at some visuals of the two shops.

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I won't produce show notes for this one. The shop details are on the cover photo and the video is a quick 10 minutes on YouTube if you fancy lookng at some visuals of the two shops.

Fay x

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Episode 26 - CALathon

Welcome to The Crochet Circle Podcast and the show notes for Episode 26 – CALathon.

In this episode, I cover: Quick news beats; Old dog, new tricks; FOs; WIPs; DIPs; Feeding the habit, Review of Making Winter book; 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 - Quick news beats

Global Hook Up – Are you all ready to join in the first-ever Global Hook Up? Here are the joining details:

Hi there,

Fay Dashper-Hughes is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: 1st Global Hook Up with The Crochet Circle Podcast Group

Time: Feb 3, 2018 7:00 PM London

Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/4750475819

The meeting ID number is 475-047-5819 and you will need to join via Zoom which you can do here: https://www.zoom.us/join

I have set it up so that everyone is on mute to begin with and then I can unmute you. The meeting will start when I join in at 7pm (GMT) on Saturday 3rd February. It will run for an hour and then we can take a call on whether it works and we want longer sessions.

The next session will be on 24th of February and may have a later start time so that it is more accessible from the Eastern time zones too.

You may need to bear with me whilst I get to grips with the technology. If you are on Instagram, then please get involved by using #GlobalHookUp and following that hashtag. That way I can see what you are all up to and comment on your projects.

I will also release the meeting code on Instagram about an hour before it starts on Saturday night (GMT).

One Skein Wonderland CAL – By the time this podcast is out the CAL will have closed. We will announce prizes shortly afterwards.

There have been so many great projects. Even if you haven’t managed to join the CAL, I encourage you to look at the Finished Objects thread in the Love Charlie Podcast group on Ravelry and #OneSkeinWonderlandCAL on Instagram to see some fabulous projects.

Different Designer CAL – This will start on 1st March and run until 8th April. The premise is that you go to the ‘Different Designer CAL’ Ravelry thread and tell everyone who your favourite designer is. You share why you love their designs and which your favourite one is. You then get to look through all the suggestions or come up with your own. You HAVE to try out a new designer, that’s the only rule.

Other Crochet Circle CALs –

4th May to 30th June – Summer tops CAL

13th July – 31st August – Vintage Along (using either vintage yarn or a vintage pattern - 20+ years old)

14th September – 26th October – Sock Along

24th December – 31st January – One Skein Wonderland CAL

Apart from the Different Designer CAL, I am going to add a new twist which is that you can enter WIPs so long as they fit the brief.

#FridayIsDyeDay – It’s great to see people taking part in this on the last Friday of every month. There was some amazing speckled yarn by Lyndsay (andthentherewasmorgan on IG), Gemma (curlygem92 on IG) dyed up four fab bright colourways and started almost straight away to crochet a hat with one of them. Haylie (fireweedfibres in IG) dyed up two colourways and Jo (dancing_goat_crafts on IG) dyed up some wool tops ready for spinning. I managed to do some from my weekend accommodation. I dyed a shop-bought pair of cashmere gloves a bright turquoise and over-dyed some orange yarn that I had previously dyed and not loved. It has already been crocheted up into a cowl which you can see in FOs.

I also made my Mum dye up a skein which you can see below. It’s and 80% Merino/20% silk mix and she wants me to knit her a pair of socks with it.

Unravel Festival – I am heading to Unravel on the Sunday 18th February. If you are going to be about and fancy meeting up for a coffee, let me know.

Knitting and Stitching Show at Olympia – Eeek, I’m going to be at this show working on the Erika Knight stand! If you are going to the show, I will ...

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Episode 27 - Global Hook Up

Hello there and welcome to The Crochet Circle Podcast and the show notes for Episode 27 – Global Hook Up.

In this episode, I cover: Quick news beats; Old dog, new tricks; FOs; WIPs; DIPs; Feeding the habit; Big Up and J’adore?

This podcast is sponsored by my online crafting company, Provenance Craft Co.

If you would like to support the podcast, you can do that through Patreon:

1 - Quick news beats

Global Hook Up – We have just had the second Global Hook Up and they have both been great fun. The next one is due on the 24th March from 8 – 9.30pm (GMT). After the March Global Hook Up, I will look at changing the times again so that people from different parts of the globe can join in and I can take clock changes into account.

The details for the next session are already up in the Ravelry thread, can also be found below and will be put out on Instagram in advance.

Time: March 24th, 2018 8:00 PM London

The meeting ID number is 475-047-5819 and you will need to join via Zoom which you can do here: https://www.zoom.us/join

Crochet meet up/ session in Birmingham on 25th March 2018 times tbc - Do you fancy being part of a tea party/research session for a potential new contemporary crochet publication? All you need to do is email Marie at [email protected] to book your place. I will be there with my crochet and inputting into the session and I would love it some of you were able to join in too.

Marie is currently selecting an appropriate venue and refreshments will be supplied.

Different Designer CAL – Started on 1st March and runs until 8th April. The premise is that you go to the ‘Different Designer CAL’ Ravelry thread and tell everyone who your favourite designer is. You share why you love their designs and which your favourite one is. You then get to look through all the suggestions or come up with your own. You HAVE to try out a new designer, that’s the only rule. I have two on the go already and will be doing jumper as a third when I have finished knitting a jumper that I am doing at the moment.

Edinburgh Yarn Festival – If you are going to EYF on the Thursday or Saturday then I can bring anything from my shop KNIT IT - HOOK IT - CRAFT IT and you can save on the P&P costs. If you are interested in this, simply place an order and in the notes section, tell me that you are coming to EYF and whether you will be there on the Thursday or Saturday (the two days that I am going into the festival). I will then refund the P&P costs, bag up your order and bring it with me in a very large suitcase.

2 - Old dog, new tricks

Collect daffodil heads - when the daffs start to die back, collect the heads up, dry them up and use them for dyeing. Here is a blog post that I pulled together on dyeing (including daffs).

Ball winders and not friends with long hair – if you have long hair, it’s best to keep it tied up if you are using a ball winder. I managed to catch my hair in my winder, which meant that I had to stop, unwind the yarn and hair and start again. I wouldn’t mind but it happened twice on the same ball of yarn!

The technique for sewing up a round in hats or mittens - You may remember that a couple of episodes ago I said I would have to frog back a hat and sew it up again because I was unhappy with the nipple that the original method left at the top.

The technique that I felt gave the best finish was to only sew through the front loop only of the final round of stitches.

After crocheting the last stitch, fasten off, as usual, thread the tail onto a needle and place the needle from the left, under each front loop. You can usually manoeuvre 3-4 stitches onto the needles before you pull through the yarn. Repeat until you have sewn through every stitch of the last round, pull to get the required tension and then weave into the inside.

3 - Finished Objects

Well, it has been a fairly quiet month, mainly because I have had my head down doing designs and travelling. I have managed to finish a couple of things and one of them is a 600g whopper!

This is my Inclinat...