Hello there and welcome to The Crochet Circle Podcast and the show notes for Episode 59 – Face the frog  
My name is Fay and this is my audio and video podcast for those that love fibre crafts, particularly crochet.  It’s a community for people that like to support their fellow humans regardless of race, gender, sexuality, ability, size or age. I hope you feel the welcome embrace and love of the Crochet Clan.  Come on in and stay awhile.  
In this episode, I cover: Life; Old Dog New Tricks; En Route; Feeding the Habit, Quick News Beats, Big Up and J’adore.  
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1 – Life
So, since February this year, we have been getting our house ready to put on the market.  It went up the day before lockdown in March and we accepted an offer when we came out of lockdown. 
I honestly believed I would be recording this new podcast from the new house.  For those that are watching, that clearly hasn’t happened and I am still here in my lovely studio which I am really going to miss.
I can’t complain in the grand scheme of a pandemic and world politics, but all the same, I am utterly frustrated.
You know when you keep on looking at the photos of the house you are moving to and you just want to be there, unpack and enjoy your new space?  That’s where we are right now. 
The worst bit is that I don’t have ready access to my stash.  I miss it and the ability to just dip into it and be enthused by wool. 
I put several things on hold while we dealt with the move and at the weekend I decided that life can’t really go on hold anymore and that I just need to crack on with things.   
One of those things is to try out some new podcast equipment.  I am using audio, lighting and visual equipment today, and I would love to know what you think. 
I’m trying to use less kit, so save space and also create better light to get over the Winter gloom in my studio.
I already have my podcast space worked out in the new house and it is all flooded with light, so will be much brighter at some point in the future.  My fingers, toes and legs are crossed.
Please bear with me a little longer if I’m not about so much on social media and have fewer projects to show off.  I promise to be back to full volume as soon as I can, but moving house takes priority over all else until we have moved.    
I don’t recommend trying to move house in a pandemic – it adds a whole new level of crap to an already crappy situation.    
 
2 – Old Dog New Tricks
I have two old dog new tricks for you today.
The first is to show that you can make your own yarn colour blend.  I have been working on my Color Pop Sweater and unfortunately ran out of yarn. 
Not wanting to try to match the third colour to fade in via online shopping, I started playing around with twisting two 4ply yarns together to make a DK weight yarn in the right colour.  Amazingly, it worked rather well. 
It’s easy to blend two strands together to get an idea of whether the colours will work or not.  I used a solid yarn and a heavily variegated yarn, testing a couple of variegated colours to see what would work best. 
 
I even worked the samples into my project to see whether they would fade well with the existing yarn. 
My one word of caution would be to try to get a blend that creates a similar fabric to the work you are trying to match to.  If not, you might create something that is stiffer and doesn’t drape so well or kicks out slightly at the ends because the combined yarn is thicker, or pulls in because the combined yarn is thinner. 
 
The second en route is a quick and neat way of frogging projects.  Roll the project you want to frog in