Hi, I'm Judy from Witchpeacecraft. Welcome to today's video. Yes, it's the first August and it's time for our best-estang make along and the colours you can use in August. Before we do August, I'll do a bit of a review on July like I normally do. So July was Ruby and it proved to be popular. Your colour choices were red or pink and of course the most popular colour was red. The spiritual meaning of Ruby was happiness and a contented mind. I think I try all the time to have a contented mind and consider myself very fortunate and very lucky and a lot better off than most people. So happiness shouldn't be far away. For me, I did get asked in one of the comments, we've got some new people join us late in the year and what was I making? So here it is. This is my V-stitch lap and yes, I did Ruby. I posted it on the Facebook group and Instagram. The way mine is working on doing eight rows, eight rows of one colour one month and if there's a colour option, I do two, four and two and so far it's going okay. Now, about the end of the year, if it's not big enough for where I need to donate it to like crochet for cancer, I'll put a border around it which is what they suggest. Our lap hands for crochet for cancer have to be 80cm by 80cm or 100cm by 100cm. They do like the 100cm but we won't know, till I finish this. So that is the project I'm doing. We've got more posted pictures this month or more pictures posted this month which was great. I really like to see how the bigger projects are going and progressing. Yeah and it's nice. Welcome to the new people who have joined the main clung. It's great to have you on board. So as I said, the most popular colour for July was red and I did go shopping locally and I tried to find something a little different which I happened to find. Now I think it was old stock but that doesn't matter. I found Karen simply soft party yarn in party sparkling red and I thought this was appropriate being July. Christmas in July and it definitely reminds me of rubies. It's a four-way yarn and it's an 85 gram ball. Now I did say that balls would be about 100 grams but some of the balls I've put in the price pack are 200 grams so I don't feel bad that this is only 85 grams because it is a beautiful yarn and would be perfect for our price pack and the winner at the end of the year. So that's what's going in our price pack. So we move into August. August the stone is pure dough or pure dough depending on where you're from. I have a friend whose ex-husband used to go fostering for gems and he always said that they are called puridots but I have people who in Europe who call them puridots. Whatever you want to call them. So I'll give you a bit of information about them. The spiritual meaning of a puridot is strength and balance. It's sometimes called a crystallite. Its gem quality is oval olive vine and it's green in colour depending on the iron contents within the structure of the gem. So the colours of a puridot are green green like a shatris green to olive with flex of yellow or brown in the facets. I will put a picture at the end of this video of some puridose and raw puridose so you can see what I'm talking about. They're often sold in one solid colour so I do believe the olive green is the most popular and the most valuable. The most beautiful puridose I found on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They are reasonably priced. It's usually about $50 to $80 US per carrot and that makes them affordable quality gems for the average person. The most expensive puridot was sold for $1,909.65 US. It was 13.17 carrots. There you have it. So your coloured choices for August. Of course it's going to be shatruz green or that's as close as it could get to olive green. I'm not even sure what they call this one. They just call it fern green green. But anyway, shatruz to olive green in those colour ranges. They are your first two colours you can pick from and of course because there is yellow and brown in the facets we have yellow again and we're introducing brown. I don't think we've ever had brown. So there are your colour choices you can use. Remembering your green colour range should go from shatruz to olive. Okay now if you have a variegated yarn with those colours in it, please use it. I am not that fussy as long as you're close to what we're talking about. You don't jump off and use blue or something. So guys that is August. I'm looking forward to it. It is moving through the year nicely. It's great to have new to people join us late and it's great to see what you post when you post your pictures. So please keep doing that and hashtag burstownmakealongAU. For me today is Sunday and I've had what I call a finishing day. I had a bit of a clean up yesterday and I decided I was going to finish some whips today. Every so often I'll go that's it. I'm not stunning anything new till I finish some whips and I've done one major whip until small ones. I'll probably do another one tonight late tonight and that'll be awesome because I'll have reduced my pile of whips by four. Anyway until next time stay safe, take care, remember a life and adventure. So make sure you have a great adventure with your burstown make-along colours for August. It should be fun. Bye for now.