1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,000 I'm Drea. 2 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:02,000 I'm Meg. 3 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,000 I'm Tina. 4 00:00:03,000 --> 00:00:04,680 And I'm Jess. 5 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:14,120 And this is Pardon My Stash. 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:18,600 Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting, the fiber arts, and how awesome 7 00:00:18,600 --> 00:00:20,760 it is. 8 00:00:20,760 --> 00:00:24,800 Before we delve into this week's topics, let's share what we're working on today. 9 00:00:24,800 --> 00:00:25,800 Drea? 10 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:26,800 A chemishaw. 11 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:27,800 Jeans. 12 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:31,960 You did it. 13 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:34,000 I did it. 14 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:36,520 Okay, but real talk, I finished the desk. 15 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,320 It's like finally cured. 16 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,600 We have not brought it upstairs yet because there have been things happening in the last 17 00:00:42,600 --> 00:00:43,600 week. 18 00:00:43,600 --> 00:00:44,600 Pictures. 19 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:45,840 It just gives it more time to, you know, smell nice. 20 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,440 Well, that polyurethane and stain smell has finally dissipated. 21 00:00:49,440 --> 00:00:51,520 So I'm pretty stoked. 22 00:00:51,520 --> 00:00:54,920 But since I have finished with the desk, I have picked up my knitting again. 23 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:56,520 I feel great about it. 24 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,000 I am like jamming away on this thing. 25 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:01,000 I'm pretty stoked. 26 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Back in the groove. 27 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Yeah. 28 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,560 I clearly needed to get the hyperfixation out of my system so that I can. 29 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:07,560 Sometimes you gotta. 30 00:01:07,560 --> 00:01:08,560 Yeah. 31 00:01:08,560 --> 00:01:12,160 So I could come back to my first love, knitting. 32 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:13,160 Jeans. 33 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:14,160 Jeans. 34 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:15,160 Meg? 35 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:26,440 I'm still working on Calliope by Melissa Clullo, and I am very close to splitting for the sleeves. 36 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:27,440 Yeah. 37 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,560 And I really hate how when you, right before you split for the sleeves, you're like, this 38 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:32,160 sweater looks huge. 39 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:33,160 This is never going to fit me. 40 00:01:33,160 --> 00:01:34,160 I know. 41 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:35,160 I hate that feeling. 42 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,120 And I'm looking at it and I'm like, I'm going to have to rip this whole thing out. 43 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:39,880 There's no way it's going to fit. 44 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:44,720 And forgetting that, that, yeah, the sleeves are going to take off like a ton of it. 45 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:46,080 This is, it's so good though. 46 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:47,480 Your stitch work is really good. 47 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:48,480 Thank you. 48 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:49,480 Oh, thanks. 49 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:50,480 So neat. 50 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:51,480 I'm enjoying it a lot. 51 00:01:51,480 --> 00:02:02,120 I'm knitting it out of Critical Hit Dyes Wizard in Etherealness and also our new yarn Mystic, 52 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:04,640 which is a mohair silk also in Etherealness. 53 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:05,640 Tina? 54 00:02:05,640 --> 00:02:07,960 Well, I have exciting news to share. 55 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:08,960 What do you got? 56 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:11,560 I finally picked something to do for the goddamn make-along. 57 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,560 I'll give you a applause for myself. 58 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:16,560 You didn't tell me that. 59 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:17,560 I'm excited. 60 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:18,560 What are you doing? 61 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:23,240 I actually picked it right before I got into the car to drop my kids off so I could come 62 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:24,240 record. 63 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,760 It is called Tea in the Tropics and it is by Emma Davies. 64 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:31,480 And I'm going to show you a picture. 65 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:32,480 It is a pineapple. 66 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:33,880 Oh my God. 67 00:02:33,880 --> 00:02:35,920 But it is a really nice pineapple. 68 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:37,680 That is such a nice pineapple. 69 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:38,880 That is really cute. 70 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:43,560 I saw a lot of different pineapple ones, but this one is like the bougie one. 71 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:44,560 Okay. 72 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,640 So if I finish my snail, I'm going to make one too. 73 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:48,640 Yeah. 74 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:50,080 This is, I was like, yeah, I like that. 75 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,080 What weight is it? 76 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:52,080 It is DK. 77 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:53,080 Or no, lies. 78 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:54,080 I lie. 79 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:55,080 Oh no, it is DK. 80 00:02:55,080 --> 00:02:56,200 I'm so confused. 81 00:02:56,200 --> 00:03:00,200 It says yarn weight is Aaron, but then the suggested yarn is a DK. 82 00:03:00,200 --> 00:03:01,200 So it's DK. 83 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,440 Probably could do either depending on the size of the teapot. 84 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:07,400 I guess I'll have to do a gauge swatch. 85 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:13,800 Maybe you will, but I won't. 86 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:20,480 Okay. 87 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:25,400 Other than that, I haven't started it yet because I didn't have enough time to wind. 88 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:26,400 I do have the yarn. 89 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,880 I just don't, didn't have time to wind the yarn before I got here. 90 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,300 So I still have my Ingalls sweater. 91 00:03:33,300 --> 00:03:34,620 Who knows? 92 00:03:34,620 --> 00:03:39,640 Maybe this last half inch will get done tonight. 93 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:40,640 It has been sitting here. 94 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,920 Like, I feel like I get like five stitches done and then I have to put it down. 95 00:03:43,920 --> 00:03:49,840 So but I am excited for finally picking something for the cozy. 96 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:51,520 How about you Jess? 97 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:55,520 I mean, well, right now I'm trying to skein up some yarn. 98 00:03:55,520 --> 00:04:01,800 So that's not cooperating with me, but then I'm going to be working on my flower basket 99 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:07,160 teapot, which is just a random pattern by sugar and cream yarn that I found. 100 00:04:07,160 --> 00:04:10,560 So I will do that as soon as I figure out how to tie this where I want it. 101 00:04:10,560 --> 00:04:14,120 Before I get more information about part of my stash in general, be sure to check out 102 00:04:14,120 --> 00:04:22,800 our website at part of my stash.com for info, pics, patterns, and yarns. 103 00:04:22,800 --> 00:04:23,800 All right. 104 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:28,600 For this week's episode, we were looking back and realized we haven't done a Q and a session 105 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:29,600 for a while. 106 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:35,640 So we decided to ask y'all some things you might've wanted to know more about, or that, 107 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,960 you know, we could talk about that maybe wouldn't go inside a full episode. 108 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,400 And we decided we're going to answer some of your questions. 109 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,200 All right. 110 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:50,560 So I got the question, since yes, since you have our Instagram access, you do have the 111 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:51,560 questions. 112 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:53,440 So let's, let's begin. 113 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:55,880 What's a good, give us a good first one. 114 00:04:55,880 --> 00:05:00,560 Jordan Rayhoff asks, what is your crafting wet dream? 115 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:02,560 Can we ask that? 116 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:05,920 That's the beginning. 117 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:17,000 Well, I, I don't know if I can relate in parentheses, in parentheses, pattern event, yarn meeting 118 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,440 designer, et cetera. 119 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,000 Okay. 120 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:27,120 What are you really excited for in the yarn world is what I'm going to take that as. 121 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:30,000 But I wanted to read the full question because it made me giggle. 122 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:34,080 I think it made the table giggle. 123 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:37,600 Thank you Jordan Rayhoff. 124 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,600 Actually I could say one, and I think everybody would at this table would agree with, with 125 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:49,160 what I'm about to say is if like a huge festival, like something like a Reinbeck or a new England 126 00:05:49,160 --> 00:05:52,960 fiber fest asked part in my stash to be there. 127 00:05:52,960 --> 00:05:55,120 Like I think that would be really cool. 128 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:59,960 I would be like, I would be like, whoa, I feel like that's one of our dreams right now. 129 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:00,960 Yeah. 130 00:06:00,960 --> 00:06:06,360 That, that would be pretty balls that were, that were cool enough to be wanted to be asked 131 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:08,160 to be somewhere. 132 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,840 Like yeah, I think, I think that would be really awesome. 133 00:06:11,840 --> 00:06:18,160 I think it would extend, uh, really say something for all the work that we put into this podcast. 134 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,960 I think it would be really cool to meet cookie. 135 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:26,400 She makes all these awesome, like she comes from, I have no idea. 136 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:27,680 I could have sworn. 137 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,720 But I do love cookie patterns and I think it would be amazing to meet her. 138 00:06:32,720 --> 00:06:37,240 I also think that I want to meet, uh, I also think it would be cool to meet, uh, crystal 139 00:06:37,240 --> 00:06:40,280 Nyberg who designed the Sunday swings. 140 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:44,880 You would crystal if you're out there, you have a number one fan. 141 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,080 I am the number one fan. 142 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:52,040 I wish we had a tally of how many pairs you've made. 143 00:06:52,040 --> 00:06:56,360 I really wish that we had a tally for how many times I have mentioned Sunday swing on 144 00:06:56,360 --> 00:06:57,360 this podcast. 145 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,560 I would get that. 146 00:06:58,560 --> 00:06:59,560 That's something we could do. 147 00:06:59,560 --> 00:07:02,720 I don't know if we could actually come up with the full number of how many Sunday swings 148 00:07:02,720 --> 00:07:03,720 you've done. 149 00:07:03,720 --> 00:07:05,640 Probably not because I've gifted pretty much. 150 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:07,120 You've gifted a lot of them. 151 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,480 Don't tempt me with a good time. 152 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,240 I will make a mix up of you saying Sunday swing socks. 153 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:12,240 I know you will. 154 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:14,240 Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, Sunday swing. 155 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:15,240 Yeah. 156 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:16,240 I will make it into a song. 157 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:17,920 I will totally make that into a song. 158 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,280 Every time you've said that, I'm excited. 159 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,440 I'll start saying it in a fun way for you. 160 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:26,880 Get different tempos. 161 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,680 Sunday swings socks. 162 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:30,440 Oh my God. 163 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:33,440 There's the chorus. 164 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,040 That's funny. 165 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:40,200 This Jeff says, how slash why do y'all choose a pattern? 166 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,440 It needs to speak to me. 167 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:43,440 I agree. 168 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:44,440 For weeks. 169 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,440 I don't agree. 170 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:49,920 It's a process. 171 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:50,920 It is a process. 172 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:58,440 I keep coming back to it and deciding if I have the same or similar drive to do it after 173 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:01,040 looking at it a few times. 174 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:03,600 Yeah, I'll put something. 175 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:04,600 I'll agree with that. 176 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:11,520 I'll put something into my queue and I will return to it most likely six to eight months 177 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:13,480 later because I'll forget about it. 178 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:18,200 And then I'll look at it and go, Oh, I still like that. 179 00:08:18,200 --> 00:08:19,200 Then. 180 00:08:19,200 --> 00:08:24,240 See, I feel like I'm the complete opposite because I put a whole bunch of stuff in my 181 00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:28,240 queue or in my saved patterns. 182 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:32,000 Sometimes I'll even buy a pattern and then I will let it sit and then I'll come back 183 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:33,000 to it. 184 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:34,000 I'll be like, Nope, you're not the one. 185 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Yep. 186 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:36,000 You're not the one. 187 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,920 I don't know why I liked you, but you're not it. 188 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:40,760 The feeling is over. 189 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:45,840 So I think a lot of my patterns I choose spontaneously. 190 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:46,840 That makes sense with you. 191 00:08:46,840 --> 00:08:47,840 That tracks. 192 00:08:47,840 --> 00:08:48,840 Yeah. 193 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:52,640 If I spend too much time looking for the perfect pattern, I'm not going to find the perfect 194 00:08:52,640 --> 00:08:53,840 pattern. 195 00:08:53,840 --> 00:08:56,960 So I will find something that looks fun. 196 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,820 Usually something that's going to keep my attention. 197 00:09:01,820 --> 00:09:04,600 Usually something with cables. 198 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,880 And then I just go from there. 199 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,800 Skin it up, cast it on. 200 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,280 I'm going to make that a shirt. 201 00:09:14,280 --> 00:09:18,440 It sounded like you said skin it up and I got really. 202 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:19,440 Yeah. 203 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:22,440 Grossed out anyway. 204 00:09:22,440 --> 00:09:23,440 And I was going to make that a shirt. 205 00:09:23,440 --> 00:09:27,840 Well, you could, you got a little skin winder. 206 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:28,840 Yeah. 207 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,600 Make sure you put yarn because then people like me won't be freaked out. 208 00:09:31,600 --> 00:09:32,600 Just gain it. 209 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:33,600 Thank you. 210 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:34,600 Thank you. 211 00:09:34,600 --> 00:09:36,880 They got to be wearing a cowboy hat while riding a sheep. 212 00:09:36,880 --> 00:09:39,800 Put the skin on a sheep. 213 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:40,800 It sounds like a rodeo. 214 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:41,800 It's gaining. 215 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:42,800 No, pass it on. 216 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:43,800 Round him up. 217 00:09:43,800 --> 00:09:44,800 Rodeo. 218 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:47,920 It's rounding up a needle and it's like running away. 219 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:50,600 Oh my God. 220 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:54,360 Meg, how do you choose a pattern? 221 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:55,840 I go in the reverse order. 222 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:57,400 I pick the yarn first. 223 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:58,400 Very good. 224 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:01,220 I decide what I want to work with. 225 00:10:01,220 --> 00:10:05,800 If there's something in my, in my stash that's really nagging at me, something I want to 226 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:06,800 cast on. 227 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,120 That's how I actually, how I started. 228 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:10,440 I got this sweater. 229 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:15,160 I really knew I wanted to work with these two yarns. 230 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:18,920 So I started by going through my, my favorites and seeing if there was anything in there 231 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,920 that fit the bill and narrow it down that way. 232 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,700 I usually start with the yarn, not with a pattern. 233 00:10:27,700 --> 00:10:31,280 Sometimes it's the other way around, but usually I do start with the yarn. 234 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:32,280 That is fair. 235 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:35,080 I'm like 50-50. 236 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,840 I think sometimes I do that where I have, I have yarn that I want to either get out 237 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:42,240 of my stash or just like use. 238 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,600 You just want to use it. 239 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:48,720 And then there will be times it's usually that I see someone posting like a new pattern 240 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:51,440 that they've put out. 241 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:58,680 Or I don't usually go like sifting through like a Ravelry or an Etsy and then like randomly 242 00:10:58,680 --> 00:10:59,880 find myself upon it. 243 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:04,480 It's usually that someone's advertising that like, Hey, I made this pattern and check it 244 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:05,720 out. 245 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:10,920 And then in the past I used to pick stuff based on like, I would be like, what can I 246 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:15,440 make that looks really complicated that isn't actually that complicated? 247 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:21,920 Now I feel like I'm like, I feel like that's what this Ingalls sweater. 248 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:26,160 Like for me, it's like the color work was really interesting and now I'm just in stocknet 249 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:29,440 land and I'm like, I can't. 250 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:36,160 But I feel like, I feel like now I'm like, I look at things and I want something that's 251 00:11:36,160 --> 00:11:38,240 a little bit more intriguing. 252 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:42,000 I feel like I'm falling down the Jess hole at this point. 253 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:44,760 I'm like, yeah, I think I'm gonna go that way. 254 00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:46,920 Mind space plays a lot into that too. 255 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,200 Because it's like, am I feeling like something that I actually have to sit and look at a 256 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:52,560 chart and pay attention to? 257 00:11:52,560 --> 00:11:57,240 Or you know what, am I just feeling like mindless stocknet for hours and hours while I watch 258 00:11:57,240 --> 00:11:58,240 TV? 259 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:02,180 I'd say that plays a big part of it too. 260 00:12:02,180 --> 00:12:03,180 What is the goal? 261 00:12:03,180 --> 00:12:07,440 Like, what do you want to be doing most of the time while you're doing this project? 262 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:08,640 Is it your on the go project? 263 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,760 So you just kind of tuck it in your bag. 264 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:13,480 So maybe don't make that a blanket. 265 00:12:13,480 --> 00:12:14,480 Right. 266 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:15,480 Yeah. 267 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:18,560 But if you're also sitting on the couch and you're watching a really good show, maybe you 268 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:22,120 don't want to be making a color work sweater. 269 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:26,800 Yeah, because sometimes I'll want to work on one of my machines. 270 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:28,880 And obvious, I have to be standing for that. 271 00:12:28,880 --> 00:12:32,880 And it's really difficult to kind of like watch anything when I'm doing that. 272 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:34,120 Yeah. 273 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:35,800 So I have to be in a certain mood for that. 274 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:41,440 And then honestly, what I end up making are like scrunchies or like headbands or like something 275 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:47,480 small and easy that I can like turn into an on the go project. 276 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:55,480 But in terms of like, I find that if I'm picking a pattern, it's ending up something that I 277 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:57,000 do want to look at. 278 00:12:57,000 --> 00:12:59,760 It's not my easy project. 279 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:04,400 Because at this point, if I'm doing a hat or something, I'm not really looking unless 280 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:06,800 it's somebody else's hat that I really like. 281 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,480 If I'm just going to do a stock knit hat on like, no, I got this. 282 00:13:09,480 --> 00:13:10,480 I think I got this. 283 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,320 Can knit that one with your eyes closed. 284 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:14,320 Yeah. 285 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:18,320 I've done a lot of hats at this point. 286 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,840 Sometimes I just start with an idea and then I have to find all the pieces to make it happen. 287 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:31,080 No, but see, that's the most hilarious thing because she'll just be like, we totally won't 288 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:33,000 be talking about anything related to knitting. 289 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:36,320 And then all of a sudden she'll be like, okay, so hear me out. 290 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:38,880 And I know it's going to be good. 291 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,520 And it will be something like so wild and a color combination that doesn't make sense 292 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,960 or like a sweater that I like never envisioned or like the one you're trying to bribe me 293 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:48,520 about like with your mom. 294 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:49,520 Oh yeah. 295 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,520 Or she was like, okay, hear me out. 296 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:54,440 And she gave me this look and she wants me to dye some yarn that I hate dying. 297 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:55,440 Absolute colorway. 298 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:56,680 I hate dying. 299 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:58,360 And she's like, but I want to use it for this. 300 00:13:58,360 --> 00:14:02,240 And it would look so pretty. 301 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:05,640 So that's usually how our conversations go. 302 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:06,640 Yeah. 303 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:08,120 And I'll be thinking about them for a while. 304 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:11,200 And then suddenly when pieces click, I'm like, oh, it just blurts out. 305 00:14:11,200 --> 00:14:12,200 I'm sorry. 306 00:14:12,200 --> 00:14:13,200 Because I know sometimes I. 307 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:15,000 When the girl is in the resource, she's like, okay, so. 308 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:16,000 It's true. 309 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 It's like, okay, it's good time. 310 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:25,880 It's really shouldn't be good time, but that's what my brain tells me. 311 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:32,480 Can be Marie Knits asks, when did you decide that knitting slash yarn was your jam? 312 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:35,440 Like when did it finally feel like home? 313 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:40,080 First off, I really love the fact that it's knitting yarn, like knitting slash yarn. 314 00:14:40,080 --> 00:14:41,080 Like both of those things. 315 00:14:41,080 --> 00:14:42,080 I know. 316 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:46,160 And I appreciate that on a visceral level. 317 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:50,920 Um, honestly, I want to say those two things clicked for me, like about the same time or 318 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:53,080 years, five years at the time. 319 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:57,040 All in the garter stitch phase. 320 00:14:57,040 --> 00:14:59,200 And I really wasn't enjoying it. 321 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:04,480 I was kind of, you know, I was doing it just to have something to do. 322 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:09,320 Following a friend of mine, Joy of fabulosity yarn. 323 00:15:09,320 --> 00:15:16,360 She lives out West and she does hand spun, hand dyed yarns and she started, Oh God, her 324 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:17,720 yarns are gorgeous. 325 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,920 Like they're all done small batches. 326 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,560 She does her own spinning. 327 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:23,560 And she does dying. 328 00:15:23,560 --> 00:15:28,760 She has a lot of natural dying or at least she used to. 329 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:30,760 And her yarns were gorgeous. 330 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,520 And you know, they were small batch. 331 00:15:32,520 --> 00:15:36,560 So you, you know, couldn't do like a whole sweater or anything, but I was definitely 332 00:15:36,560 --> 00:15:40,560 not in a sweater stage at that point. 333 00:15:40,560 --> 00:15:41,560 And I don't know what it was. 334 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:46,240 I was looking at her yarns and something clicked and I'm like, I want to make stuff with that 335 00:15:46,240 --> 00:15:47,240 yarn. 336 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:54,600 Like I had at that point I'd been buying mostly like big box yarn or borrowing yarn from like, 337 00:15:54,600 --> 00:15:59,920 what was my grandma's old stash and my grandmother knit like exclusively with, I think her favorite 338 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:01,920 was Red Heart. 339 00:16:01,920 --> 00:16:08,160 But I saw these gorgeous like hand spun yarns and I had never considered, like I'd never 340 00:16:08,160 --> 00:16:09,640 gone to a local yarn store. 341 00:16:09,640 --> 00:16:14,400 I never, I didn't, I don't think I even knew yarn stores existed like outside of like big 342 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:15,400 box stores. 343 00:16:15,400 --> 00:16:17,960 But they were just so beautiful. 344 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:21,640 And it was, it was like, I fell in love with the yarn and I fell in love with the idea 345 00:16:21,640 --> 00:16:22,960 of knitting that yarn. 346 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:30,160 And I bought two skeins from her to make a garter stitch scarf with them. 347 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,720 And they were just so nice. 348 00:16:32,720 --> 00:16:36,040 Like the feel of them was so nice and they knit up so beautifully. 349 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:43,400 They were like this gorgeous variegated like turquoise and tan to deep Navy, like it was 350 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:45,120 just gorgeous yarns. 351 00:16:45,120 --> 00:16:52,040 And I think it kind of like made me realize that it wasn't even just about the finished 352 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,040 product. 353 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:54,240 Like it was about the process. 354 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,040 I was really enjoying the process. 355 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:01,200 I was enjoying buying yarn from somebody that I really liked as a person. 356 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:07,760 I was supporting an artist and I was really enjoying the actual like experience of knitting 357 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:08,760 with the yarn. 358 00:17:08,760 --> 00:17:14,080 I agree with the, with it being, being on board with the process. 359 00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:20,520 And for all that I was knitting before I actually did it, I want to say that I knew that knitting 360 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:25,360 was my jam like forever after I turned my first heel. 361 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:27,720 Oh, that's a moment. 362 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:28,720 Yeah. 363 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:29,720 I remember that too. 364 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,680 I remember when you turned your first heel because I was like, I can't do that. 365 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:34,500 And you're like, no, you totally can. 366 00:17:34,500 --> 00:17:35,500 It's not hard. 367 00:17:35,500 --> 00:17:36,500 You can do it. 368 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:37,500 It wasn't hard. 369 00:17:37,500 --> 00:17:39,080 But it looks so hard. 370 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:40,080 It looks so daunting. 371 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:41,080 Yeah. 372 00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:46,640 And it looks intimidating, but I think that going through the process of seeing how it's 373 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:52,120 done and doing it with my own hands and knowing that it was something that I could not only 374 00:17:52,120 --> 00:17:55,160 learn but do and do well. 375 00:17:55,160 --> 00:17:58,800 I was like, Oh, well, this is for me. 376 00:17:58,800 --> 00:18:00,160 I am good at this. 377 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:02,200 I will continue to do this. 378 00:18:02,200 --> 00:18:03,200 I like it. 379 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:04,200 Oh, nothing. 380 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:07,520 I was just gonna say I could crochet dragons. 381 00:18:07,520 --> 00:18:08,520 Very good. 382 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:09,520 That was the moment. 383 00:18:09,520 --> 00:18:10,520 That was the moment. 384 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:11,520 Dragon mains. 385 00:18:11,520 --> 00:18:12,520 Dragons. 386 00:18:12,520 --> 00:18:14,520 I still have that one for Katarina. 387 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:15,520 Yeah. 388 00:18:15,520 --> 00:18:16,520 It's so cute. 389 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,760 I put that dragon next to my mother-in-law's. 390 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:25,520 She has these like brand of bears that are very nostalgic and old. 391 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:28,320 And like, I'm like, no, these don't get touched. 392 00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,120 It's like those are those are those get passed down. 393 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:32,120 Yeah. 394 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:37,540 I feel like I operated for a long time, like blind. 395 00:18:37,540 --> 00:18:40,880 Like I thought I knew what I was doing and I didn't. 396 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,880 That's everybody. 397 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:43,880 You know what I mean? 398 00:18:43,880 --> 00:18:47,200 Like I was like, I was looking like I remember like I would make a project and it would be 399 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:48,200 totally off. 400 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:49,620 But I was like, it's done. 401 00:18:49,620 --> 00:18:54,480 But then like I wouldn't feel I didn't feel like 100% about any of it. 402 00:18:54,480 --> 00:19:03,220 And then I think for me, it was when I when I felt like I finally like could call myself 403 00:19:03,220 --> 00:19:09,480 a knitter, like a good one was when I did the Orchard House shawl, because that one 404 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:14,120 for me was technically very complicated. 405 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:15,120 It was challenging. 406 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,120 It was something new for you. 407 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:17,120 Yeah. 408 00:19:17,120 --> 00:19:20,820 And I didn't think there was a lot to it. 409 00:19:20,820 --> 00:19:25,060 And I didn't think honestly that I was even going to do it right. 410 00:19:25,060 --> 00:19:29,680 And then when it came out right and it came out good, I was like, oh my God, I think I 411 00:19:29,680 --> 00:19:32,200 know what I'm doing now. 412 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:34,300 And that's probably after that. 413 00:19:34,300 --> 00:19:40,840 And that was actually probably maybe a year or closer. 414 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:42,320 No, it was closer. 415 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,800 I think that was right before I came back up. 416 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:45,800 Yeah. 417 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:50,680 Because at that point, it was interesting because I had done in North Carolina, I was 418 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,580 like a part of different groups and stuff. 419 00:19:52,580 --> 00:19:57,760 And I was working on stuff, but it was just it never I didn't feel like I was making something 420 00:19:57,760 --> 00:20:04,000 that was really good, like worthwhile, you know, because I would because there were people 421 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,120 they have in the Raleigh area. 422 00:20:06,120 --> 00:20:07,520 Shout out to Raleigh. 423 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:11,240 There are amazing fiber artists of all different kinds. 424 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:15,520 They have there's just people down there that can do amazing things. 425 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:17,200 And I would see the stuff that they were making. 426 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:21,080 And I was like, wow, I don't even know how to do that. 427 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:22,480 That's crazy. 428 00:20:22,480 --> 00:20:28,000 And then like now I look back on that and I go like, wait, I know exactly how they did 429 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:29,000 that. 430 00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:31,860 And like I could if I wanted to do that, I could do that now. 431 00:20:31,860 --> 00:20:34,160 Like I feel comfortable with it. 432 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:39,100 And I think maybe it's that feeling of I think I can do any stitch as long as I can like 433 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:40,100 see it once. 434 00:20:40,100 --> 00:20:41,100 Yeah. 435 00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:42,100 You know, that feeling. 436 00:20:42,100 --> 00:20:43,100 You practice it. 437 00:20:43,100 --> 00:20:44,100 Yeah. 438 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:47,500 I feel like at that point, like when you get to the point where you're like there's no 439 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:52,320 like hill that you can't conquer, given enough time, you could do it. 440 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:57,580 It's just a matter of like understanding the new technique or something, which is cool. 441 00:20:57,580 --> 00:21:04,300 That's actually really good advice for Shakes Without Coffee, who gave us a question saying 442 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:10,320 knitting struggles and learning new things or techniques because she's trying brioche 443 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:14,440 now and she's having a tough time with it. 444 00:21:14,440 --> 00:21:17,520 Brioche is like it's completely different muscle memory. 445 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:18,520 Yeah. 446 00:21:18,520 --> 00:21:24,200 It is a it is knitting, but it's different. 447 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:29,160 You have this whole extra step that you need to do in between your knitting and it feels 448 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:30,160 weird. 449 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,200 You feel like you're making a mistake. 450 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:40,960 But if you want some really good videos to see how the brioche stitch is is done and 451 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:49,160 like done well and explained well, Steven West has really good videos for brioche. 452 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:51,320 And that's where I learned how to do brioche. 453 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:52,320 Yeah. 454 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,240 I mean, that's a that's honestly his I would say his staple. 455 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,760 He has it in almost every one of the shawls. 456 00:21:57,760 --> 00:21:59,680 There's some kind of brioche. 457 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:01,000 He does use it pretty often. 458 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,760 Just keep looking at it and you will get it. 459 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:04,320 It's just he got a train. 460 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,320 No, that is true. 461 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:07,320 That is true. 462 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:13,480 Like once you see what it's doing, I find that it's a lot easier to implement it. 463 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,400 And I'm a visual learner and definitely like look at a video. 464 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:18,320 Don't look at like pictures trying to show you. 465 00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:19,320 Oh, God, no. 466 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:22,160 I don't know why, but the pictures never make sense to me. 467 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:23,160 Same. 468 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:24,840 It's like reading an Ikea instruction guide. 469 00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,560 I'm like, I have no idea what's going on. 470 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:29,880 I need to physically see it move. 471 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:33,800 Mom of the devil says, what is your most chaotic? 472 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,380 I will never knit again project. 473 00:22:36,380 --> 00:22:39,000 And why do you also kind of love it? 474 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,700 That's an interesting question. 475 00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:43,240 That actually is a really interesting question. 476 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:44,240 Shalawin. 477 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:46,280 Yeah, that's fair. 478 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:47,400 Yeah, that's legit. 479 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:51,520 Honestly, I feel like I wouldn't have have as much of a hate relationship with it if 480 00:22:51,520 --> 00:22:54,960 I hadn't have had to pull back that entire lace section. 481 00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,760 That section was tough. 482 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:02,140 But and I had to do it twice. 483 00:23:02,140 --> 00:23:03,800 But it is it was a very fun pattern. 484 00:23:03,800 --> 00:23:05,240 I enjoyed doing it. 485 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:11,600 Like it had very cool stitches and a cool construction. 486 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,640 Like and like I said, everything was different. 487 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:17,800 But a couple of sections were very long. 488 00:23:17,800 --> 00:23:23,080 And by the time I was done, I was like, yeah, I'm good with those. 489 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:26,400 Good. 490 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:31,040 The brand wind shawl that I did the blue one. 491 00:23:31,040 --> 00:23:32,540 Is that the one you had to over die? 492 00:23:32,540 --> 00:23:35,320 It's the one that I over died. 493 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:36,320 Yeah. 494 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,320 It's a beautiful shawl. 495 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:38,320 I love it. 496 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:46,560 But it was such an involved pattern that I don't think that I would have the patience 497 00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:50,400 or the mental stamina to go back and want to do it again. 498 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,240 I love how it came out. 499 00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:53,240 It's beautiful. 500 00:23:53,240 --> 00:23:55,440 It's a beautiful pattern. 501 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,640 And it's a joy to have in my collection. 502 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:04,080 But I don't think that I would want to do it again. 503 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:05,480 The one and done. 504 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:13,000 I want to shout out to my Raleigh people again, because back in 2019 into 2020, as the pandemic 505 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,900 was happening. 506 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:19,600 So down in Raleigh, they have Carolina Fiber Fest. 507 00:24:19,600 --> 00:24:24,680 And they usually do some kind of knit along so that you can get this pin at the festival 508 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,080 if you do it in time for the festival. 509 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:30,720 You just show your finished project and then you get a pin. 510 00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:32,680 Does it have to be finished and blocked? 511 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:33,680 Yeah. 512 00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:34,680 Like finish finished. 513 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:35,680 So that's rough. 514 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:39,840 No sleeve on the way up. 515 00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:43,480 So I was sitting there and they had the option. 516 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:48,440 The knitted option was called the Tiger Owl Cowl. 517 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:52,520 And I think I felt the shutter from every single person in Raleigh that just heard me 518 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,000 say that. 519 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:59,240 So the reason why there's a shudder with it, it's actually really cool looking. 520 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:00,240 It looks like a tiger. 521 00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,160 It's supposed to look like a tiger on one side and an owl on another. 522 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:04,160 Oh, that is cool. 523 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:05,360 I think I've seen that before. 524 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:06,600 Yeah, it's pretty. 525 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,560 It's several years old at this point. 526 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:09,560 That is neat. 527 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:10,560 So here's the fun part. 528 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:11,560 It's a terrible pattern. 529 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:12,560 It is horrible. 530 00:25:12,560 --> 00:25:13,560 It's horrendous, horrendous. 531 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,680 It looks so cool, though. 532 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:17,960 The whole time. 533 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:23,520 I remember our knit group was like we'd meet on the weekend and there was like 20 plus 534 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,480 people there and everyone would be lamenting about how terrible this pattern was. 535 00:25:28,480 --> 00:25:35,120 It was just that they had essentially a there was like a form of a noop, but it wasn't a 536 00:25:35,120 --> 00:25:37,240 noop for the eyes. 537 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,560 And it was annoying as heck. 538 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:40,560 It was like you had. 539 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:41,920 So now I remember it. 540 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:45,120 There was like four yarn overs to make the eyes. 541 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:50,280 And then you had to like pearl into them, into those yarn overs on the next row. 542 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,200 And the problem was, is everybody kept dropping their yarn over. 543 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,680 So you would just see people like ripping it out. 544 00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:57,680 Like, I already screwed up. 545 00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,680 I got to go back to. 546 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:06,840 Anyways, so I did that with an angry, angry, angry fury. 547 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:10,600 And then the pandemic hit and I lost. 548 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:18,600 So we couldn't go to the fiber fest because the fiber fest was in March of 2020. 549 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,640 So they canceled it. 550 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:27,200 And then they were like, OK, well, if you finished it, you could like send us a picture. 551 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:29,200 And we'll send you a pin. 552 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:33,640 And everyone was like, we could have just all worked on the same one and taken it and 553 00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:37,960 turned it in. 554 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:42,000 But at the same time, I actually I think I ended up giving it to my goddaughter because 555 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:43,000 I just couldn't like. 556 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:44,000 You can't even stomach it anymore. 557 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,240 I didn't even want it in my. 558 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:47,000 I was like, I was like here. 559 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,920 But I do as you saw it, it is a really cool looking cowl. 560 00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:58,000 But like it was just every time I looked at it, I just remember sitting there like in 561 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:04,040 my house quarantining from the pandemic and just angrily like texting back all of my friends 562 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:12,640 in a group chat like this stupid cowl thing. 563 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,600 And that's all the time we have for this week for additional content and opportunities to 564 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:17,600 connect with the cast. 565 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:22,720 Be sure to check out our website at PardonMyStash.com and remember to tune in next week for more 566 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:51,080 tips, knits and wits at Pardon My Stash.