1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,240 I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. 2 00:00:04,240 --> 00:00:06,560 And this is Pardon My Stash. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:18,480 Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting within the fiber arts and how awesome it is. 4 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:25,600 Before we get started on this week's topics, let's find out what everybody's working on this week. 5 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,440 Drea? Plugging away on that at Achemy Shawl. 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,440 Great. I'm like, oh my gosh. 7 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:33,860 Jerk. 8 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,480 Sorry, God. I'm sorry. Drea. 9 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:43,360 It's in jeans. It's in jeans. 10 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,600 Jeans. Shawl. Jeans. Got it. Go. 11 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:53,200 I'm still plugging away on the at Achemy Shawl. I'm like in the home stretch. I have like less than 12 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:54,400 10 rows. Yay. 13 00:00:55,600 --> 00:00:57,760 Oh, that's an applause time. 14 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:03,840 Yep. I was working on it today this morning. I had an appointment and I had two little 15 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:09,360 ladies tell me that I was doing a beautiful job. I know it was such like a... 16 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:13,280 Gave me fuel. Pick you up. 17 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:15,520 You know, sometimes you just need that. 18 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:20,560 Oh, I really did. I really did. This one lady, she was like, oh, it looks like you're doing 19 00:01:20,560 --> 00:01:23,760 like a lace pattern. Can you tell me about it? And I was like, yeah. 20 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:25,760 She wanted to hear about it too. 21 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:27,120 That's cute. 22 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:28,640 It was so nice. 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:29,680 That's very cute. 24 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:35,920 So I'm in the home stretch. I have motivation to do this. Maybe next week it will be done. 25 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:37,920 That's exciting. 26 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,840 It's ambitious, but I feel like I can do it. 27 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:40,800 Meg? 28 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:44,880 I am working on Lovely Stripes by Lea Michelle Designs. 29 00:01:46,880 --> 00:01:48,560 I am working on it in the... 30 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,000 Jesus Christ. What's wrong with me tonight? 31 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:01,280 I am using Critical Hit Dyes Bard Fingering in the Discontinued Colorway Sapphire Dragon. 32 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:08,560 I am about two thirds of the way done. I have three sections to go after this one. 33 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:14,640 Each section is about 24 rows. So I would love to say I'll be done next week. 34 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:17,360 I'm not going to be done next week. Let's be honest. I'm not going to be done next week. 35 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:20,240 I think it'll be done by the end of August. 36 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:26,080 I haven't been knitting very much. I've been doing just other stuff. 37 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,040 You've been pumping out a lot of different stuff though. 38 00:02:29,920 --> 00:02:31,760 You were working on that sweater before. 39 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:33,280 I haven't finished any of them. 40 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:35,440 No, I know, but you put a lot of work into it. 41 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:36,320 You're working on it. 42 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:36,800 I know. 43 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:39,840 You need to finish something to not do progress. 44 00:02:39,840 --> 00:02:46,240 I'm getting really frustrated because there have been... I'm going to finish it. I got to pull that 45 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:51,200 back. I was working on Calliope and I was loving working on Calliope and then it got humid. 46 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:56,000 I cannot work with mohair when it's this humid. It's just not a thing. 47 00:02:56,000 --> 00:03:00,240 That's why I started working on this because I can work with silk yarn when it's humid all day long. 48 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:04,720 Like no big deal. But I am more getting frustrated because at this point now I've 49 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:10,720 cast on three projects this summer and I usually try to be a little more restrained. 50 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:15,680 I had good reasons for casting on all three, but I'm not finishing any of them. 51 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:19,120 That's what's frustrating me because then I get frustrated where I'm at that point where you're 52 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:21,680 starting to get sick of them, but you just want them to be done. 53 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:25,600 You could just pull a me and just rip out all of them. 54 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:26,640 No. 55 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:33,120 I went from 17 whips to I think I have two now. No, three. I have three. 56 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:35,520 Well, you could do the same. 57 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,600 And they're all in my backpack to remind me that I have those. 58 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,160 You have 17 whips in your backpack. 59 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:42,640 I had. 60 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:48,960 That's a lot. I had 17. I pulled out all of them except for three. 61 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:51,840 Oh, really carrying around 17. 62 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:52,400 No, she was. 63 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,280 I was carrying around six. 64 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:56,000 Oh, okay. 65 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,640 At a time. That's why I couldn't fit. 66 00:03:58,640 --> 00:03:58,960 Three. 67 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:00,640 That's why I couldn't fit anything into my backpack. 68 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:01,920 No, I'd experience a lot. 69 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:02,720 Okay. 70 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,600 You ever notice that my backpack's like heaving over all the time? 71 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:05,840 Yeah. 72 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:07,920 Yeah, it's because there were six whips in it at a time. 73 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:08,560 Very good. 74 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:09,840 I mean, at least you always had. 75 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:11,280 Options? 76 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:11,520 Yeah. 77 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:12,160 Yeah. 78 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,200 Yeah, until it got to the bottom of the backpack and I would forget what's down there. 79 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:18,000 And then it becomes a surprise. 80 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:19,440 And then it wasn't an improvement. 81 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:21,760 Jess? 82 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:25,840 I am working on a Phoenix. 83 00:04:26,720 --> 00:04:33,520 It's like an amigurumi, like a stuffed animal. Phoenix by Crafty Intent. 84 00:04:33,520 --> 00:04:37,520 It looks all cute, but it's just like a bean with a bird head. 85 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:38,400 And I love it. 86 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:39,920 No, it's got ruffles for the butt. 87 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:43,920 I do, I do. I have head ruffles and a tail ruffle started. 88 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,080 So I'm getting there. I'm getting there. 89 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:47,360 You got to do all the pieces first. 90 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:53,040 I'm using an old version of Critical Hit Die's Fireball. 91 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:54,400 It's one of the first ones. 92 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:03,840 And then for like the beak and the feet, I'm going to be using Plies and Hellhounds Day. 93 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:04,720 Nice. 94 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,760 That just reminded me of the Plies and Hellhounds we have. 95 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:09,440 Yeah. 96 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:12,080 For that shawl that we're planned on making. 97 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:12,880 Oh, yeah, that's right. 98 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:13,120 Yeah. 99 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:14,560 I'm going to do the spider shawl. 100 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:17,280 Now is a good time. 101 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:18,000 Spiders. 102 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:19,600 Now is a good time. 103 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:20,800 Crank out that fourth whip. 104 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:23,600 Why the heck not? 105 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:25,280 What are you working on, Tina? 106 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:33,200 Right now, I, so as I mentioned before, I have removed many of my whips and chains. 107 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:33,440 No. 108 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:34,400 Wow. 109 00:05:34,400 --> 00:05:43,520 I'm just kidding. And I am down to my youngest daughter's sweater, which I was what I'm working 110 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,320 on right now, which is the Southwood by Gate of House Yarn. 111 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:52,640 I will warn you, if you make the Southwood, actually go by the measurements. 112 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:56,480 Do not go by the ages that they set there because they are wrong. 113 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:58,160 They are completely incorrect. 114 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:04,320 When I made the first one for my older daughter, I went by the age and it was massive on me. 115 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:08,800 I don't know if my children are just particularly petite, but then I was looking at the measurements 116 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:14,240 and it said a 10-year-old was a 32-inch bust and I'm like, that's not accurate at all. 117 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:14,640 Wow. 118 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:15,600 That is way too big. 119 00:06:16,800 --> 00:06:22,960 So right now, I think technically I'm making the two to four year size, but I measured her chest 120 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:24,560 and I'm like, this is her size. 121 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:25,280 Okay. 122 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:26,560 And I could adjust the length. 123 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:27,760 It's just a basic rag one. 124 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:28,640 It's nothing fancy. 125 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:37,440 And then I still have my Stormy Skyshaw and I still have my Double Horned Scarf sample 126 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:40,560 that I refused to pull out because it looks so good in that rainbow yarn. 127 00:06:42,880 --> 00:06:50,000 And in terms of yarn I'm using for Little Miss's sweater, it's rainbow yarn from a big box store, 128 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:54,400 which is highly ironic considering which big box it came from. 129 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:55,440 I'll leave it at that. 130 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,800 Be sure to check out our website, partofmystash.com for more information, 131 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:02,320 as well as pictures regarding our current projects, patterns, and yarns. 132 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:07,380 All right. 133 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:11,200 Just want to remind you all that there's 44 days till September. 134 00:07:11,920 --> 00:07:13,520 You just shut your mouth. 135 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,120 This is like a war crime against me. 136 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:18,480 You realize that. 137 00:07:18,480 --> 00:07:19,280 I counted. 138 00:07:19,280 --> 00:07:20,320 A war crime. 139 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:21,600 You're an awful person too. 140 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:22,640 I'm your friend. 141 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:23,140 No. 142 00:07:23,140 --> 00:07:27,140 My friends would not remind me that school is coming, okay? 143 00:07:27,140 --> 00:07:29,300 I'm not trying to remind you that school is coming. 144 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:33,940 I'm trying to remind you all that if you were going to make things for the fall, 145 00:07:33,940 --> 00:07:39,300 such as things to sell at craft shows or things that you were going to wear in the fall, 146 00:07:39,300 --> 00:07:44,100 or if you were trying to get prepped for your Christmas items, you are running out of time. 147 00:07:44,660 --> 00:07:46,340 You're just bringing all the joy today. 148 00:07:46,340 --> 00:07:48,100 Now's the time to start. 149 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:54,340 So is it Christmas? It's Christmas already. 150 00:07:54,340 --> 00:07:55,700 No. Are you sure? 151 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:57,300 Dre is not exactly wrong. 152 00:07:57,300 --> 00:08:00,260 Today we are going to talk about Christmas in July. 153 00:08:00,260 --> 00:08:05,380 So do we have, let's just start it this way and just keep it cash. 154 00:08:05,380 --> 00:08:07,140 Do we have any, you like it? 155 00:08:07,140 --> 00:08:08,020 You like my word there? 156 00:08:08,020 --> 00:08:12,420 As opposed to like formal where we like pull out the monocles and the mock hats and the cord? 157 00:08:12,420 --> 00:08:13,940 We're very formal here. 158 00:08:13,940 --> 00:08:16,340 We have lots of formalities. 159 00:08:16,340 --> 00:08:18,420 Okay. Such as? 160 00:08:18,420 --> 00:08:20,020 You couldn't even say that with a straight face. 161 00:08:23,780 --> 00:08:27,700 Anyways, what are projects that you are looking forward to in the fall? 162 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:30,100 Anything that you may be thinking about like, 163 00:08:30,100 --> 00:08:33,780 Hey, like I either want to wear the thing I finished already. 164 00:08:34,740 --> 00:08:35,140 Not me. 165 00:08:37,300 --> 00:08:43,380 Or I want to, there's a project I really want to start now so that it's ready for the nice fall, 166 00:08:43,380 --> 00:08:46,740 wintery weather that's coming. 167 00:08:46,740 --> 00:08:52,500 I am looking forward to wearing my sweater again, you know, for the cooler weather so 168 00:08:52,500 --> 00:08:54,260 that it's appropriate to wear it. 169 00:08:54,260 --> 00:08:58,980 But I still have to weave in the ends from when I made it shorter. 170 00:09:00,180 --> 00:09:04,660 Because it was, it was hanging a lot and it was like practically down to my ankles. 171 00:09:04,660 --> 00:09:06,260 Like it, it was heavy. 172 00:09:06,260 --> 00:09:10,580 So it elongated as it was worn too much. 173 00:09:10,580 --> 00:09:12,820 You know, now that you say that, I feel like you're 174 00:09:12,820 --> 00:09:16,180 saying that I feel like I need to do that with my first, my harvest cardigan. 175 00:09:16,180 --> 00:09:16,740 Yeah. 176 00:09:16,740 --> 00:09:19,860 Um, because at this point it hides my hands. 177 00:09:19,860 --> 00:09:20,820 I feel like a toddler. 178 00:09:20,820 --> 00:09:21,060 Yeah. 179 00:09:21,060 --> 00:09:24,180 I'm like, because I, yeah. 180 00:09:24,180 --> 00:09:31,460 So I think I need to do some sweater surgery and put it under and take, take some pieces off. 181 00:09:31,460 --> 00:09:34,820 Yeah. But as soon as I do that, then I can, then I can wear it again. 182 00:09:35,860 --> 00:09:40,340 But I also want to work on that spider shawl that you and I talked about doing. 183 00:09:40,340 --> 00:09:41,380 I would love that. 184 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:42,180 Last year. 185 00:09:42,180 --> 00:09:42,820 I know. 186 00:09:42,820 --> 00:09:45,940 We got the yarn for it with plies and hellhounds. 187 00:09:45,940 --> 00:09:47,140 Yep. Plies and hellhounds. 188 00:09:47,140 --> 00:09:48,260 It's going to be beautiful. 189 00:09:48,260 --> 00:09:53,700 Once it's done, we're going to be matchies, but I got to finish this one first. 190 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:55,540 You're so close though. 191 00:09:55,540 --> 00:09:56,980 I am so close. 192 00:09:56,980 --> 00:10:00,020 Yeah. Only, I mean, when you're in it, it's all easy too. 193 00:10:00,020 --> 00:10:00,100 Yeah. 194 00:10:00,100 --> 00:10:05,300 It's like garter a couple of baubles and then garter and I'm done. 195 00:10:05,300 --> 00:10:05,620 Nice. 196 00:10:08,340 --> 00:10:08,980 Mo you Meg. 197 00:10:08,980 --> 00:10:12,100 Well, I'm, I'm looking forward to finishing my Kali IP sweater, just because it's going 198 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:13,540 to be really warm and cozy. 199 00:10:14,260 --> 00:10:17,300 I unfortunately can't, well, fortunately or unfortunately, I can't wear my Ryan Beck 200 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:19,300 sweater anymore because I made it pre-surgery. 201 00:10:19,300 --> 00:10:22,260 So, uh, doesn't fit my rack anymore. 202 00:10:22,260 --> 00:10:24,500 Um, so that's surgery time. 203 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:26,260 No, I'm not, I'm not going to do that one. 204 00:10:26,260 --> 00:10:32,420 I would literally have to redo the entire sweater from the, from the neck down for that 205 00:10:32,420 --> 00:10:34,260 one to take in the bust. 206 00:10:34,260 --> 00:10:37,300 Um, so Dreia wants to try it on and I do. 207 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:39,220 And if it's her, then she can have it. 208 00:10:39,700 --> 00:10:43,620 I will be sad to lose it, but it's a, it's, it's not going to fit me anymore. 209 00:10:43,620 --> 00:10:50,820 Um, the other thing, Jess and I were actually talking today, um, speaking of matching shawls, 210 00:10:50,820 --> 00:10:57,380 um, we have a bunch of yarn that we, I was like, I kind of want to use it to make a fade 211 00:10:57,380 --> 00:11:01,380 shawl, um, specifically free or fade by Andrea Morey. 212 00:11:01,380 --> 00:11:02,900 And Jess was like, oh my God, I love that. 213 00:11:02,900 --> 00:11:07,060 And I'm like, okay, but if we cut all those skeins in half, I'm going to be able to 214 00:11:07,060 --> 00:11:07,860 make a shawl. 215 00:11:07,860 --> 00:11:11,060 We can each make a shawl because they don't require all of it. 216 00:11:11,060 --> 00:11:12,980 So we are also going to make matchy shawls. 217 00:11:12,980 --> 00:11:14,420 I know. 218 00:11:14,420 --> 00:11:16,420 So that's something we're looking forward to doing. 219 00:11:16,420 --> 00:11:18,180 I'm probably going to start it after Reinbeck. 220 00:11:18,180 --> 00:11:19,620 I, I don't, I don't know. 221 00:11:19,620 --> 00:11:23,620 I don't, I don't have any like gift knitting planned at this time. 222 00:11:23,620 --> 00:11:27,220 Um, yeah, I keep coming up with ideas and scrapping them. 223 00:11:27,220 --> 00:11:33,460 So I feel like that there's too many people at this point. 224 00:11:33,460 --> 00:11:36,180 There's actually too many people that I want to give for. 225 00:11:36,180 --> 00:11:39,380 And I feel like if I start with a couple, then I'm going to have to do the rest. 226 00:11:39,380 --> 00:11:39,860 Right. 227 00:11:39,860 --> 00:11:40,180 Yeah. 228 00:11:40,180 --> 00:11:45,780 Um, because, um, at this point, like there's babies everywhere. 229 00:11:45,780 --> 00:11:46,660 I don't know what happened. 230 00:11:47,460 --> 00:11:53,700 I had my babies younger, so my kids are closing into the double digits and everyone else is 231 00:11:53,700 --> 00:11:54,980 like, I got a newborn. 232 00:11:54,980 --> 00:11:57,780 And I'm like, oh my God, I need to make baby blankets everywhere. 233 00:11:57,780 --> 00:11:59,620 And then I'm like, I can't, I actually cannot. 234 00:11:59,620 --> 00:11:59,940 Yeah. 235 00:11:59,940 --> 00:12:00,740 And that's too much. 236 00:12:00,740 --> 00:12:01,780 That's a part of it. 237 00:12:01,780 --> 00:12:02,100 Yeah. 238 00:12:02,100 --> 00:12:07,140 And the other thing too, it's like, I have come to grips of knowing myself as an error, 239 00:12:07,140 --> 00:12:11,700 especially like the, the thinner, the weight of the yarn, the longer it is going to take me. 240 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:14,740 Fingering weight stuff takes me forever. 241 00:12:14,740 --> 00:12:16,740 I love knitting with fingering weight. 242 00:12:16,740 --> 00:12:20,420 Like I do, but I cannot gift with fingering weight. 243 00:12:20,420 --> 00:12:20,580 Yeah. 244 00:12:20,580 --> 00:12:21,780 This shawl has taken me forever. 245 00:12:21,780 --> 00:12:22,740 Yeah, it does. 246 00:12:22,740 --> 00:12:25,460 It's just, and it comes out great. 247 00:12:25,460 --> 00:12:26,500 You love doing it. 248 00:12:26,500 --> 00:12:27,860 It's all about the process. 249 00:12:27,860 --> 00:12:30,580 It feels fantastic, but yeah, it's beautiful. 250 00:12:30,580 --> 00:12:31,140 You know what? 251 00:12:31,140 --> 00:12:36,820 Like, I don't know if I can gift a fingering weight, anything at this point anymore, because 252 00:12:37,460 --> 00:12:39,140 it just takes me so long. 253 00:12:39,940 --> 00:12:43,060 Meanwhile, I put in my queue, an orchard house shawl for my cousin, 254 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:45,140 which is fingering weight. 255 00:12:45,140 --> 00:12:45,860 Well. 256 00:12:45,860 --> 00:12:47,140 And lots of bubbles. 257 00:12:47,140 --> 00:12:51,140 I mean, I mean, she'll get it, you know, in six years and that's fine. 258 00:12:51,140 --> 00:12:53,460 I think that's another thing. 259 00:12:53,460 --> 00:12:58,580 That's, that's another thing is if you're making a gift for like some time in the future, 260 00:12:58,580 --> 00:13:03,220 it doesn't have a deadline. 261 00:13:03,220 --> 00:13:03,860 Fine. 262 00:13:03,860 --> 00:13:08,420 Like, but if you're making a baby blanket, that has a deadline. 263 00:13:09,060 --> 00:13:09,300 Yeah. 264 00:13:09,300 --> 00:13:10,020 Presumably. 265 00:13:10,020 --> 00:13:11,460 To a degree, it definitely needs to happen. 266 00:13:11,460 --> 00:13:14,340 Baby garments have some sort of a deadline. 267 00:13:14,980 --> 00:13:16,980 So it's a lot harder. 268 00:13:18,340 --> 00:13:20,820 We're being really helpful with talking about gift knits. 269 00:13:20,820 --> 00:13:26,340 Like, Jess, do you have any plans besides your matchy shawl? 270 00:13:26,340 --> 00:13:28,660 I have another sort of idea. 271 00:13:29,620 --> 00:13:30,740 We'll see if that happens. 272 00:13:31,380 --> 00:13:32,580 For you or for somebody else? 273 00:13:32,580 --> 00:13:33,460 For somebody else. 274 00:13:34,260 --> 00:13:35,060 Is it for me? 275 00:13:35,060 --> 00:13:35,560 No. 276 00:13:39,860 --> 00:13:43,460 Um, so there's that that's on the burner. 277 00:13:43,460 --> 00:13:43,940 I don't know. 278 00:13:43,940 --> 00:13:48,100 I may do some more potion bottles because they're tiny and cute. 279 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:49,460 They are tiny and cute. 280 00:13:49,460 --> 00:13:50,820 I need to find more key chains. 281 00:13:50,820 --> 00:13:53,300 I like, cause I don't like the key chains that I got recently. 282 00:13:53,300 --> 00:13:53,940 Sorry. 283 00:13:53,940 --> 00:13:54,980 It's not your fault. 284 00:13:54,980 --> 00:13:56,340 They don't carry them. 285 00:13:56,340 --> 00:13:57,940 It's obnoxious, but I don't know what they're called. 286 00:13:57,940 --> 00:13:59,220 So I can't just look them up online. 287 00:13:59,220 --> 00:14:01,060 I'm going to have to do some research. 288 00:14:01,060 --> 00:14:03,940 No, they have a specific clasp. 289 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:07,300 Kind of key chain. 290 00:14:07,300 --> 00:14:10,500 This is me just walking into the store, buying some key chains and just being like, 291 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:11,940 these are the wrong ones. 292 00:14:11,940 --> 00:14:12,900 I can't. 293 00:14:13,940 --> 00:14:14,420 They'll work. 294 00:14:14,420 --> 00:14:17,460 I'll use them, but I like the other ones better. 295 00:14:17,460 --> 00:14:18,740 It's, it's just a need. 296 00:14:19,300 --> 00:14:19,780 I don't know. 297 00:14:19,780 --> 00:14:22,260 I know I had like a list of stuff at the beginning of the year. 298 00:14:22,260 --> 00:14:24,900 And then I was sort of like, eh, I got distracted. 299 00:14:24,900 --> 00:14:26,420 It's not how it goes though. 300 00:14:26,420 --> 00:14:27,940 This Phoenix wasn't on it, but. 301 00:14:29,140 --> 00:14:30,900 No, this wasn't on mine either. 302 00:14:30,900 --> 00:14:31,780 It was needed. 303 00:14:31,780 --> 00:14:32,660 It was needed. 304 00:14:32,660 --> 00:14:38,420 Oh, I'm going to do another shawl using like the actual like fireball we stuck with 305 00:14:38,420 --> 00:14:39,940 for critical hit dies. 306 00:14:39,940 --> 00:14:43,220 Cause I found a cool, like all these like sort of mini shawls. 307 00:14:43,220 --> 00:14:44,980 So I was like, yeah, I'm going to do that. 308 00:14:44,980 --> 00:14:47,700 And off the top of my head, I can't remember anything else about it, 309 00:14:47,700 --> 00:14:50,740 except for I thought it was really cool and I was going to use fireball. 310 00:14:50,740 --> 00:14:57,540 So I'll have to like, look that up and tell you guys, I want to say it was Lord of the 311 00:14:57,540 --> 00:15:02,340 rings, like inspired, but yeah, I like that. 312 00:15:02,340 --> 00:15:02,820 I know. 313 00:15:02,820 --> 00:15:08,020 So, uh, is there a tree beard one? 314 00:15:08,580 --> 00:15:09,540 I don't know, man. 315 00:15:09,540 --> 00:15:10,580 Four mirror one. 316 00:15:10,580 --> 00:15:12,980 There is the, well, there is like two best characters. 317 00:15:12,980 --> 00:15:14,580 There was like the one ring one. 318 00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:17,860 There was like, there might be a tree beard. 319 00:15:17,860 --> 00:15:20,500 You know what? 320 00:15:20,500 --> 00:15:21,940 That's appropriate for tree. 321 00:15:21,940 --> 00:15:22,740 For tree beard. 322 00:15:22,740 --> 00:15:23,220 Yeah. 323 00:15:23,220 --> 00:15:24,420 Boromir though, man. 324 00:15:24,420 --> 00:15:25,780 Boromir dude, something more. 325 00:15:25,780 --> 00:15:27,620 Boromir is a great character. 326 00:15:27,620 --> 00:15:31,220 He is like, um, Boromir and tree beard. 327 00:15:31,220 --> 00:15:32,100 They're like up there. 328 00:15:33,780 --> 00:15:37,540 All right, let's get out of, let's get out of Lord of the rings because I might melt. 329 00:15:39,300 --> 00:15:40,580 Well, what about you, Tina? 330 00:15:40,580 --> 00:15:42,660 What are you looking forward to for the fall? 331 00:15:42,660 --> 00:15:48,100 Well, actually, hilariously enough, I just bought a ton of chunky weights from critical 332 00:15:48,100 --> 00:15:48,820 hit die. 333 00:15:48,820 --> 00:15:54,260 And the reason why I did is because that is my plan is I want to make a bunch of chunky 334 00:15:54,260 --> 00:16:00,260 weight, like hats, scarves, and mittens freaking love working for children with bulky weight 335 00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:00,660 yarn. 336 00:16:00,660 --> 00:16:02,420 But then like, especially children's eyes. 337 00:16:02,420 --> 00:16:06,740 It flies off the needles, gives you the greatest high that you get. 338 00:16:07,620 --> 00:16:12,100 Well, to be fair, like my kit, I don't know why there's a part of me that's like, why am 339 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:13,140 I doing this for my children? 340 00:16:13,140 --> 00:16:18,740 They lose all of the things I ever give them ever, especially when it comes to like hats 341 00:16:18,740 --> 00:16:20,020 and gloves and scarves. 342 00:16:20,740 --> 00:16:26,420 But I have noticed that if I give them something like really nice, like it's like a special 343 00:16:26,420 --> 00:16:31,220 thing for mommy, all of a sudden it's like, oh no, I got to put it in a special spot. 344 00:16:31,220 --> 00:16:32,580 And they get like really weird about it. 345 00:16:32,580 --> 00:16:34,420 So I'm like, okay, all right, this might work. 346 00:16:34,420 --> 00:16:35,060 This might work. 347 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:36,820 I want to do that for them. 348 00:16:36,820 --> 00:16:38,740 I bought them originally one colorway. 349 00:16:38,740 --> 00:16:43,620 They saw the other colorway and now I have to get Megan just to probably make more yarn 350 00:16:43,620 --> 00:16:46,740 for me because I don't think I have enough, but we'll see how that goes. 351 00:16:48,260 --> 00:16:54,100 And honestly, like outside of like Joe's sweater that I feel like I need to finish because 352 00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:56,180 she's been asking for it for like three years. 353 00:16:57,860 --> 00:17:00,500 I don't have any like crazy, crazy plans. 354 00:17:01,780 --> 00:17:03,140 I'm just kind of going with the flow. 355 00:17:04,340 --> 00:17:08,500 I'm trying not to give myself too many deadlines, but yeah. 356 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:09,140 Yeah. 357 00:17:09,140 --> 00:17:10,420 That's the goal right there. 358 00:17:10,420 --> 00:17:16,820 But like, you know, on that, on that note, I feel like I always go through like 359 00:17:17,540 --> 00:17:19,940 in terms of like business stuff. 360 00:17:19,940 --> 00:17:24,980 I'm like, yeah, this fall I'm going to do like all the shows and I'm going to like 361 00:17:25,540 --> 00:17:29,220 make all these things and I'm going to have this awesome display. 362 00:17:29,220 --> 00:17:31,220 And then like, I don't know what it is. 363 00:17:31,220 --> 00:17:35,460 I don't know if this happens to anybody else, but like I have this visual of like 364 00:17:35,460 --> 00:17:39,620 this really cute setup and then I'm like, what the hell am I selling? 365 00:17:40,580 --> 00:17:46,580 I have nothing to sell and I'm like, why am I like, but like I have like, I'm like, 366 00:17:46,580 --> 00:17:50,020 oh, and then I'd like put this here and I'd have this there and like I have the whole 367 00:17:50,020 --> 00:17:53,540 booth in my head and then I'm like, I don't. 368 00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:54,020 For what? 369 00:17:54,020 --> 00:17:54,820 For what? 370 00:17:55,700 --> 00:18:00,420 And then I'm like, I have to make stuff and then I go down that rabbit hole and then all 371 00:18:00,420 --> 00:18:02,820 of a sudden I'm like, wow, I would have to make a lot of stuff. 372 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:05,060 You would have to make a lot of stuff. 373 00:18:05,060 --> 00:18:08,340 And I would have to commit to it and I'd have to sit there and make probably the same 374 00:18:08,340 --> 00:18:09,700 thing over and over and over again. 375 00:18:09,700 --> 00:18:12,580 And that's where me and Jess get along. 376 00:18:12,580 --> 00:18:14,740 Cause like, I cannot, I cannot. 377 00:18:14,740 --> 00:18:17,540 There are a few things that I'm like, yeah, I'm going to do this. 378 00:18:18,260 --> 00:18:20,580 But yeah, usually I'm like, no, I'm good. 379 00:18:20,580 --> 00:18:20,900 I don't know. 380 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:26,260 There's plenty of things that I could just sit there and like finish immediately cast 381 00:18:26,260 --> 00:18:26,740 on again. 382 00:18:27,620 --> 00:18:28,500 Sunday swing. 383 00:18:28,500 --> 00:18:29,000 Absolutely. 384 00:18:29,940 --> 00:18:30,500 Always. 385 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:31,140 Forever and ever. 386 00:18:31,140 --> 00:18:32,100 Forever and ever. 387 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:37,460 But like a stock net hat, if I enjoyed the yarn enough, yeah. 388 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:38,980 Maybe. 389 00:18:39,540 --> 00:18:40,500 I don't know. 390 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:41,140 Suspicious. 391 00:18:41,140 --> 00:18:42,980 Sometimes it's just what I need. 392 00:18:42,980 --> 00:18:45,220 I feel like, I feel like I would maybe do too. 393 00:18:45,220 --> 00:18:48,340 And then I'd be like, wow, I need to make a different hat or different thing altogether. 394 00:18:48,980 --> 00:18:51,860 Just my, my focus would just completely leave me. 395 00:18:51,860 --> 00:18:56,260 So that's why I say I like the potion bottles because I make a different potion every time. 396 00:18:57,860 --> 00:18:58,660 Different color. 397 00:18:58,660 --> 00:18:58,980 Yeah. 398 00:18:58,980 --> 00:19:00,660 A different color is a different potion. 399 00:19:00,660 --> 00:19:04,020 So it holds my interest for at least like three. 400 00:19:04,820 --> 00:19:08,340 And then I'm like, okay, are you going to create a potion that gives you uncontrollable 401 00:19:08,340 --> 00:19:11,540 giggles the entire time that you are under its effect? 402 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:17,620 I don't think we need that at this table. 403 00:19:17,620 --> 00:19:18,340 Yeah, I think we're good. 404 00:19:18,340 --> 00:19:19,300 I think we're good on that. 405 00:19:20,020 --> 00:19:20,420 Okay. 406 00:19:20,420 --> 00:19:24,180 So we have some like vague plans of what we're going to do for the fall. 407 00:19:25,140 --> 00:19:26,180 So all right. 408 00:19:26,180 --> 00:19:27,620 It's July though. 409 00:19:27,620 --> 00:19:30,580 And we're all dying of heat stroke. 410 00:19:30,580 --> 00:19:35,380 Um, so it's been pretty nasty. 411 00:19:35,380 --> 00:19:38,020 I'm just literally, I'm so hostile about this weather. 412 00:19:38,020 --> 00:19:39,380 I'm so hostile about it. 413 00:19:39,940 --> 00:19:44,100 Like I'm so mad, like literally Jess is so sick of me stomping around the house going, 414 00:19:44,100 --> 00:19:45,700 is it ever going to stop raining? 415 00:19:45,700 --> 00:19:47,460 Like the humidity is offensive. 416 00:19:47,460 --> 00:19:49,860 And I said that to my hairstylist and he lost it. 417 00:19:49,860 --> 00:19:50,740 Like he loved it. 418 00:19:50,740 --> 00:19:51,380 He loved it. 419 00:19:51,380 --> 00:19:52,500 He started saying it to everybody. 420 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:53,300 It is offensive. 421 00:19:55,460 --> 00:19:58,340 When you have hair like mine, yes, it's offensive. 422 00:19:58,340 --> 00:19:59,140 You know what? 423 00:19:59,140 --> 00:19:59,780 That's fair. 424 00:19:59,780 --> 00:20:01,860 When I walk around looking like an alpaca every day. 425 00:20:01,860 --> 00:20:02,820 Yeah, it's offensive. 426 00:20:03,540 --> 00:20:05,060 All but a pack is so cute. 427 00:20:06,020 --> 00:20:06,580 Don't look at me. 428 00:20:07,940 --> 00:20:09,060 If looks could kill. 429 00:20:09,620 --> 00:20:11,540 Good thing it doesn't come through the microphone. 430 00:20:11,540 --> 00:20:13,700 I want you to know that recently I've been getting ads in my feed. 431 00:20:13,700 --> 00:20:15,620 They're like, you need to buy this alpaca sweater. 432 00:20:15,620 --> 00:20:16,340 And I'm like, you know what? 433 00:20:16,340 --> 00:20:17,380 I don't need to buy that. 434 00:20:19,620 --> 00:20:21,540 I definitely don't do that. 435 00:20:21,540 --> 00:20:24,740 With that in mind, the question I wanted to ask was, 436 00:20:24,740 --> 00:20:30,260 how do you knit hot weather? 437 00:20:30,260 --> 00:20:30,660 No. 438 00:20:30,660 --> 00:20:31,540 How do you knit? 439 00:20:32,980 --> 00:20:37,140 Let me hold weather items in hot weather. 440 00:20:37,140 --> 00:20:38,500 Heat bad knit. 441 00:20:40,500 --> 00:20:42,340 How do you knit heat bad knit? 442 00:20:43,860 --> 00:20:45,460 That was by poetry. 443 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:51,060 I was like, you know, that was what that just was. 444 00:20:51,060 --> 00:20:58,020 Are you trying to make like, what did I just witness? 445 00:20:59,300 --> 00:21:00,020 Okay. 446 00:21:00,020 --> 00:21:00,660 They got this. 447 00:21:01,780 --> 00:21:05,460 It's hot and you got things that's going to make you hot. 448 00:21:05,460 --> 00:21:06,740 And your hands. 449 00:21:06,740 --> 00:21:07,620 And your own hands. 450 00:21:07,620 --> 00:21:09,060 You need help with this question. 451 00:21:12,980 --> 00:21:13,620 Oh my God. 452 00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:14,260 I'm crying. 453 00:21:15,220 --> 00:21:15,460 Okay. 454 00:21:17,060 --> 00:21:19,620 If you're trying to knit something that's very heavy 455 00:21:19,620 --> 00:21:21,380 and can make you hot in the summer, 456 00:21:22,020 --> 00:21:24,260 how do you go about doing that without dying? 457 00:21:24,260 --> 00:21:25,140 Blast the AC. 458 00:21:29,060 --> 00:21:34,500 I'm just like, why are you moaning? 459 00:21:36,980 --> 00:21:38,020 Oh, good heavens. 460 00:21:40,980 --> 00:21:41,380 You know what? 461 00:21:41,380 --> 00:21:43,060 She did have it and then we lost it again. 462 00:21:44,500 --> 00:21:44,660 Okay. 463 00:21:44,660 --> 00:21:45,380 So there's blast. 464 00:21:45,380 --> 00:21:48,260 We got blast the AC. 465 00:21:51,380 --> 00:21:51,860 That's it. 466 00:21:55,300 --> 00:21:56,260 That's the solution. 467 00:21:58,100 --> 00:21:59,700 You're either going to blast the AC 468 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:01,380 or you're going to live somewhere that doesn't 469 00:22:02,020 --> 00:22:03,380 experience weather like this. 470 00:22:03,380 --> 00:22:04,180 I'm knitting a mohair sweater. 471 00:22:04,180 --> 00:22:05,780 Let me move to the Arctic. 472 00:22:05,780 --> 00:22:06,100 Yes. 473 00:22:08,420 --> 00:22:10,900 Look, I don't, I'm not making the options. 474 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:13,540 Those are only the, those are the only options. 475 00:22:13,540 --> 00:22:13,940 Okay. 476 00:22:13,940 --> 00:22:16,180 Just because you're, you're making something for the winter 477 00:22:16,180 --> 00:22:21,300 months doesn't necessarily mean that it is a bulky, hot, heavy thing. 478 00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:21,940 Garmin. 479 00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:22,100 Yeah. 480 00:22:22,100 --> 00:22:25,380 I mean, Jess never knits anything bulky, hot or heavy ever. 481 00:22:25,380 --> 00:22:26,100 Yeah. 482 00:22:26,100 --> 00:22:29,060 Even her sweater was made out of very light fingering way. 483 00:22:29,060 --> 00:22:32,260 I try my hands like they get sweaty. 484 00:22:32,260 --> 00:22:32,900 They break out. 485 00:22:32,900 --> 00:22:36,020 I get like little dots that peel. 486 00:22:36,020 --> 00:22:36,980 It's disgusting. 487 00:22:36,980 --> 00:22:38,340 So I don't do. 488 00:22:38,340 --> 00:22:41,220 The only thing that really bothers me to knit in the summer is mohair. 489 00:22:41,220 --> 00:22:42,980 I can knit almost anything else. 490 00:22:42,980 --> 00:22:48,340 Oh, and I don't want to knit a big bulky project like a blanket, 491 00:22:50,020 --> 00:22:53,220 but I'll knit anything else in the summer, even if it's warm. 492 00:22:53,220 --> 00:22:55,540 I mean, honestly, I've been doing a lot of knitting on the porch 493 00:22:55,540 --> 00:22:57,220 and we don't have air conditioning out there. 494 00:22:57,220 --> 00:23:04,260 So I just turn on little tower fan and, and that suffices without the AC, 495 00:23:05,540 --> 00:23:08,740 but also knitting it like either early in the morning or late at night. 496 00:23:08,740 --> 00:23:13,060 Same thing with exercising, like knit when it's not as hot or humid. 497 00:23:13,060 --> 00:23:13,940 Oh, yeah, that's fair. 498 00:23:13,940 --> 00:23:14,900 You can do that, too. 499 00:23:16,100 --> 00:23:21,780 I also find that I generally like to use my machine a lot more often in the summer. 500 00:23:21,780 --> 00:23:22,420 That's fair. 501 00:23:22,420 --> 00:23:28,580 Because sometimes sometimes if I'm like, OK, I know I want to make like a bunch of charity hats. 502 00:23:28,580 --> 00:23:32,500 OK, so I can crank those out without them sitting on my lap or in my hands. 503 00:23:32,500 --> 00:23:36,900 And they're like and they tend to be like wool or like bulky, 504 00:23:36,900 --> 00:23:40,340 like they are like wool or like heavy kind of things. 505 00:23:40,340 --> 00:23:44,820 So I find I can get through them on the machine really quick and then move on and. 506 00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:48,980 Find something else that's a little bit cooler to deal with, but. 507 00:23:49,940 --> 00:23:50,740 Yeah, fair. 508 00:23:51,460 --> 00:23:55,620 You can find there are patterns made for like summer wearing. 509 00:23:57,140 --> 00:23:59,300 I still probably would not wear anything. 510 00:23:59,300 --> 00:24:04,900 Woollen or knit, but there there are there's plenty of tops that people make and. 511 00:24:06,660 --> 00:24:11,780 Things that you can do for the summer months if you want to like knit something and then be able to 512 00:24:11,780 --> 00:24:15,140 like actually show it off in the summer like like a tank top. 513 00:24:15,140 --> 00:24:16,340 Yeah, they do exist. 514 00:24:16,340 --> 00:24:17,540 I have seen them. 515 00:24:18,420 --> 00:24:24,420 You know, one thing, though, that for me, at least because I feel like I can say this now as an 516 00:24:24,420 --> 00:24:26,340 authority because I've made two of them. 517 00:24:26,340 --> 00:24:30,420 Bags are so much easier to make crochet than knit. 518 00:24:30,420 --> 00:24:36,100 Yeah, like I've made knit bags and they're really popular in the summer and that's why I'm bringing 519 00:24:36,100 --> 00:24:40,740 them up because like in the summer, that's like usually what I hear about is people going like, 520 00:24:40,740 --> 00:24:46,980 oh, I want like a like a mesh like knit bag for like my farm vegetables that I'm getting from the 521 00:24:46,980 --> 00:24:48,420 produce and like whatever. 522 00:24:49,300 --> 00:24:49,940 No, I swear to God. 523 00:24:49,940 --> 00:24:54,740 So instead, like, but I've made two of them. 524 00:24:54,740 --> 00:24:58,660 One of them was more solid and then the other one was more lacy. 525 00:24:59,220 --> 00:25:05,140 They take a ton of time when you knit because they're just I don't know why, but it just the 526 00:25:05,140 --> 00:25:11,220 ones that I make at least even in like a worsted weight, they just take so much time where I feel 527 00:25:11,220 --> 00:25:16,180 like with crochet, they're just like you just pop them out like they just get done a lot faster. 528 00:25:16,180 --> 00:25:21,940 Maybe it's just Instagram rails going really fast, but I feel like when I make knit bags, 529 00:25:21,940 --> 00:25:23,460 they go really slow. 530 00:25:23,460 --> 00:25:30,580 I quickly made a bag when I was in North Carolina for someone who was leaving the wine bar that we 531 00:25:30,580 --> 00:25:36,500 used to go to for one of our meetups and I thought it was like, oh, this will be this will go so fast. 532 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:40,980 I was like up till like midnight trying to make that bag because I was like, oh my God, this is 533 00:25:40,980 --> 00:25:43,380 this this is like, I'm going to make this bag. 534 00:25:43,380 --> 00:25:47,300 I'm going to make this bag because I was like, oh my God, this is this this handle is taking for 535 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:49,300 effort. There's only like six stitches across. 536 00:25:49,300 --> 00:25:50,900 Why is this taking so long? 537 00:25:50,900 --> 00:25:52,900 It just it's really monotonous. 538 00:25:54,420 --> 00:26:00,500 And yeah, I have feels about it, which leads me to my other point because this is turning into an 539 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:01,460 ADHD thing. 540 00:26:01,460 --> 00:26:04,500 I want to make crochet bags. 541 00:26:06,500 --> 00:26:07,140 So do it. 542 00:26:07,140 --> 00:26:11,700 I have to teach myself how to crochet first, not as poorly as I do now. 543 00:26:11,700 --> 00:26:14,740 Well, it's a good thing you have a crochet master at this table. 544 00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:15,300 I know. 545 00:26:15,300 --> 00:26:19,060 I've already told you I was crocheting backwards for. 546 00:26:19,060 --> 00:26:21,060 Yeah, but you're good now. 547 00:26:22,100 --> 00:26:26,580 You showed me how to crochet and I yeah, that was a thing. 548 00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:28,740 I crocheted squares. 549 00:26:28,740 --> 00:26:29,780 You even taught Meg. 550 00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:30,580 I did. 551 00:26:31,460 --> 00:26:32,580 Even Meg. 552 00:26:33,620 --> 00:26:35,780 That sounded so terrible. 553 00:26:35,780 --> 00:26:39,300 Yeah, the original original even Meg was even fun. 554 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:40,020 Oh, my God. 555 00:26:41,060 --> 00:26:48,020 How do we determine now what we're going to be making for Christmas? 556 00:26:48,500 --> 00:26:53,300 I like to try to be really pragmatic with the schedule and be like, OK, that's fair. 557 00:26:53,300 --> 00:26:56,420 If so far this year, I have managed to complete two items. 558 00:26:57,140 --> 00:26:59,460 Maybe I shouldn't put nine for Christmas on the list. 559 00:27:00,740 --> 00:27:04,340 I feel like a lot of times, I'm like, I'm going to be like, oh, I'm going to be like, 560 00:27:04,340 --> 00:27:09,220 I feel like a lot of times people and especially people that are just really starting out 561 00:27:09,220 --> 00:27:12,980 and they realize that they can knit and they're like, oh, I can make scarves. 562 00:27:12,980 --> 00:27:13,860 Fantastic. 563 00:27:13,860 --> 00:27:14,980 Christmas is in the bag. 564 00:27:15,860 --> 00:27:16,740 And that's great. 565 00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:21,460 I'm definitely not trying to dissuade anybody from making Christmas presents, 566 00:27:22,100 --> 00:27:27,460 but it's also important to remember what you're actually capable of knitting in a 567 00:27:27,460 --> 00:27:28,580 finite amount of time. 568 00:27:29,220 --> 00:27:31,140 And don't stress yourself out like that. 569 00:27:31,140 --> 00:27:34,340 And maybe not everybody on your list needs a hand knit item. 570 00:27:34,340 --> 00:27:35,140 You can get them a book. 571 00:27:36,420 --> 00:27:38,260 You don't need to do that to yourself. 572 00:27:38,260 --> 00:27:42,500 So I think like looking at your schedule and really being like honest with yourself 573 00:27:42,500 --> 00:27:46,260 about how much time you have, how much time you actually want to spend knitting, 574 00:27:46,260 --> 00:27:51,220 how much time you want to spend knitting things that are like that have a deadline 575 00:27:51,220 --> 00:27:55,540 that you actually need to finish in a certain amount of time and then go from there. 576 00:27:55,540 --> 00:27:57,700 And maybe that turns out being one thing. 577 00:27:57,700 --> 00:27:59,460 Maybe it turns out being no things. 578 00:27:59,460 --> 00:28:04,260 But then at least you're not setting yourself up for crushing failure when you're freaking 579 00:28:04,260 --> 00:28:09,860 out two weeks before Christmas and you have accomplished literally, you know, half of the 580 00:28:09,860 --> 00:28:10,900 list or none of the list. 581 00:28:10,900 --> 00:28:12,500 And all you've done is stress yourself out. 582 00:28:12,500 --> 00:28:18,100 I think it's really important to know what your, I don't, I don't mean limits are like 583 00:28:18,660 --> 00:28:23,140 capability wise, no, not even capability wise, just like, I mean, here's the thing. 584 00:28:23,140 --> 00:28:25,700 If I really want to, I can crank out, you know, like 585 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:27,140 I'll be generous. 586 00:28:27,140 --> 00:28:27,940 I had a week. 587 00:28:27,940 --> 00:28:31,380 Like if I'm, if I want to, that's going to stress me out. 588 00:28:31,380 --> 00:28:32,500 That's a lot of knitting. 589 00:28:32,500 --> 00:28:36,260 And that means I have to put aside a lot of other things that I might want to do. 590 00:28:36,260 --> 00:28:40,420 So also not even just your capability, but how do you want to spend your time? 591 00:28:40,420 --> 00:28:45,540 Do you want to spend your time cranking out like a week from now until Christmas or do 592 00:28:45,540 --> 00:28:47,620 you maybe want to call that list down a little bit? 593 00:28:49,860 --> 00:28:50,820 Yeah, I am. 594 00:28:50,820 --> 00:28:52,500 I don't know how to do that. 595 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:56,740 Yeah, I am. I don't know how to schedule myself. 596 00:28:56,740 --> 00:29:01,780 I always overcommit in my brain, not like to other people, but like in my brain, I'm 597 00:29:01,780 --> 00:29:03,700 like, I'm going to do all these things. 598 00:29:03,700 --> 00:29:05,140 I'm going to, it's going to be great. 599 00:29:05,140 --> 00:29:09,460 I'm going to do 20 things and I'm going to finish them all in two hours. 600 00:29:09,460 --> 00:29:09,700 Yeah. 601 00:29:09,700 --> 00:29:10,820 It's going to be awesome. 602 00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:12,260 Yeah. I also do that. 603 00:29:12,260 --> 00:29:16,820 And then two hours go by and I finished something that was not part of the 20 things. 604 00:29:18,820 --> 00:29:21,300 And I'm like, and then you're like, crap. 605 00:29:21,300 --> 00:29:24,500 I, I, yeah, I still have 20 things to do. 606 00:29:24,500 --> 00:29:29,540 Yep. And now I have less time and now I'm, now I'm getting upset with myself when I did 607 00:29:29,540 --> 00:29:30,420 not need to do that. 608 00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:39,860 I think honestly, this year I need to not subscribe myself to committing as many, 609 00:29:40,500 --> 00:29:46,980 to as many finished knit items just because I want to do other things outside of knitting 610 00:29:46,980 --> 00:29:47,540 this year. 611 00:29:47,540 --> 00:29:51,940 There's a lot of stuff that I want to do in particular with like my coding stuff. 612 00:29:51,940 --> 00:29:54,500 So like I need to finish. 613 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:56,740 Yeah, I need, I feel like I need to finish. 614 00:29:56,740 --> 00:30:02,180 If I finish that stuff earlier than I think it's going to take me, which already I'm a 615 00:30:02,180 --> 00:30:08,580 little bit ahead of time with that, then I think I can start like, okay, well, maybe 616 00:30:08,580 --> 00:30:10,900 I'll make this person something for Christmas. 617 00:30:10,900 --> 00:30:17,140 But in the meantime, I, I just think committing to any kind of Christmas gift writing is 618 00:30:17,140 --> 00:30:19,780 gift right now is really, really bad news bears for me. 619 00:30:20,340 --> 00:30:22,020 I shouldn't be doing that. 620 00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:25,940 I should just try to finish one thing because I haven't, I don't think I finished. 621 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:27,540 I don't even know if I finished. 622 00:30:27,540 --> 00:30:28,980 Did I finish a project this year? 623 00:30:29,860 --> 00:30:30,500 Yeah, you did. 624 00:30:30,500 --> 00:30:32,260 You, you knit a little sweater. 625 00:30:32,260 --> 00:30:34,740 Remember you knit like a baby sweater. 626 00:30:34,740 --> 00:30:35,540 The pink one. 627 00:30:35,540 --> 00:30:35,780 Yeah. 628 00:30:36,420 --> 00:30:37,700 I put it on the blog. 629 00:30:37,700 --> 00:30:38,180 Oh yeah. 630 00:30:39,060 --> 00:30:39,460 Oh yeah. 631 00:30:39,460 --> 00:30:40,820 That guy was really nice. 632 00:30:40,820 --> 00:30:41,060 Yeah. 633 00:30:41,060 --> 00:30:41,700 That guy. 634 00:30:41,700 --> 00:30:44,740 So you have and that's the thing. 635 00:30:44,740 --> 00:30:46,820 Like that wasn't even somebody I knew, just so you know. 636 00:30:46,820 --> 00:30:47,380 Yeah. 637 00:30:47,380 --> 00:30:49,060 It was like my husband's coworker. 638 00:30:49,060 --> 00:30:49,380 Yeah. 639 00:30:49,380 --> 00:30:50,020 That was nice. 640 00:30:50,020 --> 00:30:50,340 I remember. 641 00:30:50,340 --> 00:30:51,140 He really liked it. 642 00:30:51,940 --> 00:30:55,540 But yeah, it's probably not a great time to be like, I'm going to commit to, to six things 643 00:30:55,540 --> 00:30:56,420 by Christmas. 644 00:30:56,420 --> 00:30:56,740 Yeah. 645 00:30:56,740 --> 00:30:58,660 You know, that's probably not a good, and you know what? 646 00:30:58,660 --> 00:31:04,740 Some years, like I had a great, I did, I, I did not have a great 2021 in the respect that 647 00:31:04,740 --> 00:31:08,740 like a lot of stuff happened that was not great, but I rediscovered how much I love 648 00:31:08,740 --> 00:31:14,420 knitting and I just like plowed through projects because my kid was a little baby and I was 649 00:31:14,420 --> 00:31:18,900 home with her and COVID no, it was 2020, not 2021 COVID sucked. 650 00:31:18,900 --> 00:31:21,380 And I had like very little else to do. 651 00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:25,860 So I was knitting all the time and I cranked out a ton of projects and you know, I could 652 00:31:25,860 --> 00:31:27,220 look back and be like, look at that. 653 00:31:27,220 --> 00:31:31,220 I'm, I'm capable of producing this many projects in a year, but then I also look at like, okay, 654 00:31:31,220 --> 00:31:32,500 I was between jobs. 655 00:31:33,380 --> 00:31:35,140 I had a toddler at home. 656 00:31:35,140 --> 00:31:36,980 Like there were a lot of other things going on. 657 00:31:36,980 --> 00:31:42,020 So to take that productivity and apply it to today and the things that I'm doing today 658 00:31:42,020 --> 00:31:45,380 is like, is just like setting yourself up for misery. 659 00:31:45,380 --> 00:31:49,060 I can't crank out that much in the current state that I'm in right now. 660 00:31:49,060 --> 00:31:50,260 It's not possible. 661 00:31:50,260 --> 00:31:51,860 And there's not, that's not a problem. 662 00:31:52,340 --> 00:31:56,420 I just have other stuff going on and other things that I need to do and things I'd rather 663 00:31:57,460 --> 00:32:01,060 Anyone on my mental health team was listening to this episode right now. 664 00:32:01,060 --> 00:32:05,860 They'd be like, Christina, if you try to commit to anything right now, I swear to God. 665 00:32:07,460 --> 00:32:10,340 No, cause like, honestly, the, the goal. 666 00:32:10,340 --> 00:32:16,820 Of this year has been reduced, reduced, reduced because my health is just more important than 667 00:32:16,820 --> 00:32:17,300 anything. 668 00:32:17,300 --> 00:32:23,060 And I have been doing really, really well, but, um, but then it's like, I, it's like 669 00:32:23,060 --> 00:32:23,700 the same thing. 670 00:32:23,700 --> 00:32:26,820 Like I look back on my Ravelry, like, you know, that challenge thing. 671 00:32:26,820 --> 00:32:27,300 Yes. 672 00:32:27,300 --> 00:32:31,780 And it's like, once some of those years, I was in like the twenties and I'm like, and 673 00:32:31,780 --> 00:32:33,460 I'm like, there was a rivalry. 674 00:32:33,460 --> 00:32:35,300 No, no, no, no, no. 675 00:32:35,300 --> 00:32:37,460 They're like, how many things do you want to do in this? 676 00:32:37,460 --> 00:32:38,020 Yeah. 677 00:32:38,020 --> 00:32:40,580 You can say it or you could not. 678 00:32:40,580 --> 00:32:41,220 Interesting. 679 00:32:41,220 --> 00:32:42,820 It's not like an actual like. 680 00:32:42,820 --> 00:32:43,380 No, no, no. 681 00:32:43,380 --> 00:32:46,580 You're just saying what do you, what do you want to do this year? 682 00:32:46,580 --> 00:32:47,700 There's no like prize. 683 00:32:47,700 --> 00:32:49,940 There's no like consequence. 684 00:32:49,940 --> 00:32:54,500 You're basically like setting yourself like a number of projects you'd like to finish 685 00:32:54,500 --> 00:32:54,980 this year. 686 00:32:54,980 --> 00:32:56,660 It's like the way Goodreads has a reading challenge. 687 00:32:56,660 --> 00:32:58,660 Like how many books do you want to read in a year? 688 00:32:58,660 --> 00:33:02,260 Like, but I think even just that whole premise is like bad news bears. 689 00:33:02,260 --> 00:33:05,540 Like I don't want to be a quantity of numbers. 690 00:33:05,540 --> 00:33:07,140 I just want to be a number. 691 00:33:07,140 --> 00:33:09,140 I just have things that I finished. 692 00:33:09,140 --> 00:33:12,500 I just want to enjoy like a quality of. 693 00:33:12,500 --> 00:33:16,500 I need to turn into a progress knitter, not a product knitter. 694 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:21,860 Yeah, I absolutely do need to do that because if I don't convert into that, I'm going to 695 00:33:21,860 --> 00:33:24,660 like have issues. 696 00:33:26,660 --> 00:33:28,660 I'm trying to know yourself. 697 00:33:28,660 --> 00:33:35,220 Yeah, I'm just no, I just know that if I keep tying my self-worth to a quantity number 698 00:33:35,220 --> 00:33:41,060 rather than a quality or an experience, it's just going to keep like making me stressed 699 00:33:41,060 --> 00:33:41,380 out. 700 00:33:41,380 --> 00:33:44,900 Yes, it's going to take the joy out of doing something that you love. 701 00:33:44,900 --> 00:33:46,500 And everyone is different. 702 00:33:46,500 --> 00:33:46,900 Right. 703 00:33:46,900 --> 00:33:51,860 There are some people that thrive on the they thrive on that on hitting the benchmark 704 00:33:51,860 --> 00:33:53,220 and getting the numbers in. 705 00:33:53,220 --> 00:33:55,300 But I thought I did and I don't. 706 00:33:55,300 --> 00:33:55,700 Yeah. 707 00:33:55,700 --> 00:33:58,100 And there's nothing wrong with either way. 708 00:33:58,100 --> 00:34:02,100 But the other thing to remember at the end of the day is it's art and we're not machines. 709 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:08,580 And you can't expect yourself to crank out more than you're actually comfortable doing. 710 00:34:08,580 --> 00:34:09,380 Yeah. 711 00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:09,620 So. 712 00:34:11,140 --> 00:34:14,180 Big come away is just make sure you're having fun, guys. 713 00:34:14,900 --> 00:34:17,460 Like make sure you are enjoying what you are doing. 714 00:34:19,140 --> 00:34:21,540 Because otherwise, yeah, why are you doing it? 715 00:34:21,540 --> 00:34:28,180 It's I mean, I guess unless it is really your job, in which case, sorry, you got to. 716 00:34:28,180 --> 00:34:30,260 Listen, we all know it's just boundless joy. 717 00:34:30,260 --> 00:34:32,900 Twenty four seven. I mean, you've seen me drop stitches. 718 00:34:33,780 --> 00:34:36,500 You know, that's just boundless joy right there. 719 00:34:36,500 --> 00:34:39,460 Well, I mean, I mean, that's why you work an eight hour day. 720 00:34:39,460 --> 00:34:39,860 Right. 721 00:34:39,860 --> 00:34:40,420 Right. 722 00:34:40,420 --> 00:34:40,820 That right. 723 00:34:40,820 --> 00:34:41,380 Right. 724 00:34:41,380 --> 00:34:42,260 Right. 725 00:34:42,260 --> 00:34:42,420 Right. 726 00:34:42,420 --> 00:34:43,140 An eight hour day. 727 00:34:43,140 --> 00:34:44,100 For quality of life. 728 00:34:44,100 --> 00:34:45,940 Because it's not even quality of life. 729 00:34:45,940 --> 00:34:46,980 It's quality of your work. 730 00:34:46,980 --> 00:34:51,540 Because that's a certain number of hours you just turn into a terrible worker. 731 00:34:51,540 --> 00:34:52,500 Yeah, you really do. 732 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:56,900 Like I love it when people like, yeah, put in a 12 hour day at work. 733 00:34:56,900 --> 00:34:59,620 I'm like, wow, it sounds like you were productive for six hours. 734 00:34:59,620 --> 00:35:03,060 And then for six hours, you did terrible things that you're going to have to fix tomorrow for 735 00:35:03,060 --> 00:35:04,980 another six hours and then put another. 736 00:35:04,980 --> 00:35:06,900 Yeah, no, that sounds like a terrible cycle. 737 00:35:06,900 --> 00:35:07,540 Let's not do that. 738 00:35:08,100 --> 00:35:09,700 It's just it's like there's tons. 739 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:12,420 And if you disagree with me, just there's tons of studies. 740 00:35:12,420 --> 00:35:17,540 There's tons of like the productivity levels after a certain point literally just drop 741 00:35:17,540 --> 00:35:20,180 because people people's brains need a break. 742 00:35:20,180 --> 00:35:23,940 You can't just keep doing the same thing over and over and over again. 743 00:35:23,940 --> 00:35:25,780 Even if it's like a different. 744 00:35:25,780 --> 00:35:26,020 Yeah. 745 00:35:26,020 --> 00:35:32,020 Even if it's a different project, if it's in the same vein of work, like you just need 746 00:35:32,020 --> 00:35:35,780 to, you know, switch your brain and and obviously everyone's brains different. 747 00:35:35,780 --> 00:35:40,580 And if you have more of a neurodivergent brain and you're like, wow, I really need like changes 748 00:35:40,580 --> 00:35:44,420 and differences to keep my mind occupied, then that affects you even more. 749 00:35:46,980 --> 00:35:55,780 But if you're really up to a challenge for like a gif net, the gennaker hat is like so good. 750 00:35:55,780 --> 00:35:56,820 Oh, it's so pretty, though. 751 00:35:56,820 --> 00:35:58,260 It is so pretty. 752 00:35:58,260 --> 00:35:58,980 I love that. 753 00:35:58,980 --> 00:36:00,020 How's a good one? 754 00:36:00,020 --> 00:36:01,700 I made it as a gift to me. 755 00:36:04,740 --> 00:36:09,300 And that would be like a baller hat to give to somebody else. 756 00:36:09,300 --> 00:36:13,300 What was that headband that we like made to get like you made one for Starship? 757 00:36:14,820 --> 00:36:15,860 Yeah, stratus. 758 00:36:18,820 --> 00:36:19,300 I mean. 759 00:36:20,100 --> 00:36:21,300 Oh, my God. 760 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:26,980 Yeah, so that stratus headband looks really complicated, but it's not. 761 00:36:26,980 --> 00:36:27,380 Yeah. 762 00:36:27,380 --> 00:36:28,980 And I have done a few. 763 00:36:28,980 --> 00:36:29,380 Yeah. 764 00:36:29,380 --> 00:36:30,900 And it looks like the last minute. 765 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:31,380 Yeah. 766 00:36:31,380 --> 00:36:33,140 You can get them done at the last minute. 767 00:36:34,180 --> 00:36:36,100 You knit it flat and then you join it. 768 00:36:36,100 --> 00:36:40,660 And it's it's really pretty the way it comes out. 769 00:36:40,660 --> 00:36:44,100 It's just this kind of ribbed looking headband. 770 00:36:45,140 --> 00:36:48,100 And and I'm pretty sure isn't this bulky. 771 00:36:48,100 --> 00:36:49,380 No, worsted worsted. 772 00:36:49,380 --> 00:36:51,780 I saw I used used Malibre go. 773 00:36:51,780 --> 00:36:53,140 I assumed it was bulky. 774 00:36:53,140 --> 00:36:57,300 But yeah, that headband in particular is a really good go to for like a last minute. 775 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:02,020 When I say last minute gift, I mean, like you have a couple weeks not do it tonight 776 00:37:02,020 --> 00:37:02,900 for tomorrow. 777 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:04,900 Like, don't do that to yourself, please. 778 00:37:05,460 --> 00:37:06,340 Oh, yeah, geez. 779 00:37:06,340 --> 00:37:07,940 Yeah, I won't be doing that again. 780 00:37:07,940 --> 00:37:08,740 That's crazy. 781 00:37:09,860 --> 00:37:10,340 If I were. 782 00:37:14,100 --> 00:37:18,500 If I were going to if I needed a hat like last minute to bang out to, 783 00:37:18,500 --> 00:37:21,620 you know, for work or whatever, which I've had to do, 784 00:37:22,340 --> 00:37:26,420 I would say the the Utrecht beanie by Dutch Girl Creations. 785 00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:27,780 I am super bulky. 786 00:37:27,780 --> 00:37:29,220 I haven't had that in one day. 787 00:37:29,220 --> 00:37:30,260 And it's really fast. 788 00:37:30,260 --> 00:37:30,980 It's really easy. 789 00:37:31,620 --> 00:37:34,660 If you have more time, honestly, I think a really good solid gift. 790 00:37:34,660 --> 00:37:35,300 Cocoa Bean. 791 00:37:35,860 --> 00:37:41,700 Oh, it's a really that is one of the most like popular like fashion hats, 792 00:37:41,700 --> 00:37:44,020 like styles with the different ribbing. 793 00:37:44,020 --> 00:37:44,660 So many times. 794 00:37:44,660 --> 00:37:45,780 It has been. 795 00:37:45,780 --> 00:37:48,500 But the reason is because it's so super popular. 796 00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:50,260 So it's a crowd pleaser. 797 00:37:50,260 --> 00:37:51,380 Like, I would definitely say that. 798 00:37:51,380 --> 00:37:52,500 That's a good one. 799 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:53,860 Everybody likes that style. 800 00:37:53,860 --> 00:37:55,060 It's a really good style. 801 00:37:55,060 --> 00:37:55,560 It is. 802 00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:58,660 And granted, not everybody likes hats. 803 00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:03,220 But if you're going to make a hat and you don't know somebody's preference, 804 00:38:03,220 --> 00:38:08,100 I think that's probably one of the best like risks you could take. 805 00:38:08,100 --> 00:38:09,060 This will be in love. 806 00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:09,780 My cocoa bean. 807 00:38:11,300 --> 00:38:12,500 I feel like I have. 808 00:38:12,500 --> 00:38:14,580 Oh, I have a green one that's way oversized. 809 00:38:14,580 --> 00:38:19,220 That's but it has a similar problem that your sweater has because it's made of cotton as well. 810 00:38:19,220 --> 00:38:19,780 Yeah. 811 00:38:19,780 --> 00:38:21,220 And it blew up. 812 00:38:21,220 --> 00:38:24,100 And every so often I have to throw it in the dryer to shrink it back down. 813 00:38:24,100 --> 00:38:24,740 Yes, you do. 814 00:38:25,780 --> 00:38:27,060 It's a comfy hat, though. 815 00:38:27,060 --> 00:38:27,940 It's a nice hat. 816 00:38:27,940 --> 00:38:29,060 I made it out of dishy. 817 00:38:30,260 --> 00:38:31,300 Yeah, I know. 818 00:38:31,300 --> 00:38:31,800 I never. 819 00:38:33,380 --> 00:38:34,500 Where's the judgment? 820 00:38:34,500 --> 00:38:35,540 Bring me the judgment. 821 00:38:35,540 --> 00:38:38,660 I know that just tracks for the way it behaves. 822 00:38:38,660 --> 00:38:40,340 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 823 00:38:40,340 --> 00:38:40,980 No judgment. 824 00:38:40,980 --> 00:38:41,380 It's just. 825 00:38:42,340 --> 00:38:43,700 What about you, Jess? 826 00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:48,900 I mean, not going to lie, there was one year I totally just crocheted up a bunch of monsters. 827 00:38:49,620 --> 00:38:50,820 I still have some of those. 828 00:38:56,260 --> 00:38:57,300 Are you trying to tell me something? 829 00:38:58,740 --> 00:38:59,860 You forgot about me. 830 00:38:59,860 --> 00:39:00,260 Sorry. 831 00:39:00,260 --> 00:39:00,980 Whatever. 832 00:39:00,980 --> 00:39:03,060 No, no, I'll live with it. 833 00:39:03,060 --> 00:39:05,380 You got a sushi fish too. 834 00:39:05,380 --> 00:39:07,060 Like that took more time. 835 00:39:07,060 --> 00:39:07,540 I did. 836 00:39:07,540 --> 00:39:12,500 I love you just like the suit monsters, the suit monsters from Spirited Away. 837 00:39:12,500 --> 00:39:17,860 Yeah, I had some fuzzy black yarn and some googly eyes and I just. 838 00:39:17,860 --> 00:39:19,620 So I don't remember those. 839 00:39:19,620 --> 00:39:20,500 Yep. 840 00:39:21,460 --> 00:39:22,740 Yeah, I recently found them. 841 00:39:22,740 --> 00:39:24,660 Like I definitely made a bunch. 842 00:39:24,660 --> 00:39:29,060 A lot of like not everybody got them, but I just made a bunch of them. 843 00:39:32,340 --> 00:39:37,300 But yeah, otherwise, like guys, I'm 100% not going to lie because I know how I am with 844 00:39:37,860 --> 00:39:41,460 with crafting, especially around the holidays and where I get distracted and whatnot. 845 00:39:41,460 --> 00:39:46,420 So it's like, do you get a gift card and you get a gift card? 846 00:39:46,420 --> 00:39:46,900 Do you know what? 847 00:39:46,900 --> 00:39:47,780 That's okay too though. 848 00:39:47,780 --> 00:39:48,660 Yeah, it really is. 849 00:39:49,540 --> 00:39:50,660 You got to know yourself. 850 00:39:52,020 --> 00:39:53,540 So yeah, time is short. 851 00:39:53,540 --> 00:39:54,820 The holidays are coming. 852 00:39:54,820 --> 00:39:59,220 Yeah, I usually do not do a last minute like, oh crap, I didn't get this person something. 853 00:39:59,220 --> 00:40:04,100 I will like, you know, turn out a bulky hat, which looks amazing. 854 00:40:04,100 --> 00:40:08,900 But then I would pick up yarn and be like, no, just like that. 855 00:40:08,900 --> 00:40:09,620 Yeah, just like that. 856 00:40:09,620 --> 00:40:12,580 Most of the time, if I'm doing a knit, I do have to plan it way in advance. 857 00:40:12,580 --> 00:40:18,260 And if I get to a cutoff point and I haven't gotten to where I need to be for it, I'm like, 858 00:40:18,260 --> 00:40:19,620 I'm getting this person something else. 859 00:40:19,620 --> 00:40:21,620 And then if I finish it, awesome. 860 00:40:21,620 --> 00:40:23,780 But if I don't, I have something else. 861 00:40:23,780 --> 00:40:25,220 So no stress. 862 00:40:25,780 --> 00:40:26,820 It's good backups. 863 00:40:26,820 --> 00:40:27,380 Yeah. 864 00:40:27,380 --> 00:40:33,620 I feel like this year I, I've been, I was thinking about this last year is that for the three of us 865 00:40:33,620 --> 00:40:41,780 or three of you plus me, I would want to like get us like an experience rather than like, 866 00:40:42,820 --> 00:40:44,580 like I want to go like hug the goats. 867 00:40:45,860 --> 00:40:46,900 Hug the goats. 868 00:40:46,900 --> 00:40:47,380 I love it. 869 00:40:47,380 --> 00:40:50,260 There's, there's a place to go hug goats, like by my house. 870 00:40:51,380 --> 00:40:52,020 You know what I mean? 871 00:40:52,020 --> 00:40:53,380 Like that's, that's what I would rather do. 872 00:40:53,380 --> 00:40:54,820 More of an experience then. 873 00:40:54,820 --> 00:41:01,220 Rather than like, well, it could still be like somewhat fibery farmer or whatever related, 874 00:41:01,220 --> 00:41:08,020 but like, but rather than like, okay, I'm just going to quickly Amazon things. 875 00:41:08,020 --> 00:41:11,540 And then I don't like any of the Amazon things and I'm going to Etsy things. 876 00:41:11,540 --> 00:41:14,340 I'm going to go, why is this taking three months to ship? 877 00:41:14,340 --> 00:41:22,020 And then, and then, and so I feel like I thought about that last year and I was like, 878 00:41:22,020 --> 00:41:23,860 I really want to do an experience together. 879 00:41:23,860 --> 00:41:29,140 Cause I think some of my family members have been doing that with my kids. 880 00:41:29,140 --> 00:41:34,020 And I feel like that they're really enjoying the experiences more than the stuff. 881 00:41:35,220 --> 00:41:35,780 Definitely. 882 00:41:36,340 --> 00:41:37,300 So definitely. 883 00:41:40,420 --> 00:41:44,740 That's it for this week's topics for additional content and opportunities to connect with the 884 00:41:44,740 --> 00:41:48,900 Cavs. Check out our website at pardon my stash.com. 885 00:41:48,900 --> 00:42:02,100 Be sure to tune in next week for more laughs, tears, and Drea at pardon my stash.