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 --> 00:00:04,000 And I'm Jess. 5 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:12,880 And this is Pardon in My Stash. 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:17,480 Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting within the fiber arts and how awesome 7 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:18,480 it is. 8 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:19,480 Geez. 9 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:20,480 You're supposed to say woohoo. 10 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:21,480 Oh, woo. 11 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,480 It was just aggressive. 12 00:00:23,480 --> 00:00:24,480 How awesome. 13 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:25,480 Look, it is. 14 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:26,480 Okay, got it. 15 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:27,480 Can't change that. 16 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:28,480 No doubt. 17 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:29,480 It's awesome. 18 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:31,720 It's going to be that kind of nice. 19 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:36,360 Before we get into this week's topic, what are you working on this week, Meg? 20 00:00:36,360 --> 00:00:37,840 It's a calliope sweater. 21 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:38,840 Again. 22 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:39,840 It's good, though. 23 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:40,840 It's warm. 24 00:00:40,840 --> 00:00:44,760 And it is also a heat advisory right now. 25 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:46,300 Yeah, it's really hard. 26 00:00:46,300 --> 00:00:52,800 But like, I really want to finish this and I really don't want to cast on another project 27 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:53,800 right now. 28 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:57,400 Because I, yeah, I'm trying monogamy. 29 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,020 It's not working. 30 00:00:59,020 --> 00:01:00,020 We need couples therapy. 31 00:01:00,020 --> 00:01:01,400 It's not for everybody. 32 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:02,960 It's not working for me. 33 00:01:02,960 --> 00:01:08,200 Like, this is the time when I would dive into the stash and start looking for another project. 34 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:09,880 And I'm like, you know what? 35 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:13,680 No, I really want to finish this. 36 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:15,520 I love it. 37 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,360 It's just really warm right now. 38 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:19,020 It's like knitting a big blanket. 39 00:01:19,020 --> 00:01:20,520 It is like disgusting. 40 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:28,360 And as someone who generally does not complain about any heat, like whatsoever, like I never 41 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:31,560 complain about somebody listening to this in Arizona is going to be like, you guys are 42 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:32,560 whims. 43 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:33,560 Listen, man. 44 00:01:33,560 --> 00:01:34,560 We are. 45 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:35,560 Yeah, we are. 46 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:36,560 It's not that it's hot. 47 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:37,560 It's humid. 48 00:01:37,560 --> 00:01:38,560 It's both. 49 00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:41,320 I walk outside and it's wet. 50 00:01:41,320 --> 00:01:44,160 It feels like you're walking into a furnace. 51 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:45,320 It's really bad out here. 52 00:01:45,320 --> 00:01:49,520 No, I left work today and it felt like I got slapped in the face with a wet towel. 53 00:01:49,520 --> 00:01:51,560 Yeah, it's real nasty. 54 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,920 But I may cave tomorrow and cast on something else. 55 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:55,920 I don't know. 56 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:56,920 I don't want to. 57 00:01:56,920 --> 00:01:59,120 It's been really hard to be tough. 58 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:01,880 I'm excited for your next project, whatever it may be. 59 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,520 I'm excited for it too. 60 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:05,800 But I'm trying to hold off until October. 61 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,180 Tell me more about this one. 62 00:02:07,180 --> 00:02:13,640 This one is made out of critical hit dies, wizard and mystic. 63 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:14,640 They're yarns I love. 64 00:02:14,640 --> 00:02:16,960 And the colorway is a theory illness. 65 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:17,960 It's nice. 66 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:18,960 Thank you. 67 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:22,720 And I did finish my make along shawl. 68 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:24,840 Lovely stripes, which it was not stripes. 69 00:02:24,840 --> 00:02:28,760 But the pattern was called lovely stripes by Leah M. Zezines. 70 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:32,240 And I made that out of critical hit dies, barred and sapphire dragon. 71 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:33,240 It's done. 72 00:02:33,240 --> 00:02:34,240 Thank you. 73 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:35,240 I like it. 74 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,160 I want to wear it to work, but not right now. 75 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:42,760 Gonna wait a few weeks to wear it to work. 76 00:02:42,760 --> 00:02:44,960 I am working on my Stormy Skieshaw. 77 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:50,600 It is out of wool circles, white face woodland foreply. 78 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:53,940 And I am holding it double in natural. 79 00:02:53,940 --> 00:02:56,360 It's not dyed. 80 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,640 And I'm actually closing in on it. 81 00:02:58,640 --> 00:03:05,400 Because my rows are much longer and I only have this little heave of two balls left. 82 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:07,880 I finished a couple projects. 83 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:14,960 I finished my youngest daughter's sweater, which was the southwood sweater out of yarn 84 00:03:14,960 --> 00:03:18,800 that shall not be named. 85 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:26,720 And I also finished my make along tee cozy, which was an actual tee cozy. 86 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,160 And I did that perfectly. 87 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:32,840 Dude, I didn't measure this at all. 88 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:34,640 I didn't measure my pot. 89 00:03:34,640 --> 00:03:36,200 I was just like, I'm just gonna make it. 90 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:37,200 And if it fits, cool. 91 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,280 If it doesn't, it's just gonna look awkward. 92 00:03:39,280 --> 00:03:40,580 It's fine. 93 00:03:40,580 --> 00:03:47,280 So I made it and I didn't end up making any pattern that I wanted to make. 94 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,320 It was like, I just look for like the kind of the easiest thing I could find that wasn't 95 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:52,440 boring. 96 00:03:52,440 --> 00:03:57,480 So the pattern I used for my tee cozy was the modern cable tee pot cozy. 97 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:01,400 So it had two tables. 98 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,800 It had two cables on each side and then it was seed dot in between. 99 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:11,160 So it had a little bit of interest in there to keep my attention. 100 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:16,120 By the way, if anyone has to do the seed dot stitch, it is much easier in Portuguese style. 101 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,240 I'm just just fair warning. 102 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:20,240 Don't do it English style. 103 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:22,680 It's so much better in Portuguese style. 104 00:04:22,680 --> 00:04:27,200 But yeah, I made, I didn't follow the directions entirely because they did a lot of seaming. 105 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,760 So and I thought I didn't want to do that. 106 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:32,480 So I did it as a seamless piece. 107 00:04:32,480 --> 00:04:33,480 It worked out great. 108 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:39,040 I did have to tink back one side when I realized I didn't flip it the right way. 109 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:43,880 So it was like two sides were going the same way and I was like, crap. 110 00:04:43,880 --> 00:04:49,200 So I had to tink back like I think I was like maybe you made up the difference real fast. 111 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:51,920 Oh yeah, because it was the repeats go super fast. 112 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:55,540 It's only I think it was like row four to row 13 is a repeat. 113 00:04:55,540 --> 00:04:59,920 So it wasn't it wasn't that much of and I wasn't fully done with one repeat. 114 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:02,400 So no big deal. 115 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:07,840 And I finished it and then I put it all together and then I put it on my teepot and I was like, 116 00:05:07,840 --> 00:05:09,080 oh my god, it fits. 117 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:10,920 It fits my grandma's teapot. 118 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:11,920 Perfect. 119 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:16,680 So I went from finishing no projects to I have all the projects done. 120 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:17,680 I'm excited. 121 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,680 That's a good feeling. 122 00:05:19,680 --> 00:05:20,680 Yeah. 123 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:25,080 It's good to feel accomplished when you feel like you just working on whips endlessly. 124 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:28,200 What about you, Jay? 125 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,960 I am working on my snail. 126 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:32,960 Finally. 127 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:33,960 Yay. 128 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:35,960 Get in there. 129 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,000 You have your teapot with you. 130 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,000 I do. 131 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:42,240 Well, because it's a very small teapot. 132 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:43,240 So it's cute. 133 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:47,760 I'm not making it specifically the way that they said to make it, because I think that 134 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,760 if I made it held double, it would come out enormous. 135 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:52,760 Yeah. 136 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,760 And this is a very small teapot. 137 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,160 Is that like a two serving pot or one serving to? 138 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,080 Yeah, I think there's like two cups of tea in here. 139 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:04,760 And I mean, cups like right. 140 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:05,760 Yeah. 141 00:06:05,760 --> 00:06:07,040 Tea cups. 142 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:11,560 So this is the knitted snail tea cozy by Anka Plummer. 143 00:06:11,560 --> 00:06:16,840 And I'm using Baroko Vintage DK in blue. 144 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:20,920 I like how you looked at the label and you're like in blue. 145 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:26,220 Well, I thought it was going to be like a like a color name, but it is a number. 146 00:06:26,220 --> 00:06:31,040 Be sure to check out our website, PardonMyStache.com for more information as well as pictures regarding 147 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:36,580 our current projects, patterns and yarns. 148 00:06:36,580 --> 00:06:40,320 So this week we're going to talk about indecisive yarns. 149 00:06:40,320 --> 00:06:43,080 And I feel like we've all been there. 150 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:50,520 You're at a fiber festival or you're at a craft show or you're in the yarn shop and 151 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:54,240 you find the perfect skein of yarn. 152 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:57,360 And it's a beautiful addition to your collection. 153 00:06:57,360 --> 00:07:00,320 You've been sitting there, you've been staring at it for a long time. 154 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,080 You're finally ready to knit with it. 155 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:07,800 Check out what you think is the perfect project for this perfect skein of yarn. 156 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:14,000 And you get going on it and it just, oh, it just isn't working. 157 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:15,440 Have you guys been there? 158 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:16,440 Good question. 159 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,240 I was using hand dyed yarn. 160 00:07:19,240 --> 00:07:21,920 A friend of mine had hand dyed me. 161 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:28,600 Actually, I had asked her to make me up some yarn in these particular colors. 162 00:07:28,600 --> 00:07:33,240 And I loved the yarn and I didn't know at the time, because this is how inexperienced 163 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:39,620 I was, it was what we call flashing where you're getting like big spots or splotches 164 00:07:39,620 --> 00:07:44,840 of color down the scarf. 165 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:48,280 And the hard part about it is that I needed two skeins of yarn. 166 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:49,520 It was worsted weight scarf. 167 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,240 The first skein did not do that. 168 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:54,900 Oh, it didn't do that. 169 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:57,120 And the second skein did. 170 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,760 I didn't love it, but I kind of, you know, I got to the point where I'm like, there's 171 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:03,120 no helping it. 172 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,200 It's not like I can change my needle gauge. 173 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:12,720 And it's too late for me to alternate skeins because I've already knit half the scarf. 174 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:17,460 So I just learned going forward of when I am using hand dyed yarns, you know, whenever 175 00:08:17,460 --> 00:08:23,200 you, you buy a hand dyed yarn, a lot of times the dyer will actually put like, make sure 176 00:08:23,200 --> 00:08:29,480 you are, if you were using multiple skeins, make sure you are switching skeins every few 177 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:31,720 rows to avoid that. 178 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:32,720 Yes. 179 00:08:32,720 --> 00:08:33,720 Thank you. 180 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:34,720 Alternating skeins. 181 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:35,720 That was the word I was looking for and couldn't find. 182 00:08:35,720 --> 00:08:37,180 That is why. 183 00:08:37,180 --> 00:08:39,360 So that first off, I'm asking them. 184 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,600 No, it's not a stupid question. 185 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,440 I'm sure some listeners did not know what alternating skeins meant. 186 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:46,440 Right. 187 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:51,600 Well, it's, it's partially for that, but it's also because like, even, even if you try really 188 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:58,920 hard unless the, the yarns are in the same pot, they're not going to, there's going to 189 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,400 be like a dye lot is not going to be perfect. 190 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:02,400 Yeah. 191 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,040 It's very, very hard to have things be exact. 192 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:09,680 So if you're using hand dyed yarns, you always want to alternate skeins. 193 00:09:09,680 --> 00:09:11,160 If it's a big project. 194 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,740 So you don't get, I mean, I say that right now, I'm knitting a sweater. 195 00:09:14,740 --> 00:09:16,240 I'm not alternating skeins. 196 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:17,640 I'm just hoping for the best. 197 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:21,520 Like I don't listen to what I preach. 198 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:26,680 But yeah, it is, it is one of those things like I could have gotten upset about it, but 199 00:09:26,680 --> 00:09:28,880 after a while I was like, I'm just going to live with it. 200 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:30,160 You know, it's, it is what it is. 201 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:34,680 So nature of the beast, you could, um, if you still wanted to alternate at some point, 202 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:37,480 um, before you get to the end of that ball, you can start alternating them. 203 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:38,960 Oh, I totally could do that too. 204 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:39,960 I could. 205 00:09:39,960 --> 00:09:44,540 I'm just very much like most of these were from one dialogue. 206 00:09:44,540 --> 00:09:48,960 I think I did two skeins that were from another dialogue and I kind of made up my mind to 207 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:50,160 be at peace with it. 208 00:09:50,160 --> 00:09:54,840 I was just like, whatever, I'm not going to bother because I didn't want to try alternating 209 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:57,760 skeins with the mohair too. 210 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:00,680 I felt like that was going to end up being a huge mess. 211 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:07,960 So um, yeah, it's, it's definitely, I've never had a problem where like I couldn't get the 212 00:10:07,960 --> 00:10:08,960 yarn. 213 00:10:08,960 --> 00:10:09,960 Well, no, that's not true. 214 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,920 I had a problem where I couldn't get the yarn to do what I wanted to do with it. 215 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:18,920 Um, but my tolerance for trying to fix it is low apparently. 216 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:21,640 And I just kind of was like, whatever, you know what? 217 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:23,000 That's the way it's going to be. 218 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,560 I'm going to just let it be what it wants to be. 219 00:10:25,560 --> 00:10:26,920 That's fair. 220 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:27,920 And I live with it. 221 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:28,920 I respect that. 222 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:29,920 Really? 223 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:30,920 Yeah. 224 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:36,840 I mean, I look at my, um, simple lines shawl and I used, uh, Malabrigo. 225 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:37,840 Yes. 226 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,360 Oh, that's a huge, uh, offender. 227 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:41,360 Yup. 228 00:10:41,360 --> 00:10:44,160 Huge offender for that. 229 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:49,280 I can definitely tell how many skeins of yarn I used because they're all different. 230 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:52,520 I love Malabrigo so much, but it does not matter. 231 00:10:52,520 --> 00:10:56,880 Even if they're all from the same dye lot, they're so, so different. 232 00:10:56,880 --> 00:10:59,880 Who else has a skein that didn't behave? 233 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,760 I feel like I have two categories of non-behaving skeins. 234 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:10,200 Um, I have like the skeins that when I put them in a specific project, I just can't make 235 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:11,480 it work. 236 00:11:11,480 --> 00:11:14,800 And then I have the skein where it's more like what you're talking about, where like 237 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:18,720 I didn't anticipate that's what it was going to look like knitted. 238 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:24,320 The former category, I find that a lot with my groovy Hughes. 239 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:26,800 Um, which again, I love that yarn. 240 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:28,440 I love that yarn. 241 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:33,120 But, um, every time I put it in a specific project, I'm just like, Nope, that's not the 242 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:34,120 right one. 243 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:35,120 Nope. 244 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:36,120 That's not the right one. 245 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:37,120 Or it's like not good enough. 246 00:11:37,120 --> 00:11:39,440 It's like, no, that's a waste of fantastic yarn. 247 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:46,420 So it's like, um, it gets frustrating though, because I feel like I've had literally yarn 248 00:11:46,420 --> 00:11:48,840 that's like almost 10 years old at this point. 249 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:53,080 And I just won't commit a project to it. 250 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:57,560 Um, it's actually like part of the reason why I've been trying to like give away some 251 00:11:57,560 --> 00:11:58,560 of those skeins. 252 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:02,400 Cause I feel like maybe if I see someone else knitted up, like I'll, I'll, I'll come to 253 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:05,400 terms and like just do it. 254 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,280 But, um, but that's like one piece of it. 255 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:13,640 And then I definitely have problems with actually, you know, which one I don't have issues with 256 00:12:13,640 --> 00:12:17,440 is to be fair is the critical hit yarn. 257 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:19,600 If I don't, I'm serious. 258 00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:23,160 If I like, I used it for my make-along came out just the way I thought it was going to 259 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:24,160 come out. 260 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:25,680 Um, it makes me happy. 261 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:29,400 Yeah, no, it's like, I don't usually have so far. 262 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:33,840 I haven't had an issue, um, in terms of like, Oh no, no, that looks right. 263 00:12:33,840 --> 00:12:34,840 That looks right. 264 00:12:34,840 --> 00:12:38,400 I think that's a big problem and it's, it's an oversight that a lot of people have with 265 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:44,880 like a hand dyed yarn is, is so, um, you know, kind of it's put out on a pedestal, um, because 266 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:46,320 it is, it's, it's a form of art. 267 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:47,320 It really is. 268 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:53,480 But at the same time, um, that art doesn't always translate really well into like a flat 269 00:12:53,480 --> 00:12:54,960 knitted piece. 270 00:12:54,960 --> 00:12:57,640 It, it, it doesn't look the same in the skein. 271 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:04,160 We brought this up during our hot takes episode that they look beautiful in the skein, um, 272 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:07,520 but they don't always behave the way we want them to. 273 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:13,720 And I think that turns a lot of, especially new, new people off of the variegated yarns 274 00:13:13,720 --> 00:13:17,880 because it's like, I spent so much money on this skein hand dyed yarns, not cheap. 275 00:13:17,880 --> 00:13:22,440 And then you try to knit with it and it doesn't come out the way you wanted it to. 276 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:23,440 And you're frustrated. 277 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:27,080 It's like, okay, well then what do I, what do I do with this? 278 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:28,080 What am I going to do? 279 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,920 I think I also find that the more complicated the yarn is, the least complicated their project 280 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:33,920 needs to be. 281 00:13:33,920 --> 00:13:34,920 Correct. 282 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:35,920 Um, yeah. 283 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:39,080 And I'll be less frustrated about what I'm putting them into. 284 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:43,600 Um, I think I've mentioned it before with like that one particular like unicorn barf 285 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:45,240 for the news. 286 00:13:45,240 --> 00:13:48,280 If I do any kind of fancy stitch work, it's just lost. 287 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:53,200 It's gone because it's just so busy and it's like, okay, this is this, you need to be stocknet 288 00:13:53,200 --> 00:13:54,200 or garter. 289 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:55,200 Congratulations. 290 00:13:55,200 --> 00:14:02,440 Um, but, um, what else I, what I was also going to mention, uh, Plies and Hellhounds 291 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:08,320 and also less traveled are also very reliable in terms of like, okay, I'm making this and 292 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,040 I'm expecting it to look somewhat like this. 293 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:12,040 And it does. 294 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:14,720 Um, I agree about Malabrigo too. 295 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:17,920 It is never the goddamn same ever. 296 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:22,840 Um, and also like it blocks like crazy. 297 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:24,200 So like sometimes, yeah. 298 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:27,800 So sometimes it's like when I'm working with even Malabrigo, it's like, yeah, I make it, 299 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:30,720 but then I'm like, I can never get this wet ever. 300 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:36,440 Which is it, which doesn't work a lot of the time. 301 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:46,440 Um, completely out of color, God, completely out of, um, without, um, going more into color. 302 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:53,840 I was actually going to talk about material too, because for me, I also find, so I like 303 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:55,280 cotton a lot. 304 00:14:55,280 --> 00:15:00,760 I get the least irritation from like cotton and bamboo and stuff like that. 305 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:07,780 Um, but I think the one thing that makes me sad, so I love my Lumiere cowl and I love wearing 306 00:15:07,780 --> 00:15:11,260 it because, um, I always feel like it's very breathable. 307 00:15:11,260 --> 00:15:16,640 So it, but warm because it's that double kind of doubled up with the two colors, with the 308 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:17,920 color work. 309 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:25,220 Um, but one negative I would say with it is that because it's cotton, it has no shape. 310 00:15:25,220 --> 00:15:32,400 So if you want to see the pattern that this beautiful color work that I've done, basically 311 00:15:32,400 --> 00:15:37,200 I have to like either prop it on my chin while I'm walking around. 312 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:38,680 That's a look. 313 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:39,680 Yeah. 314 00:15:39,680 --> 00:15:40,680 It's real classy. 315 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,880 Um, well sometimes like I'll prop it on my nose if it's especially cold. 316 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:48,600 And then like, you can like, if I'm, sometimes you also wear it like, like, like, okay, you 317 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:52,000 don't need to, you don't need to bring up the babushka. 318 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:53,000 Okay. 319 00:15:53,000 --> 00:15:54,000 You just outed me. 320 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:57,040 I love that you wear it like that though. 321 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:58,040 So cute. 322 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:04,400 If everyone doesn't know what I'm referencing or what Jreya is referencing, it's so my Lumiere 323 00:16:04,400 --> 00:16:11,440 cowl is a length that I can actually kind of wear it like a hood. 324 00:16:11,440 --> 00:16:18,680 So essentially, so, um, when we were shoveling snow last winter, um, I found that when I 325 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:22,640 wore a hat, I actually would have to take it off because I would sweat so much. 326 00:16:22,640 --> 00:16:29,200 Um, but if I put my cotton Lumiere cowl over my head, uh, it covered my ears and it kept 327 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,960 me warm, but it let me sweat. 328 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:34,080 Like it was breathable and I could wash it cause it had the cotton. 329 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:38,200 Um, but yes, I did look like a little babushka. 330 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:39,200 Correct. 331 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:43,280 I left that for you though. 332 00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:44,340 It was very cozy. 333 00:16:44,340 --> 00:16:45,340 It worked out great. 334 00:16:45,340 --> 00:16:47,200 It was a utilitarian kind of thing. 335 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:52,040 But yes, when I wear it that way, yes, you can see the color work because it's all flattened 336 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:53,040 out. 337 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,600 Maybe that's how I should just wear it from now on. 338 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:57,600 Over your head. 339 00:16:57,600 --> 00:16:58,600 Yep. 340 00:16:58,600 --> 00:16:59,600 Just who needs this on the neck? 341 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:00,600 It shows it off well. 342 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:01,600 It does. 343 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:02,600 Actually it does. 344 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:07,120 But then it's like, wait a second, why is she wearing it like that? 345 00:17:07,120 --> 00:17:09,120 Um, right. 346 00:17:09,120 --> 00:17:16,000 Um, but I do feel that material is also really important and about what you're making. 347 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:24,440 So if you do, if you do want it to stay a certain way, like shape wise, then it really, 348 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:30,160 you should use a yarn that is more structural and the meaning it's not going to fall and 349 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:31,160 go flat. 350 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:35,400 I've definitely frogged a lot of projects because the yarn did not behave the way that 351 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:36,960 I wanted it to. 352 00:17:36,960 --> 00:17:37,960 Yeah. 353 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:40,880 Like it didn't make the fabric the way that I thought it was going to. 354 00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:42,000 Didn't fall right. 355 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,780 Or the cables don't look plump. 356 00:17:44,780 --> 00:17:46,160 That also annoys me. 357 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:47,280 That really annoys me. 358 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:48,600 What a grievance. 359 00:17:48,600 --> 00:17:51,960 That is such a grievance. 360 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:57,040 It's just not, you do all this work to twist the yard and make it look pretty. 361 00:17:57,040 --> 00:17:58,040 And then it's just flat. 362 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:02,800 I'm like, now I wanted a bomb. 363 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,600 I want to point of the cable. 364 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:05,600 Yeah, exactly. 365 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:06,600 Otherwise. 366 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:07,600 Yeah. 367 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:08,600 Just do stitches. 368 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,720 Just do a weird stitch pattern. 369 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:12,800 Well that's like, that's why I can never understand. 370 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:13,800 And no offense. 371 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,640 But if you made a lace project with super variegated yarn, I'm sure it came out lovely. 372 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:23,400 But whatever I see like really intricate lace made with some wild variegated yarn, I'm like, 373 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:25,880 oh my God, it looks like a magic eye painting. 374 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:26,880 I'm talking about. 375 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,200 You can't see the pattern. 376 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:36,040 Let me look at it real, real close and then I'll gradually move it away from me. 377 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:39,760 I do see a lot that to see this should be on our hot take episode. 378 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:43,200 I think I did say something about the magic eye painting. 379 00:18:43,200 --> 00:18:51,560 I do feel like I see that is a common thing where they do this intricate lace work and 380 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:53,400 the color is not consistent. 381 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:57,280 And I'm like, and then they put, and then it's like, oh, and then the best part is they 382 00:18:57,280 --> 00:18:58,280 do that. 383 00:18:58,280 --> 00:18:59,280 The color is not consistent. 384 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,240 And then when they wear it, they wear something busy underneath it. 385 00:19:02,240 --> 00:19:03,800 So it's like, it's just all gone. 386 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:05,840 You can't see any of it. 387 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:12,400 It's hard because it's like, I'm sure the project is beautiful, but it can't be seen. 388 00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:13,400 You lose it. 389 00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:16,480 You lose something in the, in the color. 390 00:19:16,480 --> 00:19:24,000 But also with lace, you have to be careful with the style of yarn because if it's not 391 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:31,320 a style that's going to block and hold its block, you're going to lose all of those nice 392 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,880 eyelets that you spent so much time to make. 393 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:35,880 Yeah. 394 00:19:35,880 --> 00:19:41,600 You need to pick a yarn that's going to hold its block. 395 00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:45,200 And yeah, that, that can make or break my simple lines. 396 00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:47,200 It actually makes me want to make another simple lines. 397 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:49,360 But then I think about the bad decision that would be. 398 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:52,240 So you didn't like the simple lines. 399 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:56,080 I liked the simple lines, but I think Meg can agree with me on this. 400 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,080 You get to a certain point in it and then you go, why did I do, why did I do this to 401 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:01,080 myself? 402 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,840 I made two, two was a choice, right? 403 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:04,840 Two was a choice. 404 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:05,840 Yeah. 405 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:07,760 It's not, it's not the border. 406 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,080 The border is actually very satisfying. 407 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,840 It's the section before the border. 408 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:13,840 That's it. 409 00:20:13,840 --> 00:20:15,760 Because it's just stuck. 410 00:20:15,760 --> 00:20:16,760 It's a lot of stocking. 411 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:22,880 Anyway, but so, but that actually, my simple lines, my orange one, my burnt orangey colored 412 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,720 one, it actually curls on the bottom because it doesn't block well. 413 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:26,720 It didn't hold a block. 414 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:27,720 Nope. 415 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:28,720 Yeah. 416 00:20:28,720 --> 00:20:31,560 So it's hard to take photos of it because it's just looking, it just looks curled the 417 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:32,560 whole time. 418 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,640 And that annoys me because then I'm just like, ah, this looks like I didn't know what I was 419 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,320 doing, which I didn't. 420 00:20:38,320 --> 00:20:40,720 But still, I feel like I'm, I know better now. 421 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,280 Well, and that's the tough part too. 422 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,640 Like you, you can only kind of work with what you've got. 423 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:49,920 And if that's mentally, that's what you had at the time. 424 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:54,320 That's what you were, you didn't think about that aspect. 425 00:20:54,320 --> 00:21:01,700 I just, I just wanted a red, like some sort of red based, um, shawl, but yeah, I, yeah, 426 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:03,840 I love the color, but like, Ooh man. 427 00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:09,000 All of us have a project I want to say, I want to say it has like nylon or something. 428 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:11,920 The material I used was like a wool nylon blend. 429 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,960 And that's not a good choice for a shawl, at least for that shawl in particular. 430 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:17,680 It just didn't work out. 431 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:22,120 But interesting, you know, we talked about variegated a bit and I'm, I'm just looking 432 00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:23,440 through my projects right now. 433 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:30,440 And so this brioche scarf that I did, it's called the basic brioche scarf or brioche 434 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:31,440 base, whatever. 435 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:36,680 Um, something basic brioche, um, which by the way is totally f'd up. 436 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,360 And I feel bad because every time I have up on a project, it ends up being the project 437 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:41,800 I'm making for my mom. 438 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:47,800 And she's supposed to love it anyway. 439 00:21:47,800 --> 00:21:49,320 She does wear it all the time. 440 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:52,860 I will say this particular scarf she does wear all the time, but like if you lay it 441 00:21:52,860 --> 00:21:56,280 out and you look at the, there's supposed to be a bunch of like increases and decreases, 442 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:57,280 not increases. 443 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:58,280 I'm sorry. 444 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:00,600 Not increases and decreases, but, um, crossovers. 445 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:01,600 Yeah. 446 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:09,080 And there's like a, not a continuous X on one side anyway, but that one, I used a variegated, 447 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,280 uh, yellow and white and it actually came out. 448 00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:13,280 Okay. 449 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,760 It, I don't know if it's because I had a solid purple behind it. 450 00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:21,320 I'm trying to get like a good, probably because you had something solid to balance it out. 451 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:22,320 Yeah. 452 00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,960 So, so that yellow and white is totally variegated. 453 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:25,960 Yeah. 454 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:27,200 Um, but the purple is solid. 455 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,040 So I feel like it balances, it gives it the depth it needs. 456 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,920 I think that's a good point to make too. 457 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:39,260 Like nobody is saying here, like variegated yarn will never work on a pattern. 458 00:22:39,260 --> 00:22:45,000 Nobody is saying that you can't make a sweater out of Malibre. 459 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,560 You go, nobody is saying those things, um, or that you have to alternate skeins every 460 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:50,560 time. 461 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:57,280 Um, this is more just kind of almost like a, um, buyer beware sort of things. 462 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:00,720 Well, be aware that these are problems that you might run into. 463 00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:06,600 If you know how the yarn operates, it's going to give you a better idea of what to, what 464 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:07,720 you're going to put your time into. 465 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,400 Are you suggesting a gauge swatch? 466 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,560 No, because I would be suggesting a gauge swatch right about now. 467 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,360 No, no, no, no, no. 468 00:23:14,360 --> 00:23:15,360 Even okay. 469 00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:24,480 But even if say you don't do a gauge swatch, which I don't recommend, say you don't, I 470 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:29,560 still think if you at least know the material type that it would help you in some capacity. 471 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:30,560 Yeah. 472 00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:33,880 If you're familiar with the, um, with the content, yeah, the yarn. 473 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:34,880 Yeah. 474 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:36,720 Like we all know Malibre go blooms, right? 475 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:40,480 So yeah, I might make a shawl out of it because I don't care if that Rios blooms. 476 00:23:40,480 --> 00:23:42,120 We gotta, we gotta be sorry. 477 00:23:42,120 --> 00:23:43,120 Mecca also blooms. 478 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:44,120 Yeah. 479 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:45,800 Cause that's the one I used for my seed. 480 00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:47,280 And that is why I didn't block it. 481 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:48,280 Yeah. 482 00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,760 That is why I didn't block it. 483 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,800 It was already big enough. 484 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:56,360 Um, so yeah, like, like if you know that it's going to bloom and you're working on a project 485 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:59,040 where you don't care if it gets bigger, then you're good. 486 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:00,120 Like it's fine. 487 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,120 Like you can totally use it. 488 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:05,880 Or if you do have a really complex variegated and you don't know what to do with it, if 489 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:11,120 you balance, like Brioche is a fantastic option because you can balance it out with a solid. 490 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:12,120 Yeah. 491 00:24:12,120 --> 00:24:15,440 Um, it kind of gives that variegated a background to live on. 492 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:19,840 And with Brioche, you can make it super complicated and it works. 493 00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:26,400 I also really like drop stitch with variegated, which is like this shawl. 494 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:31,080 That helps avoid the flashing, the pooling, all those fun things that yarn does. 495 00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:32,080 Yes. 496 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:37,520 And even if you, the drop stitch in particular, like gives more air behind the stitch, if 497 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:38,520 that makes sense. 498 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:46,760 So if you're wearing like a solid, um, shirt or top behind it or in front, I'm sorry, in 499 00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:52,920 front of it, so then the shawls on top of that, it would let you see the pattern a lot 500 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:53,920 more. 501 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:54,920 Yeah. 502 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,040 So Jess, what about you? 503 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:00,440 What do you do with your indecisive yarns? 504 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:09,840 Um, so if I don't realize I don't like it early enough, I just power through and make 505 00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:10,840 it work. 506 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:15,920 See, I have tried to do that and I will sit there in misery. 507 00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:24,080 And like, it's when the rows start coming like super short, like I'll be watching football, 508 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:30,360 quote unquote watching football and I'll be knitting and I'll do like 10 stitches and 509 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:34,000 then I'll be like, oh, check the Instagram. 510 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:35,000 What's going on Instagram right now? 511 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:36,000 What's on Instagram? 512 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,000 How's the old Facebook doing? 513 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:45,800 Um, see variegated, it's weird because I love variegated yarn because I like the shift 514 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:46,800 of color. 515 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:53,840 I have trouble with tonals because I get bored with the color, but I also like complicated 516 00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:58,720 patterns and it is harder to see that with variegated. 517 00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:04,960 So I have to decide, do I really care about seeing that pattern as much as I enjoy the 518 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:14,360 color of the yarn or do I want to see the pattern more than play with the variegation? 519 00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:15,360 And what a choice. 520 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:16,360 It is a choice. 521 00:26:16,360 --> 00:26:22,120 Um, honestly, my, uh, Celtic myth shawl, I was like, whatever. 522 00:26:22,120 --> 00:26:26,880 I like the color of this variegation better than the pattern and I'm keeping it. 523 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:29,280 And you can still sort of see the cables through it. 524 00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:34,640 You do kind of have to get a little close for some of it, but I do not care because 525 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:36,840 Bridget's flame was a beautiful color. 526 00:26:36,840 --> 00:26:38,600 No, it's just Bridget. 527 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,640 Is it just Bridget's flame was one of our colors. 528 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:41,640 That's right. 529 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:42,640 Yeah. 530 00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:50,280 Um, but Bridget's color was really beautiful and I was so sick of the stockinette at that 531 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,840 point that I wasn't going back and I wasn't changing my choice. 532 00:26:53,840 --> 00:26:58,400 So well at that point you were at the border and not going to restart. 533 00:26:58,400 --> 00:26:59,400 I wasn't. 534 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:00,400 That's it. 535 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,520 Wasn't going to your all in ride or die. 536 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:07,200 It's like I was making it and I still like the way that the colors look on that. 537 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,880 Even though, like I said, you kind of, you do kind of lose the cable from a distance, 538 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,120 but I can still see it and feel it up close. 539 00:27:13,120 --> 00:27:14,440 So I was okay with it. 540 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,960 Um, there have been other projects where I started and I'm like, I really don't like 541 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:19,600 the way the color is pooling on this. 542 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,920 I need to try something else. 543 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:27,040 Um, sometimes I'll just start from the other end of the skein. 544 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,460 Like if I started from the center pole, I'll start from the outside. 545 00:27:29,460 --> 00:27:33,560 And sometimes that's enough to adjust where your colors are falling. 546 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,080 If it's, if it's kind of pooling kind of thing. 547 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:37,200 That's a good point. 548 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:41,000 And, and that's enough to get through it. 549 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:48,640 Um, I have alternated skeins surprisingly, uh, before I did on my sweater of sorts because 550 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:55,080 my color ways were a little, um, too far apart and I didn't want it to be like really weird. 551 00:27:55,080 --> 00:28:01,360 So I alternated every row and you can't really tell now. 552 00:28:01,360 --> 00:28:02,760 So no, you can't tell. 553 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:04,320 Um, so I have done that. 554 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:05,320 Yeah. 555 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:06,520 One had a bit more blue and one had a bit more purple. 556 00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,800 I didn't want, I wanted that mix. 557 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,800 I was going to say you could do that. 558 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:14,240 Um, unless I misunderstood, sorry. 559 00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:18,280 Uh, you could, you could do that alternating skeins with the center and the out, like with 560 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,360 that same skein. 561 00:28:20,360 --> 00:28:24,520 You can, that's harder because you risk twisting it together. 562 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:26,280 Cause I didn't break the yarn. 563 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,160 I just carried it up one of the seams. 564 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:33,920 Um, seems I carried it up where a scene would have been. 565 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:41,640 Um, so, and it wouldn't have really worked for that skein because the entire skein one 566 00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:42,640 was more blue. 567 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:43,640 One was more purple. 568 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,240 So it was like, um, it was our yarn. 569 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:47,520 So I knew where the color was. 570 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,280 I knew how it, how it was going to do. 571 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:55,480 Um, but if you look ahead of time, you can kind of see like after a while, I feel like 572 00:28:55,480 --> 00:29:00,560 by looking at a skein, you can kind of see what it's going to do to an extent, to an 573 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:07,840 extent and decide, um, and like I said, a lot of times mine does just come down to, 574 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,280 I really liked the CRN and I really liked this pattern. 575 00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:11,280 So I'm going to do it. 576 00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:12,760 Everyone else is like, wow, that's a mess. 577 00:29:12,760 --> 00:29:13,760 And I'm like, it's beautiful. 578 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:14,760 But that's really all that matters. 579 00:29:14,760 --> 00:29:20,760 If it makes you happy, then who cares? 580 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:21,760 Right. 581 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:27,480 And if it, if it really bothers you that much, then you know what to do about it. 582 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,480 You can steer clear of those yarns for those projects. 583 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,480 And if you finish the project and you really don't like it, you can always harvest the 584 00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,480 yarn back and try a different project. 585 00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:38,480 Right. 586 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,800 That's the one thing that I like about crafting and like the fiber arts is that most projects, 587 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:48,820 you can re harvest that yarn and, and try again, do something else with it, get like 588 00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:54,640 fine new yarn to finish the project you started and use your yarn that wasn't working into 589 00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,700 a different project. 590 00:29:56,700 --> 00:30:01,080 And sometimes that yarn is just meant to sit on your wall so you could look at it. 591 00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:07,040 I have had several skeins where sometimes the skein is art. 592 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,160 That's how I feel about my groovy Hughes. 593 00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,760 No, it's, it's, it's honest. 594 00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,440 You're being honest and true here. 595 00:30:13,440 --> 00:30:19,080 Like that is the, sometimes I, I, oh, those pink cakes. 596 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:21,700 I don't know what to do with the unicorns. 597 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:23,640 Like it's just, I have four of them. 598 00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:28,280 That's the problem, like I, I really, really liked that colorway, but it's to be a stockinette 599 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,280 sweater. 600 00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:30,280 I don't know. 601 00:30:30,280 --> 00:30:32,160 Maybe I'm just going to force skeins of fingering. 602 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:33,400 No, no, no. 603 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,400 They're actually worsted. 604 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,440 I was going to say four skeins of fingering. 605 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,240 There's no way you couldn't make a sweater with that. 606 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:40,440 Four skeins of worsted. 607 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:44,720 You are a child's tank top. 608 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:45,720 Yeah. 609 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:50,440 I was thinking either a tank top for me or I was just going to make a crop sweater for 610 00:30:50,440 --> 00:30:55,080 a cat because my daughter would be all over that. 611 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:56,720 She'd be like, yeah. 612 00:30:56,720 --> 00:31:02,200 And she's been asking me for crop sweaters just every single day. 613 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,400 Just I don't know. 614 00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,520 It's the thing right now. 615 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:06,520 That's what's in. 616 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:07,520 Yeah. 617 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:08,520 Yeah. 618 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:13,840 I personally have had a lot of schemes where I have started projects and then frogged them 619 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:18,960 because I just didn't, I didn't like the way that it was going. 620 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:19,960 There was nothing wrong with the pattern. 621 00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,680 The pattern was fine, but. 622 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,680 And the yarn was fine. 623 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:23,680 And the yarn. 624 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:24,680 They just weren't meant to be. 625 00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:25,680 Yeah. 626 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,320 And I don't know if there's like any like real answer to that question. 627 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,560 Like what do you do with indecisive yarns? 628 00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,960 I feel like the best answer is keep trying. 629 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,240 I think that's a good point because it depends. 630 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:40,240 Especially if you love it. 631 00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:41,240 Yeah. 632 00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:45,040 You could use it in a different capacity too because I've, I've heavily considered that 633 00:31:45,040 --> 00:31:49,200 groovy Hughes yarn that I keep talking about making them into palms because they'd be pretty 634 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,720 palms on top of a hat. 635 00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:52,720 Palm, palms. 636 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:53,720 Oh yeah. 637 00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:54,720 You could do that. 638 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:55,720 I heard palms. 639 00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:56,720 Like yes. 640 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:57,720 Palm trees. 641 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:02,360 I'm going to make palm trees and then hand palms and yeah, no, um, I would support you. 642 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,040 Um, but yeah. 643 00:32:04,040 --> 00:32:08,440 Um, because it is so busy, but it actually works like a pom pom looks cute when it's 644 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:09,760 got tons of different colors. 645 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,160 And so I've thought about that. 646 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:13,160 Yeah. 647 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,400 But that's, I mean, honestly, one of the things that I love and we don't do it, I wish we 648 00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:17,400 did. 649 00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:24,280 But the hand, uh, hand dyers show what a yarn looks like in knit and crochet. 650 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:25,280 And I'm not going to lie. 651 00:32:25,280 --> 00:32:26,280 I don't crochet. 652 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,840 Um, 90% of the time I love the way it looks in crochet. 653 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,440 I almost love it better than the knit. 654 00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:35,760 Like it's amazing how different they do. 655 00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:37,320 They come out way different. 656 00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:40,200 Um, from stockinette versus crochet. 657 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:41,200 Totally different. 658 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:46,860 Um, so if you are a bi-craft jewel, maybe that's the answer. 659 00:32:46,860 --> 00:32:50,720 Maybe that yarn is not, uh, maybe that yarn is not meant to be knit. 660 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,520 Maybe it's meant to be crocheted or vice versa. 661 00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:54,520 True. 662 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:55,520 Or woven. 663 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:56,520 Yeah. 664 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:57,520 Yeah. 665 00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:58,520 Yeah. 666 00:32:58,520 --> 00:32:59,520 Or string art. 667 00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:00,520 I've seen that too. 668 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:04,680 You like place it into, and you glue it into certain shapes and stuff. 669 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:05,680 That's really pretty too. 670 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:06,680 Yeah. 671 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:07,680 I like that. 672 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,320 Um, there's something for every skein out there. 673 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,320 Yeah. 674 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:12,320 If you can't get it, yeah. 675 00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:13,320 If you can't get it to behave. 676 00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:18,040 I know if it's not behaving, maybe it's just trying to tell you to try a different craft. 677 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,040 Exactly. 678 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:23,720 Well, that's it for this week's topic. 679 00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,800 For additional content and opportunities to connect with the cast, check out our website 680 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:29,600 at partofmustache.com. 681 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:41,360 Be sure to tune in next week for more laughs, love, and llamas at Part of Moustache.