1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,160 I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. And this is Pardon My Stash. 2 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:19,440 Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting, the fiber arts, and how awesome it is. 3 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:24,880 Before we get into this week's topics, let's share what we're working on now, Drea. 4 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:31,120 So, since we have last recorded, I have started and finished a hat. 5 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:44,480 I made the Keein hat by Emily Green, and I used a less traveled yarn. I want to say, 6 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,280 and I don't have the tag with me right now, but I want to say that the color was 7 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:55,200 twilight. It was like a dark blue. Wasn't it midnight? I want to say it was twilight. It's 8 00:00:55,200 --> 00:01:00,720 a dark blue. Yeah, it's a dark blue. It came out really nice. I'm actually currently blocking it, 9 00:01:00,720 --> 00:01:06,880 finally. Yay! I actually finished it the day before Rheinbeck, but it was unblocked, so I didn't want 10 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:15,680 to wear it to Rheinbeck. But now I am currently working on Minted by Andrea Mowry, and I am using 11 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:25,440 Juniper Moon Farms in Moonshine, and Odang in Desert Rose, I believe, probably. I inherited 12 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:33,440 the yarn from Meg. I do not remember. I remember, like, Odang, but I could not have told you what 13 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:37,600 the yarns were, where I just remember I was highly allergic and didn't realize it. Yeah, 14 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:47,600 so I inherited it. It's decadent. I love working with it. It's a really great knit. I'm loving it. 15 00:01:47,600 --> 00:01:51,280 I'm loving that I have finished a project, and I'm almost done with the second one. 16 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:59,040 Hey! It's only been a couple weeks, so good for me. It's a good boost. Yeah, it is. I needed some 17 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:06,000 quick projects to jumpstart myself. Sometimes that's what you need. Meg, I am currently working on 18 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:12,800 the Owlette sweater by Kate Davies Designs. I've done this before in the kid's size for my own 19 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:20,320 child, and I'm making this for a baby in baby size. I am knitting it out of Critical Hit Dyes 20 00:02:20,320 --> 00:02:26,640 Barbarian Bulky in the Colorway Cardinal. It's not going as fast as I thought it would. I don't know 21 00:02:26,640 --> 00:02:31,200 why. It's still going pretty fast. Because you keep getting distracted. I do keep getting distracted. 22 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:38,000 That's really... I'm doing that thing where I'm jumping between two patterns at once, 23 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,160 two different sweaters. This one is no offense to the designer. It's kind of boring until you 24 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:51,040 get to the actual owl cabling. Before that, it's just stocking it. It is not holding my attention 25 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:57,760 as well as it should. The other sweater I'm working on is a little bit more interesting 26 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:04,320 in structure. That one's Poema by Vera Sanon. It has a little more meat to the pattern. This one's 27 00:03:04,320 --> 00:03:08,320 kind of nice for just sitting and knitting because you don't have to think about it. 28 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,880 For a sit and knit, you say? A sit and knit, I say. A sit and knit. 29 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:16,320 I wonder who's doing that right now. Sorry. It had to be really corny. 30 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:24,160 Sorry. It's me. I'm sitting in the end. So are you. So are you. I'm not. 31 00:03:26,160 --> 00:03:29,040 That's because Jess is crocheting. That's fair. Tina. 32 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:37,040 All right. Since I have spoken on this podcast, I finished my Stormy Skies shawl 33 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:46,160 and I wore it to Reinbeck. It was nice and I liked it. I finished it on time too. I had 34 00:03:46,160 --> 00:03:52,960 time to block it and I wasn't rushing the night before. It was nice. Very good. You 35 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:58,240 didn't give yourself a plus? Oh. You deserve that a plus. 36 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:02,160 Well, now my daughter has stolen it. Oh, really? Yes. 37 00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:09,440 That's a high compliment though. If somebody steals your knit. And that was all of Jess's 38 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:12,960 knits back in the day. Her mom took them all. She's still trying to take them, man. 39 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:22,160 Yeah. Yeah. My oldest on Halloween saw the shawl and thought that it went with her outfit 40 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:27,440 and has since commandeered it. So now she's wearing it everywhere. And I'm like, eh, 41 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:30,160 you know what? Go with that. It's being appreciated. 42 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:36,480 Yeah. So I don't mind. I also went through and I kind of cleaned up a bunch of random 43 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:41,680 projects that I had that were just kind of sitting or stuff that I had planned on frogging, 44 00:04:41,680 --> 00:04:49,360 but hadn't yet. And my Silva cami is currently in permanent timeout because I tried it on. 45 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:55,360 I put a wire through it and I tried it on. It's massive. It does not fit me at all. I mean, 46 00:04:55,360 --> 00:05:02,640 which makes sense because I made it in a larger size when I was larger. And I just like, but like, 47 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:09,600 there's so much angst finishing it and taking it apart. So I'm just sitting in purgatory. 48 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:14,720 It's just in purgatory and that's where it will be. So believe it or not, I know this is going to be 49 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:22,400 crazy, but I only technically have three whips. Wow. I don't believe you. 50 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:27,600 I know. So one of them is what I'm working on right now, which is the wish and hope sweater 51 00:05:27,600 --> 00:05:36,560 by Anne B Hansen design. And I'm making it as I'm making kid sizes. So I'm making one in a three T 52 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,040 and one in a five T and I'm making it as a thank you to my neighbor who came out of nowhere and 53 00:05:41,040 --> 00:05:45,520 just took my kids to school when I had a medical event a couple of weeks ago. Oh, that's so sweet. 54 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:50,560 Like, like basically was just like, okay, yeah, like I'll take care of it for as long as whatever. 55 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:56,320 And I was like, really? And like, this is not not that I wasn't shocked because like, I don't think 56 00:05:56,320 --> 00:06:01,520 she's a nice person. I was shocked because like, we don't talk like that. Like we're acquaintances 57 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:08,000 at best. So I didn't expect a neighbor to kind of like, kind of help me out like that. So, oh, man, 58 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,480 I was just, it was really nice. So I'm going to make little sweaters for her kids. And that's how 59 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:18,640 I feel about it. And is that the lady who lives behind you? Yes. Yes. With the two little girls. 60 00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:27,040 So I'm making them matching sweaters. And my mother requested a sweater after she saw Meg's 61 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:33,120 Calliope. So I have to start making that. I haven't actually pulled the yarn for it yet, 62 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,800 but I did put it on my ravelry because I'm definitely going to start doing that because 63 00:06:36,800 --> 00:06:43,360 it has taken years for this woman to decide which sweater she actually wants. She keeps changing her 64 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:49,120 mind. That's a good one, though. And the pattern is free. Yeah, she's really nice. Well, here's 65 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:53,200 the funny part. She saw yours and she was like, yeah, look how long those sleeves are. And I was 66 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:59,840 like, mom, like I could do that to literally any sweater. It's called customizing. It's called, 67 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:06,720 you just keep knitting. I could do like any sweater. But, but, but you gotta, you gotta do like 68 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:12,880 the, the Meg excessively aggressive blocking. Yeah, apparently. So that's, that's apparently the 69 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,680 excessive blocking. I need to get into. We blocked it real aggressively. I was there to make sure you 70 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:25,840 didn't aggressively block the body, but yeah. In between all of that, I have, I have worked on a 71 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:32,960 pattern. I know it's been a while, but it is called the very vital ribbed beanie. So it's like my very 72 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:40,560 vital, I think in a sense, because it's a very basic stitch, but it's actually, I actually finally, 73 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:46,560 finally figured it out. I'm going to give myself a buzz on that because it took like a hot minute. 74 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:50,880 Like I brought, I thought I finished it. I brought it to Reinbeck and it turned into a Yamaha and I 75 00:07:50,880 --> 00:07:58,160 was like, this is terrible. So I took that out, redid it. And I was like, okay, this is much better. 76 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,800 So I love the way it came out now. And I basically gave it a different brim because it just needed it, 77 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,440 just needed some kind of brim with it. So you can look out for that soon because I'm going to, 78 00:08:07,440 --> 00:08:14,160 I have it with my tech editor right now, cause we had to go back and forth. What about you, Jess? 79 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:22,800 So I am currently working on a little crochet yarn basket ornament because they're fun and cute and 80 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:30,560 tiny. It's by Donna Wolf. I don't know. I found it online. I think it was for free where I found it. 81 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:36,880 I just put in crochet ornaments and it popped up and I did it. So I, I don't really have a lot of 82 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:42,640 information on that front, except for it's fun and it's cute and it's tiny and I'm almost done with 83 00:08:42,640 --> 00:08:47,680 this one. Haven't you made like four? This will be my third. Are you sure? Yeah. Really? Uh huh. No, 84 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:53,120 cause you made the tiny one. Oh yes. You made the tiny one. Yeah. They tell you to use worsted, 85 00:08:53,120 --> 00:08:56,880 but I didn't have that handy when I first found the pattern. So I used fingering weight and it's 86 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:01,680 super tiny and cute, but it's also super tiny and cute. So I found some worsted weight and made 87 00:09:01,680 --> 00:09:08,800 legit, you know, size ornaments also, you know, doing potion bottles and stuff, cause they're fun. 88 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:16,880 And I am also doing the, um, rose hip sweater by Anna Joanna. I think that's how you pronounce it. 89 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:22,080 It might be Johanna. I apologize if I, if I pronounced that wrong and that pattern I got out 90 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:28,240 of the strands of joy book. So, but it is also unravelery if people are looking for it. It's 91 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:36,320 super cute. I like it. I'm doing, um, that one is in critical hit dies, Namira and a wild magic fade 92 00:09:36,320 --> 00:09:43,280 that I did. And then the little yarn baskets, the basket part I'm doing in some beige sugar and cream 93 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:49,040 yarn that I had lying around. And then the little yarn balls that go into it are with random things 94 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:53,200 of critical hit dies I have lying around that I can roll up into teeny tiny yarn balls and stick 95 00:09:53,200 --> 00:10:01,120 in a basket. It's a good scrap project. It actually is for when you have like, like five yards of yarn. 96 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:07,040 Yeah, no, it's like perfect. What do I do with the string? And it's like, I make a tiny little yarn 97 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:12,720 ball and stick it in a basket. So yeah, those are my current projects. And I picked up felting, 98 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:19,760 needle felting, which is tons of fun. And I'm going to pick up stuff to do more of that soon 99 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:25,760 because I made some little birds and now I want to make more. So that is also a thing that's going 100 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:31,520 on. And I'm sitting here thinking, I can die roving. That's the thing I can do. So we'll see, 101 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:36,800 we'll see how that adventure pans out in the future. But yeah, so that's what I'm working on 102 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:41,200 and what everybody else is working on. I know there was a lot to catch up on because you have 103 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:45,840 from us in a bit, but if you want to see pictures of the current projects or get more information 104 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:51,760 about Pardon My Stash in general, be sure to check out our website, PardonMyStash.com for info, 105 00:10:51,760 --> 00:11:02,480 pics, patterns, and yarns. All right. So it has been a while, but we did go to Reinbeck. We all 106 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:08,480 had a really good time. I know we've met some of you in person now, which is awesome. That was so 107 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:16,560 cool. It was really cool. It was great to see you guys and meet and talk. And that was a lot of fun. 108 00:11:16,560 --> 00:11:23,120 That was a lot of fun. I don't know. I mean, I think I had a great time there. I actually 109 00:11:24,720 --> 00:11:28,960 saw a lot more and I think got a lot more than I have in Reinbeck in a couple of years. 110 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:33,920 It was actually cold. That was, that was, I think, the best thing. 111 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:41,920 It was like the first Reinbeck in three years. That wasn't in the seventies. There was like, 112 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:46,240 you know, the whole time we're like, yeah, we're going to like wear stuff for 0.5 seconds to get 113 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:49,920 a picture. And then we're going to be walking around in t-shirts because it's going to be like 114 00:11:49,920 --> 00:11:56,240 hot. Like it always isn't. It wasn't, it was actually sweater weather. So we, we did get to 115 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:01,520 do that. So that was awesome. Did enjoy that. Yeah. You know, the only thing I was kind of said, 116 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,840 when we went, there was only leaves on the bottom of the Reinbeck tree. That was kind of a surprise. 117 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:09,440 I mean, not, it shouldn't have been cause it's been raining. It has been raining, but yeah, 118 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:14,800 the Reinbeck tree was a little worse to wear this year. I mean, there was enough to still get our 119 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:21,120 nice pics, but we were like, okay, let's angle the camera a little bit here. Don't look at the 120 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:26,640 top. It's all good. It's all fine. What was everyone's favorite parts? Favorite things. 121 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:32,720 Besides meeting people. Yeah. Yeah. I got to bestow upon one of our listeners, a very wonderful 122 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:39,680 gift. Probably my favorite project that I've ever made. I mean, definitely for this year than I was 123 00:12:39,680 --> 00:12:45,680 for like years past, but like definitely my favorite thing that I've ever made. I made a 124 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:52,880 flavor, flavor clock, made it a pardon my stash. Straight out of the 90s. That thing was like legit. 125 00:12:52,880 --> 00:12:57,680 Straight out of the 90s. There was so much, so much effort went into that. I had so much fun making it. 126 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:03,200 It's a one of a kind item. It is. It'll be worth millions one day. Probably not. 127 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:10,560 But I was impressed with myself and I loved it and I can't remember why. I think that's my favorite 128 00:13:10,560 --> 00:13:16,960 part is that none of us remember the origin of the Flava Flav clock. I know that we talked about it 129 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:22,960 and then I was reminded of it. So I just, I'm so glad you were reminded of it. I know. Cause I had 130 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:28,800 forgotten about it entirely. No, it was definitely a live chat many, many moons ago. It was, but I 131 00:13:28,800 --> 00:13:34,080 can't remember. That we had on our, on our membership and yeah, Kara got the clock. 132 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:40,480 Don't remember anything else about. Couldn't tell ya. Yeah. Why. The prompt. No. But it was real funny. 133 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:45,040 It was. And she wore that thing with pride. She did, but it was fully functional and it even went 134 00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:50,880 off at 12 o'clock for our. With an alarm, which was hilarious. With perfect timing. It was real good. 135 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:55,840 I planned it that way. Right. As the question, is it a recalibration? It's a recalibration. 136 00:13:55,840 --> 00:14:16,080 It was pretty good. It was pretty good. And you're. Bedazzled and mustachioed. It was nice to like gathering in one spot because we, like, I also feel like other members and people who like listen to our podcasts were able to meet each other. 137 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:23,280 Yeah. So it was like, Oh, wait, you listened to, Oh, okay. And it's like, I feel like we facilitate friendships. 138 00:14:23,280 --> 00:14:39,520 And the people who, who see each other on the live chats once a month and getting to meet in person. Yeah. That was really neat. We had nice, you know, discussions and we had a good time. It was really, it was really neat to see everybody and see everybody's stuff. 139 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:50,560 Like what everybody had made for Ryan Beck was also really exciting. I thought that to be super creepy. So you were real creepy. It was awesome. You were so shady. 140 00:14:50,560 --> 00:15:06,000 Dre was handing out contraband. If you know, you know. If you know, you know. Everyone looks so confused until you gave them the contraband. It was real funny. They're like, what? What's happening? I will not apologize for being myself. Crimes. 141 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:24,560 It was good. The fun is in the crimes. Secret ingredient is crime. But not really. You don't know. It wasn't not crime. Listen, don't get us taken off the air here. 142 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:41,200 All right. So this week I wanted to talk about some commonly mixed up terms in mainly knitting and crochet, but probably some other fiber related things. I feel like I have a pretty good handle on this topic, but you know what? I'm willing to listen. 143 00:15:41,200 --> 00:16:00,400 So I wrote some down that I know like cause some confusion or people mix up a lot. I'm never confused. Wow. That's a lie. One of the big ones. And I actually run into a lot is weight versus ply of yarns. 144 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:17,120 A lot of people think like the more ply something has, the thicker the yarn. And that's not the case. So the weight of the yarn is like is basically how thicker than your yarn is, how many wraps per inch you're going to get and whatnot. 145 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:31,760 Well, the ply is how many individual strands of this yarn are twisted together in order to make the yarn. Sometimes more ply can make it thicker, but you can have a four ply lace weight yarn. 146 00:16:31,760 --> 00:16:37,200 That happens a lot. And you can have a two ply bulky. We have a two ply bolt. 147 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:53,040 We had a craft fair we did last year. This lady came up and she pulled some barbarian off the pegboard and she was insisting to us that it was four ply, like insisting because there was no way that it could be that thick and be two ply. 148 00:16:53,040 --> 00:17:03,840 Yep. So yeah, it is. I didn't know that was a common misconception, but apparently it is. Yeah, no. The thicker it is, the more ply it must have. 149 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:10,880 It's not because your plies can actually be very thin. Isn't roving technically no ply. Roving is a single ply. Single ply. 150 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:21,760 Yeah, so it's like that doesn't just for that. Right. Like if you buy if you buy like pencil roving yarn. Yeah. Yeah. That's there. But you can also have single ply and it's fingering weight. 151 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:35,440 So it is. So it's it's got nothing to do with your weight and your ply are different. So don't go off of that to assume that you're using the correct weight of a yarn to piggyback on that too. 152 00:17:35,440 --> 00:17:47,280 Like if a pattern calls for a specific ply, you want to pay attention to that. Oh my God. Yes. Because you might think like it doesn't matter. It's a fingering weight yarn like a fingering weight is a fingering weight. 153 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:58,480 It's not. You're going to get a totally different texture and you may not be happy with it. Not to say that you can't do that. Just be aware that it can change the look. It may not come out the way that you think it's going to. 154 00:17:58,480 --> 00:18:14,560 Because yeah, because plys can affect what it looks like just because of the way it's the way it's twisted and how it feels. Well, honestly, like they say a lot of times if you're doing a lace, a two ply is good because it actually works into a lace kind of stretching pattern. 155 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:29,680 So it's like you will see patterns that do that. So that, so that is something to at least be aware of and pay attention to if it requires it. Just know if you don't follow it, that it may come out looking different again, not to say that it'll come out bad or it won't work. 156 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:43,840 It's just, it will look different than what the designer is. This is where I come in with everybody's favorite swatch, swatch, swatch your fabric. No, no, fine. 157 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:53,760 If it comes out different than you wanted, don't blame me. I never complain. You don't. You don't. I will give you that. I just get what I get and you know what? You can't get upset. 158 00:18:53,760 --> 00:19:09,440 That was your call. That's the choice you made. I never do get upset. No, and that's a, hey, you know what? There, if you are a process knitter and you want to rip it out as many times as it takes, like shine on you crazy diamond. 159 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:24,360 But thank you. If you, I'm serious, me too. But if you, if you are the type of person like this is me and he gets very upset when the fabric that you're working on doesn't come out the way you want, then you know what? I got no one to blame but myself if I didn't swatch. 160 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:43,680 So going along with the weight versus ply ply versus twist ply and twist are two different things. So ply again, apply is a strand inside of the yarn and the twist is the direction in which those plies are twisted to create said yarn. 161 00:19:43,680 --> 00:19:51,400 They call them s twist or Z twist because of the way you like, look at them. And usually most yarns are plied in an s twist. 162 00:19:51,400 --> 00:20:01,560 Now I'm looking at mine to see like, I've never heard of different twists in yarn. I had heard of actually paying attention now. Oh, I wasn't surprised. 163 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:14,920 Wow. Wow. So here's the thing. Most yarns are an s twist, which is great for knitting because most of the time while you're knitting in an s twist, you're actually just because of the way you are knitting, you are twisting the yarn further. 164 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:25,800 So it makes the plies stronger in crochet because you kind of go the other direction. You have a tendency to untwist said yarn, which is why you find that you may be splitting your yarn more. 165 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:42,880 A lot of times if you find out you're you're like knitting or crocheting, whichever you're doing, and you're splitting the yarn a lot, it may actually have to do with the twist because of the way you are knitting or crocheting, whether it's clockwise or counterclockwise, you're untwisting or twisting your yarn. 166 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,000 How do you tell the difference when you're buying your yarn? 167 00:20:46,000 --> 00:21:00,920 You kind of look at it. And so most of them are s twists. We we will post pictures of this on the blog for you guys at home. So if you look at your yarn and it dips down on the right side, that's an s twist. If it dips down on the left side, it's a z twist. 168 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:24,520 But yeah, so that's why if you find that as you're knitting or crocheting and your yarn is coming untwisted, it may be because it is just because of the twist of the yarn and actually not anything you are doing. That's why one of the they suggest if you can, you learn how to do combination knitting, which is when you knit unit going counterclockwise. 169 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:39,440 And when you purl, you purl clockwise. And this helps in one direction, you're like twisting it further another direction, you're untwisting it. So you're not like either making your yarn too tight or too loose as you're I'm probably not going to learn how to do that. 170 00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:50,000 It's really easy. You know how you do it. That is the you purl the old way used to purl and you knit through the back loop Lord that that is a combination. You purl clockwise. 171 00:21:50,000 --> 00:22:06,160 I don't even know if I could do that anymore. Like I stopped doing that a while ago and then you knit through the back loop, but just something to be aware of. And it was like an interesting thing because I was like, oh, hey, that that is kind of neat if your yarn is splitting to kind of look at and be like, oh, maybe this is why and it's nothing that you're actually doing. 172 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:24,240 Just stabbing. Here's one for the embroiderers out there embroidery floss versus an embroidery thread. A floss is six threads applied together. So when they say get your embroidery floss that is like and the ones you buy at the store that are all applied together. 173 00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:40,240 And if they say use a thread or three threads, you split to your floss into the threads that you need. So those are actually doing different things. Equal opportunity fiber fiber stuff. I have used both of these. So going on as well. 174 00:22:40,240 --> 00:23:09,840 Lace weight versus a lace pattern. You do not need to pay attention, Andrea. You need to know this one. You do not need this one. Lace weight yarn to make a lace pattern. I make lace patterns all the time. See, you can make a lace pattern in bulk. But apparently some people thought that they'll never do lace because they don't like using lace weight. And it's like that. That's not so a lace pattern is a pattern that uses yarn overs. That's that's basically it. 175 00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:38,400 It's basically it. The pattern I look up the definition and I liked it because it was a pattern that incorporates artful eyelets. Oh, I like that. I like to think of it as purposeful holes art artful eyelets. I was like, oh, that sounds that sounds so pretty and fancy. Yeah. Whereas we all know if you've listened to this podcast that lace weight is a super thin yarn. I don't like super thin. 176 00:23:38,400 --> 00:24:08,320 What? I don't know. What? I don't like it. But for those of you that don't like the lace weight yarn, you can find lovely lace patterns that use, you know, larger weights. Just be aware that a bulky lace is going to look different. It's not weird, but it's definitely going to look different. It's going to look different. It's not. It's not going to look the same as like a fingering weight. It's true. Another one I have is in this one. I always mix this up even to this day in Tarja versus Farah. 177 00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:29,920 They both fit well together as a time trial. Oh, yeah. So both are our color work in Tarja uses separate color blocks that are usually on their own separate bobbins. And you basically have to join the yarns together so they don't fall out of your pattern in some special joining way that I have no idea. 178 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:35,760 weave in. That's a lot of work. They look beautiful, but I look at the inside of those 179 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:40,640 projects and I'm like, Oh my God, that's a lot of different yarns and bobbins and, and 180 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:47,120 pieces that I feel like. So if you don't like leaving your ends, I'm not going to lie. I 181 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:52,520 had, you know, I've been knitting for almost 20 years at this point and I have never had 182 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:58,320 the desire to knit anything in Tarja. And there's a sweater pattern that I now like 183 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:05,280 am dying to knit. So that may actually be like my foray into in Tarja. I feel like I 184 00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:10,320 would just want to just carry the work all the way around. But here's the thing with 185 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:17,600 in Tarja, you actually have the ability to use more colors. Um, so Fair Isle is when 186 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:24,160 you basically carry the other colors around your entire work. And, and with Fair Isle, 187 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,640 because you're carrying it around and you have to kind of make sure you're not leaving 188 00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:33,440 these huge gaps in the back of your work, uh, or, or it may fall apart. You can usually 189 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:39,720 only get up to three separate colors before you're going to have problems doing that. 190 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:45,960 In Tarja, you can have probably about as many colors as you want, depending on how it works, 191 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:50,080 because they're all on separate bobbins. So if I want to make a color work sweater of 192 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:54,240 Cisco's face, I'm probably going to have to do in Tarja. You got to do in Tarja for that. 193 00:25:54,240 --> 00:26:01,600 The only thing that's tough with in Tarja though, see in Tarja is great for block colors. 194 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:06,280 It is tougher to do that when you're doing like the pixelated kind of look. Yeah. Like 195 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:10,720 a pink and then a green and then a pink and then a blue. And then it like that, that gets 196 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:17,040 hard. So yeah, so you'd have your work cut out trying to figure out exactly how you want 197 00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:21,080 to. I believe you can do it though. You know what? You can do whatever you want. It's either 198 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:25,400 going to be the logo or the face or both. I don't know. I feel like if you can work it 199 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:31,480 out between like three colors or something, I feel like you can figure it out. Yeah. Make 200 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:36,320 the magic happen. Yeah. Those are the differences between in Tarja and Fair Isle. Fair Isle 201 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:41,000 is usually two strands at a time and you carry your yarn all the way around. And in Tarja, 202 00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:45,920 you have a ton of little bobbins of different colors and you can have a whole bunch of colors 203 00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:53,760 and blocks and that gives you that option. The last one I have that's commonly mixed 204 00:26:53,760 --> 00:27:03,480 up is the knitting style versus a knitting method. So a style is how you hold your yarn. 205 00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:09,480 That's like continental English, Portuguese, Thailand, Russian, et cetera. It's basically 206 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:14,920 like how you hold your yarn, how you hold your tension. The Portuguese you say. Et cetera. 207 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,680 Well, yeah, because it's like different ways. So like I didn't realize this. Like I didn't 208 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:22,720 realize Highland was a thing and I looked that I had never heard of high carry the yarn 209 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:28,760 on their hip and they do it that way. Like they knit on their hip and I still like I 210 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,200 watched it and I don't know how they do it and it is amazing, but they, you know what 211 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:39,320 it is. That's where you, they don't like circulars because you need the, um, the needles to, 212 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:45,120 you basically use, use it braced against your hip to, to knit. I've heard about holding, 213 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:48,360 uh, like you gotta use straight needles, but you're holding a straight needle under your 214 00:27:48,360 --> 00:27:53,160 under your, yeah. And then you're basically like, it's sort of like that only they do 215 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,160 it. It's like, I can't even imagine. It's weird. It's cool to look at cause I'm like, 216 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:05,080 how are they doing that? But, but that, that is a style. That is how you hold your needles, 217 00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:11,040 how you hold your yarn, how, how you like get your tension, et cetera. The method is 218 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:20,240 the direction that you put your yarn. So those ones there, there are three there's Western, 219 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:25,520 which yep, Western, the Western method. And that's, that's the most common. That's when 220 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:31,800 you throw or you do your yarn, it goes counterclockwise around your needle. That's the most common. 221 00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:40,040 Eastern is when your yarn goes clockwise around your needle and then combination, which I 222 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:44,640 brought up earlier is when you do one part one way and the other part, the other way. 223 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:50,200 It's true. That's Portuguese. That is what we do. That's how you do it. There's the 224 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:54,000 purling and knitting is two different ways. Yeah. And that it will, it is, it's because 225 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:59,440 you're knitting, you would knit counterclockwise and you'd pearl clockwise. So you're, you're 226 00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,640 throwing the yarn separate ways over the needles. Cause you're kind of forward or back. So it 227 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:09,840 depends on where you're sitting. So those are the three methods and you can do any of 228 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:16,600 those three methods, uh, along with whatever style you're doing it. And sometimes it's 229 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:20,960 easier, sometimes it's harder. And sometimes like certain ones are just a dang impossible 230 00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:27,840 depending on your style. So you're telling me that I knit English Western style. Yes. 231 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:32,800 English Western sounds like an oxymoron, but I love it. That's very cool. It was spaghetti 232 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:40,400 Western spaghetti. And yeah, so those are all the commonly mixed up terms that I had 233 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:46,040 found that I was aware of that I myself had, um, or that I found and bought were pretty 234 00:29:46,040 --> 00:29:51,860 interesting. So I don't know if there's anything anybody else has that mixed them up gauge 235 00:29:51,860 --> 00:29:57,400 versus ease. Oh yeah. Gauge versus ease is a big one. The gauge is how many stitches 236 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:03,360 you have to the inch and the eases, how much more, how many more inches you have to your 237 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:10,000 usually your bust line. If you're knitting for a woman, if it says you want it, you have 238 00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:14,400 a four inch or plus four ease. That means you got to add four inches to your, to your 239 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:19,400 bust line. Um, if you want it to look like the model, again, your mileage may vary. You 240 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,400 may, and that's, that's honestly, I think one of the most fun things about knitting 241 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:26,280 your own garments is that you can just be like, you know what, I don't want to do waist 242 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:30,320 shaping. I don't want to do that. And see the picture and they could be like, yeah, 243 00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,760 this was done with two inches of ease and you could be like, yeah, but I want that like 244 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:39,400 on my boobs. And if you like a more fitted sweater or you like a looser sweater or you 245 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:43,720 know, whatever it is, you can, you can kind of go from, or it could be like negative ease 246 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:47,720 and you're like, yeah, I'm going to add five inches cause I want it slouchy. The gauge 247 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:53,560 does help you find the correct ease and make sure that you're getting the correct ease. 248 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:58,800 But the ease itself is, you know, either if you, if you want it a little bigger, you go 249 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:04,320 plus. If you want it smaller, you go minus. And if you want it skin tight, you go even 250 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,840 more negative than that's not me. I don't make it about the drapes. Like almost like 251 00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:13,000 now it's laying right. How is it? How is it falling against you? If you want to specify 252 00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,920 that cause it's not like you can't just like necessarily give it like positive ease and 253 00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:20,720 turn something into a plus size. Like you could, no, no, no, no, no. It's, I'm not 254 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,520 talking about designing. I'm talking about like, if you want the sweater to be bigger 255 00:31:24,520 --> 00:31:30,160 on you, a little baggier and less fitted. But no, that also, that's, that's actually 256 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,360 a really good point of a misconception is that adding inches to the bus line does not 257 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:40,560 make something plus size. It does not like a lot more work goes into grading a pattern 258 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:46,800 to make it a bigger size. It's gotta be, you've got, I was reading something the other day 259 00:31:46,800 --> 00:31:54,000 where somebody said like that the pattern was graded for bus sizes, not arms. So one 260 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,400 size for the arm, then you wind up with, with something that fits great in the bus, but 261 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:05,960 you've got little spaghetti arms and that that's not, that's not a great look. If you 262 00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:11,400 don't see different stitch counts on the arms, then you know, they didn't grade it for the 263 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,720 arms. It's not graded. Yeah. Like if they, if you have the exact same, then it's probably 264 00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:22,400 not right. Imagine that bigger bus, bigger. No, no, everyone has the same size arms regardless 265 00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:34,000 of the same. No, but that is another thing too, is that if you are, you know, you, you 266 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,440 are knitting a pattern, you should look at the arm measurements. I feel like a lot of 267 00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:41,400 people don't look at the arm measurements and they just assume that the bust and the 268 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:46,440 arm measurements are going to correlate. And that's not always the case for people, especially 269 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:50,960 if you have really muscular arms, you know, if you, if you lift weights and things like 270 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:56,480 that, your upper arms could be bigger than your bus size would, you know, the designer 271 00:32:56,480 --> 00:33:01,320 says your bus dictates. So, and you can fix that, you know, when you go to pick up the 272 00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:05,740 stitches for the underarms and everything like that, but you should pay attention, make 273 00:33:05,740 --> 00:33:09,480 sure that you're knitting the right size arms. 274 00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:15,720 And that's all the time we have for this week for additional content and opportunities 275 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:20,680 to connect with the cast. Be sure to check out our website at part in my stash.com and 276 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:39,920 remember to tune in next time for more tips, knits and wits at part of my stash.