1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. And this is Part in My Stash. 2 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:17,840 Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting within the fiber arts and how awesome it is. 3 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:25,680 Before we get started on today's topics, let's find out what everyone's working on this week. 4 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:31,680 Meg, I am working on the Poema sweater by Vera Sinan. I put this down like right before Christmas 5 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:36,800 break and I just recently picked it up again mainly because I was struggling with the sleeves 6 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:42,240 and Jess was like you literally just have this backwards like without without putting too fine 7 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:46,080 a point on it that was what was wrong with it. I was holding it backwards and then as soon as 8 00:00:46,080 --> 00:00:50,960 she explained what I did I stopped knitting the sleeves anyway and started working on the body. 9 00:00:50,960 --> 00:00:57,040 So I could have just been working on the body the whole time but that's me. That's how I roll. 10 00:00:57,040 --> 00:01:04,560 I am knitting it out of Critical Hit Dye as a base we haven't released yet. It is a DK weight 11 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:11,440 silk merino and it is in the colorway bag of holding. Yeah the I was gonna say the color on 12 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:18,880 this is really really good. It's like a red rustic kinda I'm gonna go on the farm and get my chicken 13 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:25,440 eggs kind of color. In a good way. That's a compliment by the way. No I know I'm just thinking 14 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:29,600 about wearing this sweater to get chicken eggs and I'm like this is not the sweater I would wear 15 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:36,320 to get chicken eggs. Let me put on my lace sleeved sweater to go get some chicken eggs. Yes yes. 16 00:01:36,320 --> 00:01:41,440 I wanted chickens Jess won't let me get chickens. Listen dude they like they can be a pain. The cats 17 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:46,080 are smelly enough man. That's fair yeah that's fair. Yeah it's fair and they do like to chase 18 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:52,720 people if they're angry. I mean that part's kind of funny I would appreciate that. Jess? I am I mean 19 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:59,040 I have a couple projects I'm starting and not doing but right now I am working on a Mini Dragon 20 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:07,600 keychain again I have done this in the past but it is basically Mini Dragon Amigurumi and I got it 21 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:16,160 for free on the site called SuperGurumi and they got a bunch of cute like mini crochet things that 22 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:21,600 you can choose from so I'm doing the dragon and I'm using I don't know I think this is Bahamut 23 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:31,760 from Critical Hit Guys and then Cascade Yarns Heritage Black. I mean Bahamut is pretty 24 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:38,480 pretty pretty pretty good to use when you're making a dragon. Listen right it's did that feel like 25 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:46,960 it's appropriate? Jerea? I am working on our make-along shawl our matche's make-along. It is the 26 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:55,920 Arachne shawl by Claire Slade and we are using Plies and Hellhounds in fingering weight penny 27 00:02:55,920 --> 00:03:04,080 in the color waves, Flower Moon and Nightmares and Spider Shawl. Yeah I've got like a spider head 28 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:13,120 look. Oh it's so good I love the spider head. How far are you? I have not gotten too too far 29 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:22,800 mostly because I've been so so much stuff has been going on so I haven't had I feel like this is one 30 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:29,040 of those projects you need to sit down and have time to do it and I just haven't had that sit down 31 00:03:29,040 --> 00:03:37,600 time yet it's been you know going at 200% and yeah your girl's tired so I've been working on 32 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:43,520 this super bulky hat like that I'm just free handing and I messed it up like three times already so 33 00:03:44,880 --> 00:03:48,960 and and I don't believe in you though there's no pattern though so like I just mess it up in the 34 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:56,960 sense of I look at it and I go I don't like that but yeah yours is coming out amazing I really 35 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:05,360 really like it I do too and I've only worked on it like four times I think yeah you've put in good 36 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:11,600 sessions though when you have worked on it so football yeah you know and now it's it was gone 37 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:17,120 it was like four football games and that was it when will we sit down now we have no excuse to sit 38 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:22,160 down when will there be football be sure to check out our website part of my stash.com for more 39 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:26,240 information as well as pictures regarding our current projects patterns and yarns 40 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:35,680 so today we are going to be talking about something that I've actually been addressing on my personal 41 00:04:35,680 --> 00:04:43,120 instagram for a hot minute and it's been the idea of process over product and I really wanted to 42 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:49,760 talk about it as a group because I think we all have lots of thoughts on this how it affects us 43 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:57,600 and just the idea of focusing on the process over the product it's been very difficult for myself 44 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:06,080 to get into that mindset I definitely grew up with the idea of product of being productive of you know 45 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:13,040 having something to show when it comes to your work so focusing on the process has been an 46 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:20,800 interesting interesting step but I do feel that it does lead you into more of a mindful crafting 47 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:26,800 whether you're crocheting knitting what have you focusing on the process over the product can 48 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:33,280 really enhance the experience overall so that you can have somewhat of a deeper appreciation for the 49 00:05:33,280 --> 00:05:40,080 craft that you're working on rather than what that finished object looks like so the question 50 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:46,000 that I posed to you is to start things out when it comes to mindful knitting what gets you in the 51 00:05:46,000 --> 00:05:55,360 mood to be mindful I don't think that I'm mindful about my my knitting but I am like I definitely 52 00:05:55,360 --> 00:06:02,480 listen to myself and I only do it when I feel like it I guess it is mindful but I mean that's a 53 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,400 I mean that's essentially being mindful because you're you're listening to your body and listening 54 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:11,360 to what um whether or not you use the word mindful I'm just using mindful as a general term but 55 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:17,680 that's essentially what that would be doing is I'm pretty thoughtless if I do say so myself 56 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:22,400 I think you have lots of thoughts in your head 57 00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:29,040 try to keep them insane a lot of the time yeah knitting is definitely like a distraction for me 58 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:35,600 so when I when I don't want to do anything but let my hands go then it's when my body's ready for it 59 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:43,920 yeah and I have like an avoidance mindset so if you give me something that I was going to do 60 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:50,560 but now you tell me that I have to do it I'm just not gonna do it I was gonna do it but no I'm not 61 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:57,040 gonna because you said I had to so yeah forget that I've been trying to work on that it's not 62 00:06:57,040 --> 00:07:02,320 been very successful though as long as you're trying I'm aware of it and that's about where 63 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:12,000 I'm at yeah hey that's better than most what about you Meg I have noticed over the last couple years 64 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:18,240 I don't tend to get projects off the ground in the first half of the year I have a very bad track 65 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:27,200 record with completing projects that I started before May I don't know why and I don't know if 66 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:33,360 it's a work thing because I tend to be to have much more time I tend to be more relaxed in the 67 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:38,720 summer but but then in the fall like I'm still getting stuff done so I feel like that can't be 68 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,840 it I don't know but the ironic thing is you also tend to start a lot more projects I start a lot 69 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:49,760 no I have terrible startitis from like January until April we're all cast on a whole bunch of 70 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:55,200 stuff and nothing will stick and then all of a sudden the planets will align and one thing 71 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:02,400 last year it was Calliope one thing will stick and then I'm good but I'm going through that right now 72 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,800 where I've got I have two projects on the needles I'm pretty bored with both of them I'm really not 73 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:14,720 entertained by either and I don't like to be the type of person that's like I'm like this is my 74 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:21,440 like process this is my hobby I should not be doing something for a hobby that I am not enjoying that 75 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,360 doesn't make any sense but by the same token I think that's where the product knitting comes in 76 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:34,880 because I want the products I want them enough to not and I enjoy the yarn enough both I like this 77 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:40,880 yarn I like the yarn that we're using for the make-along I like the patterns I want the finished 78 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:49,200 product and that is what is getting me through the lack of initiative to get any of these things done 79 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:53,520 do you think that the reason why the first half of the year tends to be 80 00:08:54,800 --> 00:09:01,760 hard for you is because it's also technically the last end of the work here like you're it's like 81 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:08,480 it might be a factor of like exhaustion from work it might I mean these these three months like 82 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,880 January February March are the worst like literally the worst months I feel like when 83 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:18,400 we come back from April break the rest of the year is like like that yeah goes by so fast um 84 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:23,520 but there's also like a lot of the pressure is off like by May everyone's kind of coasting and 85 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:28,640 we're getting to the end so it's a possibility I mean I would generally think that September would 86 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:34,960 be the worst because I I don't and you can ask Jess I the first like two weeks of school I don't 87 00:09:34,960 --> 00:09:40,320 like think about anything I'm like tunnel vision let me get my feet under me let me figure out who 88 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:45,440 my kids are let me figure out my schedule um it's like starting a brand new job every year even if 89 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:50,240 you've taught the same thing before it's a whole different ball game whole different schedule whole 90 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:57,680 different group of kids um it's more like switching your co-workers every year but yeah I'm not sure 91 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:07,280 exactly why um but it statistically um I will cast on a whole bunch of stuff um I may or may not 92 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:13,760 finish it and then right around April or May something sticks and then I'm good for the rest 93 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:21,360 of the year you recognize it I recognize the pattern I recognize the pattern I really have no 94 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:27,040 idea like what could be done about it I would prefer it not be that way because I really get 95 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:32,880 super frustrated when I'm like oh I really love that pattern I really love that yarn I don't know 96 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:39,840 why it's been in a bag now for three years no rhyme or reason maybe it's like that Friday night 97 00:10:39,840 --> 00:10:46,640 thing only for me it's like I cast on the beginning of the year January and April like I just 98 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:52,480 this project will never be done that's I don't know I don't know I don't know why it is I'm I'm 99 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:58,240 mindful I'm conscious of it but I have zero idea how to uh how to kick that yeah and shout out to 100 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:02,880 everybody who's been telling us that they're not starting things on Fridays it's like no that is 101 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:09,120 really killing me like listen you know I was gonna start this but it's Friday thanks guys thanks guys 102 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:14,880 for looking out and we're like what I guess I'll just veg out on the couch and scroll Instagram 103 00:11:14,880 --> 00:11:23,040 I mean yes for the next few hours you know as God intended it's clearly clearly that was what was 104 00:11:23,040 --> 00:11:29,920 supposed to happen what about you Jess process product mindful knitting um so mine depends 105 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,640 on the project um because most of the time I won't even start something 106 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:41,200 a if I don't think I'll enjoy the final product by the end of it like the final project I'm like 107 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:48,480 that's a lot of garter do I want that maybe so that's that's step one yeah and step two is 108 00:11:49,200 --> 00:11:55,920 do I want to do all that garter probably not are there other things in it that make it interesting 109 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,480 if there's nothing in the pattern that makes it interesting then it's like okay do I have yarn 110 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:07,600 that I want to see what it looks like knit up because that's kind of cool um and if I can't get 111 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:12,080 at least one of those three then that project probably is never going to happen for me so I 112 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:19,920 kind of set it up beforehand um most of the time I require at least two of those needs to be met 113 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:28,080 every once in a while like you know the what was it that the Celtic rap the Celtic myths oh god 114 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:34,240 yeah that one that was the one that one I just wanted the product not gonna lie like I I actually 115 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:43,200 that's not true when I got like I like the bind off with the with the um cable yeah yeah I did 116 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:47,920 like the yarn I didn't like it in garter though and it was a lot of garter before you got to the 117 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:55,120 cable part or stocking it whatever it was almost the same you're just you're knitting and purling 118 00:12:55,120 --> 00:13:01,200 because it was back and forth so I had a pearl and that was tough that was tough until I got to the 119 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:06,480 cable and then I was like okay now all the things are good again but that one was definitely 120 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:13,840 the process was not was not it for me on that one um but most of the time I do I I do actually 121 00:13:14,640 --> 00:13:21,360 look at a project for a while and I have to think about like am I going to enjoy this if I if I find 122 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:27,040 the actual pattern itself kind of boring or repetitive will I at least like the yarn and 123 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:34,320 seeing that go up do I want the finished product is that something um you know it's if the pattern 124 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:40,720 itself has like interesting um interesting techniques in it that's that is also a plus 125 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:45,920 because I have totally done cables with yarn that probably should not be doing cables with Celtic not 126 00:13:45,920 --> 00:13:51,920 the Celtic oh yeah probably was it with Bridget it was very variegated you can't really see the 127 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:58,480 cables through it I liked it anyway I can see the cables when I'm right up there with it and I'm 128 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:02,800 like no this is good I enjoy this everyone else will probably be like why did you do that because 129 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:09,360 just because don't question so you see your process looks like one of those charts where it's like 130 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:13,760 start here and then follow the arrow depending yeah I'm like that crazy guy with the lines going 131 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:18,960 to the pictures like does it have this does it have this will I get to this honestly I was thinking 132 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:22,880 more about that like the the D&D where they're like which alignment or not which alignment which 133 00:14:22,880 --> 00:14:27,200 class should you choose it was like do you like animals do you like to eat animals like and then 134 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:34,960 it moves along until you get to barbarian or druid or whatever and it's like there you go that's where 135 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:40,960 you're supposed to be and I feel like that's that's you that's my process like every time every time 136 00:14:41,920 --> 00:14:46,160 and I have things that sit in my like you know save projects that I might eventually want to get 137 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:51,680 to and every like three years or so I'm like oh my god no but side note who hasn't gone into their 138 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:55,760 like favorites and been like I don't know what I was thinking I'm never gonna knit that it's pretty 139 00:14:55,760 --> 00:15:02,240 but I'm never gonna knit that I like unraveling I actually I do that all the time I get afraid to 140 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:09,040 unfavorite things really I have such a bad memory that I'm worried if I unfavorite it now I might 141 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:15,520 not like it right now but I might like it later so my favorites is like full because I won't undo 142 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:20,400 things now so if I'm looking for like stuff I'm going to do it's the queue that's what I use queue 143 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:26,480 for yeah so like okay if I'm actually like favorites are like at some point in time this spoke to me 144 00:15:26,480 --> 00:15:31,200 that's what that is and then the queue is like okay I actually might want to do this but then I still 145 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:36,320 look at the queue and go why no no I do that with the queue too and I'm looking at it or I'm like 146 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:43,760 I was gonna knit that with that yarn no why would I do that yeah all the time all the time I forgot 147 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:52,560 the queue existed on the rivalry I have projects or favorites and I have library and then I have 148 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,840 projects so sometimes I go through the project and feel like oh yeah I forgot I did that 149 00:15:57,680 --> 00:16:02,080 I forgot that queue was I probably have stuff in the queue that I didn't realize was in there that 150 00:16:02,080 --> 00:16:09,600 I haven't looked at or touched since they got there I have a stash now it took so long anyway 151 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:20,160 um but yeah so and I I think it's however you get there it's like with in terms of process or product 152 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,400 as long as it gets you motivated to do the thing then I guess you're winning on that aspect I don't 153 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:29,600 think there's necessarily a wrong answer to that well I think it's it's kind of like a a chicken or 154 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:36,560 an egg kind of situation because it's like I don't care how much I want the product if I don't like 155 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:43,760 the process I'm not going to do it like for example my my mom made made us this beautiful wall hanging 156 00:16:44,720 --> 00:16:50,400 for Christmas it's been hanging up on our wall outside since November and I took it down yesterday 157 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,600 because I'm like it's Christmas tree it doesn't belong there anymore and I took it down I'm like 158 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:58,400 the wall looks really bare and I'm like man I want another wall hanging I don't want to make one 159 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,760 so I'm like I'm calling my mom and I'm like look if I buy the fabric will you quilt this for me 160 00:17:03,760 --> 00:17:07,440 and she's like oh yeah like how many do you want I'll make a bunch and I'm like that's what I mean 161 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:12,320 like I don't care how badly I want the product if I'm not going to enjoy the process which I am not 162 00:17:12,320 --> 00:17:18,240 interested in quilting I'm not doing it and the same thing goes the flip side if I I don't care 163 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:26,480 how much I enjoy knitting something if I get to the end and I hate it I hate the finished result 164 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:31,440 I'm not going to be happy I'm not going to sit there and be like I spent 160 hours on this project 165 00:17:31,440 --> 00:17:39,120 and I hate it I feel so fulfilled like I feel like you kind of I totally get that you most people 166 00:17:39,120 --> 00:17:46,560 lean more towards one or the other but I don't feel like you can completely disassociate the two 167 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:53,600 yeah if that makes sense no I yeah I going through this entire thing has been weird for me because 168 00:17:53,600 --> 00:18:00,960 for me I definitely lean toward product like that defined the worth of what I was doing 169 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:07,040 but that's not a healthy way to go about it like I think when you bring worth into it yes yeah so 170 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:12,400 that's why I've been trying to give more like not necessarily like product doesn't matter anymore 171 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:18,960 but just try to give more emphasis to the process yeah um but I mean the process in itself you 172 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:25,520 mentioned that like if you don't like the process like it's not what's the point um but what like 173 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:31,280 if you had to think about what exact part of a process in a project I hope I'm saying this right 174 00:18:31,280 --> 00:18:38,080 if you had to think about a process that's going on in the project that you really enjoy like the 175 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:45,280 cast on or like the complicated cable or like whatever what's like that one like yes yes I'm 176 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:52,320 so happy I'm doing this process right now I like repeating patterns and I like cables yeah if I 177 00:18:52,320 --> 00:18:59,600 get to do both of those like a plus the process is great and at the end if I have a project that's 178 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:07,920 finished bonus yeah yeah and if I'm real lucky if I really like the process and the product I'll make 179 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:16,640 another like how am I like 40 like the socks but only one sock Sunday's swing socks hit so different 180 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:28,160 like I could fit in the day back in the day I could cast on make two make a whole pair of socks 181 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:34,640 finish wind up another skein of yarn and make another pair of socks same pattern over and over 182 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:40,160 I can do like a pattern maybe max like twice or three times but then I'm done but like I've been 183 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:44,960 like I have put that very vital rib beanie pattern out and all my testers like almost 184 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:49,520 I almost all of my testers came back to me and were like I made eight of these yeah I'm going 185 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:57,200 to keep making them I'm like okay you can make it it's a repeating yes and yeah and the product 186 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:02,000 is good when you're done yeah bombardment of pictures yeah I did I got a picture like one of 187 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:06,880 my testers sent me a picture of like all of her children grandchildren had hats that's sweet 188 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:15,600 that is sweet you know so but yeah I can understand like that I haven't I don't think I've found that 189 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:23,360 pattern yet for me I've knit one thing four times but that was that's one pattern I knit the Utrecht 190 00:20:23,360 --> 00:20:31,920 beanie by oh yeah Dutch girl I knit that four times but yeah I'm not usually like I'll think 191 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:35,680 that I want to knit it more than once like I did with more simple lines I was like yeah we're 192 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:39,840 gonna do this a second time and then I was about halfway through and I'm like why did I do this 193 00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:44,640 this is a terrible idea I feel like I could do another simple lines with enough time in between 194 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:53,120 yes yes I think the problem was trying to do two in the same year I was by the time I was 195 00:20:53,120 --> 00:20:58,320 halfway through I'm like and the other thing with simple lines is that the border is really where 196 00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:05,280 it's at yeah like that last bit yeah super special yeah um it's the buildup to build up you're just 197 00:21:05,280 --> 00:21:12,240 like oh my god here we go here we go again no I'm like I'm I yeah that was a labor of love for Jess 198 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:16,160 it was I played yarn chicken at the end there was just enough I'm like yep this is it no there 199 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:22,560 wasn't yeah there was no you ran out remember we did the bind off with some of my uh Indecita 200 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:27,200 did we yes we did what was the one that I was playing it that I got I don't remember no we 201 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:33,040 said I would use that oh that's right and I had it in reserve because the colorway was close enough 202 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:37,760 and I'm like it's just the bind off you can do the bind off in any no yeah I like my my uh the 203 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:41,760 bind off on mine I don't know what I did I was so much tighter knitting at the end of that 204 00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:49,600 like now I had like an inch left over it was great nice yeah I don't know like for me um I've been 205 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:57,200 contemplating redoing an orchard house shawl oh you should but the funny part is I told myself 206 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:03,760 because I gave away my first one if I made it again it would be for me and what I'm contemplating 207 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:09,440 is it's not for me it's for somebody else it's for my cousin and and and I'm like no no because 208 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:13,840 like I'm gonna make it and it's gonna take me another like four years to muster up the energy 209 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:19,360 to it's a super interesting shawl I still think it's like one of my favorite things that I've made 210 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:26,480 but it is complicated like there is a different a lot in there yeah and it's there's a some there's 211 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:32,000 some repeating to a degree but it's not as repeating as you like simple lines yeah no it's 212 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:39,360 not simple lines definitely not it is it's not simple nothing simple about it um but yeah no I 213 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:45,680 I think for me it's gonna be color work I've been really into color work um yeah that and when I 214 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:51,360 freehand stuff I'm freehanding color work which is also I mean if anyone right now just heard that 215 00:22:51,360 --> 00:22:58,240 and went oh my god why like yeah no that's accurate that's an accurate response uh because 216 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,760 because like I'll have like a thing in my head and I'm like okay yeah yeah this will totally 217 00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:07,040 like it'll math out like this will work and then I and it doesn't it doesn't math out I don't math 218 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:13,200 I don't know how to math I sat next to you while you were doing yeah and I was like no no yeah this 219 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:18,960 is fine this is fine no it's not fine it's nothing's fine but yeah there's something about 220 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:26,480 stranded color work that I really enjoy I don't know no same no that that would be my uh my go 221 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:33,200 to for a process because I love it because it's like I'm coloring like right there and I want to 222 00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:40,400 see the end of the picture and I've actually done a few freehand color works I did Paul's hat like 223 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:49,680 years and years ago and the scarf with the shield logo like I like doing them issue now is finding 224 00:23:49,680 --> 00:23:56,240 the time yeah yeah um because you do kind of kind of um math that out if it's going to be anything 225 00:23:56,240 --> 00:24:01,120 more complicated than just some patterns um even with patterns you still have to math it out and 226 00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:07,520 make sure you're not going to be like you know that odd stitch where everything is just shifted 227 00:24:07,520 --> 00:24:14,320 off and then you're like well dang I'm just gonna just gonna knit these two we're just gonna add a 228 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:21,680 stitch here at the end and now that's there forever hidden increase no that's that's pattern design 229 00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:27,760 that's feature oh no like yeah it's so the ribbing you know the bottom of the hat is tighter that's 230 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:32,800 supposed to be like that I'm actually going through um talking about like pattern design I'm going 231 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:40,320 through seed dot right now and I I actually put and like there's one row you like to just one knit 232 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:46,320 together and then you continue because the number's off and I'm like I really should fix this whatever 233 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:50,880 I'm sitting here whatever no no no no no no I'm gonna fix that I'm gonna no it's not a thing I 234 00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:55,680 feel like that's a feature of me going I don't know how to resolve this to be real I've had a lot of 235 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,040 patterns where they're like yep and you're just gonna knit these two together and then we're 236 00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:04,320 gonna carry on with life like you're definitely not the only one by any stretch of the imagination 237 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:10,640 yeah no yeah I know I just I can understand why I bugged you though I'm like why every once in a 238 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,400 while I get the one we're like and it front and back it will be nowhere else in this pattern 239 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:20,080 yep yep yeah we gotta we gotta fix this stitch count yeah one way or another um I would say 240 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:25,200 probably like my two favorite things about the process um for whatever reason the the beginning 241 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:30,160 of the pattern like not the cast on because I hate the cast on if you say you like the cast on I 242 00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:36,800 don't understand you because that one row of really tight stitches makes me bunkers um but the second 243 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:43,200 row like the second row to like the 40th row I'm always like yeah I feel really good I love this 244 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:50,320 project this is my new project look at me go and with sweaters it's usually like right after I do 245 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:55,600 the German short rows which I really don't like I really don't like German short rows but then 246 00:25:55,600 --> 00:26:01,600 after it I'm like look at me I'm a badass I've got my my my sweaters all working and the other 247 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:07,280 thing and this is so dorky but this is such a high is when you're doing any sort of pattern 248 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:12,080 and you get to the end of the row and you hit your stitch count you're like yeah it's like when 249 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:17,120 you were a kid in high school doing math problems and you're like look at that it worked out and I 250 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:22,480 didn't have a lot of those moments in high school so I'm taking them now with my stitch count or 251 00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,560 I'm like I hit the stitch count and it's correct and I don't have to go back and I don't have to 252 00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:31,840 fudge it and it's perfect that's a good high like that's a good moment when when you hit the stitch 253 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:36,640 count right yeah because especially with like a repeating pattern yeah like and you're like okay 254 00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:41,360 I'm supposed to have three at the end do I have three do I did it yes there it is okay cool next 255 00:26:41,360 --> 00:26:47,760 row yeah like it's a good moment in your head and you're especially lace knitting yeah yeah I am not 256 00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:53,280 a huge fan of lace knitting I've never been a huge fan of it and I always get that like little like 257 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,720 I can feel my heart rate increasing as I'm getting to the end of the row and I'm like am I going to 258 00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:00,320 make it am I going to make it and I'm really really bad at looking at it and being like okay I got to 259 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:05,760 do a yarn over there and knit two together there and slip slip knit there and is it right no it's 260 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:10,720 not okay and then you get to the end you're like okay yes perfect on the other hand you get that 261 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:14,160 where you get to the end and your stitch count is right but then you look at it and you're like 262 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,800 but it doesn't look great and then now you feel like that kid in class or you got the right answer 263 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:24,320 but your professor is like okay but by your work this doesn't work like this works for this this 264 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:32,160 example only somehow because it's wrong but your answer is right so now you got to go back and fix 265 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:36,080 it and you're sitting there like but how did I get the right I didn't have a lot of those moments 266 00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:42,880 either you know usually math was just it's wrong all the time no every once in a while I get that 267 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:49,520 and I'm like how but how did I do yeah yeah it's a moment it's a moment in time did I do 268 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:56,400 so okay so we've talked about going through process our favorite part of process so I want to 269 00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:03,760 finish this up with the finishing so you finished the project what is your next step like are you 270 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,320 like okay I finished this and this will remain this way forever and it will never be undone it 271 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:13,440 will never be given away it's like this is my thing or are you one that's like okay I really 272 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:18,720 like this yarn and I enjoyed that pattern this is now going to be frogged and I'm going to redo it 273 00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:26,560 again or something else entirely I don't think I've ever frogged a project to read it no no no no I 274 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:34,160 mean like to use for something else not to re-knit I was like this sweater is lovely let's do it again 275 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:43,760 my fist cardigan I just I did a reel about it um recently about my fist cardigan and I love my fist 276 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:49,280 cardigan but it's it's now massive on me so the black it was oversized when you made it was 277 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:55,280 oversized already and now I'm just like it just looks like I've a yard barf on my body at this 278 00:28:55,280 --> 00:29:01,360 point um so it's like yeah now I look at it and I go wow that was really fun to make and I really 279 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:08,400 liked it but now I know no no I don't like it now I don't like it at all and it's stretched too like 280 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:14,640 right from hanging around so yeah that's yeah but it's there has been there have been that makes 281 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:19,360 sense it's not like you finished it looked at it for a few minutes we're like no I hate that and 282 00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:24,320 then just tore it out I did do that with the sun the sunset ridge the first iteration I made 283 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:30,080 really I definitely like I all I had left was like the decreases are like the end of the decreases 284 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:36,800 like I was at like maybe like I think I was like at knit um knit together um knit three or something 285 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:43,120 and I just laid it down and I went uh nope no I just started the whole thing out I was like no 286 00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,920 this is not what I was thinking of oh my god at least always finish the project and if I really 287 00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:57,600 like it I keep it for myself which is a lot of things um but if I enjoyed the process and 288 00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:04,480 didn't enjoy the final product I'll give it away to somebody yeah you're welcome if you've received 289 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:13,520 this yeah I cherished few I tend to go into it thinking that I'm gonna keep everything and then 290 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,840 I wind up giving stuff away because I'm like I'm not you know I don't love the way this looks on me 291 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:25,600 as much as I thought or how many cowls do you need how many hats do you need I need many hats 292 00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:33,440 I don't wear them very often every day so yeah it's it's the same way but I rarely 293 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:41,040 I rarely tear something out once I'm done with it same if I'm gonna tear it out I'm gonna tear it 294 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:47,520 out three quarters of the way in when I realize it doesn't fit right or I've messed it up too many 295 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:53,520 times and I don't want to look at it or I'm just not feeling it anymore you know whatever reason 296 00:30:53,520 --> 00:31:03,200 but I I if I'm not going to enjoy the product or enjoy giving the product away it's not getting 297 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:10,320 finished I'll rip it out first um I was actually going through my project page recently and I 298 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:16,880 realized like 90 percent of it I don't have anymore yeah I've given away or traded or whatever like 299 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:24,320 it's it's in the wind yeah somewhere um and and I keep telling myself like no I'm gonna make this 300 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:30,160 one I'm gonna keep this one but nope I still have my cocoa bean and that one is just a good old one 301 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:35,040 like you can't go wrong with a cocoa bean and I love cocoa bean and that's my hat today and I still 302 00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:41,520 have my color work um test cowl that I did it's a good cowl the lumiera yeah I still like that 303 00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:45,680 just because the cotton is so much better on my neck than wool I can't do wool on my neck that's 304 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:52,000 a nice that's a nice cowl it's got a nice pattern and and and like every and my pineapple hat and I 305 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:57,440 can't give away my pineapple hat for two reasons one it's my final hat and two it um it's absolutely 306 00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:04,560 falling apart like oh no my my little uh I did not make a palm correctly at all it's just it's just 307 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:09,280 shedding green pieces of yarn all over the place I'm like yeah I probably should remake that palm 308 00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:15,840 at some point um but yeah I haven't it's just shedding I think it's gonna shed until there's 309 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:21,920 like two but it's your disaster palm yeah it belongs there for as long as it lasts yeah not to 310 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:29,440 mention I uh sewed in the palm too so oh no yeah no I was oh no I did fantastic with that hat well 311 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:34,480 I really did and I get so many compliments on it I really do I get people will see it be like oh 312 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:40,880 it's a good pattern yeah it's a really cute pattern but what about you Jess so I actually 313 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:45,520 don't wear a lot of police she wears nothing I really don't she likes to look at them I just 314 00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:52,320 hoard them like um I usually know from when I start if I'm just doing it to do it or if it's 315 00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:58,720 going to somebody um and most of the time if I'm doing it just to do it I know it's gonna wind up 316 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:06,640 somewhere with the rest of them in a box that I look at sometimes um I don't wear hats all that 317 00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:14,000 often I wear mitts sometimes socks I destroy I can't help it no but a lot of the stuff you've 318 00:33:14,000 --> 00:33:19,120 been knitting now ends up being like our show pieces yeah I was gonna say I found them on display 319 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:24,880 a reason to do them and actually it's made me so much happier because I feel like I can do more 320 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:30,880 because I always did feel kind of bad like I want to try this I'm never gonna wear that like why 321 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:36,160 why would I spend the money and the time doing all that and it's like there would be no one that I 322 00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:39,600 knew that I would want to give that to because I don't know a lot of people that know how to take 323 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:48,000 care of all these um and now I'm like what show piece yeah you know after the three weeks of I 324 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:55,680 gotta block that three weeks sometimes three weeks sometimes you're being real uh generous there 325 00:33:55,680 --> 00:34:02,320 listen sometimes it happens like the week of sometimes it's a lot longer I think I've got 326 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:05,520 oh I've got that cowl in there that's it's still not done I gotta do that 327 00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:13,520 I can't talk I literally waited a year yeah so that you were convinced did not I was listen the 328 00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:19,280 swatch lied I don't I don't know I the swatch lie you know what I think I think the yarn fairies 329 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:25,920 came down and they said this is a travesty maybe we cannot I don't know we cannot let this pass 330 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:33,520 I don't know that's our academia man it was oh I I don't know I was positive well no because I 331 00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:39,680 I don't know because I well I did try it on and it fit me before my surgery and then it fit me 332 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:44,800 after my surgery because it blocked but that was weird I don't know I don't know it's like the it 333 00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,800 should have been the opposite it should have been the opposite yeah like well it was a little tight 334 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,800 on me when I when I did it the first time but then I thought like okay I'm gonna block it out and 335 00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:59,280 it's gonna be huge um so I don't know I don't know what happened it it um fairies but I also 336 00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:04,480 this is a terrible thing where I finish something and I put it on before I block it and I hate it 337 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:08,640 and I get really upset yeah you can't do that that's what I did with calliope I tried it on 338 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:12,640 I'm like it's a disaster and it was the week before I'm back and I'm like I have no Ryan Beck 339 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,480 sweater this looks awful and Jess was like okay we're gonna block it we blocked it and I was like 340 00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:23,600 okay fine my mom's obsessed I love it I love that pattern it's a really really good pattern um if 341 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:30,080 you make it block it because I did I tried it on I'm like look at this garbage sweater it looks 342 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:35,040 like a sack on me it looks terrible um I don't know what happened like it just I finished I 343 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:40,720 really did I wanted to cry it looked so bad and then we blocked it and I was like oh look at that 344 00:35:40,720 --> 00:35:46,160 like magic listen so I've got to stop like I said from now on anytime that I finish something I'm 345 00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:52,320 not going to try it on until I block it because like there's no point there's none blocking is 346 00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:57,200 important it really well you know what the only time that I haven't blocked something in recent 347 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:02,560 memory was when we did the cocoa bean hat because I remember you guys blocked yours and you were 348 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:08,720 like it stretches like crazy and my hat was already big right and I'm like I'm not gonna block it 349 00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:14,320 because if I block it I'm gonna wind up with like a salad bowl for a hat and I won't be able to wear 350 00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:22,960 it and it fits me perfectly the way it is that's it for this episode for additional content 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