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I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. And this is Pardon My Stash.

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Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting, the fiber arts, and how awesome it is.

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Before we get into this week's topic, let's share what we're working on right now, Drea.

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I'm Drea. Arcahne shawl. Verily Knits. Claire Slade. Me too!

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With moon yarn.

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I am working on the Arcahne shawl by Claire Slade slash Verily Knits. I am using Plies and Hellhounds

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Penny in Flower Moon and Nightmares plus 10. I just noticed the plus 10 on there.

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It's extra nightmares. Extra 10. Just to be sure I've had enough.

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Have you seen the tag? I do. And now I'm like, I thought mine was a typo. I didn't think it was

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an actual plus 10. It says nightmares plus 10. Oh, okay. Well, there is a modifier on the nightmare.

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Listen. You don't know. Extra nightmares. That's funny. Meg. I'm on the struggle bus.

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That's fair. Me too. I have not to date, I have not been able to finish a single project this year.

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I have not been able to focus on a single project this year. So I started a new one because that's

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how I roll apparently. So right now I'm working on, I just started tonight,

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the Impressionist shawl by Helen Stewart. I've had the yarn for this for a really long time

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and I just finally decided tonight was the night. And I'm making it out of Ash and Bumble

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meadow fingering. And off the top of my head, I don't know the other two colorways,

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but the one I'm currently using is called Water Lilies. It's a pretty colorway.

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I love this yarn. I've had this yarn for almost two years now. And for whatever reason,

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I have never picked up the, and I knew when I bought the yarn that I wanted it for this shawl.

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That's why I picked it. And I just never buckled down and did it. But this is like a really,

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it's a really user friendly pattern. One of the things I like about Helen Stewart's patterns is

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that not everything is charted, but the directions for every single row and the stitch count for

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every single row are knit out. No math involved at all. So like, you know, when you put down your

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pattern for a while, maybe this is just me. I don't think it's just me though. And you go back to it

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and you pick up your row counter and you're like, okay, I'm on row 60, but it's a pattern. And now

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you have to figure out what row 60 was. You don't have to do that with this. You can literally just

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look, it will tell you how many stitches you're supposed to have on the needle and exactly what

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you're supposed to be doing in row 60. And I really, really love that about her patterns.

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So we'll see where this goes. I mean, by next session, I may be doing something totally

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different because it's just been my year, but, uh, Hey, you know, we're going with it. Jess,

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what you're working on? I am working on between the dragon and his wrap by Kathleen Sperling.

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And I'm on the last edge before the border or last border before the edge. I don't know.

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So I've got like five rows left and then I start the garter and then there's actually decreases,

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like there were increases of start and decreases then, and then I have to stick it. So we'll see,

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we'll see how that's going to look amazing. It's massive. Every time I had to change,

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like I had to do a new yarn thing. I did it in the sticking section. So I would have less to

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worry about, or I was hoping I would have less to worry about. So there's a ton of just like

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yarn ends hanging out here. Cause I'm not weaving them in if I'm just cutting them anyway.

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That's fair. So that's how I did that. And, uh, yeah. So we are getting there. It is huge. Um,

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it's like a blanket at this point. We're supposed to

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stick it first and then block it. And then, yeah, it's weird. So, and then you like tie the,

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tie the little ends and, and then, yeah, that's, that's how that goes. Are you going to, um,

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reinforce the stick before you do it? Um, I might. So I'm using, I'm using superwash. So

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supposedly if you're not going to do like the crocheted, um, reinforcement, you can

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needle felt. And I have plenty of those supplies. I guess we know what you're going to do. So I'm

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probably going to do a very minor needle felt and see how that were just as sort of like, cause it

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says you don't need to like basically the way this one is set up is you sneak it and you,

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you actually want to unravel a bunch of it. And then you tie it like you basically create tassels

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and you tie them all off. Um, you don't necessarily need the sneak edge, but I may, like I said,

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do it just as a in case. And I've done all this work and I don't want to watch it. Just

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also like stuff with the needle. Yeah, you do. So, well, you could, you could like stab it or

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stick it or whatever. I don't know what sticking is. So just ignore everything I'm saying. I know,

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but like, I don't know how to set it up. So just ignore anything I'm saying right now, but you,

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could you do this set up part where you want the tassels to start? So what you basically do is,

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um, you cut in between. So I know the people listening can't hear, there's this section.

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That's all just like, it goes, why and you go into the middle of that and you cut it and then

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you unravel it. So the lines become different. So, and then it's supposed to be pretty even on

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both sides and you trim them. So that's actually quite brilliant because like a lot of the,

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the sneaking is like, what do you, what do you do with those edges when you're done?

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And it's kind of neat that they created this thing where purposefully leaving those,

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those ends. Right. Like those, those bits hanging off the end. It's cool too. Cause it's like,

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you know, you can do color work without having to do like a garter type color work thing,

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which I hate doing. So it works out. Tina. I'm doing the same thing as Dreya. The end. No,

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I'm actually, I can say this. I am closing it. I have two, no, no, no, one, one repeat of one set

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of repeat to do before I'm at the spider butt. Ooh, spider butt. Yeah. Give yourself a hand.

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Thank you so much. We are almost there. No, because I've actually, I've been in this section

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for a very long time where Dreya flew through that section in like three days. So, um, so yeah. So

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it took me a really long time to get through this section. Um, but I finally did. So I'm at the,

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I'm about to hit the number to go to the last repeat. So I'm excited. Nice. That's it. Awesome.

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And if any of you want to see pictures of our current projects or get more information about

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pardon my stash, be sure to check out our website, pardon my stash.com for info, pics, patterns, and

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yarns. All right. So this week we are going to talk about those, those terrible tangled

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yarn experiences that all of us have at one point. That's going to be the entire episode.

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Okay. It's all of it. All of it. Lots of sad trombones. Lots of sad trombones. We've all been

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there. We've all been there. We, we, we have all been there. You don't know it because that's not

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the thing that we post pictures about all the time. Although in hindsight, some of the things

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we probably should, because I'm sure in hindsight, they're hilarious, but at the time, not so much

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at the time you're wanting to throw everything out the window and burn it. So this is an episode

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about laugh, crying about past experiences, things that we can actually look at and laugh about now

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and not like stop. So, so yeah. Um, my, my, my personal fave was, um, when, when the umbrella

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swift decided that the pins didn't want to be there anymore, I forgot to say you were there.

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I literally just fell apart. Boom. Half of it collapsed. The other half was trying. It was

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hanging on. There's yarn was, I don't even know what it was doing. Like half on half off it.

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There were, there are things sticking out. Like you ever see an umbrella where like one of it

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bees free of its confine of the umbrella cloth. Yeah. That's it. That's what it was kind of doing.

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It was like sticking out that swift had given us several years of good, you know, good service.

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You know, and it just, it decided to retire dramatically. Um, well then that's swift too,

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you know, that was a beautiful swift. That was the one your dad bought me for Christmas. And the,

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the one thing about that swift that always killed me was that it didn't clamp to anything.

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Yeah. So you would be spinning and it would kind of be like edging its way to the edge of the table

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and you're like, can you please just sit there quietly and not move? And it would be like,

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no, here we go. It was like when you had the full skein, like when you first started,

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it was fine. Cause it was held by the weight of the skein and as the skein got like less and less,

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it started to do its shuffle. It started walking. And you're like, I either got to stop my mojo

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and like push it back or I got to like play that game of chicken and see if I could finish this

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game before it walks off the edge of the table. And you know what we've won some, we lost some.

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Usually lost. It was a good swift. Pour one out for the swift. It was a good, it was a good,

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I like the one we have now better, better swift, but yeah, that, that one, it gave us many years

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of good service. It just, yeah, it did have the side dance and you know, it did. I don't know what

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happened that day. It just decided it was like a pin just disappeared and the whole thing just

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collapsed. It was, it was like slow motion. I saw the Pingo one, like one arm half collapse. And

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then the whole thing, just the swift had like an existential crisis, like all at once it just

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collapsed. It's like, well, my time is done. I have a story slightly related to an umbrella

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swift, but I was trying to whine a skein of yarn. And so I went to go put it on the swift.

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And when I went to go put it on the swift, I don't know what happened. I misjudged distance,

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but I went to like put it on, I had it on one side and I went to go wrap it on the other.

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And I completely missed. And the other side was just the edge of the table. So then the whole

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thing just went completely down. And then this side decided, nah, I don't want to stay on. And

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it just went down and it actually pulled the swift off. Cause that's where the clamp was. And it just,

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the yarn weight just like completely, the blue one that you have now, yeah. Throw the rest of

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the yard too. It was like, literally like, I was just, I was like, okay, this is going to be great.

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And then I'll just, and that was the last time when I load the yarn, I don't load it from the

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back. I go from the side where the edge is hanging off, not from the side that the it's on the table.

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So that was the lesson I learned. So I have that swift now. Um, congratulations.

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Let me tell you, it has burned me as well. I'm sorry. I wasn't trying to, I didn't give it to

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you for that. You just didn't have a swift at all. Before I even had it, like it was still in your

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office at your house. Um, I think you guys were on vacation and I was winding yarn for Frank's hat,

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the green and gray one. Oh yes. Yeah. And you know how like the swift doesn't stay on broiled out?

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No, no, it doesn't. So it doesn't, it doesn't lie. So the, I would, to explain that there's a middle

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part that is supposed to, um, clamp in the middle and hold the thing out. Yeah. It slides up like

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an umbrella. No, I have a, I have one of those black like big clips that I put underneath it

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to give it some extra. Yeah. It's a little binder clip. Like a butterfly. You know what,

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go with what works. Yep. But when I was winding one of these skeins of yarn, you know, the,

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the 100 Ravens that it is, Oh God, that middle clamp just decided, yeah, I'm not doing this anymore.

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See ya. And like mid wind, it just collapses and it becomes like a complete tangled mess.

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And I left it there for like an hour. Oh yeah. No, there is, there is no coming back from that.

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Look mom, a center pole. Barlow came in and he was like, what's going on? Not now Barlow.

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We're having dramatic, dramatic crying in here. I was so sad and Frank had come in because

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I had gone upstairs to wind the yarn and I hadn't come down for a while and he's like,

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I'm just checking on you. I'm inwardly raging right now. As you can see, things are going great.

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So the fun part is the reason why you ended up with that Swift is because I got my squirrel cage

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Swift, which if you don't know what a squirrel cage Swift is, is a free standing vertical Swift.

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And it has two wheels that hold that hold tension apart to hold the yarn Hank in place so that you

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can wind it into a cake. But let me tell you, even the squirrel, even though a squirrel cage

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Swift has problems. Yeah. And the first time I would, so I wasn't used to, there wasn't no how

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to on the squirrel cage. And I don't, and I don't know if there is at this point now that it's been

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out for a little bit and it's gotten more popular. There's a YouTube video. There's a YouTube video

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now. There was no YouTube video. I didn't watch it, but there were instructions. I disregarded them,

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but they are. I can figure this out. I get to, I'm telling you right now when I got mine, there was

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no instructions. The only instructions were to put it together, not how to actually use it. So I was

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like trying to use it and I was like, okay, so I think I got the gist, you know, like make sure it's

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tensioned. Well, so I thought I had it tensioned enough. I did not. Yeah. And so it was like,

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Oh, you don't need me on this. And so I started spinning and then like, as soon as it started

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spinning, it just, you know, and I went, Oh, my favorite was when I didn't like, I was adjusting

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it and I forgot once I adjusted it because I got a good tension on it. So I forgot to actually

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tighten the wheel. So as it's like going all of a sudden the wheel drops and I was like, Oh,

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that was on me. I also don't always use the wrench. So this is a user error. Like the

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Swift itself is amazing. You're supposed to, I never do. I never do. I just do, I do the double

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pole where you hold one side and hold the other side and you twist it in opposite directions.

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But I, I may use the wrench every once in a while. I straight up hold the knob on the other side.

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And I just go, yeah, I cannot with you because honest to God, like you will sit there with a

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stupid Lego booklet and be like, I will read every one of these instructions, but the Swift,

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you're like, I'm just going to wing it. Like everything in my life, like listen, every leaf

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needed to be in the correct spot. But here's the thing. Like I'm not a good directions person.

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I'll admit that I really am, but you are. And that's why I'm like, I don't understand.

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You just twist. I don't get it. And mainly because I know me and I don't know where that wrench is

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right now. I'm pretty sure it's on the fireplace somewhere. I'm just not positive. I think that

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is the thing I found the other day. And I went, I don't know. I didn't throw it out. I went,

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it's just a little flat wrench and I know. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a little flat wrench. It's

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very, it's very small. It's sitting on my craft table. I put it in a little box and I said,

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I might need this later. Watching you two have this epiphany about this wrench is one of the

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funniest things I've seen in a while. I'm just saying, you know, this, I will totally own up to user error.

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No, same, same user error. Oh, that thing, that thing can yeet yard. If you don't have the tension,

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right? Like it just flies. I mean, it does go at an incredible speed, which is good because you can

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get the cake done fast, which is bad. If you haven't set it up correctly, cause it will,

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it will literally fly. It will fly across the room. Um, take it for me and Jess, who apparently have

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experienced it. It has, and I'm seeing they're like, no, that doesn't happen. What?

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It's the yarns fault. You know what it is? It's, it's the yard dyers fault. They wound it wrong.

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Oh my God. So can I tell you, you know, I used to do that all the time. I did that all the time. It

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was terrible. I'd be like, Oh, who, who, who wound this? Not realizing that most yarn comes

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and already like wound hanks. No, I'm telling you, but that's the thing. Like earlier today,

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I was having a problem winding and I was sitting there and I'm like, I know it's not the dire.

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Can, can these like manufacturers not do this? Like, can they not like triple weave in before

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they tie the knots? And you know what? Like I, I do not have patience. That's not true. I just use

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it all up at work. I use it all up at work. Like, and that is, that is unfortunate. Like, because

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that's the thing I have to, I have to have patience at work. I can't just like haul off and yell at a

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bunch of teenagers. I'll get in trouble for that. But then I come home and the last thing I want to

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do is wrestle with some yarn because I will verbally abuse that. Just turn into a cake.

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Cake times. I put you in the oven. You should be a cake now.

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The Swift is an oven. The Swift is an oven. I don't know if you know this. Oh my God. And

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sometimes when the yarn eats, I just told, tell myself that the yeast overflowed the pan and I

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just put the, yeah. Okay. Oh my God. No, this metaphor is like running away from you. You know,

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when we started calling these cakes, like Mariel would come up when she was, she was like,

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maybe two and she'd pick it up and be like, delicious cake. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. Yum. And

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it was, it was really cute. Anyway, that's a tangent. That's a tangent. I'm not the only,

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I'm just, my mind is that of a two year old. So we knew that. Oh God. Yeah. No.

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So I have an un, unswift winding, not, not a winding related tangle. Well, no, I wasn't going

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to tell that one. I was going to tell any tangle. We just went on a no. So, um, back when I was

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knitting, I was knitting calliope and, um, w my lovely friend, Mary, um, was encouraging me to

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do two at a time sleeves. She had done them herself. She said, um, you know, here's a tutorial.

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You're going to love it. You're never going to go back to doing sleeves one at a time. I said, fine,

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I'm going to do it. And I did do it. And it is a fantastic technique. Highly recommend, um,

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figuring out a way to do it when you're already using two yarns held together was an adventure.

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Because calliope as, as written is knit with a, um, a strand of,

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I believe it's merino and a strand of mohair. So you've already balanced, you're already doing

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two balls of yarn, but then when you're doing two at a time sleeves, you multiply that by two. So

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four balls of yarn and I'm sitting on the couch and I'm trying to do this and the balls are just

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rolling everywhere. And Jess is just watching me just, I'm just swearing constantly as they're all

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tangling in each other. And of course, because I was knitting calliope in a monochrome, they're all

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the same color, which is just making things that much better. Um, and the tech, the, the technique

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I finally came up with to handle this was I put each, uh, sleeves worth of yarn in a separate

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Ziploc bag sandwich bags. And I just kept moving the sandwich bags around to me. I don't know if

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that's a good get long enough. You can talk them up. You can talk them in, but they have to get,

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I wasn't there yet because you're starting way up at the top. It was, oh my God, it was such a mess.

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but just figuring out how to juggle four balls of yarn while you're also learning a new technique

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was, was not fun. And there were a lot of tangles. I find that with doing two sleeves and

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with doing two sleeves at a time, it is easier to do at least five rows on each sleeve. Cause then

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you can tuck typically, right? It gives you just enough of a, of give that you can tuck the yarn

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for that sleeve into that sleeve. You do, you can get that underarm a bit tighter. You get,

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you get rid of that hole. There's, there is an underarm technique that you can do,

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but you really can't do it two at a time. You have to do it like in, like do that resolve the holes

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first and then, um, yeah, there is a fantastic, uh, arm hole, uh, under armpit hole technique

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on YouTube. I don't know the lady's name. It's just on my likes videos on my YouTube thing.

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So I will find that out and I'll give it to you, Meg, to put on the blog post, but it is like the

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best works every time makes my sweaters look a plus. Can't not tangling, tangling a bunch of balls.

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I'm not doing that. Just put me in a little, go sit on the couch and think about what you did.

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Give me a hat. I need a time. I'll sit in time out. Think about what you've done. Oh God.

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Other disasters. Um, dude, remember that bamboo yarn I had though.

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Okay. Yes. That was back in the pre ball winder days in the long ago in the, in the like second

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year that we were all hanging out and knitting before time way back in the day. I actually got

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a quote unquote fancy skein. That was a skein and not an already made into a ball. Yeah. Back,

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back when we weren't buying, um, like this is back when we were still just strictly buying big box

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store yarn that's already in a center pole ball. And we went to, I think it was hither and yarn.

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Oh yeah. When it was still open and you bought that beautiful purple bamboo, it was beautiful,

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beautiful bamboo yarn. And of course she has to sit down and hand wind it. Yeah. Because you know,

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how else were you supposed to do it back then? I think I might still have a picture of that

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on my Facebook. And if I have it, I'm going to put it up at the time too. Again, this was a long

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ago guys. I don't even think I had a smartphone like you didn't have a smartphone until we were

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dating. So what do you mean? Like, this is like 10 years before that. So that was like all the

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things. So it was just like, okay, you open it, you kind of like put it on the floor in a circle

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and then you wind it and you just like make sure the wind like goes in a circle. And I forgot what

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happened, but I pulled really hard and the circle collapsed on itself. And it was just a mess,

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but I couldn't cut it because it was nice yarn and I spent a lot for me on it at the time. So

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I spent the next like two hours just slowly unraveling that stupid thing. I don't know if

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I ever actually used that yarn at the end. No, you didn't because I remember a couple of years ago,

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we were going through the stash and I pulled it out and you were like, oh my God, get rid of it.

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But I still won and I rolled it into a ball, but you know, that was a time.

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I'm not going to do the sad one because you won. I did. I won. I rolled it. It was a beautiful

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little ball of yarn that sat next to its friend for the rest of eternity.

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I hope someone did get it and are enjoying it now because it was nice yarn. I hope someone,

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like whoever ended up with it, opened it and started using it and went, wow, what a nicely

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wound ball. Nicely wound yarn. It's also bamboo. So, you know, as it's doing that, you know,

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it's getting the little, the fuzzies that connect it to itself. And you're like, is this a knot? Is

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this just, it's fused to itself? Like, fantastic. I was making a hat for, I was trying to make a

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49ers hat. It was made out of alpaca yarn. This was before I realized I was allergic to alpaca.

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Do it. Just do it. Just hit it. Hit the thing. I was, I was,

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I was like, okay, here I go. And if you've ever worked with alpaca yarn, it sheds like a mother.

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And it, yeah, it started shedding and then it decided, oh, you know what? I know you made me

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into a cake, but all the shedding yarn you started tossing towards the cake. And now all the shedded

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pieces are going to get tangled in the cake. Phenomenal. So then I was like, oh, it's tangled.

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Let me untangle this. It wasn't tangled. It was like a shedded piece had attached two pieces.

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And so it wasn't in a knot at all. It was just needed to literally be ripped apart. But because

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it's alpaca, you don't know if you're ripping apart the yarn or you're ripping apart. You're

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basically snatching it. What's wrong with that yarn? That is exactly what's wrong with that.

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Yeah. I have that project now. I still haven't finished it. I've had it for over a year.

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I was going to give it to somebody who was also a 49ers fan. Yeah. And, uh, I just,

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I don't think it's meant to be. I think that needs to be burned.

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I'm like in the decreases for the crown. Oh, wow. I'm in the home stretch.

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She that alpaca just didn't like the 49ers. It's like, no, it's going to be, it fought its destiny.

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Talking about barf. Dre is ball. Wow. Wow. It doesn't look like it's going to be that bad

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though. It looks like it'll no, no, that's deserved. I'm going to pull it. Can you,

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can you take a picture of that so that all of our listeners can see what just happened to Dre?

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Yeah. Literally. All right. Yeah. No, pull. I'm going to pull it. It might. I'm going to try.

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Here. Hang on. Hang on. Hang on. Oh, yeah. Let's see what happens. It might be an okay one.

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It may be okay. Let's see. Let's see how it do. We're going to see. Okay. Oh, that's,

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that's promising. Oh, I think it's okay. Yeah. It's separated. It's good. It just pulled out a

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double inside. What about that side? What about that side? What about that side? The ugly side.

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So, um, had a little bit of yarn barf. It resolved itself.

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Hooray. It looked way worse than what it actually was. So, um, such a propos for this episode.

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Needed just a little bit of barf just to go with it.

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Everything, everything needs a little bit of barf.

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Well, I mean, I could talk about when I've already pulled this project out, but I had a, um,

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Oldenburg sweater, which was made out of like a mint yarn and the bottom of it. I was like,

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I'm totally done with this. This is totally fine. No, it's not. I missed an entire stitch and it

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rolled all the way back and I went, I went, Oh no. And so I was like, so I fixed it all the way down,

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but then there was a color change at the, at the hem. So I was like, you know, we'll do,

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I'm going to put a nut and I put a nut. Um, it's unraveled. The entire project is unraveled.

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I, I, I unraveled on the entire project because between that and like, there was like a pulled

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stitch in one of the sleeves and like, it was just, no, it was, it needed to come out.

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I might make it again because I really liked that project, but I totally, absolutely. That was like

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its own barf. I swear because like I had to like, refix it and then like, it just sat there with a

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knot at the bottom of it. And I was like, fantastic. Fantastic. I think that's one of the most

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frustrating things when you, you really want a project to work out and it just keeps having

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problem after problem after problem. I don't have the patience for that. Um, if I keep having issues

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with something, that's it for me. That's it. Like once I have corrected this problem, I think you

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said once on an earlier episode, like three problems, I'm out. And I think that's fair though.

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I think that is fair because it's like, I said at the beginning of this episode, I've been on

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the struggle bus with knitting for a while and that's fine. But like when you're on the struggle

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bus with one project, you kind of get to the point where you're like, how much effort and stress am I

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really, am I really putting into this? And, and am I actually finding any joy in it at all? Yeah. Um,

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and when you keep having issues with it. And that's actually what happened to me with the, um,

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the Celtic myths shawl. I made a mistake and I mentioned this before we started the episode when

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you were here earlier tonight and it took me like three weeks to go back and fix it. Wasn't a huge

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mistake. And I went back and I fixed it and I'm like, okay, moving forward and probably about three

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days later, I made another mistake and it was a bigger mistake. And I was like, you know what?

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I'm just, I'm done. I'm done. I don't have the wherewithal to go back and pull this out.

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I don't want this project badly enough. Like I'm all set. I still have not blocked that.

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I still have the, I mean, yeah, me too. Really? Yeah. You haven't worn it yet. No. Oh, why?

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I haven't blocked it yet. Okay. But why it came out so good. Why would you not?

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So you're the only one that finished it. It's done. The ends are woven in. I just never blocked it.

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Cause I did that project was so boring when I was like, no,

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I've never heard her complain about a project so much. I mean, the whole beautiful piece, but oh

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my God, I did mine so fast. Yeah. I, you know what though? Like, I mean, I say, see, but I did that

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with, um, dark academia, but it's because I was like convinced it wouldn't fit. And that's why I

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just didn't block it. I was convinced. Like I had a reason. I'm like, I'm not going to block it because

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it's not gonna, I know this isn't going to fit me. So what's the point?

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I just realized though, I never finished blocking my little like, I know, no, no, you didn't just

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realize because you bring it up every three months and you go, I'm gonna block that. Yeah. No, because

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I couldn't find the steamer because I have to steam block it. And I found the steamers like,

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oh cool. I can do that. And then I put the steamer away and still haven't done it. Which project is

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it? It is. So you remember her, I am her Morgana or I am dragon shawl. The one that, yeah, yeah.

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It's like a, it's a mini one. It's like a cowl and she made that out of, um,

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our yarn ranger in the colorway Morgan. So it's like this nice, like red and green color. That's

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not Christmasy. It's more like autumnal. Um, but then you have like, uh, like a clamp on it, like

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to close it. I gotta get that too. Jess, it's literally been like every couple of months.

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You're like, I don't block that. I know, because every, don't do it because every couple of months

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I see it in its box and I'm like, oh yeah. And then I moved the box and I don't see it and I forget

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it exists again. But the talking about having stuff that has remained unblocked reminded me.

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Oh my God. I think that's like the 19th time I pressed that button. Oh my Lord. I think,

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I think you kind of have to get to a point where you look at a project and you're like,

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not, not one that's done. Absolutely. But that you haven't done in a while. And you just kind of

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have to come to terms with like, I'm not going to finish this. I'm not going to finish this. Wait,

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wait, let me just rip it out. I'm going to play the noise first because that's how sad this is.

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Hold on a second. Oh, pre trombone. Oh no. The silver can pour one out for the silver can.

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I did wind it back up. Yeah. You know what? That was such great yarn though.

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I've got a, I deserved a pro deserves a project that yarn. I'm glad you were able to be something

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else. So for the silver cami that I actually had, um, two skeins of yarn held out for that. So I

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feel like, and Dre, you could tell me this, how many yards on average does it take to make a pair

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of socks, adult socks? So usually a fingering weight skein of yarn has like, what you usually

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have about four, a little less than four 40, somewhere around there. And I can make a whole

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pair of socks with a skein of yarn then with some leftover, depending on like the, the length of the,

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um, of the leg. Yeah. Cause I think what I could do, what I could do is I could make myself a pair

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of socks and I can make the girls a pair of socks and then we could have cutesy little matchy socks.

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But then I would make socks for my kids who would not appreciate it and they would destroy the socks.

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Well, you should make a pair of socks for you and a pair of socks for me.

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Well, I will just make, how would I just make two pairs of socks for myself? How's that?

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How's that? I don't need your socks. Just a suggestion.

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How about I remember I'll make four socks and everybody gets one sock. How's that?

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Beautiful. Y'all can share. Beautiful. Everybody gets a little sock. We'll use them as stockings.

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They'll be part of my stash stockings. I have a womp womp sock story. Okay. Hold on.

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No, you don't need to do it. So we've, we've talked before about, you know,

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their wedding and Jess made shawls for me. She made shawls for everybody at this table pretty much.

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That was kind of our plan from the get go is I helped pick the yarn and the patterns.

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And then I said, go. And she made all the shawls. That was all of my contribution.

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So as we got closer to the day, I decided I wanted to make her a pair of socks.

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Because at the time I wasn't knitting shawls and I was knitting socks, which I don't knit anymore.

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So I picked out, it was called spring forward. I think is the pattern. It's a really pretty pattern.

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It's free on nitty. And I made it out of this beautiful yarn. And I cannot remember what the brand was anymore.

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It was this, it was gorgeous Navy blue. It matched the vest that she wore for the wedding.

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It matched the shawls she made for me. And they came out really nice. I thought.

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And she wore them the day of the wedding and go back to the hotel room at the end of the night.

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And she takes them off and I am for whatever reason. And I know how to do it.

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But my nemesis is the Kitchener stitch. Like I can't do it every time I do it.

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Something goes wrong and it falls apart. So we got back to the hotel room.

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She takes her shoes off and the entire toe is gone from one of the socks. I ended her like it's, it's just gone.

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Like completely unraveled. I noticed the hole when we were doing makeup. Oh, you didn't tell me.

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Of course I didn't. Cause I was, you were going to tell me to take it off and I wasn't taking it off.

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I wear those socks all day and night. That's really sweet. And I didn't know that. Yeah. No.

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And I tried, I tried like, like a quick mend and folding it, but I could feel it like the whole night.

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Oh, no. And I felt so bad. I'm like, I'm ruining it, but I'm not. And the other one was fine, but that one was like, ha ha ha.

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Yeah, no, I don't know what it is. It's, it happens. And I said,

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well, probably one of the reasons why I don't like knitting socks anymore, because

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I will be so careful and somehow I will still screw it up. I'm also super acidic. So I mean,

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and yeah, but that wasn't your fault. That was my fault. No, no, no. She melts jewelry, man. Like

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literally her wedding ring is made out of, um, Damascus, Damascus steel, because she'll just melt

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gold. Yeah. Gold is gone. No, she will. So you are a dragon. Silver is gone. It's like, or like,

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you'll, I'll take it off and it'll be like warped. Yeah. Like why? So when we were, when we were

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looking for wedding rings, we were like, we got to find something super durable. pH levels are stupid.

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So yeah, but that wasn't, that wasn't your fault. That was my fault. That's me like messing up the

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toe of a sock again. And I've, I know because I've done it multiple times. So did I fix them? No,

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I didn't. She still has them. I didn't fix it. It's the memory of the sock. Well, now I know

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it was the memory of the sock falling off her foot all night. And I feel bad. Anyway, it was the

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thought that counts. I guess. Whatever. Oh, I got one. Oh, wow. I have a Francis story. Yep. It's

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another sock story. Um, I was, you remember, so he was a baby. He was probably only about four months.

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We'd probably only had him about four months. I'm going to keep you in this France. And I was

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trying to knit. I was knitting socks for Jess and it was, I don't even remember what the pattern was.

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I was really struggling with it. Like I had had to tear it out like three times and restart.

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And Francis unnoticed to me, grabbed the loose end of the ball in his mouth and just ran. And the

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whole thing fell off the needles and he just ran away with it. And that was the end of that. Like

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I literally just got upset. I got upset. Like Francis didn't know why we were both upset because

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he was a baby and he was like, I don't know what's going on. I'm just trying to play with some string.

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Um, he's actually, I can't remember a time since then that he's ever tried that,

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but he, it was like that one time and I was just like, you know what? I'm done. This is it. Like

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that was probably the fourth, third or fourth time that something had gone wrong with those socks.

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And I was just done. I never, I never tried to do that pattern again. Three times you're out.

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Yep. That was, that was the end. When I was thinking about was I was doing sweater of swords

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and he wanted cuddles and he jumped into my lap when I did not see him coming and landed right on

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it and pulled the color work and took me a good 20 minutes of pulling the color work back because

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it all disappeared into it. He also destroyed your, uh, shalawene. Remember he tore a whole

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section out of it. Oh, that wasn't him. Who was that? That was baby girl. She jumped. Oh,

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that was tabby. No, that was, oh, she was in my lap and she put her head back and then she pulled

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it forward and her ponytail got caught on my needle. Oh, I thought it was Francis. So she pulled

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one of the needles forward and it just pulled everything off. She had to rip back the entire

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section, the whole thing back to the start, uh, yarn over twice and two together. And I could not

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figure out in that where the drops is where it was. I gave it a good attempt and I was like,

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Nope, you know what? And I was, and she was almost done. She was almost done with the section. She

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had to go back and do the whole thing. I was like, that went away for like a day and then I went back

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to it. But yeah, that was, I don't know if I would have recovered from that. I think that one was

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tough because I hated that. I hated that section. I hate doing the double yarn over. Um, double

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yarn over pain in the neck. They really are. It looks great, but I'm like, but it is, if you drop

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it, it's like, Oh God, where is it? Which, which one of these is the knit two? Which one of these

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is the yarn over part? What is happening? Yep. But do you remember like a billion years ago?

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When you were living in Bristol? Yes. Tempest.

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Okay. So Meg had a cat named Tempest. She was a black cat and she was an angry old lady even

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when she wasn't old. Beautiful. Flawless. I was sitting on the couch and I was knitting a pair

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of socks using socks that rock. It was like gorgeous yarn and a Tempest tried to like take

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a bite out of it, which was weird for her because she never did that ever. That was like, like the

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one time in her many, many years that she ever tried to bite yarn. So then I swatted at her

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to get her away from the yarn and then she jumped up on the back of the couch.

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No, no. She was already there. She tried swiping it from behind you. She reached down over your

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shoulder. I thought it was next to me. No, no, no. Because when you did that, she actually like

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looked at you for a minute. Like, you could see this cat was like angry that she got her from

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here. You pushed her away and she, and she kind of like tipped her head and looked at you.

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And then she took a, like took a bite out of the back of my head. She, she did. She looked at you

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like, like this bitch. And then just, you could see her think about it because it was slow. Like

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she legit just opened her mouth and took a very deliberate bite out of the back of my head.

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She was not a biter either. No, she was not a biter. But her face was like the audacity. How dare you.

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And she never did anything like that again. Like ever. She never, she never went after yarn. She

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never chewed yarn or attacked projects. But man, like that one time, she was, she was mad. Like, oh man.

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