I'm Drea.
I'm Meg.
I'm Tina.
And I'm Jess.
And this is Paron My Stash.
Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting within the fiber arts and how awesome
it is.
Woo woo!
Thank you.
You're welcome.
Before we get into today's topic, let's check out what we're working on this week.
Tina?
I am working on extending the weights of my seed dot beanie.
So right now I am doing the super bulky version and I am using Madeleine Tosh ASAP in the
Colorway Wilted.
And so I did notice in terms of Madeleine Tosh ASAP, it is marked as a super bulky,
but I'm going to see how this guy blooms because right now I compared just the strand to other
super bulkies that I had in my stash.
And like, well, first of all, super bulky in general is just a wide array of sizes.
Because if you look at like, if you look at hometown and then you look at Rasta and then
you look at, you know, any kind of hand.
They're all kind of different.
They're all different.
But I would say this one is probably on the lighter side of a super bulky.
So I'm wondering if when this gets blocked, that this is going to bloom a lot.
So I will report back in after I get further on this.
I literally just cast on.
So I'm just getting through the ribbing right now.
So I like the color.
Yeah, it's super pretty.
It's like a it's like a wine stained cream.
Like a dark move.
Yeah.
So I really like it.
And it's really nice to touch.
Let me touch it.
OK, wait, I'm going to give you the ball because I really haven't knit much.
Yeah.
It's squishy.
He's squishy.
Don't choke me.
It's on my neck.
I'm not wearing my necklace today.
Dre was about to take me out.
No, I would never.
Meg.
So I need to kind of excuse myself first because I am actually working on three projects right
now.
The thing is that, as we said a couple of weeks ago, I have different projects for different
things.
The one I've been really burning through right now is the owl, new vocal, but I cannot podcast
and do color work.
That's not a thing I can do.
I can barely color work and watch TV.
So that's a side.
And I've been knitting the impressionist shawl, but I'm also getting to the lacy portion.
I can't podcast with that anymore.
So that's to the side.
So that brings us to today when I needed a I need another project on the go that's kind
of portable and I need something that I can actually podcast with.
So I am working on a shawl that is called a random act of kindness by Wolf and Fawn
Knits.
This is actually a free pattern on Ravelry.
It is an asymmetric shawl in DK weight.
And I am knitting it out of Madeleine Tosh, Tosh DK in the colorway.
And I know all of you will be shocked after my confession a few weeks ago.
Bird is the word.
Gee, I couldn't see that coming.
I can't help it.
I mean, it doesn't hurt that the color is actually really pretty.
It's like a it's like a cream with speckled with like oranges and very dark blues and
grays.
And I love it.
I think it's really pretty.
The pattern is is super simple and it's designed to really kind of showcase a speckled yarn.
So far, I'm actually really enjoying it.
It's kind of odd because when I first held it in the skein, it was wound very tightly
and I thought, oh, this is going to be like kind of a more durable yarn.
And I started knitting it and it's actually extremely pleasantly squishy.
Knitting it on US eights, which is kind of a size I like to do decay on.
But I'm really enjoying it so far.
I did not swatch for this project.
I know.
I just I just hauled off and did it.
I had way more yarn than I need for it.
So I'm like, I'm not going to worry about it.
And it's a shawl.
So as long as I have more yarn than I need, I don't really need to worry about swatching.
I didn't living dangerously.
I didn't swatch for the head either.
You know, I thought of that when you said I'm waiting to see how it blooms.
But I was like, I'm not going to call her out like that on the podcast.
That would be mean.
What I did was is I'm making the size below that fits me because I have a big head.
So I'm making the normal size.
And then if it blooms, it'll fit me.
Do you see what we've become?
I know we were supposed to be like the last line.
I've been influenced.
And the swatch and both of us were just like, whatever this time, it is what it is.
I'll do a swatch after I measure it after.
Well, kind of, kind of, because then you can.
I mean, you kind of have to.
Yeah, I have to.
I do not.
So but, you know, on a whole, I'm enjoying it.
And I'm actually using it on a mini minder that Jess can probably talk about way better
than me because I just started using it tonight.
It's like it almost looks like a little top that holds your yarn and it spins the yarn
so it doesn't get tangled.
And I am liking it.
But again, I haven't used it very much.
Jess can.
I was going to ask if you do pull from the outside.
I am pulling from the outside.
Yeah, you can't pull from the middle because because that's where the stick goes through
the middle.
No yarn barf.
Oh, zero, zero yarn barf.
No, the most that happens is every once in a while, like the yarn will when you stab
it through, will pull it up.
And all you have to do is kind of loosen it and pull it back out.
And it's fine.
No, thank you.
It's really I do not like your own barf.
So just I'm making borbs because we're back to the borbs.
We're back to the borbs and felting because I did a whole lot of of knit and crochet.
I did a jellyfish.
I crocheted a jellyfish and two hats, two color work.
I did two color work hats because I was trying to create a new gradient and I had to figure
out how that works.
So I got two color work hats and I did the color work.
Cowl.
And I'm still working on the Dej vest.
And I'm in that that like the body part and I'm near the end and I thought I was at the
end.
I was like three inches short and I was like, well, I'm going to felt something now.
We were at her grandparents house for for Memorial Day picnic on Sunday and like she's
sitting there working on it with this face of abject misery as she just does row after
row of stockinette.
It's like I've never seen anyone look so torched while they knit.
Stockinette and then there's like a beautiful 32 stitches of like cables and then it's stockinette.
She did.
She looked quite miserable.
So I'm taking a break from that again on and off.
I mean, I still work on it, but I wanted to work on birds and I made a parrot and a crow
and a jambu fruit dove.
And now I'm doing a dragon because reasons.
And oh, and I'm working.
I am working on the the felting studio has like these cool like medieval esque kits.
So I'm doing a chickadee.
Nice.
I'm doing that too.
Yeah, that's almost done, isn't it?
Yeah, I've got like leaves.
So I'm making bores.
Drea, I am still working on the arachnishawl by Claire Slade slash very lenient there.
It is I finished the body of the spider, the second spider.
Unfortunately, I've come to the end of another row and my stitches don't line up.
Oh, no.
You know, I have to say, like if you just it feels like if you take just a slight attention
away from it, all of a sudden, it just it's like, oh, and I say that.
And that's why I don't bring that anymore with me to the podcasting, because I feel
like as soon as I I could feel so confident about what I'm doing, it's just like, nope.
Well, I was having a lot of like good days back to back.
And over like three days, I did most of this second spider.
Yeah.
And then I got to the end of this row and I was supposed to have like a certain number
of stitches left over before I do the knit front and back, knit one.
And then it wasn't there by one stitch.
And I don't know if it's that I didn't do the knit front and back in the previous row.
Yeah, I've done that before.
And I actually will ladder down and just do the knit front and back and then go back up
instead of redo because the rows are getting so long that I don't want to redo the entire
or two rows because you have to go back twice to get back.
So yeah.
So I don't know what I'm going to do with it.
I'm waiting for another good day because I've had a lot of bad days over the past couple
weeks and my skin is still like super sensitive.
So I'm really not I really haven't done any knitting in several weeks now, which is a
bum, but I'm hoping to like power through it in the next coming weeks because I do want
to finish this project before the make along concludes.
And I think I can do it because I've had a good like couple of days.
My skin still like super sensitive, but like my head is clear.
So I know I'm I'm on the road to like getting back together.
I'll applaud that.
It's not fun.
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our current projects, patterns and yarns.
So welcome to this week's episode of the podcast.
And this week we are going to be talking about habits that crafters have that non crafters
do not have and may possibly think that we are weird for doing.
Just possibly.
I thought you had to be weird as a prerequisite to get into crafting.
That is extremely true.
I have no idea who listens to our podcast.
I mean, I know that it's mostly crafters and all that, but I feel like there are some people
out there that think that crafters are just like regular people with hobbies.
No, no, no, no.
The eccentric go to the craft.
Yeah, there's crafting and then there's if you're listening to our podcast, you're probably
weird too.
It's OK.
We love you.
Thank you.
We are, in fact, your people.
We are.
Yes, we're here.
We're weird.
Get used to it.
Join us as we go on this journey through all of our weird habits that we do together in
public.
My my number one habit that I do all the time that drives.
I don't know if it drives my husband nuts, but he definitely like comments on it.
Yeah, is like, you know, like you ever hear like construction guys when they see things
that they've built when they're driving down the road?
Oh, yeah.
And they work.
I've done that.
Yeah.
So I'll see people's like sweat, any kind of knitted anything.
I'll be like, I know what stitch that is.
Yeah, I know what that is.
I know what that is.
Yeah.
I'll see if you recognize the pattern in public.
Yeah.
Pattern, pattern or stitch.
I know that's what I'm calling it each time.
I know that shawl.
And then it's just my husband going, uh huh.
Do mine eyes deceive me or is that a noop?
Yeah.
Nope.
Yeah, that is a noop.
Some nice seats to try there.
I absolutely do that.
I also when I'm going like clothing shopping, if like Frank is with me, and I know that
you mentioned this before we started recording, but I also do it.
And I grope clothing.
Yeah.
Like on the rack.
Yeah.
Kind of too long.
That makes you kind of too long.
Like people look at you and they'll make it weird.
No, I do.
I do make it weird.
I also make it weird.
And I don't know about you, but I'm going, um, you know, what kind of gauge is this?
Can I do this myself?
What is the stitch count on this?
Uh, and what is this made out of?
And I know that the last one, I can always look at the tag, but I never do.
Nope.
I'm going to use my nice hand and feel it out.
Just feel it out.
Am I sensing a touch of kind of near?
Like when I'm like, can I do this color work pattern?
Can I think, can I graph this?
Can I sneak a quick picture?
So I find it on the line.
So in, in the, in the line of making it weird, um, one of my coworkers has this absolutely
gorgeous sweater that she wears pretty often in the winter.
And it's like this, this Heather gray, not other gray, Heather green sweater, but it
has this gorgeous lace, um, pattern like panel going down the front of it.
And every single time I see it, I'm like, how weird would it be for me to ask her?
Can I just like take a picture of your, of your sweater?
Just the front.
I don't need your head or anything.
I just need this.
So I can, I don't want your face.
So I can, I can like figure out how to do, I'm like, I bet you I can figure that out.
Does that make it more weird or less weird?
No, it's weird.
It's all weird.
And I haven't, I have never asked.
Um, but I look at it all the time and I'm like, oh my God, I would love to make that.
And I feel, and it doesn't look super complicated, but I can figure it out.
You know what I'm going to do instead though?
I'm going to look in, uh, the stitch Bibles that I have and try to find something similar
and then just replicate it.
So I'm not weird because I don't want to be weird.
This is when she listens to the podcast.
I guarantee you.
And then she just comes up to me like, Meg, it's okay.
You're not weird.
Just take the picture.
None of my coworkers.
It makes me sad.
It saddens me.
I wish they did, but they don't not anymore.
Jess, well, I just stabbed myself.
I wasn't paying attention.
I moved my needle.
If anybody is wondering, um, cause I can hear it.
Um, Jess is felting right now.
Yeah.
So if you're in like that's me stabbing the hell out of this ball and apparently her fingers
and my finger, because I didn't realize how thin I had the tail of this thing yet.
But no, like I said, my, my biggest thing, it really is like, I look at, um, color work
kind of things or I'll look at things to be like, can I, like, can I do an eight bit like
Nintendo game and then make a color work thing out of it?
And I probably could, but that'd be too many colors.
And I too color that and then I never do because I don't have the patience to sit down and
do it.
Like I've gotten stuff started, but I do.
I like, I that's, have you ever like stood there too long in the store trying to figure
that out?
Probably.
But I mean, to be fair, a lot of those things for that is like, um, the nerd stores or everyone's
a little awkward anyway.
So I feel like they're like, yeah, just give these people their space.
Like let them admire that Zelda shirt.
They don't know.
Am I right with a thousand yards stare?
You're not even looking at it.
You're looking past it.
At that point, I'm not even thinking about like the thing I'm originally thinking about
and like five projects.
But yeah, there is that there's, oh God, like Christmases when it's the ugly sweater season,
you ever like look at those and think I could do this, but would it be worth the time?
No, I'm both counts.
Really?
I'm not going to look at that and know it would not be worth it to me.
But I haven't found a Jurassic park, ugly sweater that I liked yet.
If it's not a fake print, you know, a lot of fake print now.
Yeah.
I'm wearing one right now.
Kind of.
She is.
Yeah.
But the, but if it's not like a scream print or something like that, then no, Jess, I,
I can admit that I will sit there and be like, I don't know if that's worth my time.
I have a lot of Seahawks ugly Christmas sweaters.
I have a ridiculous amount of number ugly Seahawks.
I have more than what I need, but never once have I sat there and said, I should do this
myself.
Never once.
I feel like that is so much work.
I feel like that is so much effort.
And they are like machine knit and they're like actual color work.
Oh yeah.
No, that's a lot of them are.
But what if there was one that you wanted, but they didn't make, that's what I mean.
See, I feel that way about like a Devo sweater.
Like I would really enjoy it.
So I have an action green holiday sweater and it's a color work sweater with Richard
Truman's face.
Yes.
Which I love and I adore, but I am also readily admitting that it is quite scary to look at.
Oh yes.
I've got one with Andrew Luck in his same thing.
You know, you're like, Whoa, yeah, the color work doesn't really do them a favor.
It really doesn't like, like, you know, they tried, but it's not good.
I love that sweater.
I wear it at home.
Yeah.
Fairly speaking, Sherman is not on that team anymore.
He's not on that team anymore.
Also true, but still.
I have one that I'm kind of embarrassed to admit because I know that it makes people
probably not like me.
Just so you know, as soon as you say this, friends off.
Okay, good.
Good to know.
So when people who are not crafters are talking and are talking, start talking about crafting
in casual conversation and say the wrong thing, I have to correct it.
Oh, no, we can still be friends.
I know that too.
No, because like, um, they were like, yeah, you know that, that, I don't know, like they'll
be talking about, um, yeah, I would really, I would really love a, uh, crocheted baby
blanket and the thing that they're looking at is definitely knit.
And I'm like, Oh no, that's knit.
And they're looking, okay, knit, whatever.
And then they just like get annoyed at me and I'm like, it's not whatever.
Knit and crochet are two different things.
It's true though.
And it bothers me.
It's true.
Like, um, Frank's friends, um, they have this beautiful transformers blanket that somebody
made for them and it's beautiful.
It's like, it's a work of art.
Like whoever made that for them did a really good job.
And every time I'm over there and they see me knitting, um, the blanket has to come out
for one.
Like we've already gone through this, but it's okay.
And they always go and so, and so knit this for us.
And it was just so kind of them.
And I'm like, yeah, they crocheted that for you.
No, no, no.
They knit this for me.
No, no.
That was done with a hook, my friend.
I would say that they crafted it for you.
Let's agree to disagree.
They handmade it.
No, I don't know if you guys remember this.
This was a long, long time ago.
I think I was either middle school or high school.
Um, but there were, there were these commercials by quilted Northern.
Oh my God.
Yes.
And they were like quilting the toilet paper, but they were using knitting needles.
Yeah.
My mother, a quilter got so irate.
Like, I mean, I rate at this commercial, like she really got mad.
She's like, you don't quilt with knitting needles.
Who did this?
And then like a few months later they changed it and the little old ladies were like sewing
the toilet paper instead.
And she was like, okay, somebody called me.
Not somebody, many somebody, many, many, somebody has called in and complained, but I remember
she was so mad about it.
And like, I get that.
Do you guys remember?
It's obnoxious.
Was it Liberty mutual?
Yes.
Were that was interesting.
Cause they had the finished crocheted projects and the guy was knitting a currently correct
knitted project.
And I'm like, why didn't you just follow through with one or the other?
They came so close.
Like the guy is actually knitting.
Yes.
But the projects are actually, what is happening?
That is what happened.
I was so confused.
When that commercial came out, I was like, huh?
I'm getting in a mess.
Cause like you at first you're excited.
You're like, all right, he's doing a great, he's going to pull out some of the, Oh, and
they're like, wait, you know, maybe he was just like branching out, but they make it
seem like it was all the same.
It just feels like spreading misinformation.
We're just trying to get the truth out.
I think all crafters do that though.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
I think everybody will.
Any hobbyist in general, I think really, if you think about it is probably pushing the
glasses up on the nose.
Like, well, actually the other thing too, is that both knitters and crocheters tend to
think that their hobby is the easier.
Yes.
Of the two.
Like a knitter will say, I could never crochet.
It's too hard.
And crocheters are like, Oh my God, like knitting is the hard one.
Like what are you talking about?
We all tend to think that the one that we do is the easier one.
I've heard that.
And I have always been of the mind that crochet is easier than knitting.
Jess.
It depends on what you're doing.
Crochet goes faster in most cases because a lot of times you can double or triple up
your stitches.
But if you do that, then you don't really have, like you have more openings and whatnot.
So garment wise, you can't really do that as often.
Knips are easier with crochet.
But there are a lot of things like color work, absolutely a pain with crochet.
I can't even imagine crocheted color work.
It's a pain.
And if you don't carry the yarn right, there's like obvious and sounds and that sounds like
a huge nope to me.
So it depends on what you're doing and what your project is.
I also think that it's a case of whatever you learn first.
Yeah, is the one that will be easier for you.
Hmm.
Because, I mean, whatever you're learning first, you're obviously putting in more time.
You know, we've all of us at this table, I mean, minus Jess, I mean, we've put in over
a decade to knitting.
You know, of course, crochet is going to be hard.
We're used to knitting.
I was just thinking, I'm like, oh my God, I literally two decades at this point.
Yeah.
I've been knitting for decades.
I've been knitting and I've been crocheting for, if you think about it, maybe maybe four
weeks out of it.
And it's really hard.
It's hard.
I'm not.
No, absolutely not.
I am.
I am starting to.
There's a lot of machine knitting projects that are a benefit from a crochet finish.
Yeah.
And so I've been haphazardly trying to crochet and I think I have the gist of it, but my
technique is very poor and I have also really poor tension.
So I am trying to like figure that out right now, but I feel like, um, I feel like I have
like gum in my hands and I don't know what I'm doing.
Um, I feel like we also tend to forget like how bad we were when we started and how hard
it was when we started and how we felt like we had like three hands at once when we were
trying to knit and everything was difficult and our tension was lousy and everything we
knit came out like garbage because we're so far removed from that now.
We're like, it's easy now.
Of course it is because we've had all the years to develop the muscle memory.
So another thing that I do often is when I see a good bag, I go, Oh, that's a good bag
for knitting.
Oh, that's a good project bag.
Oh, it could literally be, it could literally be anything.
It could be, it could be like a little zip pocket from an Amazon order and I'm like,
Oh, that's a good project bag.
And then I like make a stack of them and I'm like, why?
I don't, I don't need this.
No, the Amazon pouches are becoming a problem for me because like when I order clothes from
Amazon now, they send it in the zippy pouches and every time I get a new zippy pouch, I'm
like, Oh, I can store a project in here.
Do you know how many zippy pouches I have?
You only knit one thing at a time.
I don't use them as project bags.
I use them as project holders, like finished timeouts.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, finished.
Yeah.
I got you.
Like storage bags.
Oh, well that's a good thing though.
Like, yeah, there's nothing wrong with that.
Keep accumulating those.
I have so many.
Oh, that's a really good idea.
I always just kind of had a pile of finished objects that move around my craft room and
I don't know what to do with them.
No.
I don't know if we're keeping dust and moths.
That's why I started doing it because I was like, this will help preserve stuff and I
won't have to worry about it like getting out or, you know, fading.
Like I saved the ones that are like opaque, the ones that you can't see through.
So you know what other ones are really good curtain bags.
Yeah.
Those are a plus.
Those are nice.
Those are like the granddaddy of the zip plastic bags.
I'm telling you right now.
I have saved a few of those to put large quantities of the same yarn in like sweater quantities.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
To save like for a project or something.
Yeah.
I don't know what I'm going to do with it.
I mean, eventually one day, but at least they're all together.
They're family.
I have gone from that's a good box.
I can't throw that away to that's a nice bag.
Gotta keep that.
So ever since I've been doing yarn saver and selling the secondhand yarn, I literally have
a stack of used boxes in the doorway of my craft room because I do go through them.
They do go like the it dwindles, but sometimes they like, I don't have a couple orders for
a little bit.
And then I like order some Amazon stuff, but just like right now the stack is pretty high.
So I'm just like, but yeah, I definitely, I yeah, I have a stack of and, and it's not
all Amazon boxes.
It's just any kind of box that I get.
And I'm like, oh, this, this could be a good box for shipping.
And I'm like, yeah, cause it's like, I bought, I've looked at, and I, and I have purchased
boxes to ship, but it's so expensive and like, oh yeah, you've got these perfectly decent
boxes just coming in from your own orders.
It's like, it's a secondhand yarn store.
So secondhand box.
There you go.
So we actually just got a shipment of, of base yarn and it came in a secondhand box
that the distributor used to ship it to us.
You know what?
Feel validated.
If the big, big companies are doing it, like, listen, it's just, it's, it's good for the
environment.
Right.
You're using the boxes.
I have another one.
Go on.
This kind of judgey.
I don't know if people do this.
I do this.
I'm ready.
I have so many little stitch marker holders.
Yes.
I never put them back.
Nope.
They float around in the bottom of my project bags.
They float around in my notions cases.
They never end up back.
And then I curse and I can't find them and I get mad at myself.
That's why I go through stitch markers so much.
When you say the whole, I'm sorry.
When you say the holders, you mean the case to hold the, yeah, I have like, I have the
one of those little like, I think it's like a pill minder box.
Yeah.
Um, they're supposed to go in that.
Do they go in that?
No, they don't know.
They, they just go everywhere.
They go to the ether.
They go into the ether.
Yeah.
And, uh, yeah.
And I get really mad, especially when they're my nice ones, but yeah, just, you have a stitch
marker.
I do that so much.
You know how many times I'm out with like so bad Frank and his friends and I'm like,
did you see where I put this little thing down?
Yeah.
It's, it's just like a little circle.
It's just a thing.
It looks like they might have a bird attached to it or a piece of cheese or something or
something.
Yeah.
Pineapple.
And then you resort to being like, do you have a twist tie in your house?
Can I use a twist tie please?
And, and you're like, I have 7,000 stitch markers somewhere, but I can get an entire
group of people on the floor looking for my stitch marker.
If I ask nice enough.
No, that's why I have children.
Also fair.
These are all adults.
No, no, I, I've definitely like.
Easier with kids.
I have used your kids to look for stitch markers underneath your sofa.
Okay.
My recliner sofa is notorious for eating things because it has a space when you, especially
when you recline it and the amount of things you find when you lift up couch cushions though,
you're like, Oh, there's a whole like a circular needle set down here.
Well, you're recliners though.
Like in the back where, where the back meets the, the, the cushion, like the back meets
the seat, there's that a pocket.
Yes.
And it holds.
Yeah.
Everything.
It's a fun surprise.
I found a crochet hook.
I thought was like gone into the ether because I was cleaning out the couch and I was like,
Oh my crochet hooks.
I found them.
God.
You know, I would be better about when you're talking about the stitch marker holders, I
feel like I would be better about, um, even just the project bags like that, but I tend
to put, um, the project bags are all over the place.
And then I have a drawer in my craft room where the project bags are supposed to live.
And then I'm like, I have so many project bags, but then when I open it, all I see are
the zipper, like secondhand project bags.
And I'm like, no, no, I have nice ones.
Where are the nice ones?
And I'm like, and I have to like go through, you know, I have hooks that are holding current
projects.
Some of them are empty.
Then I have like random empty bags on the craft table.
And then there's like some by the, you know, the craft seating area by the window and then
there's some in the living room.
It's just the bags are everywhere.
You know, we focus a lot on like hoarding yarn.
Maybe we should just talk about hoarding anything that's possibly related to the craft because
apparently we all do.
I haven't used this in 12 years, but what if when I throw it out, I need it?
Yeah.
Like it's so hard.
I might need this exact yarn that's been discontinued for like 15 years and I only have like 20
yards of it.
Yeah.
But I might use it for an embellishment or something.
You never know.
I know.
I can't tell you how many times like I put a yarn up on yarn saver and then I want to
take it back down because I'm like, wait, what if I need it for this?
Right, right.
No, I don't have a problem with leaving my bags all over the place.
Like I always know where all my bags are because I have one that is out and one and all of
them are in the bin because I'm only using one.
But my problem is that I don't put the needles back.
Oh yeah.
Oh my God.
I finished my project and the needles just stay in the bag.
Like the bag goes where the bag is supposed to go, but nothing else does.
Do you know when I was looking for a stitch marker for Tina at the beginning of this episode,
I opened up my notions bag and I must have eight sets of interchangeable circular needles
in that bag.
Yeah.
We have a folder for them.
We do.
We have an organizational system.
Doesn't matter.
This is my notions bag.
And it's full of needles, right?
That sounds so bad.
It's full of needles.
Oh no.
Tray and just rolled out like a whole bunch.
See, I never put the cords in there.
At least you have the cords.
I have the needles and then I can't find the cords.
And then I ended up buying more cords on Amazon and there are probably cords all over this.
This is so bad.
Like I'm finding things out about myself that I probably already knew.
There's part of a circular.
Yeah.
Nope.
Here's the other one.
Guys, I don't, I don't, I don't even know what to say at this point.
I just like pull out a fistful of circular needles.
Yep.
Listen, whole bunch of needles.
You never know when you'll need them in that notions bag.
I also have a tendency of putting bags in bags and bags.
If you've listened to prior episodes, you know that I take like seven whips with me
typically when I go out.
I am actually, okay.
But like you can all attest today I have a, a, um, what's it called?
It's a very small bag.
A very tiny little satchel.
It looks more like a clutch.
A clutch.
Yeah.
It's like my wallet essentially.
And then I have one project bag with me.
I feel naked.
It's just like really impressive.
I feel absolutely naked.
I was shocked.
She walked through the door and I was like, Oh, traveling light today.
But anyways, normally I have a giant bag.
I have smaller ones and sometimes the bigger ones will have space inside their bags because
I haven't fully made the project yet.
So then I stuff all the smaller ones in the big one.
And then I, then I take that and I put it in a tote bag.
And then sometimes I move stuff around and then suddenly I don't know which bag is in
which tote or larger project bag.
And then if I finish a project and then I put it inside another project bag because
it's finished and empty now and I'm not home yet.
It just, every so often I have to go to my craft room.
I have to open up all of my bags and find all of the things that have been missing over
the last year.
Re-inventory.
Yeah.
I do that with my needles.
Oh God.
I gotta do that.
Probably like once a year I'll open up all my bags and find all of my missing needles.
And it's usually when I need to find a certain size needle that I did not put back where
it belonged.
That hasn't happened yet this year.
If we are at any sort of store and they have a mystery box of some kind, I go, please just
don't think about it.
Don't think about it.
Please don't even look at it because the minute she sees like $10 mystery box, she's like,
oh, it could be so good.
What's that 90% of the time they're not, that's not true.
They're not at least one cool thing in there.
No.
Yeah.
Most of the time they're really not maybe to you.
Oh my God.
No, actually the few times that I'm like, yeah, get that.
You're like, oh no, that yarn is probably not my style.
And I'm like, you haven't even looked at it.
And she's like, yeah, but I'm picky about yarn.
But if it's like $10 crap mystery box, she's like, I bet there's something cool in there.
I'm serious.
I'm so serious.
Yarn.
And I'm sitting here like, well, if it's yarn and you don't like it, I mean, I bet I'll
like it.
And she's like, nah.
But if it's like notions.
The mystery box is not for you, Meg.
Listen.
Like notions.
You never know.
Right.
You never, you could, you could get like cheese notions.
You don't know.
Like the possibilities are endless.
It could happen until you open the box and realize that you totally, uh, whatever you
had was totally not worth it.
Listen, sometimes there's cool stuff.
Also there's something to be said for the enjoyment of the surprise.
Sure. The enjoyment of the finding out.
Yes.
Sometimes, sometimes there is no joy.
Do you guys calculate how many minutes of knitting you could have gotten done if you're
sitting down and you didn't whip out your whip?
No.
So, uh, Frank and I went to go see, uh, kingdom of the planet of the apes this weekend.
Oh, of course you did.
His choice, not mine.
Of course you did.
I see where this is going and it's hilarious.
It's not to say that it was not an enjoyable film, but it was all right.
Not my choice again.
Um, but at the end of it, yeah.
I was like, I could have gotten a substantial amount of substantial.
It was not a short movie.
We waited until we watched this at home.
I could have been comfortably knitting while I watched.
What's even funnier is that I'm not even knitting right now.
And I still thought that I don't, I don't necessarily do that with knitting, but I do
that with a lot of things.
Like if I have a meeting after work, I'm like, I could have like gotten in a solid two and
five minute walk out of this.
Like I could have actually gotten like three lesson plans done in this period of time.
Like I don't always do it with crafting, but I definitely do it with other things where
I'm like, hmm, this time could have been spent.
Could have spent this time doing something else.
I did it today at my dermatologist appointment because it was supposed to be at one 45 and
I got there at like one 35 and I was like, Oh, that's not enough to, I don't want to
pull everything out.
And then I had to put it right back in and then they were late.
She didn't see me until two.
Oh no, that was a lot of loss.
She's fine.
Like whatever she was backed up, but I didn't know she was backed up.
I was like, I could have gotten it in a half hour.
I was so mad.
Cause every time I was like, I should pull it out.
I'm like, ah, it's too late.
It's too late.
If I pull it out, they'll call me in.
What's the point?
That's when they'll call me in.
So, okay.
Sometimes in those situations, that is when I pull it out, especially when like it's taking
forever.
I'm like, all right, the minute I open this bag, they're going to call me back and it
happens every time like clockwork.
Lo and behold, my name is called.
Usually as soon as I sit down in a waiting room, even if I'm like, if I'm early, if I'm
on time, even if I'm a couple minutes late immediately, I'll get two stitches on.
I'll be still, I'll still be.
It is, it is the way that it goes.
That's when they call you back.
Well then I'm like fumbling to get it into my bag.
Yeah.
And then I'm chatting with the nurse that's bringing me in and I'm like, oh yeah, this
is what I'm working on.
Do you want to see it?
And then I get to pull it out again.
I have another weird one.
Go on.
Um, I, if I have to roll up anything, like even the hose, I roll it up.
Like I'm winding up all of yarn.
Yes.
I know that doesn't make any sense, but like I definitely do that.
It could be the hose.
It could be a piece of rope from the children's craft stuff.
It just is all of a sudden you'll have these nice yarn looking cake balls just sitting
around.
I think that was, um, Frank's extension cords.
They are very neatly wound.
Yeah.
You learn, you learn a lot about winding.
It's a life skill.
Okay.
Listen, it helps things from getting tangled.
You're welcome.
There's no hose barf.
Does anybody else either cap their needles or I always, I never have needle caps, shove
their knitting all the way down on their needles, like as far as possible so that, yup.
Because all it took was one time of stuffing it into your bag and somehow the edge fell
off and all of a sudden you are crying bereft.
And I think that is like half the reason why I do circular needles now.
Yeah.
Well, they fall off the Cirques too, but not as often.
If you push it down far enough, it's not as bad.
If you push it down far enough, you twist it a little bit.
Yeah.
I usually push it down all the way and then I will like weave the needles into the work.
I ain't going nowhere.
I think, um, what we really have learned is we all have trust issues.
That's also fair.
Yes.
And we're a little bit judgmental.
Yes.
Yup.
And I think people are going to relate to a lot of this stuff.
It's either that or a lot of people are going to go, what the heck is wrong with you guys?
Yeah, that or that or we're just really weird.
And you're sitting there like, but then there's another crafter looking at you with suspicion.
Will you be the one that pulls my project out too fast and loses all the stitches?
Shout out to my college roommate.
Oh, who did that?
Yes.
She just picked it up.
She's like, oh, this looks cool.
And she like pulled the needle and just granted it was a garter stitch scarf, so it was not
hard to put it back on.
But I was like, ah.
It's the principle of the thing.
You would think that Patrick is carrying a glass tray when he has to lift any of my projects.
He's just like, his arms are like out and he's like, okay, hold on.
Yup.
Frank won't even touch my stuff.
If he, only if he has to, like if like whatever I'm washing the, I don't know, washing the
dishes somewhere I'm occupied where I really can't get up and do it.
I also try just not to put it in his space so he doesn't have to have a panic attack.
You know, at least he's conscious.
The only time Frank will touch my stuff is if it's in a bag.
Yeah.
And then he'll hand me the bag.
But if I ask him to hand me my project, he's like, how about no?
I'd rather not.
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