1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,320 I'm Drae. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And Dom Jess. And this is Pardon My Stash. 2 00:00:13,760 --> 00:00:19,440 Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting the fiber arts and how awesome it is. 3 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:26,160 Before we get into this week's topic, let's share what we're working on now, Meg. What I'm working 4 00:00:26,160 --> 00:00:34,560 on at this moment in time is a franken sweater. I started this sweater a couple of times. I'm 5 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:40,320 using our the Critical Hit Dyes Wheel of the Year, some of the colors. I wanted to do a faded sweater, 6 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:46,240 but I couldn't decide, I couldn't find a pattern that had all of the features that I wanted. 7 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:53,440 So I'm actually using three different patterns. One for the numbers of the actual construction 8 00:00:53,440 --> 00:01:02,400 of the chest and the body, one for the sleeves and one for the fade. So it doesn't have a pattern, 9 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:06,720 but it's pretty mindless. I'm enjoying it. No patterns in all patterns. I mean, 10 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:11,760 no patterns in all patterns. I don't have a pattern I can like name, but I'm just taking from a bunch. 11 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:16,800 I did finish my random act of kindness shawl that was made with the... 12 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:22,080 Oh, thank you. That's like two whole projects in like a month. I paused for a second because 13 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:29,440 I thought I was going to accidentally hit the womp womp. No, that actually went well. The 14 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:33,680 womp womp should be for all of my lack of progress for the first six months of the year, 15 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:40,480 but apparently June was the month. But I knitted it out of Tosh DK from Jimmy Beanswool in 16 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:50,000 the colorway bird is the word. And I was right about the Tosh DK. When I blocked it, it exploded. 17 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:58,240 It got about twice the size, which for a shawl is awesome. It went from a cute little neck accessory 18 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:03,920 to I can literally wrap myself in this thing and who doesn't love a bigger shawl and it's cozy. 19 00:02:03,920 --> 00:02:07,440 I think it's going to be like a nice workhorse shawl for the fall. My only 20 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:14,080 like cautionary tale, I guess. The yarn is great. It blooms like you wouldn't believe. It is super 21 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:21,040 soft, but if you are going to make a garment out of it, I cannot stress this enough. You need to 22 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:27,920 swatch. You need to swatch. You need to block swatch. Like, yeah, block swatch and you need to 23 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:34,000 like, or if you want to live dangerously, you're probably going to want to go down like two sizes 24 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:40,400 because it did. It just, it blooms awesome. If you love, like you want to do something bigger, like 25 00:02:41,200 --> 00:02:48,640 that shawl grew two sizes with me doing literally nothing but blocking it. But that's not the kind 26 00:02:48,640 --> 00:02:55,680 of surprise you want if you're making a sweater. So just a cautionary tale. Exactly. Exactly. 27 00:02:56,800 --> 00:03:00,000 But the yarn is great. I love the yarn. So, Andrea. 28 00:03:00,000 --> 00:03:07,840 I am working on the French Can Can shawl by Mademoiselle C. I've actually done the entire body, 29 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:12,880 which is really exciting. It is because I don't think that I've talked about it on the podcast 30 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:18,480 yet. I don't think that I've posted any photos yet, except for the skeined yarn. 31 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:25,440 The body knit up really fast. And I'm really enjoying the knit. The border's going to take 32 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:32,720 forever as they do, but it's cable. So I really enjoy it. That's good. The border goes faster 33 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:37,680 than you think it's going to go. Trust me. Once you get into it, it's like, you have to do at least 34 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:47,360 like one section and then you're, you're good. Yeah. No, no, I'm sorry. It looks really nice, 35 00:03:47,360 --> 00:03:52,480 though. I really like these colors that you other. Well, it's that and also like the 36 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:59,680 yarn is giving really plump cables, which is always nice. The cables are very plump. I love that. 37 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:03,280 I am using Madeline Tosh. 38 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:16,000 D.K. in home means Nevada. And I'm also using Madeline Tosh vintage in Rye Bourbon for the border. 39 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:22,560 And yeah, I recommend this pattern already. I also recommend that pattern. I've made it before. 40 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:28,640 It's good. All right. You did. I made it for my cousin, Melissa. Yeah. Yeah. Goes by fast. Looks 41 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:34,960 good. These two colorways together are noise. It's one of those ones where it's it looks a lot 42 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:39,680 fancier than it is. Say when it's done, we can like display it next to the jellyfish and be like, 43 00:04:39,680 --> 00:04:44,480 oh, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm 44 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:48,000 going to display it next to the jellyfish and be like, two things you can do with this yarn. 45 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:58,960 It's true. I saw your jellyfish. It's amazing. Thank you. Tina. Well, I went and picked the 46 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:08,800 easiest thing that I could not think while I'm knitting. So I'm working on my high vis beanie, 47 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:16,400 which is not out yet. And it's going to be a compliment to my high vis cowl. It's done in 48 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:21,440 a similar way. And it looks like brioche, but it's not brioche. That way is to keep it thin. 49 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:28,880 I finished I think I mentioned this, but I actually brought it with me. But I finished my seed dot 50 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:38,080 in the Tosh Madeline Tosh ASAP. You could take it. It's really squishy. Is this the slouch 51 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:43,200 version? This is the slouch size six. So it's the large adult because I have a massive head. 52 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:50,000 It's really, really soft and squishy. Don't put that on. It's going to be massive on you. 53 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:56,560 You have a much smaller head than me. Hence why she's going to put it on. Amazing. 54 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:01,520 The nice thing is it's a slouch. So it doesn't matter. Like as long as it has a really nice 55 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:06,800 slouch, I like it. As long as it doesn't like the brim isn't too big. Yeah, it's fine. It's 56 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:12,960 actually pretty pretty snug. Well, yeah, it's one. The one thing I do like about the brim 57 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:20,640 with this yarn in particular, the ASAP yarn is that it's very squishy to the point that it's 58 00:06:21,280 --> 00:06:26,080 stretchy. So I could make a smaller brim and then let it kind of stretch out a bit. 59 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:32,800 And it fits kind of a lot of different sizes. But did it block big? I did not block it. Oh, 60 00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:37,920 it's not blocked. This is going to get even. Wow. I'm extremely afraid to block that. You should be. 61 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:42,800 I don't want to block it. Yeah. I have not blocked hats before for that same reason. 62 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,760 I don't think it needs a lot. I don't need to block. No, like not everything needs a block. 63 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:53,040 It's true. It's already in shape. Yeah, it's already has it's what it needs. I'm good. When 64 00:06:53,040 --> 00:07:01,120 we did the what's it called? Thank you. Oh, the cocoa bean. Yeah. See, you knew I did. You're 65 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:09,760 just being difficult. I needed a second. OK. I thought a stroke. That was the one that I remember 66 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:12,880 because I remember you guys finished it. You're like, oh, this this blocks big. And I'm like, 67 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:17,120 well, I'm not blocking this hat. That's not happening. Mine came out OK, though, because 68 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:23,600 I knit so tight. You do knit tight. And I don't mine. I have to put in the dryer every month or 69 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:29,760 so when I'm wearing. Oh, my God. Seriously. It just stretches. Oh, my God. But I blocked mine 70 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:38,880 and I knit loose like you do. Yeah. I it's a curse, I tell you. But yeah, the seed dot beanie 71 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:48,000 is active, the upgraded version that has it's made for decay to super bulky. And it also has 72 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:55,840 extended sizing from essentially newborn to large adult. And it's actively being tested right now. 73 00:07:55,840 --> 00:08:03,040 And I actually think, yeah, some people have finished. So I have. So my testing just for future 74 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:08,560 reference is extremely casual. I don't give deadlines. I don't make you do anything other 75 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:14,560 than fill out a feedback form at the end of your net so that I have the information I need to make 76 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:21,200 adjustments as necessary. You can skip the photos. You can skip the social. You could basically 77 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:26,720 everything else is optional. So because I don't want to do all that. So I'm not going to make 78 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:35,280 other people do that. But yeah, there are still some openings and you finish it basically when 79 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:43,680 you finish it right now. We have a casual, very loose date of August 31st. But it's probably 80 00:08:43,680 --> 00:08:50,000 extended if some of the sizes aren't tested yet. Since there's so many weights and so many sizes, 81 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:57,280 I just literally can't knit them all. So. But yeah, so. I'm here. 82 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:00,960 Hooray. Jess? 83 00:09:01,760 --> 00:09:12,320 I am in the final stages of the I am Dragon remix by Alexander Davidoff. And I'm kind of playing 84 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:19,360 yarn chicken because I'm using the critical hit Dice Rainbow Blast, which is a rainbow gradient. 85 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:26,880 And when I got to the end of the pattern, I was just getting into yellow. And I want to finish 86 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:35,680 the rainbow. So I added a whole other scale repeat so I could get to the red. And now I'm in the red 87 00:09:35,680 --> 00:09:41,920 and I'm doing the garter stitch. So you're in the red and you're probably. And I'm in the red. 88 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,320 In every sense of the word. In all senses of the word. And I have about, 89 00:09:46,320 --> 00:09:51,680 I think, seven more rows of the scar stitch to go. And I don't know if I'm going to make it, which. 90 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:56,480 It's not that dire. You can literally just make another scale. 91 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:05,200 I could make a mini scale of the red to finish it off. But even if I don't, it actually came 92 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:13,760 really close. So this was fun. I really like it. It's super cute and rainbowy. And you know how 93 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:19,120 y'all were like when I brought up a few weeks, a few weeks ago, a few, few episodes ago that you 94 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:24,400 just whack a bird on something and I buy it. You guys were like laughing because it is funny. 95 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:28,320 You whack a dragon on something. Yeah. And Jess is going to make it. 96 00:10:28,320 --> 00:10:36,400 It's got dragon scales. And I did the. So my Morgana shawl is actually I am dragon, like the. 97 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:38,000 Two. Two. That's right. Yeah. 98 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:44,800 The original one was a bit thicker and this is very similar. It has the I am dragon two had one 99 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:51,680 bead per scale and this one has three. And she did the construction a little bit different. So 100 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:57,760 it's like, it's not super different, but I feel like on the backside looks a little cleaner now, 101 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:02,320 which doesn't really matter to anyone but me because I'm the only one really looking at it, 102 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:07,840 but it matters. But I, so I really like it and I like the extra beads, which I also had to add 103 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:14,080 more of because I realized what I wanted to add in a whole other repeat. I needed to add two whole 104 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:20,800 repeats of scales. So I did have to kind of cut it and string on some more beads and then re do it. 105 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,640 So that was an adventure too, but we're here, we're doing it. We're, we're playing the yarn 106 00:11:24,640 --> 00:11:32,880 chicken. That's not too dire of a yarn chicken, but I'm pretending it is. And why it's the added 107 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:37,600 stress. Most of us look at yarn chicken and we're like, this is not, I don't want to even look at 108 00:11:37,600 --> 00:11:43,040 this. I'm kind of doing that with these because, and it's giving me anxiety just looking at them. 109 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:50,640 If I'm determined enough, this will stretch. Also, uh, uh, stress helps people with ADHD. 110 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:56,560 Yeah. It's like, it's, it's fair. Um, and then once I'm done with this, I, I do have to do those, 111 00:11:56,560 --> 00:12:02,400 the ribbing rows of my vest because that's all that's left. You're so close. Like just do it. 112 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,560 I know. Well, it's, it's the ribbing at the hem. And then I have to pick up the collar, 113 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:11,440 which is also ribbing. And I'm like, oh, you're literally that meme of like, I fixed a problem 114 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,760 that I've been putting off for six months and three minutes and I will learn nothing from this. 115 00:12:15,760 --> 00:12:21,840 Yeah, no, I know. And then, and then after that, I'm got, I got a Lord of the ring book of, 116 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,320 of patterns. So I'm going to go through that and find something else to do. So that's, those are 117 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:33,360 my adventures. That's where I'm at. Um, and if people want to see pictures of these projects, 118 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:38,480 or get more information about part in my stash, be sure to check out our website, part in my stash 119 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:44,560 dot com for info, picks, patterns, and yarns. And you can also find some of the yarns, especially 120 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:49,840 the Madeline Tosh's that we were talking about in this episode at a Jimmy beans, wool.com 121 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:58,480 Um, to get everyone a little bit more involved if they wanted to. And we know that not everybody is 122 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:03,120 as active on social media platforms. Um, and I know we do post a lot of stuff on our, on our 123 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:09,040 Instagram, but for those that are as active into the social media site, uh, we did add a, uh, 124 00:13:09,040 --> 00:13:16,080 Q and a section into our webpage in the get involved page. So you can go in there, fill out 125 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:20,640 the form there. If you have any questions or anything you wanted us to talk about, uh, you can 126 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:25,600 go to our get involved page, uh, go to our Q and a section, and then you can write in your own 127 00:13:25,600 --> 00:13:30,880 questions, uh, that you would like to be answered. And we will try and go through them and you know, 128 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:36,320 get to them as we can and, uh, try and cover some things or recover some things we might have 129 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:42,720 mentioned briefly, but people might want more, uh, more answers to. So we, we thought that would be 130 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:48,800 a fun way to get, you know, get more out of our community because you guys often have a lot of 131 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:54,320 cool questions and fun questions. And we like to look into it. And some of them are things we 132 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:58,320 haven't thought about and it gets us thinking about them. One of the questions that we actually got 133 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:02,880 before we started our Q and a that, so this one came just through our general contact was from 134 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:08,800 Bella L. They were wondering if we were ever going to talk about sweater and cardigan constructions. 135 00:14:08,800 --> 00:14:13,840 And I feel like that was something we may have touched very briefly on in the past, but it was 136 00:14:13,840 --> 00:14:19,120 something that, that got us all thinking about, you know, what we actually do look at when we're 137 00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:25,760 looking at our, our constructions or on our pattern, choosings. And I feel like most of us generally 138 00:14:25,760 --> 00:14:32,560 just choose a pattern that we like and have it actually, as far as sweaters and cardigans go, 139 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,880 I don't think any of us have actually written a pattern. I think the closest right now is you, 140 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:41,520 Meg, who is taking a bunch of patterns and creating your own. Oh, you mean for a sweater, 141 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:49,280 for a sweater. Yeah. This is not rocket science though. No, but it's not. But yeah. So, so like 142 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:54,960 looking at it, we, we, we're all sort of like, okay, we don't have like a designer's eye for it 143 00:14:54,960 --> 00:15:00,640 because none of us have done it yet, but I feel like all of us do have things that we look for 144 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:07,120 when we're looking for patterns or preferred sort of construction aspects that we lean more 145 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:15,520 towards or avoid in general. For instance, I know I, it's all the ones that I have done thus far 146 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:28,800 are seamless. I've done seamless sweaters and mainly because I know that sewing seams is not 147 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:36,800 my forte. I can't do them. So they look nice usually. So this, the seamless ones are, are the 148 00:15:36,800 --> 00:15:42,080 way I go. So that's the usual, but there, there is one, it's a seam sweater and I can't remember 149 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:47,440 the name of it. And a lot of people were doing it last year and it looked really cool. And so if I 150 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:50,560 were ever to do a seemed one, it'd be that one. And I wish I could tell you what it was, but I 151 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:57,440 don't remember the name to find it. Wow. It was like, I don't know if you find it, I'll put it on 152 00:15:57,440 --> 00:16:05,920 the blog. Okay. I've also only done top down. I think the real like, um, advantage to seamless 153 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:14,960 is that first off it's, it's generally all, it's all in one piece. Um, if it is about losing pieces, 154 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:20,080 right? Well, not even that, but it's, that really kind of promotes the uniformity of it. 155 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:26,720 It's kind of hard to get like a lopsided shoulder when you're knitting it seamlessly in the round. 156 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:34,800 That's fair. It is easier to make mistakes, I guess, or make things non-conforming when 157 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:39,440 you're doing two of a kind. I remember reading this like, God, I don't even remember like, 158 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:46,160 I think like 2005 or something on the yarn harlots blog where she was making a baby sweater in parts 159 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:55,280 and she did one side with one needle size and picked up the, did the whole other side and a 160 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:02,880 different needle size. So do yeah. And doing that in pieces. Okay. That's, I mean, that's extreme, 161 00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:07,280 but seamless, you really don't need to worry about that as much because you're knitting it all at 162 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:13,520 once. And there's also, if you are knitting top down, you can try it on as you go and that is, 163 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:19,360 is it long enough? Does it fit in the bust? Is it time to start the sleeves? Like invest in one of 164 00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:24,160 them loopy things. If you're going to do that, the barber cables. Yeah, those are great. Um, 165 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:28,640 but you really can't do that when you're doing it in pieces. I have done exactly one sweater. 166 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:35,840 It was a cardigan. It was a seamless cardigan. So it was all, the body was all one piece and it 167 00:17:35,840 --> 00:17:41,360 was top down. And I liked that it was top down. I liked that I could gauge where I was going to put 168 00:17:41,360 --> 00:17:47,840 the sleeves. And I liked that it was all in one piece as I was making it. But I don't think that 169 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:54,240 I would, I don't think that I would do another seamless sweater or cardigan with that many cables 170 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:59,840 again. I was, I mean, it was beautiful, but that was a lot of cables. It was beautiful. And it was 171 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:06,080 a lot of cables and it wasn't that I didn't enjoy doing the cables, but when I was done, um, the 172 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:13,760 sweater was just so heavy. Yeah, it lost all of its shape. Yeah. Um, so I think that the addition of 173 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:18,800 seams would give it a little bit more structure. So I think that's something that I would try for 174 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:24,320 my next sweater. Yeah. Seamless isn't going to give you a seamless is great for the color work 175 00:18:25,120 --> 00:18:31,600 or a single color or a pullover. Right. Yeah. Um, well even a cardigan that is like, like if you're 176 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:37,040 going to stick, um, that's fine, but yeah, you make a really good point that if you're going to do 177 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:41,440 something, that's going to be like a lot of cables and really heavy, um, you want that extra 178 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:47,360 reinforcement in the seams. Yeah. It's a good point. I remember I made it so that it would end 179 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:52,800 at, at about my knee. And I loved that. That's where I wanted it. But after I started wearing 180 00:18:52,800 --> 00:19:01,440 it, it was like on the floor and I ended up, um, I did end up taking it back. That's right. Didn't 181 00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:10,320 you like, I did it and yeah, I frothed off like the bottom third. Oh my God. So much. I know so 182 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:18,400 much work. And I frothed it so that it would come just to like at my bum. So that when it, 183 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:26,880 when I wore it and it stretched, it would cover my bum, which is what I wanted at the very least. 184 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:31,440 Like that's my baseline requirement. I never actually reblocked it when I was done. 185 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:39,440 And I didn't actually, um, we've been my ends again. So it's technically back in my unfinished file. 186 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:45,840 You, the way you said that I thought that this was going to be a lot more ominous. 187 00:19:45,840 --> 00:19:49,200 Like the ending was going to be a lot worse. I was like waiting for the catastrophe, 188 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,800 the way you were, you were leading into it. I'm like, Oh no, Oh no, Oh no. 189 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:58,000 What happened that it's never being worn? It will when the time is right. When the time is right. 190 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:03,520 Yeah. You finish it. I think, I think I would want to make a different sweater and make it more to 191 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:09,920 what I actually want. Right. Well, you know what though? It was like, it was a good, 192 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:16,960 it was a good first sweater. What you like. Yes. And what you don't like more that. Yeah. 193 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:22,160 Less what I like because I don't think that I found what I like yet, but I definitely know what I 194 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:29,280 don't like. So I'm going to try again. Eventually. I'm just not ready for that kind of a project. 195 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:34,560 That's fair. I'm kind of enjoying simple projects. That's fair. I have finished exactly one this year. 196 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:42,400 Technically it's not done yet because I never blocked it. It doesn't matter. It still gets 197 00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:48,880 a plus. Just like 90% of my projects these days. I didn't block dark academia for a year. 198 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:54,800 I still haven't blocked the Celtic myths shawl. That's impressive. I keep saying that I'm going 199 00:20:54,800 --> 00:21:01,600 to do it and then I don't. That was early 2022. Stuff like that takes so much time because you 200 00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:08,800 need space and towels and cat protections and. Yeah. I think I'm a little like warded off to 201 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:13,600 wanting to block anything after the cats like ate a hole. You need a designated. In that shawl. 202 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:16,800 Like you need a room. I don't really have that right now. 203 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:23,200 Yeah. That's fair. You'd block at my house. I could. My dogs don't jump up on tables. 204 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:35,280 I've done seamless and seam sweaters. I've done top and bottom. So top down, bottom up. 205 00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:42,800 You did the bottom up? I did. Which one was that? It was. Did I frog that? 206 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:49,520 I might have frog. No, it was like a black sweater and I don't have it. And I don't know 207 00:21:49,520 --> 00:21:55,520 if I gave it to somebody, but I feel like it was actually one of the first sweaters I made. And I 208 00:21:55,520 --> 00:22:02,240 just didn't. I don't think I kept that. It's either frog than the bellows of my whatever, but 209 00:22:03,280 --> 00:22:10,160 I definitely done seemed and unseen or seemed and seamless because there was a baby cardigan 210 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:16,320 that I did that ended up being seen as seem, uh, seemed and I didn't realize that, but I was already 211 00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:22,720 too far in. Now I'm committed. No, no, no going back now. I don't. So it's funny. I knit very 212 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:32,080 loosely, but I seem very tightly. So I found my seeming to make it difficult to wear, especially 213 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:37,760 in the armpit for the baby. It didn't matter. And he said it fit her. It fit the baby just fine, 214 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:44,000 but I'm sure she grew out of it very quickly, um, because the armpit was very tight. Um, so I, 215 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:48,400 I don't know if I need to look at better techniques and seeming, especially the sleeves. 216 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:55,200 That was like, you had to, like you did the back, there was two front panels, there was a collar, 217 00:22:55,200 --> 00:23:03,040 and then there was two sleeves and it was all done separately. So it was fun. I liked a couple of 218 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:08,560 things about that. I'll tell you pros and cons. So the pros were, I got a lot of like feel good 219 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:15,440 feelings every time I finished a section. Cause like you get that high in stages. That's, that's 220 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:19,360 fine. And then you're like, yes, now I could do the next piece. You know, it's almost like finishing 221 00:23:19,360 --> 00:23:24,480 multiple projects. Yeah. I like that. The other good part I liked about it is when I would finish 222 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:30,240 a piece, I could actually measure it and make sure that it looked like the, you know, roughly 223 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:35,760 the finished measurements. I could block them one at a time. Like it was, it was easier to like 224 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:42,240 determine if I made a gauge whoopsie way earlier than when I finished the whole sweater. 225 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:48,640 The negative was the only negative for me was the seeming on the pits. Cause I really don't think 226 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:53,680 I put those sleeves on right. I think they were just, I just didn't, I think I did it too tight. 227 00:23:53,680 --> 00:24:00,720 So I probably just need to learn a looser seam for armpits. I've done a lot of a few sweet seams 228 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:06,320 sweater or seamless sweaters. Oh my God. I can't get these words right. I've done a bunch of 229 00:24:06,320 --> 00:24:15,680 seamless and I tend to do those only because they tend to be more popular nowadays. Anyway, 230 00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:22,160 in patterns, I don't see a lot of seem, uh, seemed sweaters patterns. I mean, I don't necessarily 231 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:27,760 look for them, but even when I'm just like casually looking for patterns, I don't necessarily have to 232 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:33,920 check off a, I only want seamless sweaters. Cause the majority that show up are seamless. 233 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:38,160 I hadn't thought about that, but you are right. Yeah. They pretty much are. Like I said, I've 234 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:43,920 downloaded that baby sweater one and I was like, Oh, it seemed, Oh shoot, time to learn a new skill. 235 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:52,080 And I definitely did bottom up because I remember I actually preferred bottom up and I'll tell 236 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:58,240 you why. And it's because as much as with the top down, you can fit it as you go. I still think you 237 00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:03,920 can do that even with a bottom up. And I actually could like put it at my armpit and like determine 238 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:10,160 if it was long enough torso wise, you know, before I got into the sleeves and stuff, 239 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:17,680 the negatives, I think for me with seamless is that I think you could make, believe it or not, 240 00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:23,360 an easier mistake with seamless when it comes to the yoke and the shoulders than seemed. 241 00:25:23,360 --> 00:25:31,120 And I'll tell you why, because when I was doing the seemed baby sweater, I would do one piece. 242 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:38,960 And so I did one sleeve, which included, um, so I did one sleeve. I did a front panel and a back 243 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:45,920 in the back. So if I had the front panels, I could compare one panel to the other. And if it was off, 244 00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:51,520 then I knew right away this was wrong and I could fix it and adjust it. And I, and I could actually 245 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:56,800 take it from that one piece rather than taking apart the entire sweater with a seamless, 246 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,920 sometimes you don't even realize that there's something janky going on with it until you put 247 00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,720 it on and then you're committed. And then you're like, well, the only thing to do is rip it all out. 248 00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:14,560 That's fair. We're just gonna run this way with it. That's fair. Um, but the benefits, as you 249 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:19,760 mentioned, as you go, everybody else mentioned with seamless being that it's kind of done as you go. 250 00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:26,240 So if you're someone that just wants to be done once, I think seamless makes more sense. But if 251 00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:31,920 you really like to get that, like, we, I finished something every so often, I think that seemed 252 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:37,680 actually might be a good option for you. I also think if you're customizing, uh, like the sizing, 253 00:26:37,680 --> 00:26:44,720 like say you, you, the sizes are dumb and they only did like three and you need to obviously 254 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:50,240 extend it for the rest of the world. Um, and when you're trying to do it, it's actually, 255 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:53,760 I find it easier to adjust the sizing with the seam than the seamless. 256 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:59,520 Oh, I bet that would be easier if you're like between sizes too. Yeah. Like if you're a large 257 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:04,960 in the arms, but that's medium in the bust or something. Yeah. Not my problem, but 258 00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:10,560 no, no, that is a huge problem with, with seemed sweaters is that they're really, especially with 259 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:16,240 the arms, the shoulders, there's not a lot of our seamless, not seemed, there's not a lot of wiggle 260 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:22,000 room to customize when they're, when you split for the sleeves and everything, that's all already 261 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,040 decided for you. Yeah. It's a really good point. I feel like, um, it would actually be beneficial 262 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:33,840 for me to make a seam sweater at some point because I have very large triceps and I tend to 263 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:40,720 not fit in a lot of shirts that are my size, but they're not my arm size. So, um, it would 264 00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:44,880 be beneficial for me to make those separately so that I could actually size them to my arms 265 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:52,320 comfortably rather than praying and hoping that the yarn will stretch. I will say there are some, 266 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:58,720 um, patterns I've noticed, um, and some of the newer patterns that have like optional darts around 267 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:06,400 the bus. So you can, yeah, you can kind of adjust that a little bit better. Um, so it doesn't change 268 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:12,720 like where, where like, uh, say the yolk starts and ends and where the sleeves start and ends per se, 269 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:19,840 but, um, given the dart, you can adjust it right under for that. If, you know, if you're confident 270 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:25,840 enough to try and figure out the measurement for that dart, but the dart, the dart can also help 271 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:31,680 with the hem at the bottom. So if you're heavy chested and you're making the sweater and you 272 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:37,920 put no darts, it actually will rise a bit and it'll be like a high, low on you. If you put in those 273 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:44,400 darts so that you can account for the chest, you'll actually get more of an even hem. So, uh, if I see 274 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:49,920 that there's like a dart option, I'm like, Ooh, I'm excited doing that. Um, I haven't figured out how 275 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:56,160 to like adjust a pattern to just have darts yet because it's, I haven't, I'm just not there. 276 00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:02,560 It is a lot. I'm not there, but designers who are doing it, A plus my friend. Yeah. Yeah. Like applause for you 277 00:29:03,760 --> 00:29:10,640 because, um, yeah, I'm heavy chested and darts are great and they make my hem nice and even. 278 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,520 Kind of going along with that. One of the things I definitely look for when I'm 279 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:21,360 picking a sweater pattern, um, I'm not interested in a sweater pattern that has no 280 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:29,760 short rows for the back of the neck. Yeah. I don't like that construction. It's definitely easier to do 281 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:38,080 because you don't have to do that extra step, but it doesn't lie as nice. You're choking without it. 282 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:44,720 Right. It doesn't, it doesn't give you that nice, like back collar. Um, so your collar basically 283 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:50,880 just lies flat and it ends up coming up to the base of your neck. Um, if you don't know what we're 284 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:59,680 talking about, go grab any t-shirt, any feminine cut t-shirt, because it's so true. Go to a feminine 285 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:05,680 cut t-shirt and you will see you lay it down and you'll like, if you pull it up so that the seams 286 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:11,120 are at the top, you'll actually notice that the back is, is a little bit higher than the front. 287 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:17,520 The front. And then you're going to go, huh, why is that? It's so you don't choke, but don't do that 288 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:22,480 with a unisex t-shirt because they don't do it. And that's why I was laughing because I thought 289 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:26,320 that was what you were going to say. I really don't understand. Cause okay, here's the thing. 290 00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:31,120 No, it's frustrating, but I feel like you just, I don't know why a lot of guys stuff doesn't have 291 00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:36,880 that because the way their muscles go, they, they too have a bit of that roundness. We all have it. 292 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:46,000 Like, so I don't understand, but men, they want to choke their men. They don't need no 293 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,480 considerations to make it comfortable. They don't need to breathe. They don't need to breathe. 294 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:58,000 Yeah. Okay. That's obviously sarcasm people. Please don't, don't DM me. Don't at me. 295 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:05,680 No, but it is. And it, it, I remember the first time I, I did make a top down sweater. Um, I was 296 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:11,360 like, why do I have to do this? This is stupid. I don't want to add like all these rows, but it 297 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:18,160 feels so nice. Oh my God. It's, it's night and day different. And I will say I've also done bottom 298 00:31:18,160 --> 00:31:25,680 up and top down. My first sweater was accidentally a bottom up for my daughter. Um, and just like you, 299 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:31,920 I downloaded it. I got all the yarn. I sat down and was like, well crap. Like I was all ready to 300 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:39,680 cast on for the collar. And I'm like, Oh no. Um, I found, and maybe now, you know, three years later 301 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:45,760 and four sweaters later, I might feel differently. But for my first sweater, I found that doing short 302 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:53,360 rows bottom up was way harder than doing them top down. I was like, I, first off, my brain just 303 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:58,800 exploded when I was trying to follow the directions. German short rows are also really weird. The first 304 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:02,240 time you look at them too, cause you're like, I can't believe you're actually telling me to do this. 305 00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,320 I hate German short rows on the Pearl side. Just throwing that. Yeah. I'm not a fan of those either. 306 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:14,080 The Pearl said, I'm always like, wait, but doing them top down was a lot easier to wrap my brain 307 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:20,800 around than doing them bottom up bottom up. I was like, I, I hopefully this looks right. I don't know. 308 00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:27,120 This is kind of a complete left field comment, but with German short rows, I find that the only 309 00:32:27,120 --> 00:32:32,960 way that I can get through the Pearl side is that I do swing your German row round and round. 310 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:42,240 That is fair. You have to swing it over. So it makes me remember. Oh yeah, this sucks. That's 311 00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:48,080 all I'm going to think about from now on when I do German short rows. I'll be doing the German 312 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:54,160 short row on the knit side. I'm like, okay, this is great. I love this. Can I do the wrap and twist? 313 00:32:54,160 --> 00:32:58,800 This is awful. I just want to know. This is terrible. You're just swinging your German 314 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:03,040 short row round. And you may be tempted to just be like, I'm going to skip this and I'm just going, 315 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:07,840 don't do that. Yeah. Don't do that unless you want an uncomfortable sweater that looks nothing like 316 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,920 the picture. No, the short rows definitely add just that bit of shaping. That's so much more 317 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:20,160 comfortable. Um, one we haven't talked about that I'm pretty sure everyone has done at this point 318 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:26,400 is raglan style top down. I'm pretty sure everyone's done it. Your seamless was not 319 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:33,280 raglan. It wasn't raglan. That was in the round. Guys, I don't know what raglan means. Oh, no, 320 00:33:33,280 --> 00:33:38,640 it wasn't. No, I'm telling you. I'm telling you. I'm telling you it's not raglan. I'm like, 321 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:43,680 oh, that's raglan. Excuse me. No, it's not. Your vest is. I'm pretty sure. Is it? Wasn't it? I don't 322 00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:48,720 know. It doesn't have sleeves. I don't know. Yeah. It's where basically you cast on like a cardigan. 323 00:33:48,720 --> 00:33:53,120 They like close from your armpit to the top of your shoulder. Yeah. And you. Yeah. And basically 324 00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:58,080 there are two spots where they're like you do you you do the stitches for the sleeve. Then there's 325 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:03,520 a spot where you do increases on each side. You do the back increases on each side. Do the other 326 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:09,920 sleeve. Yeah. I did. Yeah. Yeah. I was going to say I'm pretty sure that was the style. Um, I hate 327 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:17,200 that. Me too. And I have like literally so I have cast on all the lead up was Meg saying I don't. 328 00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:22,240 I don't like it. Like, no, I don't know what it is because I have now cast on two different 329 00:34:22,240 --> 00:34:30,640 sweaters, two different tops in a raglan style. Three. I'm sorry. Three. And two of them are in 330 00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:36,080 bags never to be seen again until I get the guts to yank them out. And this is the third in front 331 00:34:36,080 --> 00:34:42,400 of me that you can see. I tore it out and started over again. Um, I don't know what it is. Um, 332 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:50,400 um, there are so many good points to the raglan again, like you are, you're shaping it as you go. 333 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:58,000 You're creating like this creating the sleeves as you go. And I imagine, um, it would be easier 334 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:04,240 to customize the size, especially of the shoulders when you're doing the raglan style. Um, that being 335 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:10,320 said, I don't honestly have a good, um, we just stay at straight prejudice against the raglan top 336 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:16,080 because I don't have a good reason. Um, I cannot concentrate on it. Um, I'm not a fan. 337 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:23,600 From Megan do not represent those. Nobody else maybe is no Jess is to Jess is to against the, 338 00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:32,480 against the raglan top. Um, but the there, there really is no short rows on the raglan top. Um, 339 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:37,600 in most cases, I believe, um, because you're just building the increases into the back of the shirt 340 00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:45,120 as you go. So it's very different. I think the raglan hate comes from the fact, okay. I didn't 341 00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:52,640 say hate. Did I say hate? Okay. I just like a very strong, strong, strong dislike, prejudice, 342 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:58,240 a prejudice, dislike from the raglan top. Um, I think it honestly comes from the fact that there 343 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:04,800 are a lot more points of failure. So like when you're doing seamless yoke and you're just going 344 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:10,240 and going and just increasing and increasing and it kind of, it has a consistency to it. 345 00:36:10,240 --> 00:36:18,240 I feel like a raglan is very easy to, did I do an increase after I did that is very, very, 346 00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:22,800 remember, and then you're counting and you're like, Nope, I didn't do the increase. I gotta go back 347 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:26,960 or you're counting and you like get a different number every time on that part. And you're like, 348 00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:33,200 I don't know if I increased. No. And I mean, honestly, my, my other thing, and this is going 349 00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:38,320 to sound really stupid. Um, so I actually didn't know I did complete one, technically one raglan 350 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:44,880 sweater. Calliope is a raglan. Um, it is, but the difference with calliope is that you start 351 00:36:45,680 --> 00:36:52,880 in the round, you knit the collar, and then you do raglan increases after you do the collar. 352 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:59,600 So if you look at the sweater, there's raglan sleeves underneath the round collar. And I didn't 353 00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,480 mind that as much. And they were kind of hidden. They are kind of hidden when you look at them. 354 00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:11,920 You don't realize it, but I will say, I really think and try not to at me. I really do not 355 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:18,960 enjoy purling as much as I enjoy knitting. And when you are knitting the common ordinary run of 356 00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:24,960 the mill raglan. It's because you knit continental. I knit English. No, I said English or continental. 357 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:32,960 That's why you don't like, I don't like to purl. I've never liked to purl. So, um, I think that 358 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:40,320 might be it is I don't like knitting back and forth. I really don't. There it is. Well, I liked 359 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:48,160 mine. You did. And that's fair. Like, that's the thing. There's no wrong. Like, I don't think that 360 00:37:48,160 --> 00:38:00,640 that necessarily is wrong. No, it's just the response. Well, I like it is. It's I don't know. 361 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:05,840 And I think maybe it's it feels it might be psychological knitting in the round. 362 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:13,280 Feels faster to me. I also don't love the idea of picking up for the collar. 363 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:19,120 I'm not a fan. No, that's fine. I'm not a fan of that. Like, I don't like picking up in general, 364 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:23,760 because I don't like picking things up either. Oh, God. Picking up for the armpit. I hate that 365 00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:29,440 part. Picking up off the ground, which is also terrible, but like picking up. Oh, no. I thought 366 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,560 you were like, you mean picking up stuff off the ground? No, I was saying picking up the armpit. 367 00:38:34,560 --> 00:38:40,960 Yes, Meg. I also don't like bending up. Wait, I didn't say that. That's how my brain, my brain 368 00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:46,720 and I went, Meg, I also agree that that's terrible, but I'm talking about the I was too. 369 00:38:49,280 --> 00:38:53,920 No, I don't like picking up the underarm stitches. I don't like there's like a certain way you have 370 00:38:53,920 --> 00:39:00,640 to do it. You do. You got it's very finicky. I love picking up stitches. I love doing it. So 371 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:06,480 weird picking up the gusset stitches. Oh, no. Oh, no. That was my jam, especially when you turn 372 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:12,800 the sock inside out and you get that really nice like line of stuff. Oh, oh. So with that. So with 373 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:17,520 socks, I didn't mind going up one side, like going up the first side and then knitting across. But 374 00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,960 for whatever reason, going down the other side, I always ended up picking up the wrong number of 375 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:26,560 gusset stitches. And I'm like, all right, whatever. Like, we'll work this one out as we go. I don't 376 00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:31,280 need socks anymore. For the reason depends on the project. See, like I don't normally like 377 00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:36,960 picking up the armpit as well, mainly because there's no real good way to pick it up where it's 378 00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:42,720 like, yeah, well, well, where you're not honestly, the best way to do is to kind of pick up two 379 00:39:42,720 --> 00:39:46,960 stitches next to each other and knit them together as one. You get a tighter armpit, but 380 00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:53,360 then you have to do it twice in the same way for it to be even. And you know, there's a risk. So I 381 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:59,920 don't like that. But I've done a lot of shawls where it's like, you started off like, no, 382 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:06,800 like knitting up and then you pick up the side for the border. And that's always kind of fun. 383 00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:11,680 God, no, I love that. I love that cast on. I'm doing that right now. That's the tab cast on. 384 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:19,920 I love that. That's fun. That's like, okay, like this is interesting. Oh yeah. The gusset looks 385 00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:26,880 like this on the inside. I'm excited. You just got, yeah, I know. So when it's like stuff like 386 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:30,160 that, I'm like, yeah, because if you do it right, it does. It's like chef's kiss. You're like, oh, 387 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:34,240 look at that. That's nice. But yeah, no, when you're, when you're doing the armpit or like 388 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:38,480 sometimes the top of the sleeve just because of the way it's done. And it's like, there's no good 389 00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:43,840 way to pick this up without making a seam, which is supposed to be there, but I don't like it. 390 00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:49,200 And that's annoying. If you don't relate to any of this commentary about weird things, 391 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:55,200 we like, you haven't been knitting or crocheting long enough. Trust me. Once you get to a certain 392 00:40:55,200 --> 00:41:02,000 day, you'll be like, Oh, you'd be like, Oh my God, ribbing. Okay. I look at it the same way as 393 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,360 becoming an adult and being real excited about that new vacuum cleaner you just bought or the 394 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:15,200 new set of pots and pans. I just got a mattress back vacuum and it is changed my life. Yeah. 395 00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:20,560 It's adult thing. Yeah. We just got like a couch vacuum that we have to try. So it has a UV ray on 396 00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:25,200 it. And it like, no, but like I use it on my mattress, but I also use it on the dog beds and it 397 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:31,600 works. It cleans up those beds. So good. But that's that no. And I think there is something to be said 398 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:36,000 too, for like, I don't know, like a couple of years ago, I was very much like everything that I do. I 399 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:42,720 want to learn a technique and I want to, I want to have all these things in my arsenal. And I 400 00:41:42,720 --> 00:41:49,200 understand how to make a raglan sweater. I have found, I don't enjoy it. And I think that knowing 401 00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:57,600 what you like and doing what you like is more important than arbitrarily checking off things 402 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:05,280 on a list to say, I've done this. I'm good at this. I think it is fair to try something. Yeah. 403 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:12,960 I think it's fair to try something and say, this isn't my cup of tea. I'm going to do it 404 00:42:12,960 --> 00:42:18,480 a different way. This is supposed to be fun. Where's the fun in like doing like, oh, well, 405 00:42:18,480 --> 00:42:22,880 I have to do a sweater because you know, when I do a sweater, that makes me a knitter. You know 406 00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:27,280 what I mean? Like it goes back into that kind of mentality. Right. And I think it's fair to say, 407 00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:32,160 like, I would love to try this and who knows, you may love it. You may try it and love it, 408 00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:39,600 but I think it is also fair to be like, I don't think not finishing a certain type of project 409 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:44,560 of project makes you any less skilled or any less of a knitter or any of that. Like, 410 00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:51,280 I think it's fair to say, you know what, like I've tried it. I don't like it. It's not my thing. Yeah. 411 00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:58,320 I mean, I used to knit socks all the time. I don't enjoy it. I'm not going to knit socks just to be 412 00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:01,920 like, well, I'm not a complete knitter unless I'm turning out a pair of socks every year. Like 413 00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:07,040 that's silly. Guys, I think my next project is going to be socks. You haven't done socks in 414 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,800 so long, man. Like you really should. And now I'm thinking about those gussets. 415 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,920 Guys, I need another color. It's really getting me right now. They're pour on the burn there. 416 00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:24,720 I feel like I go through seven stages of grief with shawls. Like I get like, yeah, this will be, 417 00:43:24,720 --> 00:43:30,160 this will be fine. This will go quick. This will be fine. Oh no, I'm in the middle and this will 418 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:37,120 never end. And then I get like close to the end. Then I'm like, Ooh, Ooh, I'm almost done. I swear 419 00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:41,120 to God. And then you get to the border and you're like, wow, this is literally like picking up 420 00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:48,160 toothpicks with, and then you get to the euphoria of finishing. You block it and it's sitting there. 421 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:52,640 And then like, you get like, you know how they talk about like when you give birth, you get amnesia 422 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:56,480 and then you want another child. Yeah. It's just like that. I get amnesia and suddenly I want 423 00:43:56,480 --> 00:44:03,440 another shawl. Yeah. For all the shawls you wear. I do. No, I've made a lot. It's just about creating 424 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:08,720 art at this time. It's just about the art. It's just a weird process. I thought the same thing 425 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:13,600 because I don't wear a lot of my stuff and I'm like, why am I doing this? And I'm like, for the 426 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:18,960 sheer creation of it, like I may never wear these things. It's okay. See, I make a lot of shawls, 427 00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:24,880 but I wear them at work. Yeah. I would, I actually am thinking about wearing shawls to work this year 428 00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:29,520 and I'm waiting for the reaction. The best can be great. They're going to call me like Baba Yaga or 429 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:34,000 something like that. Yeah. Well, you work with teenagers. I do. Meanwhile, I work with lawyers 430 00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,360 and they all go, Oh, that's so nice. Right. See there's the trade off. 431 00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:45,280 And that's all the time we have for this episode for additional content and opportunities to 432 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:50,240 connect with the cast. 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