1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,520 I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. And this is Pardon My Stash. 2 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:17,920 Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting within the fiber arts and how awesome 3 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:25,680 it is. Before we get into this week's topic, what are we working on this week? Jess? I am working on 4 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:37,840 the Enchantment shawl. Yes, designed by Susanna Icy. And it's in the Fellowship of the Knits book. 5 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:45,280 And it's fun because it's beaded. So right now I'm using Critical Hit Die's Rogue in the color 6 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:50,720 Way Vishka. And I'm also going to be using the Shadow of Aaron gradient when I get to that part. 7 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:57,520 Right now it's just one and it's fun and I'm already at beads and I need to say I haven't done 8 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:07,600 beads in a while. Meg? I'm working on the Speranza beanie by Geneva Vasquez. And I'm just doing it 9 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:13,040 like quickly just to see how a couple of our colors knit up. I'm using two colors from 10 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:20,960 Critical Hit Die's. It's a soon to be released collection at the Fiber Fest. And their color 11 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:25,520 ways are Candy Apple and Meet Me at the Marketplace. And I'm knitting them in Barbarian. 12 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:31,600 You working on anything, Tina? My life. Very good. Fair. I appreciate that. No problem. You're 13 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:40,720 doing great. Thanks. Drea? I am still working on the French Can Can by Mademoiselle C. I'm using 14 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:49,120 Madeline Tosh DK in colorway homings Nevada. And the border is what I'm working on now and that is 15 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:55,120 Madeline Tosh Vintage in Rieberbund. And I know last time I said I was going to cast on a pair of 16 00:01:55,120 --> 00:02:04,480 socks, but I couldn't bring myself to do so. I'm a one project kind of gal. Good for you. Thank you. 17 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:09,280 I am proud of myself for sticking to it. And one day I will be done. But this border is taking 18 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,440 a very long time. So after three years of podcasting, we are almost to our 100th episode. 19 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:25,440 Yeah, that. Hold on. I got a whole lot of it. And it's really hard to believe that 20 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:32,240 we are already at almost 100 episodes. That is bonkers to me. One more time. 21 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:37,200 Not only that we have been doing this, but y'all have been listening to us and having a real good time doing it. 22 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:47,440 For the audience. Thank you. And you know, we love talking to you. I love that you love us talking to you. 23 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:52,560 We're all having a really good time up in Pardon Moustache. And we do want to thank you for joining us. 24 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:58,400 In honor of our 100th episode, we are going to be giving away two spectacular prizes, 25 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:02,480 courtesy of Jimmy Beans Wool to celebrate. Yeah. 26 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:10,000 Who doesn't like free stuff? I mean, I really do enjoy free stuff. 27 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:14,400 And it's really nice stuff. It is really nice stuff. Do you want me to tell you what it's going to be? 28 00:03:15,200 --> 00:03:22,000 So we're going to have two prizes, five skeins of Yarn Citizen Harmony fingering yarn in driftwood 29 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:29,760 and a Deli-Q Makers Mesh tote bag. And it is teal and it is beautiful. 30 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:34,800 Tina is going to be very jealous of whoever gets it. Oh, I already touched it. 31 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:40,800 I touched it and it has, it's very nice. You also touched the yarn and it has alpaca in it. 32 00:03:40,800 --> 00:03:44,720 Yes, fair warning. It was less fun for you. It was less fun for me. 33 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:52,560 But I will do anything for this podcast. But it is into the night. No, okay, I'm done. 34 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,200 But it is fabulous yarn. Like it's beautiful. Very pretty. 35 00:03:57,200 --> 00:04:04,480 It's gorgeous. And so if you are interested in winning either of these two fabulous prizes, 36 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:11,520 you can head to our website, Partymistache.com and you can fill out an entry form. 37 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,720 And whether you followed us from our humble beginnings in 2021, 38 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,840 or if you're a brand new fan of the podcast, you are eligible to enter. 39 00:04:19,840 --> 00:04:28,400 So we are going to be announcing two lucky winners on our 100th episode. On our homepage, 40 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:34,880 you will find a button that will link you to the form to enter. If you are interested in 41 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:41,600 a Madeleine Tosh yarns, make sure to check out JimmyBeansWool.com for that and other fabulous 42 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:46,240 yarns and notions. And if you'd like more information as well as pictures regarding our 43 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:51,760 current projects, patterns and yarns, head on over to our website at Partymistache.com. 44 00:04:54,080 --> 00:05:00,320 So this week we got a submission on one of our Instagram posts from a listener. 45 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:06,880 And they had recently listened to our cast on episode, which was a very good episode. 46 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:10,640 So if you haven't listened to it, go head on over there. I also hosted that one. 47 00:05:11,680 --> 00:05:14,160 Did you really? Oh, wow. 48 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:17,840 When was that episode? That was a while ago. 49 00:05:17,840 --> 00:05:21,600 I was going to say, I don't remember that episode. I think it was season one, if not two. 50 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:25,920 It had to be. It was a while ago. But here I am back for more, 51 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,800 because guess what we're going to talk about this week? What is it, Drea? 52 00:05:28,800 --> 00:05:31,200 We're going to talk about bind offs. Wow. 53 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:34,720 I'm very excited. Wow. 54 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:41,360 We got to do, I don't know. Start talking like that. 55 00:05:41,360 --> 00:05:47,120 I love that you did the wow like Patrick does. Wow. 56 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:50,480 Oh my God, I can't. I can't. 57 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:57,840 But I'm very excited because I love bind offs. And I say that I love bind offs, but really I like 58 00:05:57,840 --> 00:06:01,360 too. I was going to say, who doesn't love being done with the project? 59 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:04,960 I love being done with the project. Victory lap to the end. 60 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:09,520 It is the victory lap. Although it is the worst victory lap when you think about it, 61 00:06:09,520 --> 00:06:14,800 because bind offs take forever. See, I like the bind off because it doesn't 62 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:20,400 matter how big the project is. I never get tired of doing it because it's a repetitive stitch. 63 00:06:20,400 --> 00:06:26,000 And the project keeps getting smaller and smaller. Sometimes I had a bind off that had bobbles in it. 64 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:32,560 Okay. That sounds like a horrific. It comes out really, really pretty. 65 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:34,560 I bet it looks gorgeous. Beautiful. 66 00:06:34,560 --> 00:06:37,440 It's not going to be a bind off that I'm going to use. 67 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:41,760 You had one that had short rows? Yeah, it made a nifty ruffle, but it was short rows. 68 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,520 So yeah, Dre, sometimes it's just do a decrease and you're done. 69 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:55,360 Okay. Well, let me rephrase that. I do the same repetitive stitch over and over 70 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:02,320 because do you know what? I don't typically venture away from my go-to bind off. 71 00:07:02,320 --> 00:07:06,560 Fair. Like, I know that everybody is very familiar 72 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,080 with the traditional bind off. And I'm just saying it's a traditional bind off 73 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:14,080 because I don't know what else to call it. Standard, classic, classic. 74 00:07:14,080 --> 00:07:16,320 Yeah. Where you knit to and you pass one over. 75 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:21,840 What is it? I'm not going to say it right. The old reliable. 76 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:27,280 The problem with old reliable though is that it is like taut. 77 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:33,280 There is no stretch. There is no give. It's fine for a shawl. Or not a shawl, a scarf. 78 00:07:33,280 --> 00:07:39,520 It's good for a scarf. But anything you're going to want to stretch, it is not the ones. 79 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:41,760 Don't do it for sleeves. I found that out the hard way. 80 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:44,080 Yeah, don't do that either. Don't do it for sleeves. 81 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:48,160 I actually don't mind it for certain shawls because it keeps the shape. 82 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,160 That's fair. Right. If it's depending on where it is on the shawl, it's fine. 83 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:57,360 But if it's anything that you're going to want to like stretch over your head or your don't do it. 84 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:02,000 You'll just be sadly holding it like this going, no. 85 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:09,280 Yeah. So fairly speaking, I have not used that bind off since I learned my other old reliable. 86 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,520 Which is? I don't know what it's called. 87 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:19,280 Okay. I don't know what it's called. I found it on a website. I really enjoyed it. 88 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,880 That sounds really specific. Everybody go to that website. 89 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,280 Hang on. Look for that bind off. 90 00:08:25,280 --> 00:08:33,040 So I found it on Spruce Crafts. Okay. And basically it like it says it's a stretchy 91 00:08:33,040 --> 00:08:38,000 bind off. I would say that it's got like medium stretch. It's not super stretchy. 92 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:44,240 It's not like a Jenny's, you know, it's it holds its shape pretty well, but it's also not going to 93 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:49,360 like run away from you. And what you do is you knit the first two stitches through the back loops 94 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:56,880 and then you put the stitch back on the left needle and you keep doing that. And it creates 95 00:08:56,880 --> 00:09:03,600 like this like really nice flat, almost like a chain stitch on the end. And I love how clean 96 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:11,360 it looks. And like I said, it's like mid stretch, not super stretchy, but it gives it like a really 97 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,240 clean look. Gotcha. And that one's my favorite. I use that one a lot too, but mainly for things 98 00:09:16,240 --> 00:09:22,400 like like shawls or cowls or things that don't, again, don't have a lot of stretch. Again, you 99 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:27,280 don't want to necessarily use that one for like a lot of garments, depending on how stretchy you 100 00:09:27,280 --> 00:09:32,240 need them. But I like that one too. If you want to get real crazy, you can do the same thing 101 00:09:32,240 --> 00:09:38,160 only with a purl two together. I'm not going to do that. Some people like to purl, man. I'm just 102 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:42,800 saying I am not one of them. Sometimes it's easier. I am also not one of them, but I have done the 103 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:48,560 purl two together and it is. What's the benefit of it over the knit two together? I think it depends 104 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:54,240 on which side. Is it just the side or does it allow for stretchiness? Yeah, it's still mild. 105 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,120 Is it the same? No, but I mean, so it's the same stretch as the knit one. But it's just your purl 106 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:05,360 side. So function wise, it's the same. It's just more about like. Looks wise, I want to say it puts 107 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:12,160 the stitches on the other side because of the way you're doing it. But yeah, could be. 108 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:16,320 Yeah, could be interesting. So I'm not going to do it, but it could be interesting. 109 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:22,400 There is that one. Some people are out there like purl and purl and like madmen and. 110 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:29,920 I'm never going to yuck somebody else's yum, but that one is definitely not for me. I actually, 111 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:36,560 I prefer purling now that I knit Portuguese style. I do prefer purling. That one might be for you. 112 00:10:36,560 --> 00:10:40,240 It's less of a movement. Oh, that's because you're bringing it from the top. Yeah. From the front. 113 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:44,960 So I don't, I don't mind purling. But that being said, I also don't mind knitting. I think both 114 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:50,560 movements are actually fine. Like I felt like when I did it English style, I definitely disliked 115 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:56,160 purl. Like cause it was such an extra step. Yes. Um, but I feel with Portuguese, it's, 116 00:10:56,160 --> 00:11:02,480 it's just a different kind of flick. It's not really a much of a difference, but. 117 00:11:02,480 --> 00:11:07,360 Do you have a preferred bind off, Tina? Um, it definitely depends on what I'm doing. 118 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:14,240 So I don't use the basic standard, whatever we want to call it, the old reliable very often, 119 00:11:14,240 --> 00:11:19,200 but I definitely actually like using it for shawls, especially if I'm making a triangular shawl. 120 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:23,760 I like, um, the edge that it finishes off on, cause you're typically ending on the longest edge. 121 00:11:24,320 --> 00:11:32,400 So, um, I, I did that actually on my, uh, the stormy sky shawl and, um, I definitely did that, 122 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:38,400 uh, a standard bind off on that. I just, I didn't need it to like, I felt like if I started to do 123 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:44,240 Jenny's and I felt like it was too much, like it was warping the edge and I didn't like it. So I 124 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:48,960 went back and I did a standard and I liked it better. It kept it form and it's form, you know, 125 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:56,000 if I'm doing garments, it also depends, uh, what part of the garment I'm doing. I don't mind doing, 126 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:04,560 uh, Jenny's surprisingly stretchy bind off on edges of the bottom of a garment. I don't like 127 00:12:04,560 --> 00:12:10,400 doing it on a tight collar. I feel like it doesn't give you enough stretch. So Jenny's is stretchy, 128 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:18,080 right? But I would actually put Jenny's to a medium ish, maybe a little bit more stretch. 129 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:26,160 And I'll tell you why. Cause for me, tubular is the stretchiest bind off and cast on by far. 130 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:33,600 Cause I find I've made crew neck sweaters before with the tubular and I'm able to get my fat head 131 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:40,880 through a very small hole. Okay. Fairly speaking, you do have a, no, I actually do. I say I'm joking, 132 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:46,720 but like, I actually do have a larger than normal head. I typically need to do the adult large when 133 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:55,680 I'm doing a beanie. Um, and so for me, um, if I'm doing like a crew neck or a, uh, uh, neckline 134 00:12:55,680 --> 00:13:03,040 that is going to be tighter, um, I prefer tubular, um, because it, one, the edge looks amazing. 135 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:10,800 Especially if it's going to be ribbing, cause it just looks so seamless and pretty to it. Super, 136 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:16,880 super stretchy, way stretchier than Jenny's. Um, Jenny does have a limit at a point. So, 137 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:21,920 and I've encountered that, especially with tight necklines and sleeves, cause I also have an issue 138 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:29,120 with sleeves because my triceps are so large. So if it's a short sleeve garment, I can't do Jenny's 139 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:37,120 because it doesn't fit around my triceps. Um, I have a lot of fat and extra skin, so I can't like, 140 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:42,640 even with a normal t-shirt, the abdomen might be fine, but the sleeves are always, I have to adjust 141 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:48,000 to be slightly bigger. Um, so I end up doing, if it's, if it's going to be a short sleeve, 142 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:53,040 it's going to be tubular again. And, um, but yeah, usually the end of the garment though, 143 00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:59,440 if it's not form fitting, um, I'm okay with Jenny's down there, but sometimes I'll do tubular again, 144 00:13:59,440 --> 00:14:06,160 because I want it to match. That's fair. That's fair. If there's ribbing at the bottom and at the 145 00:14:06,160 --> 00:14:11,280 neckline and at the sleeves, like I'll want them all with the same bind off. Cause then I'll look 146 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:19,440 cohesive. And I've done other ones I've done. Um, I've done a cable bind off. I've done a, um, 147 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:21,120 How did you like the cable bind off? 148 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:25,200 That's, I find that to be pretty firm. I don't find that to be stretchy either, 149 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,440 but sometimes I like the way it looks over a standard. 150 00:14:28,160 --> 00:14:30,640 Is it, did you find it to be difficult or complicated? 151 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:37,280 Not really. No, but I do, I do like how that looks over, depending on what, again, depending 152 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:45,280 on what I'm working at, I think the, the thing to take away from me is I have go-tos for situations. 153 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:50,880 I can't say I use the same bind off for everything. It's definitely situational and like what I'm 154 00:14:50,880 --> 00:14:53,680 working on and like what body part it might be on. 155 00:14:53,680 --> 00:15:00,880 You know, I wish I could say the same, but I use the same one for everything. Unless it's socks. 156 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:07,600 Unless it's socks, in which case I will have some variety, but that, that one that I mentioned at 157 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,240 the start there, that, that is, that is it. 158 00:15:10,480 --> 00:15:14,640 Well with socks, you have to deal with a kitchener stitch at the end of if you're doing top down, 159 00:15:14,640 --> 00:15:19,280 right? Yes. And I love the kitchener stitch. I know a lot of people don't feel the same, but, 160 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:24,320 and I'm not going to lie. I never remember how to do it. And I always have to look up how to do it. 161 00:15:24,320 --> 00:15:29,760 I feel like tubular is the same. Yeah. It's very, in terms of like, you never remember how to do it. 162 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:35,760 If you haven't done it in a while, but once you look at it and you do a couple, yeah, you know, 163 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:41,760 it's, it's just like riding a bike. I feel like when I learned tubular, kitchener came to me easier. 164 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:46,000 Not that it's similar in steps, but it's a similar kind of motion. 165 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:51,760 Yes. So I found it easier to handle kitchen, like kitchener didn't seem so scary to me once I figured 166 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:56,560 out tubular. So I was like, okay, I can, I can kitchener some stitches. 167 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:02,000 Huh? Huh? Huh? No. Okay. I'll just, I'll see myself. 168 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:07,440 Meg, what about you? 169 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:15,920 I'm pretty much married to doing the, uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, 170 00:16:15,920 --> 00:16:22,240 Jenny's in most cases. Um, sometimes I will do the two together through the back loop and 171 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:29,040 knit one over them. Um, those two are, are pretty much my go-tos. If it is something 172 00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:36,560 really like, if I'm just whipping off like a cowl or something like that, sometimes I'll just do the, 173 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:43,040 the old traditional one just because it's easy. Um, I tend to be a person that looks it up, even if 174 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:47,120 I think I know exactly how I've done it. I can't tell you how many times I've done Jenny's, um, 175 00:16:47,120 --> 00:16:52,720 cast off. Um, and I still look it up every time, um, because I don't trust myself to remember it. 176 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:57,120 Um, I, I'm working, this is kind of not, not quite off the topic, but a little bit. 177 00:16:57,120 --> 00:17:03,360 I'm working on a sweater now and I've cast the Yoke on three times in the last month and a half. 178 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,200 And I've done the German short rows three times and I have looked up the German short rows 179 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:11,600 every time. Um, even though I know how to do them, it's really frustrating sometimes. 180 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:16,640 But how much more frustrating would it be if you got half way through knowing that you did the whole 181 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:21,280 thing wrong? And that's why I do it. Yeah. It's just, it's like that extra insurance. Like I know 182 00:17:21,280 --> 00:17:25,680 I'm probably going to remember how to do this. Like within a minute of watching this tutorial, 183 00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:31,360 I'm going to do it anyway. I still look up how to make one right, make one left. Oh no, same. 184 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:39,600 Actually, I don't anymore. And it is only because of a project. I think it's the one I'm working on 185 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:44,480 right now, Ocean Stones, because I have had to make one right and left so many times that I, 186 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:51,680 I feel like I will remember that forever. Um, except I know I won't. I'll finish that project. 187 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:57,360 And then three months later, I'll be like, God, what is make one, right? But right now, 188 00:17:58,080 --> 00:18:06,000 while I'm in it, I'm, I got it down for now. I'm the same. The only other one that I have done, 189 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:13,920 um, that I actually have liked, um, but it's again, very specific to project is the I-cord bind off. 190 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:21,280 I love that because it is never done an I-cord bind off. It's honestly a lot easier than it 191 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:29,280 may look or sound. Um, it has a beautiful finish, but it's a finish without a lot of give 192 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:34,560 because I-cords are not meant to be stretchy. They're meant to be solid. So doing an I-cord 193 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:40,560 on like the end of a garment is going to give it a lot of structure. It's not going to give it a lot 194 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:47,280 of stretch. So it is, is really good on like a really structured shawl, um, or maybe a sweater 195 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:52,640 where you don't have to like a, maybe a more free flowing sweater where you don't have to worry 196 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:58,960 about the right where you're not going to have to worry about stretching it over you. Um, but it's 197 00:18:58,960 --> 00:19:06,240 mainly there for decorative purposes, not so much for the stretch. They're fun though. I do like 198 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:15,520 I-cords. I, this is a total side note. I got an I-cord machine. I love that thing. I have seen the, 199 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:20,960 I got Jess one. I'm like, I can make I-cords all day. Just crank it out. And then I'm like, 200 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:26,160 I don't need this I-cord. It's great for like, if you have a pattern for like a purse or something 201 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:32,160 and you need like a draw string or, um, straps, it's great for that. Like a hoodie or something. 202 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:37,200 Yeah. If you're like, I don't want to sit there and crank out like six feet of I-cord because 203 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:44,640 that's tedious. Those things are good. I've done them by hand several times, but, um, you know, 204 00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:48,960 there's nothing more satisfying than doing it on the machine and like knowing how long it takes 205 00:19:48,960 --> 00:19:53,120 me to do an I-cord by hand. I'm just like, Oh, look at it coming out. Well, I would think, 206 00:19:53,120 --> 00:19:56,640 especially if you're like, like a hoodie, for example, and you're done with the sweater and 207 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:01,920 you're like, you know what I would love to do right now? Five solid feet of manual. That sounds 208 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:11,200 like a blast. No thanks. Hard pass. Every time I see an I-cord, I'm like, I just don't have it in 209 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:18,480 me. Oh, see, I love how they come out, but I like doing them for all of maybe six inches. And then 210 00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:24,320 I'm like, and I'm good. Yeah. And then I will put the project down forever. I've been doing this for 211 00:20:24,320 --> 00:20:32,560 a thousand years. 2000 years later. Yeah. What about you, Jess? If I had a choice, if I could, 212 00:20:33,360 --> 00:20:41,600 because I'm lazy, I would love to just use the classic bind off. I love the classic bind off. 213 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:46,240 It's just, it goes so fast. It's so mindless. It goes, it's great. I like what it looks like too. 214 00:20:46,240 --> 00:20:53,600 I use it like 1% of the time and it makes me mad because I'm always like, can I use it? No, 215 00:20:54,240 --> 00:21:01,520 no, I can't, but I want to. I also really love and really hate the tubular bind off. 216 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:08,240 It looks fantastic. I hate doing it because you have to make sure you have the right amount of 217 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:14,960 tail to do it. And if you're doing a larger project, it's getting caught in itself the 218 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:19,920 whole time you're doing it. And while you're like untying where it catches, you forget if you were 219 00:21:19,920 --> 00:21:26,480 like on the pearl stitch part or the knit stitch part. She's speaking from very recent experience. 220 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,800 I've just had to live this whole thing with her like in the last week and a half. And you're 221 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:35,520 standing there staring at it. Like, are you a twisted stitch from the perler from the knit? 222 00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:42,080 What did I do? It's awful, but it looks great. So if I highly recommend it, but yeah, no, 223 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:47,360 if I have to drop a tubular bind off like halfway through, I am writing a post it and putting it on 224 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:53,360 there. Cause otherwise I don't remember. I put a note in my phone. So for I have you done a tubular 225 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:57,600 bind off? No, I was going to say from somebody that hasn't maybe both of us that have not done 226 00:21:57,600 --> 00:22:02,240 this. Why is it so hard to remember where you're at in the middle of the spine? Does it look weird? 227 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:08,880 Cause I'm not understanding any of this. So basically what, what you do is when you're on 228 00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:15,760 the knit, you always your left hand needle, you've got, you're working with two stitches at a time, 229 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:21,120 but you work on the stitch furthest from the needle point first. Okay. And then you go through 230 00:22:21,120 --> 00:22:26,240 the one closest to the needle point and you only pull off the one closest to the needle point. 231 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:31,440 Now, when you do that, the stitch twists. So if you're not paying attention, well, you have to go 232 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:36,880 like the way you're going in and out is also a certain way. Yeah. So if you're starting off a 233 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,880 knit, you have to go through the back and in between the two stitches to start it and then back 234 00:22:40,880 --> 00:22:46,080 through and through the back. And if you're going a purl wise, you don't have to do that. The purl 235 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:51,600 wise is actually easier, but if you do it wrong, it pulls off the stitch when you take it off. 236 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,600 So I can see why that would be. So sometimes you're like doing it. And then all of a sudden 237 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:03,680 you're like, Oh, that fell off. And you can tell if you're paying attention and realize where you 238 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,240 are. I like one, they do look different when they're pulled from, if you just did a purl or 239 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:12,880 if you just did knit, but if you weren't looking at it to start with, you're going to look at that 240 00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:18,560 and be like, I don't know if that's a knit or a purl. That makes sense. Cause there's not a good 241 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:24,000 way to, you can't even really pull it up and be like, Oh yeah, it's because of the way it's binding 242 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,960 off. It doesn't really tell you which direction you were initially doing it unless you're looking 243 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:35,440 close. So, so yeah, so that, that one, again, it's beautiful, but if you lose track of where you're 244 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:43,120 at, you just kind of hope and pray. There is for tubular, if anyone is like interested in looking 245 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:47,440 in an easy way to do tubular, cause there's actually a bunch of different ways you can do it. 246 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:55,200 There is a way to do a tubular cast on in the round without a hook or waste yarn. And there's 247 00:23:55,200 --> 00:24:02,480 also a way to do the bind off in an easy way. And that's all brought to you by a YouTuber who 248 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:07,840 goes by the name of 10 rows a day. And I really, every time I have to do tubular anything, like 249 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:15,040 look her up because it's really, she uses very contrasted like yarn and background so you can 250 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:22,240 see like what's going on. And I really like the way that she, the cast on in particular, I really 251 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:27,840 like not having a provisional cast on and like just, just do it. I hate provisional cast on so 252 00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:34,320 much. I will actively go out of my way to not do provisional cast on. I actively go out of my way. 253 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,080 Yeah. And I know we're not talking about cast ons, but still, and I will, and I will say this, 254 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:43,040 I have not done it any other way besides the way she taught me. Um, only because when I was looking 255 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:47,120 for it, I saw everybody going like with this and you need all these tools. And then I saw hers and 256 00:24:47,120 --> 00:24:53,120 it's like without all the tools. And I was like, Ooh, that that's what I want. Yes. That one. Um, 257 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:57,520 as far as the other ones I've used, I have used the elastic bind off, which is a little less 258 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:03,360 stretchy than Jenny's. Um, it basically doesn't use the yarn over, but otherwise that's actually 259 00:25:03,360 --> 00:25:10,160 a pretty decent easy one that gives you a decent amount of stretch. Um, not super crazy. Um, and 260 00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:16,000 then I have you, like, I know I didn't mind using a cabled bind off, but off the top of my head, 261 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:21,280 I can't remember which project I use it on. I just remember when I did it, I had to look it up once 262 00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:28,240 and I'm like, Oh, okay. This isn't that bad. Um, I'd have to look it up again because I do not remember, 263 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,760 but I remember when I was doing it, I was like, okay, it actually finished pretty fast. So I did 264 00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:39,680 like the cabled one. Um, I had to use a three needle one once and I hate it. I actually don't mind 265 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:46,800 a three needle bind off. I have done a three needle bind off once. It was not my favorite. 266 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:51,840 I just, I, I've made a lot of bags fair. When you make bags, 267 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:57,920 knitted bags tend to have one of these somewhere. Um, and I just, I don't know, I get excited. I'm 268 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:04,160 like, Ooh. And then I like, I know exactly which side is which maybe that's maybe when you're 269 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:09,440 going at, you're like, you know, you got the one you're working with, you got the two that you're 270 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,280 like, I'm ready to go. Let's go. Let's go. I don't mind the way it looks like the way it looks. 271 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:17,200 It looks good. It does look good. I'll, I'll give it that. It looks good. I just don't like doing it. 272 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:21,840 I don't like the underside where it has like a cliff. Yeah. Like when you're done with it. 273 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:26,720 Oh yeah. Um, it has that kind of backside to it. And then if you're not doing it the right way that 274 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,160 you could have put the backside on the wrong side. And then you're like, crap, I got to bind it off 275 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:36,480 the other way. And then I've done that before. Um, but no, I, I don't know. I get really satisfied 276 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:41,760 with the, I don't know. I'm like, yeah, we're going to like knit these two together with two needles. 277 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:48,320 Sorry. I get excited. Hey, you know, listen, if you're listening to this and you're not excited 278 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:53,520 about bind offs, you were in the wrong category. You know, it's a great bind off hat bind offs, 279 00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:58,400 where you just like thread through and pull it. That's a good one. Or you decrease down to like 280 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:03,760 eight stitches and then you just yank it. That is my least favorite. Is it really? It is. But 281 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:09,440 you like Kitchener. I love Kitchener. See that's funny. I'm not going to lie. Most of my hats have 282 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:14,160 a Kitchener stitch at the top. You know what? I totally get why from someone who has designed 283 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:20,960 many a hat. I, uh, the, you know, pull and call it. It doesn't, if you're, especially with super 284 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:25,200 bulky, it just doesn't look thin. You just have this hole. Yeah. Sometimes I don't like the hole. 285 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:29,360 Sometimes you can't pull it all the way closed and it like leaves like a slight hole. And I'm like, 286 00:27:29,360 --> 00:27:34,160 so that I hate. Yeah. And I will actually deliberately get down to as few stitches as 287 00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:40,160 possible before I do the pull through just to try to get rid of that. Which if, if it's not like 288 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,560 certain patterns, if they're written like just the wrong way, can create this really awkward, 289 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:50,800 like nipple looking thing on the top of your hat. So I find in those situations, a Kitchener is a 290 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:56,720 really good way to kind of clean it up and just get it done. Yep. Most of my hats have a Kitchener. 291 00:27:56,720 --> 00:28:03,440 I believe that especially since you like Kitchener. I do like Kitchener. Yeah. My absolute favorite 292 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:09,360 find off is crochet. You would one stitch, cut it, pull it through. You done. Then you just got to 293 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:15,440 weave in the end. I cannot speak for Tunisian crochet because sometimes there's a lot of stitches 294 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:23,440 on that, but for just your single, single loop crochet. Yeah. Shout out to the crocheters that 295 00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:30,240 had to wait 35 minutes. There isn't an extra day of binding off associated with the crochet. 296 00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:33,200 At the end of my project, I'm done. 297 00:28:37,040 --> 00:28:42,320 That must be really nice. That's nice. Just pull it through. So these are some of the 298 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:48,480 bind offs that we like to use. We are just humble yarn enthusiasts and I would not consider us 299 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:54,960 experts in any sense of the term other than, you know, we have been doing this for a long time, 300 00:28:54,960 --> 00:29:01,280 but I would not apply that term to us. So if these are some bind offs that you would like to check 301 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:10,000 out, we will add a list to our blog for the ones that we have talked about today. So you can try 302 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:16,080 out our favorites on your projects. And if you guys have a bind off that you prefer to use, 303 00:29:16,080 --> 00:29:21,840 make sure you find us on Instagram and comment on our episode post because we want to know. 304 00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:30,480 And that is it for this week. For additional content and opportunities to connect with the 305 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:36,240 cast, check out our website at partinmystash.com. Be sure to tune in next time for more laughs, 306 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:47,120 love and llamas at part of my stash.