I'm Drea.
I'm Meg.
I'm Tina.
And I'm Jess.
And this is Pardon My Stash.
Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about creating fiber arts and how awesome it is.
Before we dive in tonight, let's talk about what we're working on Dreya.
Jenica Hat.
You were prepared.
Wow.
That's all you get.
Who was that?
We would like to introduce you to Steve, part of our new soundboard.
Yeah.
So we have a live studio audience of Steve and he has lots of fun reactions.
Wow.
We've decided to name him Steve.
Yeah.
I feel like he fits with us.
Yeah.
While I was waiting for a magazine to come in, I think I talked about it last time.
I was waiting for a magazine to come in so I could start a shawl, not a shawl, a shrug
pattern.
It was just taking too long and I needed something to do.
So I decided to cast on a hat and I'm making the Jenica Hat by Jen Emerson again.
Second round.
That's like an honor for a pattern when you make it twice.
Yeah.
Especially me.
I mean, this is great.
I love this pattern.
It's a pretty hat.
It is.
It's got cables.
It's got good stuff.
It goes really fast.
I'm really happy with it.
I am using Earl Grey Fiber Co.
Oolong DK in Rose Gold.
The first Jenica hat that I made, I used the same yarn but in, I think it was called Bisque.
It was like an oatmeal kind of color.
I think I remember Bisque.
Yeah.
Now they're gone now, right?
They're no longer in business.
They had some gorgeous, gorgeous yarn.
I think, I wouldn't say that they retired.
Yeah.
I mean, good for them but sad for the rest of us.
I am so sad because if I could get like 10 more skeins of Oolong DK, I don't even care
what color it is.
I just really love the yarn itself.
It knits up super squishy.
It's really fun to work with.
It looks good and it's gone forever.
I know, isn't it so sad?
Yeah.
I'm here to provide sound effects, people.
I didn't realize that I was missing that kind of sound effect in my life.
If you can tell me where that sound effect is, I might send you something.
Just let me know.
Send me a DM.
Tina, what are you working on?
I am working on the slip on your shoulder test knit for Blame the Knot.
I've gotten pretty far.
There was a lot of piecework with this, meaning you'd had to break the yarn, do that section,
break the yarn, do that section, which sounds slightly aggravating, especially for me.
I like to do a seamless, just keep going type of sweater.
I think there is a positive to this, which is because everything is so pieced out, every
time I would finish a piece, it gave me that, oh, I finished something feeling.
It's made me not tire of the project because I'm like, oh, wait, I'm almost done with this
section.
There's an end.
I love that.
Yeah.
I'm enjoying it.
I'm using Critical Hit Dyes.
Wait.
Hold on.
Druid?
Yep.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm using Critical Hit Dyes, Druid DK in the colorways Tequila Sunrise and Thunderwave.
It's coming out great.
It really is.
So pretty.
Thank you.
Meg helped me make a decision earlier tonight.
I think instead of striping this the way I was going to, I'm just going to fade the Tequila
Sunrise into the Thunderwave and just leave it Thunderwave.
So it'll be the blue at the bottom.
It'll look like a nice marl going down.
It's going to look really good.
It's going to look like the ocean in a sunset.
Oh, it really is too.
Yeah.
I cannot wait to see how that comes out.
Thank you.
All right, Jess, what you got?
I'm kind of between projects.
So I decided that I'm going to start a big project that may or may not get done because
it is a blanket.
Oh.
Thank you, Steve.
Thanks.
It's Nimue by Shelley Husband.
And right now, because I have a whole color thing that I got to figure out what I want
to do for it.
But right now I got to figure out what weight I want to make this thing in.
So I'm trying to do part of the granny square section in different weights to see how big
it's going to be.
I just want to interject here.
Yeah, Jess is swatching.
Kind of.
Oh, because here's the thing.
It's like this is what size it should be.
And I'm just doing it so I could be like, what size is it going to be?
Because I'm going to pick one of these three sizes and go with it.
So yeah, so that's I have.
Well, I ran out of yarn for my worsted weight one, but that's OK.
I would have had two rows left, so that's going to be pretty big.
Right now I'm doing a fingering weight and then I have a decay.
And right now they're all just random spares of assorted critical hit dies that I had lying
around from some of my many other projects.
So we are we are kind of swatching right now.
I mean, I give you credit.
If I were making a blanket and I saw the size of that first swatch you finished, I'd be
like, not done.
It's going to be this one.
Yeah, but I'm not going to waste my time doing a fingering swatch when I could easily make
a bigger blanket.
It's easier for me to get minis and fingering weight, and if I want to dye certain colors
for smaller sections, that's easier to do than that.
Then do, you know, measuring out full skeins.
So also, I'm relearning how to read crochet charts because it's been a hot minute and
I forgot how on top of each other all these lines.
I don't know how you do that.
So I'm working on that and relearning some of the more complicated crochet terms because
it's also been a hot minute since I've seen these.
Yeah, these symbols and and I'm trying to read the written part, too.
And I'm like, yeah, I just don't remember what what that symbol or letter is.
So we're gonna have to look that up, too.
It's gonna be like riding a bike.
I know.
Well, yeah, I just looked at it.
I was like, oh, yeah, cluster stitch.
I do know how to do that.
It's like riding a bike.
OK, but who among us does not have to check what make one or make one L is every time
they do a project?
I used to have a little.
No, I don't have to.
Oh, do you don't?
I do every time.
I've officially gotten to the point every time I tell you my give yourself some applause.
Can I give you a trick, though?
I applaud.
Fine.
So for me, I say the right is always in front because it's right.
Oh, so I like that.
I'm going to try.
I'm going to go in the back.
That's what I do, too.
And I'm like, yeah.
And then I'm like, but is it though?
And then I can't because I don't trust myself.
And I'm like, yeah, I was right.
I had to look up how to cast on when I did this.
Yes, I couldn't remember.
Thank you.
It was a provisional cast on.
You're like, I've never done a provisional cast on before.
It was a long tail cast on.
What the heck is that?
I've never used to.
But it had been a while.
I was trying to cast on with the yarn in the wrong hand.
Oh, yeah.
I have done that, too, though.
You wanted to be left handed for that.
I don't know what it is.
Because your last two projects, you did what?
A tab cast on?
Yeah.
So it's been a while since the long tail.
It's been a while.
Great.
And not so great about this.
This pattern book is actually good.
There's a lot in it.
I just went for the whole book because why not?
There's not much of a money difference.
But they have written instructions and graph instructions.
They have pictures of how to do some of the tougher parts.
And they also have a section where they switch the graphs over for left handed knitters or
crocheters.
That's nice.
Which is cool.
Wow.
But I'm looking at the chart being like, why doesn't this make sense?
And I'm like, because.
You were looking at the left handed one.
I was.
It made somewhat sense because I originally learned left handed from my mom and then I
couldn't get it really well.
So I relearned from my right handed grandma.
So I'm like, this makes sense, but it doesn't.
And then I'm like, oh, because it makes sense, but it doesn't.
Yeah.
But yeah.
So if you are a left handed crocheter, this pattern and want something that's, you know,
interestingly complicated.
This is fun pattern.
It's got charts for you if you want to read charts, because I'm looking at this like,
I remember why I stopped reading crochet charts.
Meg, what are you doing?
So I have decided to temporarily embrace a total project monogamy.
This is not easy for me.
Wow.
So excited for you.
Are you really?
I am not excited.
Welcome to my world.
It's nice here, though.
I want this to be done so bad.
But you always know what you're going to be working on.
Yeah.
It's great.
No surprises.
Hold on.
I'm not going to lie.
Like this, if I'm going to get stuck with a project temporarily, this is the one I do
love.
I'm still working on ocean stones.
I am literally after I'm one.
I'm on the last row of this section and I have two regular size sections and the border
and it's done.
Oh, you're so I'm really close, which is why I'm like, you know what?
I'm not looking at any exciting patterns.
I am not.
That's a lie.
I am.
I was going to say, but I'm not.
I made Jess dye me up a whole bunch of yarn the other day for what I'm going to cast on
when this is done.
It's nice.
But I am like, I am not.
I would love to have this done by Reinbeck.
I'm not going to wear it to Reinbeck, but I just want to have it done.
I love this shawl.
I think it's going to be beautiful when it's done.
It's just you want it to be done.
You get to work on it and it's so exciting because you're almost done.
I'm very close, but I have that feeling that I got to when I was doing the second round
of more simple lines where I'm like, oh, my God, what is it going to be?
I'm not going to lie.
I was thinking about doing another simple line.
You know, every so often I think about doing another one, too, because that is a great
pattern.
But then I'm like, I have done this twice.
I've done this twice.
I don't need another one.
I barely wear the one I have.
I was actually considering remaking the simple lines and the orchard house shawl because
the simple lines I have has a glaring mistake in the border.
I know it's there because I gave up on life and I just kept going.
But yeah, that point you've committed.
Yeah, but I can't like I'm like, no, I can do better than this.
Do it.
It's a good pattern.
It goes fast.
Plus the cast off I did on mine makes it curl.
Like it's just it's just it's.
You know what, it's when you when you know better, you do it better.
You know, so but I'm still working on Ocean Stones by Greta Menzen.
I am doing it and Fiberspace vivacious decay in the colorway heavenly, which I still love.
And I'm super excited to be almost done with it.
And I'm still carrying my I'm now onto my third skein on my trusty mini minder from
Jimmy Beans Wool that I still get questions about when I take it to my daughter's gymnastics
class to like, what is that thing hanging on your arm?
Well, I always get asked what I'm doing anyway.
Normally from like grandmas that are there.
Like, what are you knitting?
And I tell them and then they're like, what is the thing on your wrist?
And I'm like, it's awesome.
Game changer.
It's it is a game changer.
So that's where I'm at.
And I'm really hoping by the next time we record, I'll be done with this.
But I don't know.
That's two weeks away.
Oh, you got.
I don't know if I believe in me.
I do.
I believe for both of us.
You got this.
Thank you.
Do it.
Oh, thank you, Steve.
That was nice.
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All right, y'all.
It's that time of year again.
What are we doing?
Who's ready?
I don't know.
What is it?
What do we need to be ready for?
Are you guys kidding me?
No, it's in literally two weeks.
Oh, no.
What's happening?
Well, it's something due.
Guys, we're going to Ryan Beck.
Oh, man, I forgot.
Oh, and this year is a special one.
It is a special.
We're going on Saturday.
We will be going on Saturday.
This will be a first in a very long time.
Pardon My Stash will be at Ryan Beck on Saturday instead of Sunday.
If you want to come and hang out with us for a while, we are going to be on the grassy
knoll outside Gate one or inside Gate one, I should say, since we will be in the actual
festival.
Don't leave the festival.
Don't leave.
Don't leave after you come in from two to two thirty.
If you want to come hang out with us.
We had a great group of people come out last year.
It was awesome for us to meet every single one of you.
We got some great pictures.
We had some good laughs.
So we hope that you'll come out again to meet us.
I might bring some stuff with me.
Oh, I am definitely bringing some things with me.
And we might as well.
Jess and I.
So I might be slipping some people some stuff on the DL.
It will not be really.
You really got to say it that way, don't you?
Really got to say it that way.
None of this will be illegal substances.
Dear God.
I would never do that.
But please do come out and see us if you are going to be there on Saturday.
But as tradition every year, we do a road to Reinbeck episode and this is going to be
our road to Reinbeck 2024.
Yeah.
It has been a ride getting here.
So I know.
I remember the first time I saw like Reinbeck, like other knitters talk about it and it just
looks so darn cool.
Like I'd never been to a Sheep and Wool Festival before.
And I really wanted to go.
And again, like thinking New York is so far away.
It's really not for us.
We're very, very fortunate and we only live a couple of hours away.
But we've been going for a while now.
So what are folks looking forward to this Reinbeck 2024?
I have a mission.
A mission.
Yes.
What are you looking for?
So my sister-in-law is going to tie the knot.
So excited.
I'm very excited for her.
She has been with her partner for a very long time.
Actually, I kind of already like that.
That is my brother-in-law.
I don't think anything of it.
It's been as such as just being official.
Yeah.
We're just making it official.
Yeah.
So I have until April.
I already talked to her about it and I'm going to make her a wedding shawl wrap type of thing.
She does live in Florida.
So I need something that has like literally no wool in it.
It has to be like super, super light and not warm at all.
So I need like a cotton, a linen, and ideally something with like a silk blend.
Jess found the pattern for me and it is pretty A plus.
I really wanted to be special and unfortunately, Jess picked the pattern and then she did not
realize that it had 2000 plus beads.
They're optional but I feel like they did.
She did.
Damn.
It's time to branch out, Tina.
Learn a new skill.
Okay, but to be fair, most of them come in like two to three gram bottles and that's
usually anywhere from three to 500 beads depending on the size.
So it's not.
It's not that bad to get to.
The pattern is called Beach Daydreams by Allison Scandale and it's gorgeous and I'm going to
do it all in like an ivory type of base.
I'm not going to do any kind of color or color beads but I don't want it to be pure white
either because I feel like it'll look too sterile.
So I'm going to do some kind of ivory and again, silk blend with like cotton or linen
or something just to keep it easy breezy so she can actually use it in Florida.
I remember opening the PDF and if I open it right now, I'm going to tell you right now,
it says, I'm going to tell you how many beads.
Here, it says 1,925 to 2,640 seed beads.
Neat.
Yeah, size six.
No, I think it's size eight so it might be a little bit smaller.
Eight, yeah, they're eight.
Yeah.
2,600.
But you have someone to help you along the way.
Yeah, I'm going to find more beads too.
You too.
I'm going to add beads to this pattern somehow.
Fantastic.
Do you know how many beads I found the other day when I was going through the craft room?
We won't even mention it.
Oh boy.
We don't need this many beads.
Well.
We don't got to give 110% chief.
But did you find all the beads from the floor?
No.
I guess you know what was it the other day?
I forget what happened.
Oh, you know what it was?
It was after your dad changed out the fans.
When you take a fan out of the ceiling, debris falls on the floor.
I'm sweeping up and there's frigging beads.
I'm just sweeping up beads.
How?
I have swept so many times.
Because some of them got into underneath the heater and I couldn't get them and some of
them are probably underneath the table legs and I didn't feel like lifting up the table.
It's amazing.
Just think your future.
One day you too can drop eight zillion seed beads on your kitchen floor.
And I you know what?
And whatever ones I don't find my dogs are going to eat because they're so dumb.
They'll be pooping beads.
Just when it happens, just tell Patrick he can call me and we can commiserate about the
freaking beads.
I don't think he knows yet that I'm doing this many beads.
He can find out when he hears the tinkling of all the beads across the kitchen floor.
I'm telling you, you haven't lived until you've gotten the confetti cannon that is doing your
bead spinner and putting the needle in wrong.
Oh my gosh.
I wasn't home for that.
Put that needle in and there's just beads flying everywhere.
I'm like, you're selling this so well.
You're really making her excited.
So long story short, I have to do that 2,600 times.
But then you don't have to pre-bead it.
So you don't have to worry about the confetti cannon.
Look, Jess is really excited to have somebody to go to bead biz with.
Like she's pumped.
Usually we're all just hanging out on a bench while she's like looking at the beads and
she always feels bad that she's like holding everybody up.
No, I need beads this time.
I do.
And I don't even know anything about beads.
So I'm going to need Jess to be my guide and show me what the heck size eight slash zero
is.
And yeah, I don't know what any of that means.
I am sorry that the higher the number, the smaller the bead.
She's going to have a good time with you.
OK, well, that's you can be bead buddies.
OK, so yeah, that's I'm probably that's basically going to be as soon as I'm done with this
test, which I'll probably most likely be done within the next week because it's going so
fast.
The the next project is going to be to start casting on that shawl for my sister in law.
Obviously, I can't do it right away because Reinbeck is not going to happen right away.
Couple weeks, couple weeks from one more recording.
So I don't know.
I don't know what I'm going to do in between.
Just probably freak out that I'm going to have to deal with 2600 beads.
I have no idea.
You buy the pattern, you look it over, you get acquainted with it.
Yeah.
Look for surprises.
If any of our listeners know off the top their heads, like folks that are going to be at
Reinbeck that have any of the things that I'm looking for for this shawl, let me know.
Send DMS to the part of my stash or comments on our blog posts and let me know what's up.
Look, now I get to look at beads.
I got to I got to figure out my color scheme by then.
Because I found out I can do this without pre-beading their blanket.
Yeah.
So you're going to put beads on your blanket?
Yeah.
OK.
She doesn't make a blanket to be a blanket.
She makes it to be an art piece.
Oh, so they're tiny.
So it's like they won't be they're not going to be like.
I dig it.
It's going to be fun.
I think she knits or crochets.
I don't use them.
They're just.
Oh, I add it to my hoard.
I also wanted to mention I am 99 percent sure I will not be in a wheelchair this year.
So yeah.
I did it.
Yeah.
Oh, I'm probably going to bring my roll later, which is like a walker with on wheels just
so I can take breaks.
But like I am pretty confident in my walking right now.
Awesome.
I've been doing really great.
And my walking is really good.
Yeah.
I actually have been more focused on my arm lately because I'm still pretty weak in my
arm because I was so focused on my leg just to get normal walking, you know.
We skipped arm day.
Yeah.
And I had actually been feeling really, really good, like pretty much symptom free ever since
they've put me on some medications.
And but the other day, I think it was yesterday, actually, I had like a flare, like I was in
the middle of BJ's and then all of a sudden my left side just started to go.
And I'm like, no, I'm at BJ's.
I have a heavy car.
This sucks.
And I had one of my daughters with me and she was just like, Mommy, Mommy, I'm going
to like get to the car.
And luckily, I did park in a handicapped space with my placard.
So like I didn't have to walk very far.
And you know what?
When I parked there, I was like, I'm feeling pretty good today.
I don't think I need it.
And then I was like, you know what?
There's a lot of spots open.
I'll take a spot.
And sure enough, I needed it.
I definitely needed it.
But yeah, other than that kind of one off, I've been feeling really, really good.
Nice.
Fantastic.
Don't guys don't have to hold me up for the photo.
I actually have no intent going into Reinbeck this year.
I'm not particularly looking for anything.
Usually I like to get some sheep art.
I have a lot of sheep art now, like a lot.
I have more than what is actually up on my walls now, so I can rotate as needed.
Oh, there you go.
But do you have some for your desk?
At work?
Yeah.
No, but I also don't have anywhere else to really put it.
Like I have a much bigger desk now, but it is full of stuff.
So and like my one picture that I have at my desk, it's Frank.
That's fair.
Yeah.
So probably not for work, but I don't know.
And I don't need yarn right now.
That's fair.
I've already got yarn for the Bolero that I'm going to be making.
I've just got so much stash and I have a lot of like good stash that I would really like
to use.
So if I'm not adding more to the stash, there's a higher chance that I will actually use the
stash like this.
I'm making the Jenica hat out of stash.
Yeah.
I'm very excited about it.
I'm really proud of you because it's especially hard to use yarn that you know you can't get
again.
I know.
I can tell you because when Groovy Hughes was out of business temporarily, because now
that she's back, I remember I would just hang on to her skeins because I was just like,
I can't find a project that's good enough to use for the last time.
It's fair.
You know what?
I'm going to like blow your mind on this one too.
I'm not even making this for me.
And don't laugh.
But this is actually a Christmas present for the lady at the post office.
Oh, that's sweet.
I love this lady so much.
She is like from everybody else that I know that has had an encounter with her.
She's the meanest lady on the face of the planet, but she and I vibe and she is just
like such a bright spot in my day.
And I really look forward to seeing her at the end of almost every day.
Like I showed her pictures from my vacation.
She knows all about Frank and stuff.
So she's just like a really nice person.
You know, if you know how to like vibe with her, you know.
Yeah, you get her.
You're on the same wavelength.
Yeah.
Got it.
Yeah.
And this is for her and like discontinued yarn.
And I was just like, yep, that's the one.
She gets cables.
Nice yarn.
Discontinued yarn.
I'm very excited.
I usually go and see her at the end of the day, like the very end of the day.
I'm walking in five minutes before they close and right at five o'clock.
If you are not in those doors, she is turning you away.
Get out.
Oh, so is that why people have that impression?
Probably.
Because she's doing her job?
And she's forcing you to respect the boundaries.
Yeah.
Yes.
I mean, like, but that's not that's yeah, she's doing her job.
That's what she's supposed to do.
She is doing her job.
Yeah.
What people don't know, and I will share this little secret with y'all, is that if I run
in like after she closes the door, she will absolutely take my stuff.
She's like, oh no, come in, honey, come in.
Not that guy.
But you?
Yeah.
So May is my favorite.
She's getting a fun hat.
I am definitely like trying to bust through stash.
Yeah.
And I don't know that I'm I don't know that I'm looking for anything.
I think that if I come across something and it's interesting or unique, probably not yarn
or knitting, like tools or notions, but maybe like a like a related kind of item.
I'm not going to lie.
If I find another like noisemaker frog, I'll be really excited.
That's coming home.
Yeah.
There's no there's not even a talk about need at that point.
No, it's just it's coming home.
Like I've got one that's about, you know, the size of a regular frog.
And then I have one that's like super mini that I got it right back a few years ago.
So you need the big one.
I really want the big one.
So if they have a really big one, it's coming home.
All bets are off.
Oh, I hope.
I hope that vendors listening and listen, you bring the big one.
Look, if somebody has the noisemaker frog, you know, the one that I'm talking about,
it's wood.
It's got like the little wood stick that you run over the ridges on the back.
It sounds like a frog.
I want it very important.
It sounds like a frog.
I don't want the small one.
I have the tiny one.
I want the bigger one.
Like I want it to be the size of my head or larger.
No, that's the other.
He's got small and medium started with like I have no specific needs.
That's like, no, I have this extremely specific need.
That's the one hopes of finding this thing.
But maybe it will have Ryan back.
But I also did not ever go to Ryan Beck expecting to find the tiny one.
I feel like if you put it out into the universe, you know, I'm speaking it.
Maybe it will happen.
You're putting it out there.
Just give me a big frog.
I want to be a noisemaker.
Oh my God.
I bet it will sound really good.
Oh yeah.
So yeah, I'm not looking for any knitting things.
I don't think I just want a specific desire.
Yes.
Yeah.
So you're going to a fiber festival for frogs.
Yes.
Look, why not?
If it works, it works.
I'm not judging.
We all have different needs.
You know?
I immediately go to the soap vendor, even though I did.
I actually did.
We ran out and I did a mail in order with her.
I really did.
And actually, we are kind of well stocked, but I also know she does that deal at Ryan
Beck.
So that deal.
Cats, cats for you.
Yeah.
Cats.
She does like, I think it's like white, like for for 20.
I can't remember, but it is.
It's a certain amount for 20.
Yeah.
And she finally brought back pumpkin spice after.
Oh my God.
It's my favorite because it's also like has micro abrasions in it.
Nice.
So good.
Yeah.
I wish I could use that.
So so good.
My skin does not like that soap, but I love smelling it.
You can like, you can't really smell it.
You know, we go.
I use I use it all the time.
Pat uses it all the time.
When we start running out, he's just like, you don't have to get it.
But like, if you come across, that's why I was like, I'm going to do the mail order.
I'm like, this is crazy.
Yeah.
He always plays it off like he doesn't want it.
Like, I remember you brought it home last year and he was not about it at all.
It's like, well, did we really need so?
Yeah, no, we did.
What are you going to use?
Like ivory?
Absolutely.
He says that.
But then, like when he goes to shower, he wants to use that soap.
He wants that soap.
He wants.
Yeah.
And like, and he'll like sift through and look for the sense that he likes.
So like, I'm always made sure that like I would get like the kind of man sense.
Not like man sense, but like foresty kind of smells like that.
He likes what he likes.
Yeah.
So like anything like a mountain pine or something like that.
Listen, I love cedars.
Yeah.
I think I got the cedar right now because I bought some of that.
But yeah, he yeah.
Mm hmm.
Yeah.
He doesn't want it.
But then, you know, God forbid, I put it in regular body wash.
Somehow all the soap is gone.
How did that work out?
He doesn't want it, but he's got to have it.
Yeah.
I wonder if they're going to have the people in the sheep costumes again this year.
Oh yeah.
I don't remember the sheep costumes.
I only remember exactly one time and it was not last year.
It wasn't the year before.
It was a few years ago and people were running around in sheep.
I do not remember that.
Do you want me to wear a sheep costume?
Will it be a legit sheep costume?
What's a legit sheep?
Yeah, right.
Like like crawl into a sheep and wear it.
Because that's weird.
Like, like it was head to toe.
It wasn't like a onesie.
Like it was it was like, oh, they were like like real wars.
Wait, this is getting weird.
I know.
What's going on?
Somebody's going to somebody's going to listen to this and know what I'm talking about.
Well, you know, whoever two people out there know what you're talking about.
I have no idea.
I won't then because I don't know where.
That has stuck with me since the first time that I saw them.
And I'm like, I wonder if the sheep people will be back.
And then they never are.
Or they're just not there when I'm there.
Or maybe they're there.
They're just not wearing sheep outfits.
No, the sheep people.
I may also look for shawl pins.
Just steer that one back on course.
This is a normal conversation.
I don't know what.
No, what actually legitimately is like this.
This brings me back to D&D.
Like everything would be blowing up and just be like, so I'm going to make my move.
So that's going on.
Nice distraction, guys.
I'm off.
It takes me back, man.
That was hilarious.
Yeah, I'm with Dre.
I'm really trying consciously not to buy yarn because I have found in the last few Fiberfest.
I walk by pretty yarn.
I see it.
I need it.
And I get home and I'm like, what am I going to do with this?
I have eight thousand pounds of yarn and I have no idea what I'm going to do with this.
I'm trying not to make any impulse yarn purchases this year.
Like I don't have anything in mind like Tina and I have too much.
And I've been trying to work through my stash this year as well.
Of the projects I've made, two of them have been stash busters.
So I'm happy with that.
Trying to get away from from just use, especially also just using our yarns and trying to kind
of stash bust through the other beautiful yarns that we've bought over the years.
One thing I really do want to get if I can is Pacific Knit Co. is going to be there and
her doodle book is out.
And I wanted to buy that anyway.
But it's going to be there.
I do want to get that.
So if that is a possibility, but it is Saturday and things get crowded and I am claustrophobic.
So that may not be a possibility for me.
Well, we do want to try it.
We did get told that if we get there in the afternoon, which is what we're planning, it's
not as crazy as bad.
So we're just going to avoid the morning like wildfire.
We just we don't we're not there to fight people with stuff like.
No, no, we want to have a good time.
So yeah, that's that's really like the one thing when I found out she was going to be
there.
I'm like, oh, man, like I do want to get that book.
It's kind of on my list because I really do want to make a make a doodle cowl at some
point.
I have like ideas.
I even have yarn for it.
I just haven't done it.
I really need to.
But other than that, yeah, I think I'm just going to kind of see where the wind takes
me and try to really avoid impulse purchases like yarn.
I'm going to really try to avoid impulse purchasing any more crafting bags.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
Because I have a lot at this point and they are beautiful.
I love all of them, but I got a lot.
So probably don't need any more.
Yeah, I might put some of mine up on your own saver because I I truly use the same bags
over and over again.
Yeah, there's like a couple.
And this one was like a clearance find at Joanne's.
I love that one.
It's real pretty.
It's ivory and it has like it looks like it's knit or crocheted on the front.
And I always get asked like, did you make that?
I'm like, no, I didn't make this.
I bought it for five dollars at Joanne's on clearance.
But yeah, it's have that one I usually use.
And then I have a couple of like my blue paisley and gold bags.
But like there's a bunch I don't touch.
And I think it's just time to.
I think like needles, knitting bags or craft bags are kind of like you buy a lot and then
you realize what types you like.
Yeah.
What form and function you prefer over the others.
And you just kind of phase those ones out over time.
I know I still have my curtain bags, don't you?
Those plastic bags for the curtains.
Yeah, I still have them out of Prince.
Out of Prince.
No, I never use them now.
But out of principle, I will not throw them out because they are good bags.
So you gave me like one or two of those.
And do you know what I use those for?
I store my projects in them.
Oh, yeah.
No, you mentioned that a couple episodes ago.
I think.
Yeah, I need to remember that.
It's good to just like store finished objects in.
Yeah.
Oh, there you go.
That's a good idea.
I think.
Yeah, I think I might do that then because.
Then at least they're getting function.
You know, when I actually keep something.
I will keep this one, this shirt, this sweater.
But like I yeah, I just don't.
I have like two things.
I have like Jess's shawl that she made me for your wedding.
I have that too.
I have one hat, my pineapple hat that's falling apart.
And a cowl that is poorly made by me many years ago.
But it's just it works.
It's made out of job lot yarn.
Oh, no.
The blue and pink one.
No, no, no, no.
Oh, yeah.
Wait, do I have that?
Or did I give that to somebody?
I feel like I gave that to somebody.
Do I still have that?
You were wearing it last year.
That's your shoveling cowl.
Oh, yeah.
That is my shoveling cowl.
Oh, maybe I still do have that.
I haven't seen it, though.
That's the Larks and Whimsies one, right?
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
It was a test net.
Ademirra cowl, I think it's called.
Yeah, it's a nice one.
No, Lumiera.
Lumiera, not Ademirra.
Lumiera cowl by Larks and Whimsies.
It's a good one.
Yeah, no.
It's somewhere then.
It's probably with my snow stuff.
That's probably where I honestly use it for shoveling because I wear it like a head covering
and it blocks all the snow out while we're shoveling.
They still have function.
Yeah, they do.
I wasn't saying throw them out.
I'm just saying you gradually figure out which are the favorites that you keep using.
I actually use all of my project bags, but we've all been over the fact that I have a
problem and I cast on and stop.
So I probably shouldn't have as many project bags as I do.
And the thing, the issue with me with that is it's not even like a whatever.
It's all knitting because it's not.
It's not.
It's felting, it's crochet, it's all sorts of stuff.
Yeah.
But I'll move my bags between bags.
So if I could choose the wrong one too, like I'll have my felting bag with no needles because
I've done that.
And I'm like, cool, I'm going to get absolutely nothing done.
Or I've mixed them up and I throw them like my crochet hooks in with my knitting project.
And that's fun too.
Good times.
I guess if you were really like adamant, you were going to get something done.
You could knit with crochet needles, but that sounds miserable.
Yeah, that does sound.
Yeah, right.
Is it possible?
Sure.
Is it enjoyable?
No, not at all.
Yeah.
So not at all.
I got to keep better.
Save that for the zombie episode.
Yeah, zombie episode.
And all you could find is an interchangeable needle without any kind of wire and a crochet
hook.
Dang it.
That's it.
That's how I'm going to knit.
That's the game.
We are going to be bringing in our new seasonal make along for the end and end into the beginning
of next year.
So this, this make along is going to start on November 1st.
So we'll have signups through into November 1st.
And it is the treat yourself make along.
Treat yourself.
I like it.
So basically you will be making something for yourself.
No, why couldn't?
No Christmas presents.
But no, no, no.
You're keeping you find something.
Well guess what?
This time you are.
Listen, I don't wear anything I make, but it goes into the hoard.
So create a hoard just for this one occasion.
No, it's getting really ridiculous.
Like honestly, a coworker asked me the other day, they're like, what does Jess do with
the stuff they make?
I'm like, I look at it.
Nothing goes in a box.
No, but seriously.
No, but yes, this is something for you.
So if there is yarn you've ever wanted to knit for and you're like, no, I don't, I don't
want to do this or I don't want to give it away to someone that doesn't know how to use
it and it's really pretty and I've always what do it.
Get the yarn, get the yarn and make something with it.
Do it.
I just thought it was a whoa.
Listen, no, if there's a pattern, you've always wanted to try it.
But you know, you didn't want to pay the $5 for it.
Pay the $5 is for you.
Pay $5, get that one pattern for you.
Do it for you.
Make something that you really want.
You know what?
It's it's for a cause and that cause is the part of my stash make along.
You need to keep it.
I have a circular shawl that I started and I keep putting down that was supposed to be
for me.
And this is gonna be it.
It was it was a shawl that I was like, I want to make like a prize winning shawl.
Like that's what was in my head.
Like I want to make a beautiful shawl that I will love and that like I could enter it
like proudly into like different fairs and stuff.
Now is your chance.
Oh, or you do remember that rhyme back when I was on the cusp of a very poor decision?
That was one of my favorite days ever where I almost like it was fiber optic.
No it was only it was only four.
It was two different.
It was only two different color ways and you were buying two.
And I rounded the corner and there you were standing there with the bags in each hand
and you were like, I'm on the cusp of a bad decision.
And we were like, OK.
And I'm sitting there with yarn in my hands and I'm like, well, you came to the right
place.
I think it might be time.
You think it might be time to be on the cusp of a bad decision?
No, to use.
Use the yarn.
Yeah.
My God, that was like 2016.
It's a long time ago.
But I still have it and I have enough to make this really beautiful circular shawl that
I really wanted to make.
I remember that.
Do it.
Join me in the circular shawl quest for ourselves.
Make it happen.
I think I will do it up.
Yeah, yeah, I will.
And you know what?
I think it has beads.
Yeah.
Mine has beads too.
Do it up.
That was supposed to be my first beads project, but it sounds like I'm going to just be doing
two beads projects.
Do two beads at the same time.
You're going to be the bead champion when this is over.
All of it.
I love it.
Oh, you know what?
I just thought, oh, my God, that's I don't know why I just thought of that.
So the circular shawl that I was talking about was I sent a picture because I finished the
centerpiece and I sent it to my dad and he said, wow, you're so talented.
That was like one of the last projects I sent.
I sent him before he passed.
I just realized that time to finish it.
Yeah, it's going to be so good time to do the thing.
And again, it'll start November 1st.
It'll go through January 31st, wasn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah, I definitely need a deadline because this that's helped me with this.
On January or February, guys.
You know what?
February so short throw on February.
OK, February 28th, February 28th.
So three months, this is how we decide.
So typically, if you guys aren't familiar, we take January off.
So basically what you're saying is back in February, we come back with an episode.
We're all going to be like, I'm not done.
Most likely.
I got four weeks left.
Yeah, I don't know what I'm going to do.
Like I'd say I'm kind of torn.
There's a hat pattern I've been wanting to do for years.
I probably don't need four months to do it, but it's also the pattern is expensive.
So that's kind of that might be my treat myself.
Do it kind of well.
And also, if you give yourself enough time, maybe it'll help you in, like, not feeling
overwhelmed by it.
Yeah.
Because you've been like really busy.
I've really this has been a struggle bus year.
Like if I finish four projects this year, I'll be real proud, which is not normal for
me.
But that's OK.
So maybe a smaller hat will be will be better than than going full throttle and trying to
do like a sweater or something.
And I like shawls, but I've also found that I do not really enjoy like lacy shawls, like
knitting them.
I like like these cables or like the more simple lines.
I like those.
I like wearing the lacy ones.
I don't enjoy knitting.
The lacy shawls are like terrifying because I remember like Orchard House had a couple
of lacy bits in it.
And I felt like if I ever dropped a stitch, it would be the end of the entire shawl.
And I know people are going to wait.
Hold on.
I can already hear them way in the background.
Oh, put a lifeline in.
OK, so I like.
Yeah, I get it.
But also, like when you're just sitting there and you're on row seven thousand and you just
don't feel like running a line through seven thousand stitches.
I don't know why seven thousand is sticking, but whatever.
That's the number.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't want to run a line.
That's real.
I'm just going to keep going.
OK.
So you do have the lifeline in, but it's still demoralizing to have to pull back to the lifeline.
That's really frustrating.
So I feel you on that.
I get frustrated and I think that's that's really it.
After this many years, I'm kind of like knit or know thyself and I know what I enjoy.
And I don't know if laced shawls are my thing.
That's fair.
I don't think so.
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