Well, 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 crafting within the
fiber arts and how awesome it is. Before we get
into this week's episode, let's share what we're
working on now. Tina? I am on the decreases of
my Franken -Coco beanie. Franken -Coco. I kind
of decided at a random point that this is long
enough. You know, that's how most of us do our
hats. Yeah. This is big enough. This is where
it's ending. And if it doesn't fit me, it will
fit someone. So that's all that matters. Well,
I did try it on and it does cover my head. There
you go. But it's also Rio, so it's probably going
to turn into a tub. But that's okay. It's okay.
I'll put it on my husband as I usually do when
it's too big. The pattern is called the Cocoa
Bean and I'm making it in Malabrigo Rio's liquid
amber. Yeah. It's beautiful. Thank you. It actually
is really pretty. It looks like watercolors and
stained glass. It's really nice. It is very nice.
Meg? I'm doing... What I do best. Did you start
a new project? I did. I would like you all to
be drawing attention to the date. And this is
where I start to pick a project that I'm going
to get serious on. It's true. I do it every year.
It is true. That's when I crack open the sweater.
Well, what are you serial about right now? Right
now being the operative words. This is going
to be, hopefully, the Sayuri sweater by Valentina
Bogdanova of Valentina's Knits. And I thought
about this one for a very long time. So I'm hoping
that it does stick. I really like the neckline.
It's got this cool scallop thing going on here.
And I am knitting it out of ashen bumble meadow
fingering in the colorway cornflower. It's this
really pretty like French blue color that I absolutely
adore. So I am, I'm hoping. I don't try to cast
on any sweaters or anything super serious until
the end of the school year. And it's about that
time. It's about that time. It is. So it was
time. And with some trepidation, I cast it on
last week. And I'm really enjoying it so far.
So I'm hoping it sticks. Drea. Bananasaurus.
yeah forever and ever well amen i'm not gonna
lie i really have not been working on this i
haven't worked on this since the last time that
we talked about about it like since the last
time we recorded um not that i'm not enjoying
the pattern it's just that i as you guys know
i am into other hobbies at the moment and i have
lots of bread I have so much bread. And let me
tell you, I had my first successful sourdough
loaf this past week. And that bread was like,
it was just like the best bread that I've ever
had. Amazing. And I don't want to toot my own
horn, but like, oh, it was so good. No, please
toot your horn. I am. I made sandwich. Frank
and I have had sandwiches almost every day this
week. Man, I'm mad that it's gone. And I really
want to thank our listener, Nina. You know who
you are. She sent me her own sourdough recipe,
like from starter to bake. I followed all of
her instructions. The bread came out so good.
I cannot thank her enough, like A plus. And while
I'm on the subject of people sending me like
sourdough recipes. Thank you to everybody who
has been sliding into my DMs with sourdough recipes.
I am going to make every single one of them.
They all look so good. Thank you so much for
steering me in the right direction. I'm definitely
in my bread era right now, and it's A+. But for
the very moment, I am working on this Bananasaurus
crochet pattern. by Emerald Rose Crochet and
I'm using Big Twist yarn. Jess? I am still working
on the Catnip Pullover by Andrea Rangel. I am
still using Critical Hit Dyes Sorcerer in Displacer
and Embers. You know, it's slow going. I also
started a budgie crochet project because my daughter
really wanted one. What is a budgie? It's a parakeet.
It's a parakeet. Aww. I want to say the term
is used a lot in Europe, budgie, or at least
in England. So I did start that, and then I got
the body done and part of a wing done, and then
I kind of fell off of it a little bit. I was
going to work on it today, but I brought everything
but the pattern downstairs with me, and I didn't
feel like going back upstairs. To be fair, I
was covered in cats, and I didn't want to move
them either. So that was why that didn't happen.
But I am working on this right now, and I am
about 12 rows from being done with the color
work. We're getting there. It's slow going, but
I'm getting there, guys. But yeah, so if you
want to see pictures of the stuff that we're
working on right now or get more information
about Part of My Stash, be sure to check out
our blog found at partofmystash .com for info,
pics, patterns, and yarns. It's getting warm.
Yes. It's getting... I mean, yeah, we get the
kind of weather back and forth because we are
in New England, and that means the weather does
what it wants to do. Yeah, today in particular
feels like winter, but the rest of the days have
been feeling very nice. Have been nice or really
hot. This is the time of year where it's like
my hands are just clammy constantly, so... So
I don't know about the rest of you, but I know
that I start to pick up different hobbies around
this time that take up more of my time than my
knitting stuff because I'm awful and like working
with warm yarns and don't really like to work
with not warm yarns, which is unfortunate because
I hear working with cotton this time of year
is actually kind of nice, but yeah, it's just
not as... Doesn't call to me as much as, you
know, the wool. Well, by the time you guys are
listening to this episode, I'm going to be sitting
on a beach in Portugal, probably knitting cotton.
Yeah, see, see. You know, I do hear silk is okay.
Yeah, silk's nice too. Actually, a cotton silk
blend is really nice because it gives you like
the softness that you would want from like a
merino wool or something. um the lightness of
the cotton so you're not getting as yeah sticky
i deliberately knit a merino silk shawl i think
it was two years ago for one of our um one of
our make -alongs and it does make a difference
like knitting with the right stuff does but then
again like what was it two years ago I did a
mohair sweater. So you do the math. Like after
I saw you do the mohair sweater. Yeah. Like I
was like, I've always like, oh, maybe I'll do
mohair. No, I won't. You know, I think it's one
of those things like I love knitting with it.
The sucky thing about it is that I cannot wear
it. Yeah. I can wear it. Like I wore it to Ryan
Beck because it was cold that year. But I cannot.
I tried wearing that sweater to work and I thought
I was gonna die like it was just so hot I also
run hot so I feel like I'd have the same problem
no I did and I love that sweater it is it is
so comfy but um I want to knit another one it's
a calliope I want to knit another one just out
of wool no merino or no no merino no um no mohair
I swear to god I have like three calliopes in
progress All the calliopes. Well, I know you
had the one made out of bless. I know you started
that one. Yeah. And I don't know. It's like probably
three quarters to the split. It's close to the
split. It's just, it looks like a top of a, looks
like a nice little collar. It looks like the
top. And then, you know, I was going to make
a black one for. Oh, that would be nice. Yes.
But I think I'm going to make it for myself now.
Oh. I don't believe you. Yeah. So we've had a
similar, not similar, but in the same vein of
making sweaters where like Jess will look at
a sweater and she'll be like, oh, I love that.
I want to make that. I'm not going to wear that.
Would you wear that? What colors would you wear
that in if you were to? And she's never made
me one. But she has had that because Jess doesn't
wear her knits 90 % of the time. She just admires
them. It's true. But she has looked like there
was this one. I can't remember what it was. It
was very, very pretty. And she's like, I want
to make that. I'm never going to wear that. But
if you like it, what colors would you like? There's
still that dragon scale kind of lease part. I
don't know. It was really cool. It was very pretty.
I don't know if I would wear it, though. I don't
know where I would wear it to. do you think the
kid would wear the kid wears almost anything
the kid i don't think it comes in a kid's size
though dang she keeps asking me to make her stuff
i'm like no i'm good out of here you know and
and then they grow out of it immediately like
yeah i know well like like yeah like the owlet
sweater that i made her and i made it two sizes
too big and she grew out of it like six months
later no that's it is what it is kid stuff man
Joe still tries to wear the sweater I made her.
But it's like... oh no a crop top like she needs
to stop where the sleeves are too tight and too
short and yeah so she's like she'll put like
she doesn't wear it like a crop top with her
belly showing but she'll put like a long sleeve
shirt on and then she throws it up on top that's
so 90s though it's very cute it's very cute but
um yeah i'm concerned about her arms because
it's starting a little tight cut the circulation
a little bit kind of you may have to cut her
out of it kind of be your knitting for kids is
continuous heartbreak like it really is they
have such cute things and then you're like yeah
you can wear it for about 30 seconds well i thought
like cat would like give the sweater i made for
her years ago down to joe that never happened
she just uses it all the time and she continually
just stretches it out yes i've watched her do
it you've seen how big that thing is now right
it's like a poncho Gonna make it work. Jesus.
Like, I don't know how this works, but it's gonna.
I mean, to be fair, she is right. Like, she has
gotten it to the point where it feels right.
It feels right. It's true. She has worn it out.
Well, worn it in, I should say. Yeah, she usually
wears, it's usually a pajama shirt. Hey, you
know, that's, that's like a highest of compliments.
That's what I was like. Thank you. And it's not
even me. That means that is top peak comfort
right there. Like, look, you got to be discerning
about what you're wearing for comfort PJ time.
See, this time I'm just running into the issue
where it's like I'm running into it right now
where, again, my hands are clammy. So all my
stitches are sticking. Yeah. So I have the opposite
issue. And I literally just brought this up when
we started that this is my peak knitting season.
you yeah and a lot of it is just um it's a multi
-layered problem um part of it is in line with
what drea said at the top of the episode of i
simply have too many things that i want to do
and i wind up backburnering knitting because
my biggies are taking walks or hiking and my
other one lately that has been i mentioned this
A couple episodes ago, I was learning Italian.
And those are two things I can't do while I'm
knitting yet. So I stress yet. So during the
school year, when I get home after meetings or
whatever, or God, Thursday nights when I have
grad school classes, I've got maybe an hour and
a half to two hours to myself. And I would love
to say that that's knitting time. That often
ends up lying on the couch. staring at the TV,
playing games on my phone time. And I'm not proud
of that because it doesn't feel like, and I know
like before everybody jumps in, I realized that
not everything needs to be based on productivity.
But I do like to finish my projects and I always
feel down on myself when I don't finish them.
But sometimes, you know, you've already done
so many things during the day. How can you add
one more thing that you actually have to put
thought into? I get into these things and I've
seen lots of reels on an Instagram, but the teacher
thing of like you get home and somebody's like,
so what do you want for dinner? You're like,
I don't want to make one more decision today.
All the time. All every single day. Please don't
make me make choices. I can't make any more decisions.
I tell Pat that he's, Pat, you are the choice
star. Congratulations. The choice star. But no,
it's just like it's and a lot of the decisions
that I make in an average day are not decisions
that I even realize I'm making. It's just responding
to 60 individuals whose behavior is unpredictable
and constantly reacting to unpredictable behavior,
usually not bad, unpredictable behavior. But,
you know. i get lots of questions and um some
of them are weird like miss why didn't you become
an air traffic controller why are you sorry no
i'm serious this happened last week in in my
politics class you know it just wasn't on my
radar it was really funny um i hear they're hiring
terrible um no he literally asked me that um
one of my one of my favorite students he's a
great kid um but yeah it was weird and it is
it's like you know what when i get questions
like that it's like my brain just kind of stops
and i'm like wait i don't know how to respond
to these did i hear you correctly first off just
um so i i do get that that choice kind of overload
and you get home and it's like i can't even focusing
on a pattern feels like too much but then the
school year ends and it's like here we go i now
have more hours in the day to do things that
I have to do slash want to do. And this is when
my knitting really takes off from now until sadly
the end of August. And then in September, it
just tanks. I would love to see like a line chart
of my knitting productivity and watch it like
skyrocket from like mid -May until September
1st and then just watch it dive into the ground
until like two weeks before Rhinebeck when I
panic. And I'm like, crap, I want to finish this
thing, whatever I'm making, and I want to wear
it, but I have no time. So those two weeks in
October where I go absolutely ballistic. And
then it kind of peters off until May again. It's
just ridiculous. You get little blips. It's just,
that's my life. Those are the choices I've made.
See, I have to find, because I usually am most
productive at night when I am watching YouTube.
But it has to be a specific type of YouTube.
Like it has to be a series that I can look away
from but not completely like lose what's going
on if I have to pay attention to the pattern.
So like I thought I was going to do real good
when I was there was a new game that came out.
And of course, I don't have time to play it.
So I just found someone that played it well and
I liked and I watched them play it. And I was
like, yeah, I'll get a lot done. The game was
too good. Okay. I didn't want to miss the game.
So I ended up like literally watching this thing
like it was a movie and just got no knitting
done. So that didn't work. I am happy that it
did because the game was awesome. But I was like,
this was not the crafting YouTube. I need to
find the crafting YouTube. What game was it?
Inquiring Minds. I want to say, oh, God, what
is it? South of Midnight, I'm pretty sure is
the name of it. And it is it is fantastic. Isn't
it like super cinematic, too? It is very cinematic.
You can. It's got different modes. So you can
if you want more like hard gameplay, you could
choose that or you do story mode. Really awesome.
Music was great. Cinematic. The story was was
fantastic. I was like, yeah, no, this is great.
And then I was like, I'm getting nothing done.
I have to find a different series. All of the
conversations that we had about why you weren't
like you're like, I'm just not in the mood to
knit. There's that you never. ever mentioned
that you were watching like full -fledged crazy
video game episodes after I go to bed at night
oh yeah no I do that all the time sometimes like
the last well this one usually takes me a week
to get through the last one that was sort of
like that I want to say oh god that was like
a couple years ago because usually I can't play
through them I gotta find something like right
now I'm back to watching some indie horror games
and that's easier to craft then after that because
it does sometimes i am just like all right i'm
ready to craft it no no i'm just gonna also sit
here and play on my phone while i watch stuff
in the background for me i like to put on like
um uh on demand like whose line Oh, yeah. Because
you just don't. But you don't have to pay attention.
At any point in time, you can look up and be
like, what? Oh, OK. It's not a plot you need
to follow. That's been. So we started rewatching
Frasier from like the 1990s. Oh, God. Dude, I
love Frasier. And I hadn't seen it in years.
And I don't know why we thought about it. I think
it was just because it was free. And I quickly
realized Frasier is not something that I can
knit while watching. Because I don't remember
most of it. And so much of it is physical comedy
that I just couldn't follow it. But yeah, it
gets hard. Like you need to have, like Tina,
like you said, you need to have the right visual.
Like if you're listening to or if you're watching
something, it needs to be the right thing. Because
if it is the wrong thing. it's counterproductive
oh god i remember though when i was making all
your guys's wedding shawls my whole thing was
uh the binding of isaac played by northern line
it had to be by northern line anyone else that
played i couldn't concentrate northern line binding
of isaac i like months of just watching these
things while knitting it was great i would walk
into the room and i would look at this this absolutely
stupid thing she was watching and i'm like i
don't even know what's happening it looked like
the literal same thing every time on the screen
oh it was always different it's always different
every time i looked at it i i just thought it
looked like you were watching a tetris game yeah
it's kind of weird i would i'm like it was like
to me it looked like watching somebody play tetris
and i'm like i could not be less interested but
it was it was so good like that was that was
my go -to for what that was like a year's worth
of knitting projects so yeah Hey, complete left
field. I think I might finish this. Right now?
Tonight? I'm on the second to last row. Oh, man.
Would this be a first? An on -podcast finish?
I don't know about that. Maybe. I don't think
we've ever had that happen before. I was actually
more thinking about, have I finished anything
this year? Oh, I have not. So if you do, kudos.
I don't know if I did. I'll be honest. I don't
remember. I have not. I think I've started a
lot of things. Do you know what? I'm sitting
here going, yeah, I haven't finished anything
either. You haven't finished so many things.
I haven't finished so many things. Knitting -wise,
no. But crocheting. I have made so many little
plushies. It still counts. Have you finished
anything this year? I don't know. I don't think
so. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't
think so. I think because you've started a bunch
of things. I have started a bunch of things.
I feel like that budgie has promise. It does
have promise. The budgie is going to get done
first. Like the body is done and half of a wing
is done. The last thing I finished was my sweater
with your yarn. And that was in December. So
I haven't finished anything this year. Nope,
I have not. I don't remember the last thing.
I'm pretty sure I finished that shawl for Ryan
Beck and that was the last thing I did. I had
so many bad starts last year, like at the end
of the year. I was super indecisive. I couldn't
finish anything. I pushed myself through that
sweater. I definitely pushed myself through.
I was like, I can do this. This will give me
the mojo. No, instead it gave me existential
dread. And I was like, why am I stressing myself
out with a sweater? It's hard. I do love it,
but man, it was stressful. I finished a lot last
year and then it was like the new year came and
I was like, eh, I'm good now. Now I'm going to
be focused on other things. I don't know what
the other things are, but I am focused on them.
Well, I think there's like the bigger, the kind
of bigger issue in this, and I imagine a lot
of people will be able to relate to it, is like
the lack of free time. Yeah. And when you have
to make a choice of what you're going to do with
that free time. And that's not to like dismiss
crafting at all, but you got to make a choice.
And it gets it gets hard sometimes. Like, do
I want to do this? Do I want to do something
else? I definitely have not been prioritizing
crafting. No, until recently, I wasn't either.
And I think it just gets it gets a little bit
easy to kind of back burner. And then I don't
know about you guys, but I have difficulty at
times, depending on the project, like I'll pick
it up and be like, I can't even remember what
I was doing. I can't remember where I left off.
This is really hard for me to kind of pick it
up and keep going. And part of that is my issue
with I accidentally harvest row counters from
other projects and then I don't remember what
row I was on. And my row counters. Yeah. This
isn't yours. Are you sure? It was in a bag on
the table. Was that yours? I got a new one because
you took my other one. So I got a new one. That's
so funny. a new one because you had my other
one. I was like, I'll just get a new one. Immediately
steal. Immediately. I'm so bad. It is. I just
steal them. There's like a whole bag of them
downstairs, but I was all excited when I saw
this one. I'm like, because I didn't remember.
I thought I bought it. I've got my big one right
now and the budgie I'm just sort of guessing
and hoping for. I'm a bad person. I'm sorry.
No, you're good. That's so funny. You know what?
My issue is a lot of times, though, too, with
crafting lately, and I don't know what it is.
It's like, I feel like, I'm like, okay, you know
what? I'm going to do this. And then... By the
time I collect everything and get settled, I
no longer want to do it. That's because collecting
everything is a chore in itself. I'm like, that
was too much work. I had to find the needles.
I had to get the row counter. I had to get the
yarn. There was yarn barf that I had to figure
out. Oh, no. The kiss of death for me is when
I'm winding the yarn and it tangles. And I'm
like, I don't want to do this anymore. I'm done.
And yeah. And so by the time I'm like, yeah,
I've got everything and I'm looking at it all.
I'm like, I don't even want to do this anymore.
I haven't really talked about it, but I've been
dealing with a lot of pain in my hands. So sometimes
I have free time, but I don't have pain -free
time. So it turns into like... I have time but
I feel my hands literally hurt while I'm knitting
and then like other times it's like okay I don't
have any pain but like I don't have any time
so getting that to coincide and then on top of
it it's like okay yeah that could all coincide
But then like, am I crying today or am I having
a good day? It really like, it narrows down.
What a crap shoot. It really narrows down the
field of times I want to knit. And I know probably
Drea can attest to this, but like sometimes like,
you know, we'll hang out. I'll have like, I'll
pull a project out. And then all of a sudden
I'm just like, I just drop it. I just stop. And
it's just because. I don't know what it is. It's
just because. It's just. It happens. I really,
really am trying to like almost force this thing
to come back. But like, if I'm really, really
honest, it's like, man, everything just sucks.
No, and sometimes it really is. Sometimes you
just got to kind of. Why am I emotional today?
Oh, my God. I was fine. But you're carrying a
lot right now, Tina. It's fine. You don't have
to force a project. You don't have to force a
hobby either. No. It shouldn't feel like a chore,
you know? I think there is a very big misconception,
and a lot of it, I think, comes from literature
surrounding knitting, that knitting is the perfect
thing to do when you're going through any stage
of grief. Yeah, there's a lot. There are so many
books, fiction books especially, written about...
knitting through grief and knitting is this like
magic, like fix it to feelings, having feelings
or going through something tough doesn't even
need to be grief. I kind of found it was the
opposite. That's what I'm finding too. I had,
I think it took about a year and a half after
my dad passed for me to decide I wanted to knit
again. It's really, and then there was that additional
like, why isn't this working for me? yeah which
created a whole other issue so Tina are you okay
I'm good I just tangled I don't know how you
manage that that is actually an impressive knot
no it was just like it was like just twisted
yeah I'm good no it's not no you know you just
gotta yeah I'm just I'm just gonna I'm it's good
I have enough honestly I feel like when you are
grieving or when you are going through something
really heavy or you know you you've got a lot
on your mind you got a lot on your plate knitting
isn't actually like helping you get through things
it's really just a distraction you know you're
turning off all those feelings because now you
have to focus on something else you pour all
of your focus into something else and yeah you're
getting past like the grief phase but it's it's
still there like you still gotta deal with it
And sometimes it can be a big help. Yeah. It
depends. Honestly, it's like it's some people.
Yeah, it is. It's great. It's it's you know,
it can be a lifesaver. But for other people,
it's not. And I don't think there's anything
wrong with either of that. But I think you hear
more about the healing properties of it. And
I don't think a lot of people talk about like,
yeah, you know what? Sometimes you just know
it doesn't work and that's OK. I mean, I myself
have like I've been a grief knitter. I learned
to knit when one of my best friends died. Meg
taught me. And it gave me something to do. But
I had to deal with all those feelings much later.
Yeah, I didn't mean to get emotional. No, don't
apologize for that ever. Seriously. It's weird.
This is exactly what happens, though. I'll be
totally fine, 100 % okay. And then I'm not. Yep.
It's the way it goes, unfortunately. No, I know.
And it's just, I honestly don't, I just don't
have like time to grieve. So it hits me like
all the time. And randomly, I just don't have
time. I'm managing everybody else. I don't have
time to do this. I kind of turned into the de
facto, take care of everything person. There's
space for everybody else to grieve. And when
everybody else needs space, they have it. But
if nobody else is and I am, there's no space
for me. So it's really tough navigating that.
And that's why I think sometimes it literally,
like it is right now, just hits me out of nowhere
and I'll be having a perfectly fine day. And
then all of a sudden, boop. It is. There's no
good answers. It's like. No. And it's not that
like. And I'm not complaining about being in
that kind of caretaker role. I'm just. I know
it's kind of like. I have to. And I get it. And
I have no issue being in that role. Like I want
to be helpful. But it's exhausting. No. No it
is. And it's. I think we all sort of like kind
of one of the things that I do a lot when things
are not not so much with grief, but when things
are sucky or I'm having like a really bad time,
I'm like, OK, six months from now, this isn't
going to be I'm not going to think about this
anymore. And that works for like work things
or arguments I have with people. I'll be like
six months from now. I'm going to look back on
this and I'll be like that sucked. But you know
what? We all got through it. We're fine. And
you can't. put a timeline on grief. You just
can't. You can't be like, I know that six months
from now I'm going to be fine. And that's the
sucky part. Yeah. My Bananasaurus has peels on
it. Yeah, he sure does. He really does. He's
super cute. I'm leaving in my ends. Yay! Not
to take away from the serious conversation. No,
you're not. Because honestly, it's part of it.
You know, suddenly we're finishing things. Why?
I don't know. But we are. It's just happening.
It's just happening. It's just happening. It's
time to finish some stuff. I am not finishing
anything. Me either. But I did finish a row.
Granted, it was like a quarter of a row because
I didn't realize I had stopped a quarter. Oh,
my God. That's funny. But I finished it. So that's
exciting. Hey. i'm not gonna lie i think i put
this thing down for like several weeks now because
i'm like man i don't want to have to figure out
how to put these peels on but you did it so i
think that is so valid too like you get to a
point in your pattern and you're like i'm not
i don't want to do that right now okay am i not
wrong i am do you know what this was not hard
no no it never is It never is. But it's something
where you're like, you know what? Not now. Not
today. Yeah. And you put it down and then six
months later, you're like, wow, why did I do
that? Listen, the amount of times like I finished
the pieces of Anamagurumi and then they've been
like, yeah, I don't feel like putting that together
right now. Listen, you better finish that budgie
because I can't listen to it for another like
few days. I'm working on it slowly. finish the
budgie honestly i don't know why i was so and
again i still don't know why you never know i
don't know why i'm sitting here going man i don't
know how i'm gonna figure out that transition
when this is literally like a no -so project
you but you will it is it's it is it's like and
now i'm just gonna work on the neck coming up
and make the head like it's not But everything,
everything new, new seems daunting at first.
It does. Do you know, I bought the pattern for
this sweater like a month ago. I had the pattern.
I had the yarn. I wanted to make it, but I was
looking at the charts and I'm like, that is daunting.
Yeah, that is going to be. But now I'm like doing
it. I'm like, this is not hard. It's just row
by row. yeah you just gotta sit down and piece
it out row by row it's not so bad and you know
that's the same thing that i tell people when
they're working with double points and making
socks and it's like yeah you have like 86 needles
on this project but you're only using two at
a time like the method of knitting doesn't change
just because you added more needles you can only
use two at a time i know it looks it looks crazy
though i remember when i remember the before
i knew what i was doing i was like oh my god
i'll never do that you're handling a porcupine
that's how it looks exactly i felt the same way
about um what's it called magic loop oh yeah
how do they do two socks at a time two at a time
sleeves and but i i think um yarn harlot said
it best she said um it's it's all incrementalism
like yeah you you have to look at the steps Nobody
is just saying like the step is not step one,
knit a sweater. I joke with my kids all the time
that when I was in high school and my teacher,
my junior year U .S. history teacher was like,
OK, we're going to do a research paper and it
needs to be 10 pages and have five sources. It's
due in a month. Go. And that was it. Like there
was no guidance. There was no like this is how
you do a thesis. This is how you do this. Now
you do that. And I tell my kids, this is why.
I don't do that to you. We're not talking about
hauling off and doing the whole thing. We're
taking it bite by bite. And that's what knitting
is too. But I think we forget that a lot. I think
we do. We look at the final product. We're like,
that is going to be hard. We look at the final
product and you look at the entire set of directions
because you kind of have to at least look at
what you're getting into. But in your head, you
put it all like, I got to do all that at the
same time. It's like, nah, you start with row
one. I do not. I did the same thing when I was
doing the sweater. I'm sorry, Drea. I was just
like, you know, you got to look at it once. I
was like, I do not. I just end up on the section
and go. I'm so glad it's not just me. I do the
cursory once over where I'm like, oh, no, it
looks good. Looks good. And then I get somewhere
like jazz. What does this mean? I'm sorry. same
thing no i'm because most of the time i will
i'll look at the whole thing and most of the
time like okay i get what it's saying there are
some times where i will spend days looking at
because i don't understand it and i'll finally
be like i don't even care we're gonna we're gonna
get to it when we get to it and i get to it i'm
like oh like that that wasn't as bad i mean it
fits tina is wearing her hat that she literally
just took off of the needles Yeah, you know what?
I think this may be our first on -air completion.
Over her headphones. But that's how you know
it fits. Like, you could wear it. It's a look.
It is a look. In the wintertime. And you know
it fits your big head. You know what? I mean
that in the best way possible. Before blocking.
And it's Rio, so it's just going to get bigger.
That's why I said it's going to be a tub. I mean
that in the best way possible. It's going to
be a bucket hat. Yes. I'm never going to let
this touch water. Nope. That's what I did to
the other cocoa bean. You know what? Sometimes,
sometimes for hats, sometimes you just have to
never wash it. Yeah. It sounds way worse. No,
that's not what I meant. I just, no, I'll probably,
I could steam it or something, but I'm just not
going to like soak it. Yeah, I got to do like
an immersion block. Yeah, immersion blocking.
I will not help you block that. No, but then
you could do a sack race in it. Actually, I could
help you block that, and it probably won't grow
in size. No, look. I'm kind of looking forward
to making it a purse, though. Oh, see? When it
just expands into nothing. Sack races. Sack races.
Fancy, Zachary. There it is. 2020. Oh, I didn't
put my needle away. 2025 finish. First finish.
Only took me six months. Yeah. Hey. You know
what? It's not about the speed. It's not about
the speed. It's just we all get there in the
end. So now, so how do you add the head? Oh,
you just. You pick it up. Yeah, you just. You
go that way. Oh, okay. So now I'm just going
to go around and around these peels in the peel
color. It's like you would pick up a heel. Only
you're picking up a peel. Gotcha. Don't pick
up a heel, pick up a peel. I got a lot tonight.
Jess is on fire. That's what you want to call
it. On fire. You get to go home. I have to stay
here. You chose her. I did. You should have heard
the ones she cracked out when I was pregnant.
Yeah. Those were good. I had to work on my dad
jokes. It was awful. I mean, at least Jess is
good at dad jokes. I mean, come on. Come on.
That's an important part of becoming doc. It's
true. So is that it? Or do you have to finish
up the butt too? You got to finish the butt.
It's got a gaping hole on the butt. Yeah. Right
now. I'm going to, I assume it's going to be
much like working on the neck and head now where
I'm just going to pick up all these stitches
here. There you go. Close up his behind. Little
bump. I like that it's got the little like brown
tip at the end, like the end stem. That's great.
I like that. Yay. What are you going to use for
the brown? I have brown. Oh, you have brown.
Yeah. Why am I asking that? I got like all the
colors when Big Twist was. on sale at joann's
before they said goodbye yeah so i i pretty much
bought just about every color that was available
because i was like well you never know if crocheting
is what i want to do then i might as well yeah
and i like this yarn so i might as well got the
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