WEBVTT 00:00:00.010 --> 00:00:05.209 Well, I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. 00:00:05.490 --> 00:00:16.250 And this is Pardon My Stash. Welcome to Pardon 00:00:16.250 --> 00:00:18.710 My Stash, a podcast about crafting within the 00:00:18.710 --> 00:00:23.230 fiber arts and how awesome it is. Before we get 00:00:23.230 --> 00:00:25.989 into this week's episode, let's share what we're 00:00:25.989 --> 00:00:30.780 working on now. Tina? I am on the decreases of 00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:36.259 my Franken -Coco beanie. Franken -Coco. I kind 00:00:36.259 --> 00:00:38.899 of decided at a random point that this is long 00:00:38.899 --> 00:00:42.399 enough. You know, that's how most of us do our 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:45.979 hats. Yeah. This is big enough. This is where 00:00:45.979 --> 00:00:47.159 it's ending. And if it doesn't fit me, it will 00:00:47.159 --> 00:00:48.740 fit someone. So that's all that matters. Well, 00:00:48.740 --> 00:00:51.020 I did try it on and it does cover my head. There 00:00:51.020 --> 00:00:53.060 you go. But it's also Rio, so it's probably going 00:00:53.060 --> 00:00:56.600 to turn into a tub. But that's okay. It's okay. 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:58.679 I'll put it on my husband as I usually do when 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:03.299 it's too big. The pattern is called the Cocoa 00:01:03.299 --> 00:01:06.420 Bean and I'm making it in Malabrigo Rio's liquid 00:01:06.420 --> 00:01:10.920 amber. Yeah. It's beautiful. Thank you. It actually 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:12.719 is really pretty. It looks like watercolors and 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:14.680 stained glass. It's really nice. It is very nice. 00:01:15.780 --> 00:01:21.370 Meg? I'm doing... What I do best. Did you start 00:01:21.370 --> 00:01:25.969 a new project? I did. I would like you all to 00:01:25.969 --> 00:01:29.069 be drawing attention to the date. And this is 00:01:29.069 --> 00:01:31.049 where I start to pick a project that I'm going 00:01:31.049 --> 00:01:33.769 to get serious on. It's true. I do it every year. 00:01:33.849 --> 00:01:35.870 It is true. That's when I crack open the sweater. 00:01:36.090 --> 00:01:38.530 Well, what are you serial about right now? Right 00:01:38.530 --> 00:01:41.590 now being the operative words. This is going 00:01:41.590 --> 00:01:45.469 to be, hopefully, the Sayuri sweater by Valentina 00:01:45.469 --> 00:01:50.230 Bogdanova of Valentina's Knits. And I thought 00:01:50.230 --> 00:01:53.510 about this one for a very long time. So I'm hoping 00:01:53.510 --> 00:01:56.810 that it does stick. I really like the neckline. 00:01:56.870 --> 00:01:59.370 It's got this cool scallop thing going on here. 00:01:59.489 --> 00:02:03.849 And I am knitting it out of ashen bumble meadow 00:02:03.849 --> 00:02:07.489 fingering in the colorway cornflower. It's this 00:02:07.489 --> 00:02:10.370 really pretty like French blue color that I absolutely 00:02:10.370 --> 00:02:16.280 adore. So I am, I'm hoping. I don't try to cast 00:02:16.280 --> 00:02:18.860 on any sweaters or anything super serious until 00:02:18.860 --> 00:02:23.360 the end of the school year. And it's about that 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:28.340 time. It's about that time. It is. So it was 00:02:28.340 --> 00:02:31.939 time. And with some trepidation, I cast it on 00:02:31.939 --> 00:02:35.520 last week. And I'm really enjoying it so far. 00:02:35.659 --> 00:02:41.800 So I'm hoping it sticks. Drea. Bananasaurus. 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:47.099 yeah forever and ever well amen i'm not gonna 00:02:47.099 --> 00:02:50.919 lie i really have not been working on this i 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:52.639 haven't worked on this since the last time that 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:55.639 we talked about about it like since the last 00:02:55.639 --> 00:02:58.620 time we recorded um not that i'm not enjoying 00:02:58.620 --> 00:03:01.759 the pattern it's just that i as you guys know 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:07.759 i am into other hobbies at the moment and i have 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:11.030 lots of bread I have so much bread. And let me 00:03:11.030 --> 00:03:15.430 tell you, I had my first successful sourdough 00:03:15.430 --> 00:03:18.469 loaf this past week. And that bread was like, 00:03:18.629 --> 00:03:22.610 it was just like the best bread that I've ever 00:03:22.610 --> 00:03:25.469 had. Amazing. And I don't want to toot my own 00:03:25.469 --> 00:03:28.729 horn, but like, oh, it was so good. No, please 00:03:28.729 --> 00:03:32.569 toot your horn. I am. I made sandwich. Frank 00:03:32.569 --> 00:03:35.169 and I have had sandwiches almost every day this 00:03:35.169 --> 00:03:41.689 week. Man, I'm mad that it's gone. And I really 00:03:41.689 --> 00:03:45.069 want to thank our listener, Nina. You know who 00:03:45.069 --> 00:03:49.330 you are. She sent me her own sourdough recipe, 00:03:49.509 --> 00:03:54.629 like from starter to bake. I followed all of 00:03:54.629 --> 00:03:57.009 her instructions. The bread came out so good. 00:03:57.129 --> 00:04:00.370 I cannot thank her enough, like A plus. And while 00:04:00.370 --> 00:04:02.509 I'm on the subject of people sending me like 00:04:02.509 --> 00:04:05.879 sourdough recipes. Thank you to everybody who 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:08.319 has been sliding into my DMs with sourdough recipes. 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:13.759 I am going to make every single one of them. 00:04:13.939 --> 00:04:17.120 They all look so good. Thank you so much for 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:21.259 steering me in the right direction. I'm definitely 00:04:21.259 --> 00:04:25.800 in my bread era right now, and it's A+. But for 00:04:25.800 --> 00:04:28.439 the very moment, I am working on this Bananasaurus 00:04:28.439 --> 00:04:33.000 crochet pattern. by Emerald Rose Crochet and 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:37.360 I'm using Big Twist yarn. Jess? I am still working 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:40.779 on the Catnip Pullover by Andrea Rangel. I am 00:04:40.779 --> 00:04:45.920 still using Critical Hit Dyes Sorcerer in Displacer 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:50.500 and Embers. You know, it's slow going. I also 00:04:50.500 --> 00:04:53.879 started a budgie crochet project because my daughter 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:56.319 really wanted one. What is a budgie? It's a parakeet. 00:04:56.339 --> 00:05:00.639 It's a parakeet. Aww. I want to say the term 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:04.660 is used a lot in Europe, budgie, or at least 00:05:04.660 --> 00:05:09.360 in England. So I did start that, and then I got 00:05:09.360 --> 00:05:13.600 the body done and part of a wing done, and then 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:15.160 I kind of fell off of it a little bit. I was 00:05:15.160 --> 00:05:17.259 going to work on it today, but I brought everything 00:05:17.259 --> 00:05:19.139 but the pattern downstairs with me, and I didn't 00:05:19.139 --> 00:05:23.819 feel like going back upstairs. To be fair, I 00:05:23.819 --> 00:05:25.720 was covered in cats, and I didn't want to move 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:30.019 them either. So that was why that didn't happen. 00:05:30.060 --> 00:05:33.980 But I am working on this right now, and I am 00:05:33.980 --> 00:05:37.000 about 12 rows from being done with the color 00:05:37.000 --> 00:05:39.920 work. We're getting there. It's slow going, but 00:05:39.920 --> 00:05:43.339 I'm getting there, guys. But yeah, so if you 00:05:43.339 --> 00:05:45.879 want to see pictures of the stuff that we're 00:05:45.879 --> 00:05:47.899 working on right now or get more information 00:05:47.899 --> 00:05:50.339 about Part of My Stash, be sure to check out 00:05:50.339 --> 00:05:53.420 our blog found at partofmystash .com for info, 00:05:53.500 --> 00:05:59.720 pics, patterns, and yarns. It's getting warm. 00:06:00.660 --> 00:06:04.680 Yes. It's getting... I mean, yeah, we get the 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:06.339 kind of weather back and forth because we are 00:06:06.339 --> 00:06:08.100 in New England, and that means the weather does 00:06:08.100 --> 00:06:09.800 what it wants to do. Yeah, today in particular 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:12.560 feels like winter, but the rest of the days have 00:06:12.560 --> 00:06:15.439 been feeling very nice. Have been nice or really 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:20.620 hot. This is the time of year where it's like 00:06:20.620 --> 00:06:25.589 my hands are just clammy constantly, so... So 00:06:25.589 --> 00:06:27.610 I don't know about the rest of you, but I know 00:06:27.610 --> 00:06:30.730 that I start to pick up different hobbies around 00:06:30.730 --> 00:06:33.449 this time that take up more of my time than my 00:06:33.449 --> 00:06:37.290 knitting stuff because I'm awful and like working 00:06:37.290 --> 00:06:41.209 with warm yarns and don't really like to work 00:06:41.209 --> 00:06:44.470 with not warm yarns, which is unfortunate because 00:06:44.470 --> 00:06:46.189 I hear working with cotton this time of year 00:06:46.189 --> 00:06:49.290 is actually kind of nice, but yeah, it's just 00:06:49.290 --> 00:06:52.300 not as... Doesn't call to me as much as, you 00:06:52.300 --> 00:06:56.560 know, the wool. Well, by the time you guys are 00:06:56.560 --> 00:06:58.199 listening to this episode, I'm going to be sitting 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:00.660 on a beach in Portugal, probably knitting cotton. 00:07:01.220 --> 00:07:04.600 Yeah, see, see. You know, I do hear silk is okay. 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.740 Yeah, silk's nice too. Actually, a cotton silk 00:07:08.740 --> 00:07:13.139 blend is really nice because it gives you like 00:07:13.139 --> 00:07:15.959 the softness that you would want from like a 00:07:15.959 --> 00:07:19.889 merino wool or something. um the lightness of 00:07:19.889 --> 00:07:23.949 the cotton so you're not getting as yeah sticky 00:07:23.949 --> 00:07:27.970 i deliberately knit a merino silk shawl i think 00:07:27.970 --> 00:07:32.569 it was two years ago for one of our um one of 00:07:32.569 --> 00:07:34.550 our make -alongs and it does make a difference 00:07:34.550 --> 00:07:37.870 like knitting with the right stuff does but then 00:07:37.870 --> 00:07:40.480 again like what was it two years ago I did a 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:44.180 mohair sweater. So you do the math. Like after 00:07:44.180 --> 00:07:48.160 I saw you do the mohair sweater. Yeah. Like I 00:07:48.160 --> 00:07:50.920 was like, I've always like, oh, maybe I'll do 00:07:50.920 --> 00:07:53.959 mohair. No, I won't. You know, I think it's one 00:07:53.959 --> 00:07:56.459 of those things like I love knitting with it. 00:07:57.319 --> 00:08:02.540 The sucky thing about it is that I cannot wear 00:08:02.540 --> 00:08:05.459 it. Yeah. I can wear it. Like I wore it to Ryan 00:08:05.459 --> 00:08:09.339 Beck because it was cold that year. But I cannot. 00:08:09.930 --> 00:08:12.029 I tried wearing that sweater to work and I thought 00:08:12.029 --> 00:08:15.670 I was gonna die like it was just so hot I also 00:08:15.670 --> 00:08:17.790 run hot so I feel like I'd have the same problem 00:08:17.790 --> 00:08:20.430 no I did and I love that sweater it is it is 00:08:20.430 --> 00:08:23.529 so comfy but um I want to knit another one it's 00:08:23.529 --> 00:08:26.529 a calliope I want to knit another one just out 00:08:26.529 --> 00:08:31.670 of wool no merino or no no merino no um no mohair 00:08:31.670 --> 00:08:35.149 I swear to god I have like three calliopes in 00:08:35.149 --> 00:08:38.629 progress All the calliopes. Well, I know you 00:08:38.629 --> 00:08:40.690 had the one made out of bless. I know you started 00:08:40.690 --> 00:08:44.210 that one. Yeah. And I don't know. It's like probably 00:08:44.210 --> 00:08:48.789 three quarters to the split. It's close to the 00:08:48.789 --> 00:08:52.110 split. It's just, it looks like a top of a, looks 00:08:52.110 --> 00:08:53.289 like a nice little collar. It looks like the 00:08:53.289 --> 00:08:59.610 top. And then, you know, I was going to make 00:08:59.610 --> 00:09:03.450 a black one for. Oh, that would be nice. Yes. 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.440 But I think I'm going to make it for myself now. 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:16.879 Oh. I don't believe you. Yeah. So we've had a 00:09:16.879 --> 00:09:19.779 similar, not similar, but in the same vein of 00:09:19.779 --> 00:09:22.019 making sweaters where like Jess will look at 00:09:22.019 --> 00:09:24.460 a sweater and she'll be like, oh, I love that. 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:27.200 I want to make that. I'm not going to wear that. 00:09:27.419 --> 00:09:30.340 Would you wear that? What colors would you wear 00:09:30.340 --> 00:09:32.759 that in if you were to? And she's never made 00:09:32.759 --> 00:09:35.909 me one. But she has had that because Jess doesn't 00:09:35.909 --> 00:09:38.850 wear her knits 90 % of the time. She just admires 00:09:38.850 --> 00:09:41.570 them. It's true. But she has looked like there 00:09:41.570 --> 00:09:42.990 was this one. I can't remember what it was. It 00:09:42.990 --> 00:09:45.090 was very, very pretty. And she's like, I want 00:09:45.090 --> 00:09:49.029 to make that. I'm never going to wear that. But 00:09:49.029 --> 00:09:53.769 if you like it, what colors would you like? There's 00:09:53.769 --> 00:09:57.049 still that dragon scale kind of lease part. I 00:09:57.049 --> 00:09:58.750 don't know. It was really cool. It was very pretty. 00:09:58.889 --> 00:10:01.429 I don't know if I would wear it, though. I don't 00:10:01.429 --> 00:10:03.570 know where I would wear it to. do you think the 00:10:03.570 --> 00:10:06.529 kid would wear the kid wears almost anything 00:10:06.529 --> 00:10:08.669 the kid i don't think it comes in a kid's size 00:10:08.669 --> 00:10:11.490 though dang she keeps asking me to make her stuff 00:10:11.490 --> 00:10:14.750 i'm like no i'm good out of here you know and 00:10:14.750 --> 00:10:16.710 and then they grow out of it immediately like 00:10:16.710 --> 00:10:20.450 yeah i know well like like yeah like the owlet 00:10:20.450 --> 00:10:23.590 sweater that i made her and i made it two sizes 00:10:23.590 --> 00:10:26.570 too big and she grew out of it like six months 00:10:26.570 --> 00:10:31.049 later no that's it is what it is kid stuff man 00:10:31.470 --> 00:10:33.870 Joe still tries to wear the sweater I made her. 00:10:34.370 --> 00:10:37.990 But it's like... oh no a crop top like she needs 00:10:37.990 --> 00:10:40.629 to stop where the sleeves are too tight and too 00:10:40.629 --> 00:10:44.110 short and yeah so she's like she'll put like 00:10:44.110 --> 00:10:45.669 she doesn't wear it like a crop top with her 00:10:45.669 --> 00:10:47.970 belly showing but she'll put like a long sleeve 00:10:47.970 --> 00:10:49.970 shirt on and then she throws it up on top that's 00:10:49.970 --> 00:10:54.610 so 90s though it's very cute it's very cute but 00:10:54.610 --> 00:10:57.470 um yeah i'm concerned about her arms because 00:10:57.470 --> 00:11:00.529 it's starting a little tight cut the circulation 00:11:00.529 --> 00:11:04.009 a little bit kind of you may have to cut her 00:11:04.009 --> 00:11:06.750 out of it kind of be your knitting for kids is 00:11:06.750 --> 00:11:09.789 continuous heartbreak like it really is they 00:11:09.789 --> 00:11:12.450 have such cute things and then you're like yeah 00:11:12.450 --> 00:11:15.330 you can wear it for about 30 seconds well i thought 00:11:15.330 --> 00:11:17.509 like cat would like give the sweater i made for 00:11:17.509 --> 00:11:20.190 her years ago down to joe that never happened 00:11:20.190 --> 00:11:22.909 she just uses it all the time and she continually 00:11:22.909 --> 00:11:26.389 just stretches it out yes i've watched her do 00:11:26.389 --> 00:11:28.409 it you've seen how big that thing is now right 00:11:28.409 --> 00:11:32.419 it's like a poncho Gonna make it work. Jesus. 00:11:32.419 --> 00:11:34.519 Like, I don't know how this works, but it's gonna. 00:11:35.940 --> 00:11:38.559 I mean, to be fair, she is right. Like, she has 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.480 gotten it to the point where it feels right. 00:11:40.639 --> 00:11:43.360 It feels right. It's true. She has worn it out. 00:11:43.460 --> 00:11:46.179 Well, worn it in, I should say. Yeah, she usually 00:11:46.179 --> 00:11:48.799 wears, it's usually a pajama shirt. Hey, you 00:11:48.799 --> 00:11:52.320 know, that's, that's like a highest of compliments. 00:11:52.399 --> 00:11:54.659 That's what I was like. Thank you. And it's not 00:11:54.659 --> 00:11:57.600 even me. That means that is top peak comfort 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:03.409 right there. Like, look, you got to be discerning 00:12:03.409 --> 00:12:06.190 about what you're wearing for comfort PJ time. 00:12:06.529 --> 00:12:09.470 See, this time I'm just running into the issue 00:12:09.470 --> 00:12:11.269 where it's like I'm running into it right now 00:12:11.269 --> 00:12:13.289 where, again, my hands are clammy. So all my 00:12:13.289 --> 00:12:20.090 stitches are sticking. Yeah. So I have the opposite 00:12:20.090 --> 00:12:22.750 issue. And I literally just brought this up when 00:12:22.750 --> 00:12:25.610 we started that this is my peak knitting season. 00:12:26.279 --> 00:12:30.259 you yeah and a lot of it is just um it's a multi 00:12:30.259 --> 00:12:33.960 -layered problem um part of it is in line with 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.259 what drea said at the top of the episode of i 00:12:36.259 --> 00:12:38.700 simply have too many things that i want to do 00:12:38.700 --> 00:12:42.799 and i wind up backburnering knitting because 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:50.279 my biggies are taking walks or hiking and my 00:12:50.279 --> 00:12:52.460 other one lately that has been i mentioned this 00:12:52.830 --> 00:12:54.289 A couple episodes ago, I was learning Italian. 00:12:54.730 --> 00:12:56.970 And those are two things I can't do while I'm 00:12:56.970 --> 00:13:03.690 knitting yet. So I stress yet. So during the 00:13:03.690 --> 00:13:08.250 school year, when I get home after meetings or 00:13:08.250 --> 00:13:10.669 whatever, or God, Thursday nights when I have 00:13:10.669 --> 00:13:13.889 grad school classes, I've got maybe an hour and 00:13:13.889 --> 00:13:17.509 a half to two hours to myself. And I would love 00:13:17.509 --> 00:13:20.149 to say that that's knitting time. That often 00:13:20.149 --> 00:13:23.769 ends up lying on the couch. staring at the TV, 00:13:23.909 --> 00:13:28.529 playing games on my phone time. And I'm not proud 00:13:28.529 --> 00:13:31.590 of that because it doesn't feel like, and I know 00:13:31.590 --> 00:13:34.429 like before everybody jumps in, I realized that 00:13:34.429 --> 00:13:36.169 not everything needs to be based on productivity. 00:13:37.169 --> 00:13:41.149 But I do like to finish my projects and I always 00:13:41.149 --> 00:13:43.409 feel down on myself when I don't finish them. 00:13:43.629 --> 00:13:45.370 But sometimes, you know, you've already done 00:13:45.370 --> 00:13:48.169 so many things during the day. How can you add 00:13:48.169 --> 00:13:50.309 one more thing that you actually have to put 00:13:50.309 --> 00:13:54.149 thought into? I get into these things and I've 00:13:54.149 --> 00:13:56.750 seen lots of reels on an Instagram, but the teacher 00:13:56.750 --> 00:13:58.230 thing of like you get home and somebody's like, 00:13:58.269 --> 00:13:59.110 so what do you want for dinner? You're like, 00:13:59.169 --> 00:14:01.409 I don't want to make one more decision today. 00:14:01.590 --> 00:14:06.629 All the time. All every single day. Please don't 00:14:06.629 --> 00:14:09.309 make me make choices. I can't make any more decisions. 00:14:09.470 --> 00:14:12.669 I tell Pat that he's, Pat, you are the choice 00:14:12.669 --> 00:14:16.570 star. Congratulations. The choice star. But no, 00:14:16.769 --> 00:14:19.950 it's just like it's and a lot of the decisions 00:14:19.950 --> 00:14:22.190 that I make in an average day are not decisions 00:14:22.190 --> 00:14:25.889 that I even realize I'm making. It's just responding 00:14:25.889 --> 00:14:31.009 to 60 individuals whose behavior is unpredictable 00:14:31.009 --> 00:14:35.970 and constantly reacting to unpredictable behavior, 00:14:36.090 --> 00:14:38.429 usually not bad, unpredictable behavior. But, 00:14:38.429 --> 00:14:42.639 you know. i get lots of questions and um some 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:44.919 of them are weird like miss why didn't you become 00:14:44.919 --> 00:14:46.980 an air traffic controller why are you sorry no 00:14:46.980 --> 00:14:49.399 i'm serious this happened last week in in my 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:52.179 politics class you know it just wasn't on my 00:14:52.179 --> 00:14:56.100 radar it was really funny um i hear they're hiring 00:14:56.100 --> 00:14:59.919 terrible um no he literally asked me that um 00:14:59.919 --> 00:15:02.080 one of my one of my favorite students he's a 00:15:02.080 --> 00:15:05.299 great kid um but yeah it was weird and it is 00:15:05.299 --> 00:15:06.759 it's like you know what when i get questions 00:15:06.759 --> 00:15:08.639 like that it's like my brain just kind of stops 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.820 and i'm like wait i don't know how to respond 00:15:11.820 --> 00:15:15.159 to these did i hear you correctly first off just 00:15:15.159 --> 00:15:19.139 um so i i do get that that choice kind of overload 00:15:19.139 --> 00:15:22.960 and you get home and it's like i can't even focusing 00:15:22.960 --> 00:15:26.000 on a pattern feels like too much but then the 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:29.879 school year ends and it's like here we go i now 00:15:29.879 --> 00:15:33.019 have more hours in the day to do things that 00:15:33.419 --> 00:15:37.200 I have to do slash want to do. And this is when 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:41.820 my knitting really takes off from now until sadly 00:15:41.820 --> 00:15:44.679 the end of August. And then in September, it 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:48.500 just tanks. I would love to see like a line chart 00:15:48.500 --> 00:15:51.500 of my knitting productivity and watch it like 00:15:51.500 --> 00:15:56.519 skyrocket from like mid -May until September 00:15:56.519 --> 00:15:59.639 1st and then just watch it dive into the ground 00:15:59.639 --> 00:16:02.179 until like two weeks before Rhinebeck when I 00:16:02.179 --> 00:16:05.070 panic. And I'm like, crap, I want to finish this 00:16:05.070 --> 00:16:06.909 thing, whatever I'm making, and I want to wear 00:16:06.909 --> 00:16:09.730 it, but I have no time. So those two weeks in 00:16:09.730 --> 00:16:13.029 October where I go absolutely ballistic. And 00:16:13.029 --> 00:16:16.870 then it kind of peters off until May again. It's 00:16:16.870 --> 00:16:19.629 just ridiculous. You get little blips. It's just, 00:16:19.649 --> 00:16:22.450 that's my life. Those are the choices I've made. 00:16:23.070 --> 00:16:27.110 See, I have to find, because I usually am most 00:16:27.110 --> 00:16:30.470 productive at night when I am watching YouTube. 00:16:31.500 --> 00:16:34.279 But it has to be a specific type of YouTube. 00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:39.519 Like it has to be a series that I can look away 00:16:39.519 --> 00:16:42.759 from but not completely like lose what's going 00:16:42.759 --> 00:16:45.379 on if I have to pay attention to the pattern. 00:16:45.799 --> 00:16:48.620 So like I thought I was going to do real good 00:16:48.620 --> 00:16:50.559 when I was there was a new game that came out. 00:16:50.580 --> 00:16:51.820 And of course, I don't have time to play it. 00:16:51.860 --> 00:16:53.740 So I just found someone that played it well and 00:16:53.740 --> 00:16:55.909 I liked and I watched them play it. And I was 00:16:55.909 --> 00:16:57.549 like, yeah, I'll get a lot done. The game was 00:16:57.549 --> 00:17:00.029 too good. Okay. I didn't want to miss the game. 00:17:00.129 --> 00:17:03.289 So I ended up like literally watching this thing 00:17:03.289 --> 00:17:06.089 like it was a movie and just got no knitting 00:17:06.089 --> 00:17:08.750 done. So that didn't work. I am happy that it 00:17:08.750 --> 00:17:10.890 did because the game was awesome. But I was like, 00:17:10.950 --> 00:17:14.430 this was not the crafting YouTube. I need to 00:17:14.430 --> 00:17:18.210 find the crafting YouTube. What game was it? 00:17:19.789 --> 00:17:22.089 Inquiring Minds. I want to say, oh, God, what 00:17:22.089 --> 00:17:24.190 is it? South of Midnight, I'm pretty sure is 00:17:24.190 --> 00:17:27.430 the name of it. And it is it is fantastic. Isn't 00:17:27.430 --> 00:17:29.789 it like super cinematic, too? It is very cinematic. 00:17:30.089 --> 00:17:32.230 You can. It's got different modes. So you can 00:17:32.230 --> 00:17:34.569 if you want more like hard gameplay, you could 00:17:34.569 --> 00:17:37.369 choose that or you do story mode. Really awesome. 00:17:37.490 --> 00:17:40.289 Music was great. Cinematic. The story was was 00:17:40.289 --> 00:17:42.490 fantastic. I was like, yeah, no, this is great. 00:17:42.609 --> 00:17:44.150 And then I was like, I'm getting nothing done. 00:17:44.190 --> 00:17:46.990 I have to find a different series. All of the 00:17:46.990 --> 00:17:49.190 conversations that we had about why you weren't 00:17:49.190 --> 00:17:51.049 like you're like, I'm just not in the mood to 00:17:51.049 --> 00:17:53.990 knit. There's that you never. ever mentioned 00:17:53.990 --> 00:17:56.690 that you were watching like full -fledged crazy 00:17:56.690 --> 00:17:59.470 video game episodes after I go to bed at night 00:17:59.470 --> 00:18:02.609 oh yeah no I do that all the time sometimes like 00:18:02.609 --> 00:18:05.390 the last well this one usually takes me a week 00:18:05.390 --> 00:18:06.869 to get through the last one that was sort of 00:18:06.869 --> 00:18:09.750 like that I want to say oh god that was like 00:18:09.750 --> 00:18:11.890 a couple years ago because usually I can't play 00:18:11.890 --> 00:18:13.509 through them I gotta find something like right 00:18:13.509 --> 00:18:15.849 now I'm back to watching some indie horror games 00:18:15.849 --> 00:18:18.730 and that's easier to craft then after that because 00:18:18.730 --> 00:18:20.769 it does sometimes i am just like all right i'm 00:18:20.769 --> 00:18:23.190 ready to craft it no no i'm just gonna also sit 00:18:23.190 --> 00:18:26.369 here and play on my phone while i watch stuff 00:18:26.369 --> 00:18:29.569 in the background for me i like to put on like 00:18:29.569 --> 00:18:34.170 um uh on demand like whose line Oh, yeah. Because 00:18:34.170 --> 00:18:37.549 you just don't. But you don't have to pay attention. 00:18:37.710 --> 00:18:40.009 At any point in time, you can look up and be 00:18:40.009 --> 00:18:42.549 like, what? Oh, OK. It's not a plot you need 00:18:42.549 --> 00:18:46.869 to follow. That's been. So we started rewatching 00:18:46.869 --> 00:18:50.589 Frasier from like the 1990s. Oh, God. Dude, I 00:18:50.589 --> 00:18:52.829 love Frasier. And I hadn't seen it in years. 00:18:52.869 --> 00:18:54.450 And I don't know why we thought about it. I think 00:18:54.450 --> 00:18:56.710 it was just because it was free. And I quickly 00:18:56.710 --> 00:18:58.829 realized Frasier is not something that I can 00:18:58.829 --> 00:19:02.109 knit while watching. Because I don't remember 00:19:02.109 --> 00:19:04.849 most of it. And so much of it is physical comedy 00:19:04.849 --> 00:19:08.230 that I just couldn't follow it. But yeah, it 00:19:08.230 --> 00:19:12.250 gets hard. Like you need to have, like Tina, 00:19:12.349 --> 00:19:15.910 like you said, you need to have the right visual. 00:19:16.589 --> 00:19:19.490 Like if you're listening to or if you're watching 00:19:19.490 --> 00:19:21.849 something, it needs to be the right thing. Because 00:19:21.849 --> 00:19:26.490 if it is the wrong thing. it's counterproductive 00:19:26.490 --> 00:19:29.009 oh god i remember though when i was making all 00:19:29.009 --> 00:19:31.450 your guys's wedding shawls my whole thing was 00:19:31.450 --> 00:19:35.509 uh the binding of isaac played by northern line 00:19:35.509 --> 00:19:37.450 it had to be by northern line anyone else that 00:19:37.450 --> 00:19:39.529 played i couldn't concentrate northern line binding 00:19:39.529 --> 00:19:43.549 of isaac i like months of just watching these 00:19:43.549 --> 00:19:45.849 things while knitting it was great i would walk 00:19:45.849 --> 00:19:48.630 into the room and i would look at this this absolutely 00:19:48.630 --> 00:19:52.380 stupid thing she was watching and i'm like i 00:19:52.380 --> 00:19:54.039 don't even know what's happening it looked like 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:56.380 the literal same thing every time on the screen 00:19:56.380 --> 00:19:58.980 oh it was always different it's always different 00:19:58.980 --> 00:20:01.220 every time i looked at it i i just thought it 00:20:01.220 --> 00:20:02.920 looked like you were watching a tetris game yeah 00:20:02.920 --> 00:20:05.220 it's kind of weird i would i'm like it was like 00:20:05.220 --> 00:20:08.900 to me it looked like watching somebody play tetris 00:20:08.900 --> 00:20:11.720 and i'm like i could not be less interested but 00:20:11.720 --> 00:20:13.960 it was it was so good like that was that was 00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:16.759 my go -to for what that was like a year's worth 00:20:16.759 --> 00:20:22.500 of knitting projects so yeah Hey, complete left 00:20:22.500 --> 00:20:27.039 field. I think I might finish this. Right now? 00:20:27.119 --> 00:20:30.180 Tonight? I'm on the second to last row. Oh, man. 00:20:30.339 --> 00:20:34.839 Would this be a first? An on -podcast finish? 00:20:35.420 --> 00:20:38.819 I don't know about that. Maybe. I don't think 00:20:38.819 --> 00:20:41.420 we've ever had that happen before. I was actually 00:20:41.420 --> 00:20:43.099 more thinking about, have I finished anything 00:20:43.099 --> 00:20:46.539 this year? Oh, I have not. So if you do, kudos. 00:20:46.839 --> 00:20:49.839 I don't know if I did. I'll be honest. I don't 00:20:49.839 --> 00:20:52.119 remember. I have not. I think I've started a 00:20:52.119 --> 00:20:53.900 lot of things. Do you know what? I'm sitting 00:20:53.900 --> 00:20:55.279 here going, yeah, I haven't finished anything 00:20:55.279 --> 00:20:57.359 either. You haven't finished so many things. 00:20:57.359 --> 00:21:00.400 I haven't finished so many things. Knitting -wise, 00:21:00.519 --> 00:21:04.250 no. But crocheting. I have made so many little 00:21:04.250 --> 00:21:07.250 plushies. It still counts. Have you finished 00:21:07.250 --> 00:21:12.210 anything this year? I don't know. I don't think 00:21:12.210 --> 00:21:14.309 so. I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't 00:21:14.309 --> 00:21:16.910 think so. I think because you've started a bunch 00:21:16.910 --> 00:21:18.970 of things. I have started a bunch of things. 00:21:19.009 --> 00:21:21.109 I feel like that budgie has promise. It does 00:21:21.109 --> 00:21:22.250 have promise. The budgie is going to get done 00:21:22.250 --> 00:21:25.809 first. Like the body is done and half of a wing 00:21:25.809 --> 00:21:28.990 is done. The last thing I finished was my sweater 00:21:28.990 --> 00:21:32.779 with your yarn. And that was in December. So 00:21:32.779 --> 00:21:34.720 I haven't finished anything this year. Nope, 00:21:34.759 --> 00:21:38.039 I have not. I don't remember the last thing. 00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:41.119 I'm pretty sure I finished that shawl for Ryan 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:43.240 Beck and that was the last thing I did. I had 00:21:43.240 --> 00:21:46.599 so many bad starts last year, like at the end 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:49.039 of the year. I was super indecisive. I couldn't 00:21:49.039 --> 00:21:51.720 finish anything. I pushed myself through that 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:53.970 sweater. I definitely pushed myself through. 00:21:54.029 --> 00:21:55.809 I was like, I can do this. This will give me 00:21:55.809 --> 00:21:57.950 the mojo. No, instead it gave me existential 00:21:57.950 --> 00:22:00.609 dread. And I was like, why am I stressing myself 00:22:00.609 --> 00:22:04.609 out with a sweater? It's hard. I do love it, 00:22:04.670 --> 00:22:07.430 but man, it was stressful. I finished a lot last 00:22:07.430 --> 00:22:09.589 year and then it was like the new year came and 00:22:09.589 --> 00:22:14.690 I was like, eh, I'm good now. Now I'm going to 00:22:14.690 --> 00:22:17.250 be focused on other things. I don't know what 00:22:17.250 --> 00:22:19.329 the other things are, but I am focused on them. 00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.220 Well, I think there's like the bigger, the kind 00:22:23.220 --> 00:22:25.440 of bigger issue in this, and I imagine a lot 00:22:25.440 --> 00:22:28.119 of people will be able to relate to it, is like 00:22:28.119 --> 00:22:32.400 the lack of free time. Yeah. And when you have 00:22:32.400 --> 00:22:34.920 to make a choice of what you're going to do with 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:38.200 that free time. And that's not to like dismiss 00:22:38.200 --> 00:22:44.000 crafting at all, but you got to make a choice. 00:22:44.829 --> 00:22:47.410 And it gets it gets hard sometimes. Like, do 00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:49.450 I want to do this? Do I want to do something 00:22:49.450 --> 00:22:52.490 else? I definitely have not been prioritizing 00:22:52.490 --> 00:22:55.109 crafting. No, until recently, I wasn't either. 00:22:55.650 --> 00:22:59.470 And I think it just gets it gets a little bit 00:22:59.470 --> 00:23:04.990 easy to kind of back burner. And then I don't 00:23:04.990 --> 00:23:07.789 know about you guys, but I have difficulty at 00:23:07.789 --> 00:23:10.250 times, depending on the project, like I'll pick 00:23:10.250 --> 00:23:12.250 it up and be like, I can't even remember what 00:23:12.250 --> 00:23:15.059 I was doing. I can't remember where I left off. 00:23:15.680 --> 00:23:18.500 This is really hard for me to kind of pick it 00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:21.220 up and keep going. And part of that is my issue 00:23:21.220 --> 00:23:23.359 with I accidentally harvest row counters from 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:24.960 other projects and then I don't remember what 00:23:24.960 --> 00:23:27.559 row I was on. And my row counters. Yeah. This 00:23:27.559 --> 00:23:30.940 isn't yours. Are you sure? It was in a bag on 00:23:30.940 --> 00:23:34.500 the table. Was that yours? I got a new one because 00:23:34.500 --> 00:23:40.599 you took my other one. So I got a new one. That's 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:45.720 so funny. a new one because you had my other 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:49.640 one. I was like, I'll just get a new one. Immediately 00:23:49.640 --> 00:23:53.359 steal. Immediately. I'm so bad. It is. I just 00:23:53.359 --> 00:23:55.299 steal them. There's like a whole bag of them 00:23:55.299 --> 00:23:59.680 downstairs, but I was all excited when I saw 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:01.339 this one. I'm like, because I didn't remember. 00:24:01.839 --> 00:24:03.799 I thought I bought it. I've got my big one right 00:24:03.799 --> 00:24:06.819 now and the budgie I'm just sort of guessing 00:24:06.819 --> 00:24:09.420 and hoping for. I'm a bad person. I'm sorry. 00:24:09.640 --> 00:24:12.670 No, you're good. That's so funny. You know what? 00:24:12.710 --> 00:24:14.329 My issue is a lot of times, though, too, with 00:24:14.329 --> 00:24:16.390 crafting lately, and I don't know what it is. 00:24:16.490 --> 00:24:18.789 It's like, I feel like, I'm like, okay, you know 00:24:18.789 --> 00:24:21.240 what? I'm going to do this. And then... By the 00:24:21.240 --> 00:24:23.640 time I collect everything and get settled, I 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:26.240 no longer want to do it. That's because collecting 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:28.279 everything is a chore in itself. I'm like, that 00:24:28.279 --> 00:24:29.779 was too much work. I had to find the needles. 00:24:29.900 --> 00:24:32.099 I had to get the row counter. I had to get the 00:24:32.099 --> 00:24:34.180 yarn. There was yarn barf that I had to figure 00:24:34.180 --> 00:24:36.400 out. Oh, no. The kiss of death for me is when 00:24:36.400 --> 00:24:38.700 I'm winding the yarn and it tangles. And I'm 00:24:38.700 --> 00:24:40.500 like, I don't want to do this anymore. I'm done. 00:24:40.980 --> 00:24:43.759 And yeah. And so by the time I'm like, yeah, 00:24:43.819 --> 00:24:45.519 I've got everything and I'm looking at it all. 00:24:45.539 --> 00:24:47.420 I'm like, I don't even want to do this anymore. 00:24:49.160 --> 00:24:52.140 I haven't really talked about it, but I've been 00:24:52.140 --> 00:24:55.940 dealing with a lot of pain in my hands. So sometimes 00:24:55.940 --> 00:25:00.799 I have free time, but I don't have pain -free 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:06.500 time. So it turns into like... I have time but 00:25:06.500 --> 00:25:09.240 I feel my hands literally hurt while I'm knitting 00:25:09.240 --> 00:25:12.420 and then like other times it's like okay I don't 00:25:12.420 --> 00:25:14.240 have any pain but like I don't have any time 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:17.519 so getting that to coincide and then on top of 00:25:17.519 --> 00:25:20.259 it it's like okay yeah that could all coincide 00:25:20.960 --> 00:25:23.599 But then like, am I crying today or am I having 00:25:23.599 --> 00:25:28.019 a good day? It really like, it narrows down. 00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:31.319 What a crap shoot. It really narrows down the 00:25:31.319 --> 00:25:36.640 field of times I want to knit. And I know probably 00:25:36.640 --> 00:25:38.940 Drea can attest to this, but like sometimes like, 00:25:39.079 --> 00:25:41.819 you know, we'll hang out. I'll have like, I'll 00:25:41.819 --> 00:25:43.500 pull a project out. And then all of a sudden 00:25:43.500 --> 00:25:47.480 I'm just like, I just drop it. I just stop. And 00:25:47.480 --> 00:25:50.559 it's just because. I don't know what it is. It's 00:25:50.559 --> 00:25:53.160 just because. It's just. It happens. I really, 00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:56.579 really am trying to like almost force this thing 00:25:56.579 --> 00:25:59.559 to come back. But like, if I'm really, really 00:25:59.559 --> 00:26:03.700 honest, it's like, man, everything just sucks. 00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:06.740 No, and sometimes it really is. Sometimes you 00:26:06.740 --> 00:26:08.519 just got to kind of. Why am I emotional today? 00:26:08.700 --> 00:26:10.839 Oh, my God. I was fine. But you're carrying a 00:26:10.839 --> 00:26:14.819 lot right now, Tina. It's fine. You don't have 00:26:14.819 --> 00:26:17.380 to force a project. You don't have to force a 00:26:17.380 --> 00:26:20.039 hobby either. No. It shouldn't feel like a chore, 00:26:20.140 --> 00:26:24.019 you know? I think there is a very big misconception, 00:26:24.240 --> 00:26:27.480 and a lot of it, I think, comes from literature 00:26:27.480 --> 00:26:30.420 surrounding knitting, that knitting is the perfect 00:26:30.420 --> 00:26:32.400 thing to do when you're going through any stage 00:26:32.400 --> 00:26:37.880 of grief. Yeah, there's a lot. There are so many 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:41.440 books, fiction books especially, written about... 00:26:42.389 --> 00:26:44.710 knitting through grief and knitting is this like 00:26:44.710 --> 00:26:50.329 magic, like fix it to feelings, having feelings 00:26:50.329 --> 00:26:52.670 or going through something tough doesn't even 00:26:52.670 --> 00:26:56.269 need to be grief. I kind of found it was the 00:26:56.269 --> 00:26:59.109 opposite. That's what I'm finding too. I had, 00:26:59.170 --> 00:27:01.509 I think it took about a year and a half after 00:27:01.509 --> 00:27:04.210 my dad passed for me to decide I wanted to knit 00:27:04.210 --> 00:27:08.069 again. It's really, and then there was that additional 00:27:08.069 --> 00:27:12.109 like, why isn't this working for me? yeah which 00:27:12.109 --> 00:27:16.789 created a whole other issue so Tina are you okay 00:27:16.789 --> 00:27:20.170 I'm good I just tangled I don't know how you 00:27:20.170 --> 00:27:22.609 manage that that is actually an impressive knot 00:27:22.609 --> 00:27:24.890 no it was just like it was like just twisted 00:27:24.890 --> 00:27:29.009 yeah I'm good no it's not no you know you just 00:27:29.009 --> 00:27:31.049 gotta yeah I'm just I'm just gonna I'm it's good 00:27:31.049 --> 00:27:35.150 I have enough honestly I feel like when you are 00:27:35.150 --> 00:27:37.069 grieving or when you are going through something 00:27:37.069 --> 00:27:40.349 really heavy or you know you you've got a lot 00:27:40.349 --> 00:27:43.289 on your mind you got a lot on your plate knitting 00:27:43.289 --> 00:27:45.750 isn't actually like helping you get through things 00:27:45.750 --> 00:27:48.710 it's really just a distraction you know you're 00:27:48.710 --> 00:27:50.869 turning off all those feelings because now you 00:27:50.869 --> 00:27:53.289 have to focus on something else you pour all 00:27:53.289 --> 00:27:55.789 of your focus into something else and yeah you're 00:27:55.789 --> 00:27:59.910 getting past like the grief phase but it's it's 00:27:59.910 --> 00:28:01.950 still there like you still gotta deal with it 00:28:02.349 --> 00:28:04.450 And sometimes it can be a big help. Yeah. It 00:28:04.450 --> 00:28:06.809 depends. Honestly, it's like it's some people. 00:28:06.829 --> 00:28:10.609 Yeah, it is. It's great. It's it's you know, 00:28:10.609 --> 00:28:12.829 it can be a lifesaver. But for other people, 00:28:12.869 --> 00:28:14.309 it's not. And I don't think there's anything 00:28:14.309 --> 00:28:17.130 wrong with either of that. But I think you hear 00:28:17.130 --> 00:28:20.849 more about the healing properties of it. And 00:28:20.849 --> 00:28:22.349 I don't think a lot of people talk about like, 00:28:22.450 --> 00:28:24.509 yeah, you know what? Sometimes you just know 00:28:24.509 --> 00:28:27.849 it doesn't work and that's OK. I mean, I myself 00:28:27.849 --> 00:28:31.380 have like I've been a grief knitter. I learned 00:28:31.380 --> 00:28:35.440 to knit when one of my best friends died. Meg 00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:38.779 taught me. And it gave me something to do. But 00:28:38.779 --> 00:28:42.579 I had to deal with all those feelings much later. 00:28:43.440 --> 00:28:45.220 Yeah, I didn't mean to get emotional. No, don't 00:28:45.220 --> 00:28:48.359 apologize for that ever. Seriously. It's weird. 00:28:48.480 --> 00:28:50.640 This is exactly what happens, though. I'll be 00:28:50.640 --> 00:28:57.400 totally fine, 100 % okay. And then I'm not. Yep. 00:28:57.980 --> 00:29:01.440 It's the way it goes, unfortunately. No, I know. 00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:05.500 And it's just, I honestly don't, I just don't 00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:08.299 have like time to grieve. So it hits me like 00:29:08.299 --> 00:29:12.920 all the time. And randomly, I just don't have 00:29:12.920 --> 00:29:15.380 time. I'm managing everybody else. I don't have 00:29:15.380 --> 00:29:20.299 time to do this. I kind of turned into the de 00:29:20.299 --> 00:29:27.440 facto, take care of everything person. There's 00:29:27.440 --> 00:29:29.440 space for everybody else to grieve. And when 00:29:29.440 --> 00:29:33.880 everybody else needs space, they have it. But 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:38.839 if nobody else is and I am, there's no space 00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:42.460 for me. So it's really tough navigating that. 00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:45.859 And that's why I think sometimes it literally, 00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:48.720 like it is right now, just hits me out of nowhere 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:51.660 and I'll be having a perfectly fine day. And 00:29:51.660 --> 00:30:01.690 then all of a sudden, boop. It is. There's no 00:30:01.690 --> 00:30:05.430 good answers. It's like. No. And it's not that 00:30:05.430 --> 00:30:07.910 like. And I'm not complaining about being in 00:30:07.910 --> 00:30:11.130 that kind of caretaker role. I'm just. I know 00:30:11.130 --> 00:30:14.069 it's kind of like. I have to. And I get it. And 00:30:14.069 --> 00:30:16.630 I have no issue being in that role. Like I want 00:30:16.630 --> 00:30:22.750 to be helpful. But it's exhausting. No. No it 00:30:22.750 --> 00:30:27.640 is. And it's. I think we all sort of like kind 00:30:27.640 --> 00:30:31.160 of one of the things that I do a lot when things 00:30:31.160 --> 00:30:33.440 are not not so much with grief, but when things 00:30:33.440 --> 00:30:36.359 are sucky or I'm having like a really bad time, 00:30:36.400 --> 00:30:39.240 I'm like, OK, six months from now, this isn't 00:30:39.240 --> 00:30:40.700 going to be I'm not going to think about this 00:30:40.700 --> 00:30:43.099 anymore. And that works for like work things 00:30:43.099 --> 00:30:46.160 or arguments I have with people. I'll be like 00:30:46.160 --> 00:30:48.319 six months from now. I'm going to look back on 00:30:48.319 --> 00:30:51.359 this and I'll be like that sucked. But you know 00:30:51.359 --> 00:30:53.799 what? We all got through it. We're fine. And 00:30:53.799 --> 00:30:57.029 you can't. put a timeline on grief. You just 00:30:57.029 --> 00:30:59.369 can't. You can't be like, I know that six months 00:30:59.369 --> 00:31:02.369 from now I'm going to be fine. And that's the 00:31:02.369 --> 00:31:07.230 sucky part. Yeah. My Bananasaurus has peels on 00:31:07.230 --> 00:31:10.650 it. Yeah, he sure does. He really does. He's 00:31:10.650 --> 00:31:16.069 super cute. I'm leaving in my ends. Yay! Not 00:31:16.069 --> 00:31:19.769 to take away from the serious conversation. No, 00:31:19.769 --> 00:31:22.809 you're not. Because honestly, it's part of it. 00:31:24.039 --> 00:31:27.160 You know, suddenly we're finishing things. Why? 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:29.319 I don't know. But we are. It's just happening. 00:31:29.339 --> 00:31:32.200 It's just happening. It's just happening. It's 00:31:32.200 --> 00:31:34.980 time to finish some stuff. I am not finishing 00:31:34.980 --> 00:31:37.279 anything. Me either. But I did finish a row. 00:31:39.059 --> 00:31:42.680 Granted, it was like a quarter of a row because 00:31:42.680 --> 00:31:45.720 I didn't realize I had stopped a quarter. Oh, 00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:49.880 my God. That's funny. But I finished it. So that's 00:31:49.880 --> 00:31:52.460 exciting. Hey. i'm not gonna lie i think i put 00:31:52.460 --> 00:31:55.759 this thing down for like several weeks now because 00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:57.819 i'm like man i don't want to have to figure out 00:31:57.819 --> 00:32:00.180 how to put these peels on but you did it so i 00:32:00.180 --> 00:32:03.240 think that is so valid too like you get to a 00:32:03.240 --> 00:32:04.920 point in your pattern and you're like i'm not 00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:07.960 i don't want to do that right now okay am i not 00:32:07.960 --> 00:32:11.839 wrong i am do you know what this was not hard 00:32:11.839 --> 00:32:16.150 no no it never is It never is. But it's something 00:32:16.150 --> 00:32:18.529 where you're like, you know what? Not now. Not 00:32:18.529 --> 00:32:20.970 today. Yeah. And you put it down and then six 00:32:20.970 --> 00:32:23.130 months later, you're like, wow, why did I do 00:32:23.130 --> 00:32:25.390 that? Listen, the amount of times like I finished 00:32:25.390 --> 00:32:29.650 the pieces of Anamagurumi and then they've been 00:32:29.650 --> 00:32:32.210 like, yeah, I don't feel like putting that together 00:32:32.210 --> 00:32:34.769 right now. Listen, you better finish that budgie 00:32:34.769 --> 00:32:37.130 because I can't listen to it for another like 00:32:37.130 --> 00:32:39.990 few days. I'm working on it slowly. finish the 00:32:39.990 --> 00:32:42.890 budgie honestly i don't know why i was so and 00:32:42.890 --> 00:32:45.410 again i still don't know why you never know i 00:32:45.410 --> 00:32:48.589 don't know why i'm sitting here going man i don't 00:32:48.589 --> 00:32:50.069 know how i'm gonna figure out that transition 00:32:50.069 --> 00:32:52.829 when this is literally like a no -so project 00:32:52.829 --> 00:32:58.349 you but you will it is it's it is it's like and 00:32:58.349 --> 00:33:00.349 now i'm just gonna work on the neck coming up 00:33:00.349 --> 00:33:05.029 and make the head like it's not But everything, 00:33:05.289 --> 00:33:07.809 everything new, new seems daunting at first. 00:33:07.990 --> 00:33:10.630 It does. Do you know, I bought the pattern for 00:33:10.630 --> 00:33:13.190 this sweater like a month ago. I had the pattern. 00:33:13.309 --> 00:33:20.529 I had the yarn. I wanted to make it, but I was 00:33:20.529 --> 00:33:22.829 looking at the charts and I'm like, that is daunting. 00:33:23.089 --> 00:33:26.490 Yeah, that is going to be. But now I'm like doing 00:33:26.490 --> 00:33:28.390 it. I'm like, this is not hard. It's just row 00:33:28.390 --> 00:33:30.839 by row. yeah you just gotta sit down and piece 00:33:30.839 --> 00:33:33.440 it out row by row it's not so bad and you know 00:33:33.440 --> 00:33:34.980 that's the same thing that i tell people when 00:33:34.980 --> 00:33:36.819 they're working with double points and making 00:33:36.819 --> 00:33:40.299 socks and it's like yeah you have like 86 needles 00:33:40.299 --> 00:33:42.480 on this project but you're only using two at 00:33:42.480 --> 00:33:46.240 a time like the method of knitting doesn't change 00:33:46.240 --> 00:33:48.700 just because you added more needles you can only 00:33:48.700 --> 00:33:51.240 use two at a time i know it looks it looks crazy 00:33:51.240 --> 00:33:53.160 though i remember when i remember the before 00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:55.700 i knew what i was doing i was like oh my god 00:33:55.700 --> 00:33:57.779 i'll never do that you're handling a porcupine 00:33:57.779 --> 00:33:59.740 that's how it looks exactly i felt the same way 00:33:59.740 --> 00:34:03.019 about um what's it called magic loop oh yeah 00:34:03.019 --> 00:34:05.940 how do they do two socks at a time two at a time 00:34:05.940 --> 00:34:09.460 sleeves and but i i think um yarn harlot said 00:34:09.460 --> 00:34:12.300 it best she said um it's it's all incrementalism 00:34:12.300 --> 00:34:16.179 like yeah you you have to look at the steps Nobody 00:34:16.179 --> 00:34:18.420 is just saying like the step is not step one, 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:20.500 knit a sweater. I joke with my kids all the time 00:34:20.500 --> 00:34:23.519 that when I was in high school and my teacher, 00:34:23.659 --> 00:34:25.940 my junior year U .S. history teacher was like, 00:34:26.000 --> 00:34:28.800 OK, we're going to do a research paper and it 00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:32.059 needs to be 10 pages and have five sources. It's 00:34:32.059 --> 00:34:36.139 due in a month. Go. And that was it. Like there 00:34:36.139 --> 00:34:37.820 was no guidance. There was no like this is how 00:34:37.820 --> 00:34:39.420 you do a thesis. This is how you do this. Now 00:34:39.420 --> 00:34:41.800 you do that. And I tell my kids, this is why. 00:34:42.349 --> 00:34:46.030 I don't do that to you. We're not talking about 00:34:46.030 --> 00:34:47.849 hauling off and doing the whole thing. We're 00:34:47.849 --> 00:34:50.409 taking it bite by bite. And that's what knitting 00:34:50.409 --> 00:34:53.449 is too. But I think we forget that a lot. I think 00:34:53.449 --> 00:34:55.530 we do. We look at the final product. We're like, 00:34:55.590 --> 00:34:57.170 that is going to be hard. We look at the final 00:34:57.170 --> 00:35:00.809 product and you look at the entire set of directions 00:35:00.809 --> 00:35:03.250 because you kind of have to at least look at 00:35:03.250 --> 00:35:05.230 what you're getting into. But in your head, you 00:35:05.230 --> 00:35:06.989 put it all like, I got to do all that at the 00:35:06.989 --> 00:35:09.510 same time. It's like, nah, you start with row 00:35:09.510 --> 00:35:12.590 one. I do not. I did the same thing when I was 00:35:12.590 --> 00:35:16.829 doing the sweater. I'm sorry, Drea. I was just 00:35:16.829 --> 00:35:19.210 like, you know, you got to look at it once. I 00:35:19.210 --> 00:35:21.130 was like, I do not. I just end up on the section 00:35:21.130 --> 00:35:28.550 and go. I'm so glad it's not just me. I do the 00:35:28.550 --> 00:35:31.150 cursory once over where I'm like, oh, no, it 00:35:31.150 --> 00:35:32.570 looks good. Looks good. And then I get somewhere 00:35:32.570 --> 00:35:38.130 like jazz. What does this mean? I'm sorry. same 00:35:38.130 --> 00:35:40.150 thing no i'm because most of the time i will 00:35:40.150 --> 00:35:41.530 i'll look at the whole thing and most of the 00:35:41.530 --> 00:35:43.349 time like okay i get what it's saying there are 00:35:43.349 --> 00:35:45.230 some times where i will spend days looking at 00:35:45.230 --> 00:35:47.090 because i don't understand it and i'll finally 00:35:47.090 --> 00:35:49.110 be like i don't even care we're gonna we're gonna 00:35:49.110 --> 00:35:50.650 get to it when we get to it and i get to it i'm 00:35:50.650 --> 00:35:56.869 like oh like that that wasn't as bad i mean it 00:35:56.869 --> 00:36:01.230 fits tina is wearing her hat that she literally 00:36:01.230 --> 00:36:05.469 just took off of the needles Yeah, you know what? 00:36:05.510 --> 00:36:07.469 I think this may be our first on -air completion. 00:36:08.309 --> 00:36:11.769 Over her headphones. But that's how you know 00:36:11.769 --> 00:36:14.210 it fits. Like, you could wear it. It's a look. 00:36:14.469 --> 00:36:17.809 It is a look. In the wintertime. And you know 00:36:17.809 --> 00:36:20.289 it fits your big head. You know what? I mean 00:36:20.289 --> 00:36:22.090 that in the best way possible. Before blocking. 00:36:23.030 --> 00:36:25.309 And it's Rio, so it's just going to get bigger. 00:36:25.389 --> 00:36:26.829 That's why I said it's going to be a tub. I mean 00:36:26.829 --> 00:36:28.670 that in the best way possible. It's going to 00:36:28.670 --> 00:36:31.989 be a bucket hat. Yes. I'm never going to let 00:36:31.989 --> 00:36:34.030 this touch water. Nope. That's what I did to 00:36:34.030 --> 00:36:37.250 the other cocoa bean. You know what? Sometimes, 00:36:37.550 --> 00:36:42.610 sometimes for hats, sometimes you just have to 00:36:42.610 --> 00:36:46.570 never wash it. Yeah. It sounds way worse. No, 00:36:46.590 --> 00:36:48.710 that's not what I meant. I just, no, I'll probably, 00:36:48.730 --> 00:36:50.510 I could steam it or something, but I'm just not 00:36:50.510 --> 00:36:52.429 going to like soak it. Yeah, I got to do like 00:36:52.429 --> 00:36:55.489 an immersion block. Yeah, immersion blocking. 00:36:55.590 --> 00:36:59.079 I will not help you block that. No, but then 00:36:59.079 --> 00:37:02.059 you could do a sack race in it. Actually, I could 00:37:02.059 --> 00:37:04.440 help you block that, and it probably won't grow 00:37:04.440 --> 00:37:08.260 in size. No, look. I'm kind of looking forward 00:37:08.260 --> 00:37:10.840 to making it a purse, though. Oh, see? When it 00:37:10.840 --> 00:37:15.539 just expands into nothing. Sack races. Sack races. 00:37:18.449 --> 00:37:21.389 Fancy, Zachary. There it is. 2020. Oh, I didn't 00:37:21.389 --> 00:37:24.809 put my needle away. 2025 finish. First finish. 00:37:25.090 --> 00:37:29.909 Only took me six months. Yeah. Hey. You know 00:37:29.909 --> 00:37:32.369 what? It's not about the speed. It's not about 00:37:32.369 --> 00:37:34.909 the speed. It's just we all get there in the 00:37:34.909 --> 00:37:39.090 end. So now, so how do you add the head? Oh, 00:37:39.190 --> 00:37:43.000 you just. You pick it up. Yeah, you just. You 00:37:43.000 --> 00:37:45.860 go that way. Oh, okay. So now I'm just going 00:37:45.860 --> 00:37:49.659 to go around and around these peels in the peel 00:37:49.659 --> 00:37:53.340 color. It's like you would pick up a heel. Only 00:37:53.340 --> 00:37:57.760 you're picking up a peel. Gotcha. Don't pick 00:37:57.760 --> 00:38:00.199 up a heel, pick up a peel. I got a lot tonight. 00:38:00.619 --> 00:38:04.139 Jess is on fire. That's what you want to call 00:38:04.139 --> 00:38:09.030 it. On fire. You get to go home. I have to stay 00:38:09.030 --> 00:38:12.550 here. You chose her. I did. You should have heard 00:38:12.550 --> 00:38:14.389 the ones she cracked out when I was pregnant. 00:38:14.570 --> 00:38:17.590 Yeah. Those were good. I had to work on my dad 00:38:17.590 --> 00:38:19.989 jokes. It was awful. I mean, at least Jess is 00:38:19.989 --> 00:38:22.570 good at dad jokes. I mean, come on. Come on. 00:38:23.550 --> 00:38:26.369 That's an important part of becoming doc. It's 00:38:26.369 --> 00:38:30.949 true. So is that it? Or do you have to finish 00:38:30.949 --> 00:38:33.550 up the butt too? You got to finish the butt. 00:38:33.650 --> 00:38:36.550 It's got a gaping hole on the butt. Yeah. Right 00:38:36.550 --> 00:38:40.440 now. I'm going to, I assume it's going to be 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:43.219 much like working on the neck and head now where 00:38:43.219 --> 00:38:44.860 I'm just going to pick up all these stitches 00:38:44.860 --> 00:38:48.599 here. There you go. Close up his behind. Little 00:38:48.599 --> 00:38:51.480 bump. I like that it's got the little like brown 00:38:51.480 --> 00:38:54.820 tip at the end, like the end stem. That's great. 00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:59.519 I like that. Yay. What are you going to use for 00:38:59.519 --> 00:39:01.679 the brown? I have brown. Oh, you have brown. 00:39:01.780 --> 00:39:04.860 Yeah. Why am I asking that? I got like all the 00:39:04.860 --> 00:39:08.619 colors when Big Twist was. on sale at joann's 00:39:08.619 --> 00:39:13.699 before they said goodbye yeah so i i pretty much 00:39:13.699 --> 00:39:15.619 bought just about every color that was available 00:39:15.619 --> 00:39:19.780 because i was like well you never know if crocheting 00:39:19.780 --> 00:39:23.639 is what i want to do then i might as well yeah 00:39:23.639 --> 00:39:31.400 and i like this yarn so i might as well got the 00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:35.960 whole rainbow And that's all the time we have 00:39:35.960 --> 00:39:38.099 for this episode. 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