1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,860 I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. And this is Pardon My Stash. 2 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,040 Sounds like I said that almost like a question. 3 00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,040 It sounded very professional actually. 4 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,040 Is that what we're doing? 5 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:23,040 I don't know. Welcome to Part in My Stash. 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,040 A podcast about knitting within the fiber arts and how awesome it is. 7 00:00:26,040 --> 00:00:31,040 Before we get into today's topics, let's check out what we're working on this week. Tina? 8 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:34,040 I'm working on the Ingalls Sweater by Caitlin Hunter. 9 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:45,040 I'm doing a 3X in red, gray, and dark gray from String Yarns NYC Dolcetto DK, which has cashmere in it. So that's nice. 10 00:00:45,040 --> 00:00:46,040 It is coming out so good. 11 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:52,040 Yes. So I am actually like a little bit more than a third of the way through the body. 12 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:53,040 Very good. 13 00:00:53,040 --> 00:00:59,040 And as my castmates can see, I have finished many a thing. 14 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,040 Yeah, you did a lot. 15 00:01:00,040 --> 00:01:02,040 I did a lot of my sweater. I'm really proud of it. 16 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,040 Meg, what you got? 17 00:01:03,040 --> 00:01:11,040 I am working on Ocean Stones by Greta Menzen. I started this in early January. I swatched. 18 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:16,040 I was wondering why it wasn't coming out right. And it was because I switched the needles right before, right after I swatched it. 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,040 And I thought it was the same size and it was not. One needle was a seven and one was a six. 20 00:01:20,040 --> 00:01:27,040 So I'm sitting there wondering why the hell it's coming out weird. And so anyway, what happened was I frogged it. I went up to eights. 21 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,040 I like it a lot better. 22 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:30,040 It looks great. 23 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:34,040 Thank you. I really do like this. It's it's you want to squish it? 24 00:01:34,040 --> 00:01:36,040 I do. I haven't touched this project yet. 25 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,040 It's really squishy. 26 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:44,040 The yarn is some yarn that I bought in a yarn store in Marblehead, Massachusetts last year. We were on vacation. 27 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:49,040 It is Fiberspate Vivacious DK in the colorway Heavenly. 28 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,040 It's a really cool color. 29 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:55,040 It looks gray from far away and it does not photograph accurately at all. 30 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:58,040 Yeah, I was going to say I've seen photos of you working on this. 31 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,040 And it does not look like this, right? 32 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:05,040 No, it looks gray, but this has like a very gentle, gentle color to it. 33 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,040 And some cream. It's it's a gorgeous, gorgeous color. 34 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:13,040 Trying to trying to plan my Reinbeck sweater, which I think I did figure out today. 35 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:18,040 So I got to make Jess dye the yarn. 36 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,040 Well, I cannot dye that colorway. 37 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:25,040 And we have a tacit agreement that whoever comes up with the colorway dyes the yarn when the time comes. 38 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:29,040 Like, I don't try to replicate her colors and she doesn't try to replicate mine. 39 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,040 And so, um, yep, it works. 40 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:35,040 She knows I'll return the favor if the favor ever comes. 41 00:02:35,040 --> 00:02:38,040 It hasn't yet. It might. It might. 42 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:40,040 Well, speaking of Jess, what you got? 43 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:46,040 I am still working on the I am Dragon 2, which is like a cowl type thingy. 44 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:51,040 Um, it's more like it's like a mini shell that you use as a cowl bandana almost. 45 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,040 Yeah, it's neat. I like it. 46 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:57,040 It's basically the same stitch as my I am Dragon 3 shawl. 47 00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:58,040 Only this one isn't beaded. 48 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:02,040 So I'm doing that in Critical Hit Dyes Morgan. 49 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:07,040 It's kind of weird that I got to do something in this with the because I like the knit side to this one. 50 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,040 You actually use the purl side is the right side. 51 00:03:10,040 --> 00:03:14,040 And then the wrong side is the knit side, which also looks super cool. 52 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,040 But it doesn't have it doesn't give you the scales. 53 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:20,040 So so that that is where I am at. 54 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:25,040 And I'm not as far as I usually would be because you know, Zelda, but that's OK. 55 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,040 I have that same problem. 56 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:31,040 So perfectly fine problem to be having. 57 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaking of what what are you working through with that problem going on? 58 00:03:35,040 --> 00:03:42,040 Oh, well, when I'm not playing Zelda, I am working on the Akemi shawl by Isabel Kramer. 59 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,040 In color yarn. 60 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,040 Thanks. Wow. I cleaned that somehow. 61 00:03:49,040 --> 00:03:57,040 And I am using Silver Moon Fiber Arts fingering weight in faded jeans, faded jeans. 62 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:59,040 That was it. Wow. Blue jeans. 63 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:02,040 It is close. It is blue. It's a blue color. 64 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,040 It's a little blue. It's a little gray. It's a very blue jean color. 65 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:06,040 Yeah, it is. 66 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:11,040 And my favorite thing is that when I photograph it in different lights, it looks like a completely different project. 67 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:19,040 Be sure to check out our website, part of my stash dot com for more information, as well as pictures regarding our current projects, patterns and yarns. 68 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:24,040 So we took a few weeks off at the beginning of the year. 69 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:27,040 And guess what, guys? We're back. 70 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:37,040 Woo. Yeah, I had a brain thing where I completely forgot how to do this thing that I've been doing forever. 71 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:43,040 And I had to look it up. So, yeah, maybe I miss. Well, as you can see, the time off has done us good. 72 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:51,040 Like, you okay, Jess? Yeah, no, I legit did this like a couple of days ago. 73 00:04:51,040 --> 00:04:54,040 What are you trying to do? It's a double cast on. 74 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,040 So you basically cast on to your project as you're doing it. 75 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:01,040 And it's just a wrap around your thumb. Like, now I'm going to be able to do it fine. 76 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:09,040 But I like, like, I had a minute where your brain was like, I'm like, no, that's we know. 77 00:05:09,040 --> 00:05:22,040 Hold on. I have to loop it around. But we might if I'm working on a really long project, like when I was working on my sweater and then I was going into something else, I was working on the sweater for so long. 78 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,040 I forgot how to cast on for the next. Yeah, yeah. 79 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:33,040 Your brain kind of goes into like, yeah, tunnel vision. Yep. Yep. That's that's how it goes. 80 00:05:33,040 --> 00:05:43,040 I forget that frequently. Well, I spent my time watching trash TV with Dreya, which was a nice break instead of editing episodes. 81 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:49,040 And I spent my time sitting in the same room as Tina watching trash TV and I played Zelda. 82 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:55,040 Yeah, she didn't really watch because like I would leave the room and then I'd be like, OK, what happened? 83 00:05:55,040 --> 00:06:01,040 And she'd be like, oh, oh, I'm fighting a tiger with an elephant and a donkey. 84 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:05,040 And I'm like, OK, OK, there's no donkeys. There are donkeys. 85 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:10,040 Something that doesn't have donkeys. Oh, there are at the stable. 86 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,040 Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're right. Zelda was played by Jess. Yeah, as well. 87 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:19,040 So what did you do? Well, Jess had surgery for his tweak of January. 88 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,040 Hence the Zelda. Hence the Zelda. Yeah. I built a box to thank you. 89 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:30,040 She built she built that box, the box display that Christina got for Christmas. 90 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:35,040 So me personally, I started and quit grad school. 91 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:41,040 Only to start again later. Yeah. So basically, I started the program. 92 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:53,040 I and then like literally the week after I started the program, I was talking to a colleague and she was like, oh, I have this like, you know, this this whole wild pie in the sky thing to discuss with you. 93 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:58,040 That could be, you know, this could be something that could enhance your career. 94 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:04,040 And I'm like, oh, that sounds like such a more interesting master's program. 95 00:07:04,040 --> 00:07:13,040 I would rather do that. And then I talked to my department head and she was like, yes, do that. That sounds so much better. That brings so much more to the table. 96 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:21,040 So I dropped, I dropped out of college that day and I applied to a different university. 97 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:25,040 I applied to another university in state that had the program that I was looking at. 98 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:28,040 I'm like, oh my God, this looks so much better. And I actually think I'll enjoy this. 99 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:35,040 So I, my application was finalized today and within an hour I got an email and I have an interview next week. 100 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:40,040 So congratulations. I'm really, really excited about it. I'm excited for you. 101 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:45,040 Thank you. Here's the most exciting part. You ready? You're ready? You're not ready? No. 102 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:53,040 I have to write a thesis again. Oh, wait, actually, do you know what that means? I have to write sound for that. 103 00:07:53,040 --> 00:08:00,040 I mean, I am trying. So I'm going to, I'm going to be getting my master's in political science instead of literacy. 104 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:05,040 So lots of politics, lots of history. I'm really, really, really excited about it. 105 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,040 Like, and I was not excited about getting my, my MA in literacy. I was really not. 106 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:14,040 It was kind of like, this is the thing that I'm going to do to advance my career, but I'm not enthusiastic about it. 107 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:22,040 But I'm really excited about, about poli sci. So what is going to be your, your background? What? The background. 108 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:26,040 I'm not interested in American politics. No, no, no. Well, you're watching. 109 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:31,040 I don't know, because I can't watch actual politics because it just enrages me. 110 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:37,040 So probably Ken Burns again. I mean, that is my, that's my go to. You're right. You're right. 111 00:08:37,040 --> 00:08:43,040 I will sit and listen to Ken Burns with you. Listen. Well, I listen to it. 112 00:08:43,040 --> 00:08:48,040 I need other things to do. Well, who doesn't? He's interesting. No, I can't sit and watch. 113 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:53,040 I can't. I gotta be doing something. So there was that. That was my big news. 114 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:57,040 I haven't gotten accepted yet, but that's the, that's where I'm at. 115 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:05,040 I would like to think that considering how quickly they emailed me that it's hopefully going to be good news, but I should know hopefully next week. 116 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:12,040 And I've been just doing a lot of hiking, lots and lots and lots of hiking, which has been really, it's been really good. 117 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:15,040 It's been good to get outside and get some vitamin D and self care. 118 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:24,040 Twenty twenty three. It really, it really is like that's that has been one of my best decisions since we went on hiatus is getting outside every day 119 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:29,040 and doing some walking and I, you know, I feel really good about it. So it's been really good. Proud of you. Thank you. 120 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:36,040 I'm proud of me too. And I don't say that very often. You got anything to add, babe? What else did you do? 121 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:44,040 Just defeated a Lionel. I did like six now. I needed their guts. 122 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:52,040 I don't know what she's talking about. You know, you know, it's like a dream. 123 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:57,040 I'm like, I died a lot of yarn. She did. She has died a lot of yarn. 124 00:09:57,040 --> 00:10:04,040 Yeah. Box Machina series is really good. Thank you. We've we've really we've enjoyed doing it. 125 00:10:04,040 --> 00:10:11,040 I feel like a lot of people who are fans of Critical Role and Vox Machina got behind it. They liked it, which was really nice. 126 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:14,040 I mean, it's one of those things where you're like, we had a vision. 127 00:10:14,040 --> 00:10:22,040 We hoped that other people who were fans of the show also were like the worst thing would have been if everyone was like, that doesn't look right. 128 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:27,040 That's not what I would have picked. And that's not the response that we had, which was really nice. 129 00:10:27,040 --> 00:10:33,040 And she cuddled with cats a lot. That's what she did. Spent a lot of time with cats. I went back to work and they're all mad now. 130 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:43,040 Not work. The cats, the cats are cats are mad. Oh, well, work missed me. No, because you do a lot. 131 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:46,040 You can't imagine. I know they're probably going like this. 132 00:10:46,040 --> 00:10:51,040 Ah, every time that they really were. We just want you know, we missed you. 133 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:56,040 Like, I'll bet you did. Let me look at the office as it trashed. I was just saying, how bad is it? 134 00:10:56,040 --> 00:11:07,040 So getting into today's topic, we're going to talk about frogs and frogging and ripping, ripping, ripping things out. 135 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:12,040 Because who hasn't frogged? I actually find frogging to be very therapeutic. 136 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:19,040 Except for that one time. Me? With the scarf. You did not find that therapeutic. You told me so. 137 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:24,040 No, it was not therapeutic. Was that a Kevlar scarf? Yes, it was. 138 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:30,040 It wasn't therapeutic because it was like a workout trying to get it off the needle. 139 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,040 I bet it was good for your biceps though. Didn't that take you like a week? 140 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:42,040 Oh my god. Like, I just, I didn't even frog it. I literally took it off the needles and I threw the whole project in the garbage. 141 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:46,040 Sometimes you got to do that. Yeah, sometimes. Sometimes you got to do that. 142 00:11:46,040 --> 00:11:52,040 And that felt therapeutic because I was so angry at it. That it was so difficult to get off the needles. 143 00:11:52,040 --> 00:11:55,040 You're like, I'm not going to use this yarn again because I have so much rage. 144 00:11:55,040 --> 00:12:02,040 I wasn't going to use the yarn again because there was no way I was going to get all the kinks out of it because it was knit so tightly. 145 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:06,040 For reference, this was like one of my first projects. And you're a tight knitter now. 146 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:13,040 Oh, you think I'm tight now? Grade A tightness. Kevlar. 147 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:19,040 Yeah, it could have been bulletproof, man. It was a Dr. Who scarf. 148 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:24,040 That could have been like its magic power. Oh man. Yeah. 149 00:12:24,040 --> 00:12:31,040 So you had the different colors running together too. You were also knitting that out of worsted on really small needles. 150 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:35,040 No. Wasn't it? Weren't those pretty small? Those weren't eights, were they? Yeah, they were. 151 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:40,040 Were they? Oh yeah. Girl, how? Yep. It was tight. 152 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:46,040 Well, before we get further into that, why don't we talk about what frogging is for those who don't know? 153 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:53,040 Well, frogging is the act of pulling out your project and ripping back. 154 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,040 Yeah. Taking it off the needles. But why frogging? 155 00:12:56,040 --> 00:13:02,040 Because you take your project off the needles and then you pull the yarn and you rip it, rip it, rip it. 156 00:13:02,040 --> 00:13:07,040 Yep. Not my joke. No, that's somebody else. 157 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:17,040 That's about as old as time. So yeah, frogging. The good, the bad, the fun, the ugly. 158 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:25,040 Sometimes you just got to do it. Sometimes it's the best way to end a project. Sometimes, yeah. 159 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:29,040 And you don't want to like, you know, always just waste the yarn and cut it. 160 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:37,040 I will say that I've gotten much better at frogging, and this is not to sound like elitist or anything like that, but when I'm using nice yarn. 161 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:48,040 Because I'm like, if this project isn't working out and I love this yarn, I cannot stand the idea of a project that I hate with yarn that I love. 162 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:55,040 So I'm like, nope, I would rather rip all this out and salvage the yarn and make something else with it because I just can't. 163 00:13:55,040 --> 00:14:02,040 Like I can't, especially if it's really nice yarn that I've been saving or that I really want to make sure that it's worth it. 164 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:08,040 Right. I don't want to waste it on a project that's not really either showing it off or that it's not working. 165 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:20,040 I would, I'd rather rip it out. It almost feels like really good when you do that because it's like, OK, I'm not I'm not destroying a project so much as saving the yarn for something better. 166 00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:27,040 Well, that's kind of how I felt. I cast on a different project with the yarn that I'm using on my current shawl. 167 00:14:27,040 --> 00:14:31,040 But the pattern really wasn't working for me. It wasn't making me happy. 168 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:35,040 And this is pretty good yarn. Yeah. 169 00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:40,040 Pattern wasn't working. Yarn was fine. So I saved the yarn and did something that made me happy. 170 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,040 Exactly. 171 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:51,040 Well, I find if it's cheaper yarn, because I would frog cheaper yarn, but I find I am less apt to not cut it or cut it. 172 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,040 Wait, hold on. I'll always say that again. You're less apt to cut it. 173 00:14:54,040 --> 00:15:02,040 I'm less I'm less apt to cut it if it's nicer yarn. Yeah. If it's cheaper yarn, I don't have an issue with like if I get to a certain point, it gets all tangled. 174 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:04,040 I'm just like snip, snip and just call it a day. 175 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:10,040 Yeah. Well, that's why I didn't have a problem just chucking everything that I had worked on for that Doctor Who scarf. 176 00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:16,040 Yeah. Right. Because it was it wasn't good yarn. Yeah. It was, you know, cheap stash. 177 00:15:16,040 --> 00:15:22,040 Big craft store yarn. Yeah. And it didn't feel good. Well, it's also stuff that you can replace. Yeah. 178 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:26,040 It's not like it's a it's a rare yarn or one of a kind or something like that. 179 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:30,040 No, it was all acrylic. It was not very expensive. No problem. 180 00:15:30,040 --> 00:15:37,040 That being said, though, the acrylic yarns are really good for like making a swatch if you want to try a stitch and then ripping it out. 181 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:46,040 Yeah. So if you ever feel like you're like, oh, I really want to try cabling, make a 10 by 10 swatch instead of a four by four. 182 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:54,040 Try out your cables and it'll come out pretty easily and it won't be too damaged because the acrylics pretty it's pretty hardy, pretty hardy. 183 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:58,040 It'll it'll come right back. It won't be snatched bald when you when you frog it. 184 00:15:58,040 --> 00:16:07,040 Let me tell you, Alpaca, it will not be happy. It will not be the same. It will not be the same. And neither will we. 185 00:16:07,040 --> 00:16:12,040 I've learned that I also am a defective person like Meg. Welcome to the world. 186 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:17,040 Hey! Yeah, I didn't say that. Why? 187 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:25,040 Feeling a little love here. No, I OK, let me redo that. I've I've also learned. 188 00:16:25,040 --> 00:16:28,040 I've also learned. Put that one on the Instagram. 189 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:40,040 Oh my God. I've also learned that I am a large allergic to Alpaca like Meg because I was working with it and I was like, huh, I'm feeling weird when I work with this. 190 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:43,040 And my nose is really itchy and it feels weird on my head and my hands feel weird. 191 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:48,040 I'll have you know I live a very fulfilling. I did not say that. I felt very bad for you. 192 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:56,040 And I lead a very fulfilling life with that. Your immediate comment was, oh, that's exactly what happens to me. 193 00:16:56,040 --> 00:17:03,040 And I was. Oh, it was. But I wasn't sitting here like, ha ha ha, like snidely whiplash like twirling. 194 00:17:03,040 --> 00:17:08,040 I was. I was. Well, that's because I inherited all of that. 195 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:11,040 Oh, yeah. OK. She got a whole bag. Yeah. 196 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:21,040 And not not like just all I didn't have a lot of Alpaca. I actually purposely kept my Alpaca and a shelf on the bottom so that you wouldn't ever accidentally touch it if you're going through my. 197 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:27,040 And so it wasn't a lot, but it was like maybe like 10 balls, 10. 198 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:32,040 It was a good size bag. Yeah. And here's Dre. Ha ha ha ha. Snatch away. 199 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:41,040 I went back on that the 49ers hat I was trying to make out of the Alpaca and I had to rip it out a bunch of times. 200 00:17:41,040 --> 00:17:47,040 And it was I had fuzzies everywhere. The yarn was like falling apart. 201 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:55,040 I was like, this is a hot mess express. I am. I already kind of said to myself, I don't want to work with Alpaca again because this is a pain in the butt. 202 00:17:55,040 --> 00:18:02,040 Any yarn that has any sort of a mohair is going to be like that. Mohair is like that. Any blends that have mohair. 203 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:11,040 Bamboo is actually does not necessarily like to be frogged. Bamboo. Yeah. Yeah. For different reasons. The fibers probably. 204 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:19,040 Well, because it kind of falls apart. It's not necessarily the halo. It's like the actual you could start seeing like you get the strands. Yeah. 205 00:18:19,040 --> 00:18:29,040 Yeah. I mean, a good a good wool holds up really well. But like you start getting into blends and this sweater, the Ingalls sweater is a 30 percent cashmere. 206 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:39,040 The rest is wool. And it's it's holding up fine. I will say a larger cashmere count for me tends to be like Alpaca. 207 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:46,040 But where it like starts flipping out. Have you have you ever had any of that? I did frog up here when I was doing color work. 208 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:52,040 I screwed up a row. So when I did frog this, it was fine. It was fine. It was honestly fine. 209 00:18:52,040 --> 00:19:01,040 I mean, it has a little bit of a halo to it and it has like, you know, that like I can I can still kind of tell which section it is because I remember which one I pulled out. 210 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:08,040 But it's not it's not that bad. You wouldn't know unless I pointed out to you. So and once you block it, you probably won't know. 211 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:20,040 Right. It'll change. But it is. And it's tough. And when you frog like your yarn is it. And that's another thing. It's going to look bad when you frog it, especially if it's been in the pattern for a long time. 212 00:19:20,040 --> 00:19:32,040 You're going to use it again. You want to at least rewind it. Yeah. When I ripped out, what was it? My my Celtic Myths shawl last year. 213 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:42,040 And I actually took the yarn and I wound it around my nitty-nitty for about two weeks to let it unkink. And then I rewrapped it into a ball. 214 00:19:42,040 --> 00:19:51,040 But if you just knit it straight, if you tear it out, if you frog it, I mean, you can knit it right away. It's going to look shabby. 215 00:19:51,040 --> 00:20:02,040 It will probably block out just fine. Like once you once you finish the project and block it. But it's it's going to look a little shabby when you're reknitting it, if you if you frog it and then immediately cast it back on. 216 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:15,040 Anyway, finish what you're going to say. So speaking to that last week, I actually ended up taking a whole bunch of length off of my red sweater, the adventurous cardigan. 217 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:23,040 And the reason why I did it was because the sweater itself became almost like a burden to be wearing because it was so heavy. 218 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:32,040 It's sweater stretch when you when you wear them. And that was a long sweater. It was a long sweater. Yeah. So yeah. So it wasn't comfortable to wear. 219 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:43,040 So I ended up taking off almost two skeins of yarn. And then I reknit the hem immediately. Yeah. 220 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:53,040 I believe it looks a little kinky. Oh, I'm sure. But once you block it, it will look fine. Yeah, I'm sure it'll be fine once I block it. But that is very true. 221 00:20:53,040 --> 00:21:00,040 And you know what halfway through doing the border again, I was like, you know what, I probably should have done this differently. 222 00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:05,040 But then I was too far in and I was like, well, you committed. 223 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:16,040 No, and it is like it doesn't really I've got this this honestly the bottom of it and you can kind of see it because I ripped I ripped ocean stones out and I restarted it. 224 00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:21,040 So if you compare the tail here with this here, you can see the bottom is a little bit kinky. 225 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:33,040 It's not quite the way that it should be. A little uneven. Right. Because I because I tore it out and it really hurt because I was like I was about this far. 226 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:43,040 I was almost as far as I am now. So it really hurt to tear it out. But I wanted to cast it on again right away because I'm like, if I don't, then I'm not going to cast it on again. 227 00:21:43,040 --> 00:21:52,040 I'm going to forgive you. I'm not going to do this project. So the bottom looks a little bit wonky, but it'll block out. I'm not worried about it. I have a fun story. 228 00:21:52,040 --> 00:22:09,040 I love fun stories. What'd you do? I have a gift that I had to completely undo the gift. It was it's a a special gift. So I can't say exactly what because the person I'm giving it to listens to this podcast. 229 00:22:09,040 --> 00:22:22,040 But so I picked a very special yarn. So it was like silk cashmere. Yeah. Like it was just like really, really nice. Like this thing was like buttery to touch. 230 00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:33,040 And so I'm like halfway through it. And then I realized that the lace piece that I'm doing inside of it was not come. I was completely off with my count and I did not have a lifeline. 231 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:48,040 So I was like, screw it. I'm just going to pull it all out. That's heartbreaking. Hi, Francis. Do you have an opinion? He has all the opinions. Maybe not related to yarn, but he has all the opinions. 232 00:22:48,040 --> 00:23:08,040 He's definitely judgmental. He's like, I'm putting in my two cents. So I did not. I need to rewind it because it's just sitting in a project bag all kinked up. Not even in a ball? No. Oh, oh, oh. Lace weight? 233 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:22,040 You know what? You put lace weight in a bag without rolling it? It's not lace weight. It's fingering. Okay. Okay. It's still not good though. Still not good. Yeah. Girl. You're going to open that bag and cry. Do you see my eyes? Yeah. No, it's sitting there. 234 00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:41,040 I understand though. I get it. I have had days. I was so frustrated with it because I spent so much time. It's a huge project and it's very intricate and I was very mad that it came out the way it did. And I know, and I also started on it like years ago. So I know if I started on it now, I know I would do much better on it. 235 00:23:41,040 --> 00:24:01,040 But like, man, I just, I kind of like, I see that bag sometimes and I'm just like, don't open that bag. Just don't open that bag. Just make a small bonfire and just be done with it. Yes. Fear, fear. Yeah. I have, I've definitely, I've been there. It sucks. 236 00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:30,040 So when should you make the decision to frog when the project doesn't bring you joy? Well, flat out. Moving on. I got no, I literally that's, that's, I don't. I agree with that. Yeah. I don't. It could be perfect. If it's not making you happy, you shouldn't be knitting it. Like, yeah. If it's not bringing you joy, whether it's the gauge isn't coming out right or you made a mistake 18 rows down and you don't want to frog it or rip it back or you can't rip it back. 237 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:45,040 Or not rip it back, but take back and for whatever reason or worst thing. And I do this all the time. And I know you guys have done this. You're at the point where you're like, I just do not want to knit this. It's just going to sit in a bag and I'm never going to work on it again. 238 00:24:45,040 --> 00:25:14,040 Like I know I'm never going to work on that again. Free it. Free the needles. Free the yarn. Free the bag. Free yourself. Yeah. Well, I think too, to that last point you made that, especially when you have a project you haven't touched in a while. Right. And I'm talking years. If you haven't touched it in a really long time, there's a good chance that like your gauge is different now. Your tension is different. Your technique is different. Yeah. The way that you like it. 239 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:30,040 And you might not have necessarily changed how you knit. Like you could still be knitting English or Continental or some other style. But that doesn't mean that you're going to knit the same way. So the product may be different. Yeah. So it's not going to come out the same. 240 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:55,040 Like for example, that Harvest Cardigan I have is literally a tapestry of my skills because like the yoke is a hot mess. Like the whole top of it. First of all, it doesn't fit me. Like it absolutely does not fit. Like the whole yoke is just jacked up. Like it just, it's like when I put it on it, like this one goes down a little bit and this is like up and I have to like put it together with a shawl pin so it looks half decent. 241 00:25:55,040 --> 00:26:24,040 And then like as you're going down the back, it's the back is kind of where you see it the most. You can just see the stitches like get, they're all messy up top and then they get a little bit better. And then at the bottom is where I finally decided to like pick it up. Yeah. It's like years later. Yeah. And it's like perfect. And I'm like, well, I have seen that cardigan and I know exactly what you're talking about, but I love that project for you. Yeah. Cause it's, I don't, you know, I don't get mad at it though. Nobody's first sweater is totally perfect. 242 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:45,040 And I think that's kind of why I like it. Cause it's nostalgic. It's not like, it's like, oh, like I took it on and I finished it. You know, I stuck with it. That's not the type of project. Like your first sweater, you should not be like, I'm shooting for perfection. You can't. You can't. You're going to make mistakes. You learn so much. It's the same as your first socks, your first shawl, your first anything. 243 00:26:45,040 --> 00:27:02,040 So my adventurous cardigan, you don't look under the armpits. Oh yes. Same. Same. They can have those sleeve stitches. It was like life and death for me. Like I hate that's my least favorite part of knitting shirts is the freaking armpits. 244 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:18,040 Like, well that looks like crap. Just going to knit her away. Who's looking. I'm just going to keep my arms down. I judge. I'm like, who's looking? That's why I see the pants. This is, this is also Tina goes in for the handshake and then lifts your arm up way high. 245 00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:33,040 Your secrets are known. See, and that's the thing though. They're not, they're not bad. It's just, if you turn it inside out, you can see where I stitched it all up. It says, no, you can't, you can't, you can't run for perfection like that. 246 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:50,040 No, your first, your first like big project, especially something like a sweater, you know, lace shawl first, first anything first cable project is going to be a mess. It's going to be messy. Even down to your first actual project. Yeah. You're learning. Yeah. 247 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:54,040 What's the best way to frog besides just yanking it. 248 00:27:54,040 --> 00:28:14,040 That's about it. I like to, um, when I frog, I take, you gotta take the ball. I have to wind the ball back up as I go. Like even if I'm going to put it on a nitty-nitty, um, I, I take the ball in one hand and as I'm ripping, I just work it back around into don't follow my mistakes. 249 00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:29,040 Um, and then afterwards I'll put it on the nitty-nitty. I mean, I have seen people, I, I don't love this because I don't like the way that it makes a really messy ball. I have seen people use ball winder to do it. Oh yeah. They put, they put it on the ball winder. 250 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:45,040 It's faster. Um, it also can snag that way a lot easier catch on a, on a lint ball or something. And also like you get a really, because there's no tension whatsoever. You get a really wonky big ball on the ball winder. And yeah, no, no thanks. 251 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:50,040 How do you feel about knitting straight from that project? I don't like it. 252 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,040 No sir. I don't like it. 253 00:28:54,040 --> 00:29:09,040 I mean like as you're frogging it, knitting something else. Yeah. Like you see, like you cast on and then like whatever the project is like, say your sweater is not coming out or you know, you're going to salvage that yarn or, or steal that yarn. 254 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,040 It's possible. I wouldn't do it. 255 00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:18,040 See, I feel like it would get snagged and then I'd have two projects stuck to each other. 256 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:32,040 I would lose my ever loving patience. Yeah, you would. What patients? I have decent patients depending on the situation. Not that situation. No, that situation would be gone. Completely gone. 257 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:37,040 Then she'd be like, what knitting project? I don't knit. I've never knit in my life. 258 00:29:37,040 --> 00:29:42,040 This is a shirt for Siamese twins. 259 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,040 They are attached now. 260 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:53,040 And this is a project. It's an art piece and it's called a why. 261 00:29:53,040 --> 00:30:00,040 No, I don't like, I don't. And the thing is that you asked that and I'm like trying to think in my head like why I don't like it. 262 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:09,040 And I really can't think of a good reason other than the aforementioned like it's going to be kinky or it's going to have a weird tension because it's already in another project. 263 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:20,040 So I'll just come right out and say I just don't like it, which sounds really prejudicial and it's not really a good reason. I just don't have one. I saw somebody on Instagram doing it. Really? Yeah. 264 00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:27,040 And I honestly can't tell you what the account was, but I remember seeing it. I'm like, huh, that's not a bad idea. 265 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:34,040 Yeah, I think I would try doing that if I were ever in that situation. Do it and report back. I would like to know how that goes. 266 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:41,040 Well, first I need to have a project that is large enough where I'm like, I don't want to frog that, but I will use the yarn. 267 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:49,040 Well, I feel like. No, I don't. Wow, good for you. I do. I have one project I'm working on. Wow. I don't. 268 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:57,040 I feel like if you're going to do that though, that the project you're pulling from has to be like in one piece. 269 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:08,040 Oh, yeah. Because like I've seen people salvage yarn that seam together and if you were doing that, like you're going to eventually run into a seam and have problems. 270 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:17,040 Like, hmm. Like you would never do it from. I would never do it from a garment. Yeah, like I feel like it would be like a blanket you're pulling apart or something. 271 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:25,040 You know, I know people like to get Afghans from thrift stores and then pull from that. Yeah, but even that. Even that. I don't. 272 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:32,040 And I don't get me wrong. I think I think salvaging from from, you know, knits that are that have been given away. 273 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:39,040 I think that's a great idea. I don't think I would be comfortable with knitting from the yarn. 274 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:46,040 Like I would want to make sure that the the unknit yarn was washed and skeined and everything before I knit with it. 275 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:53,040 I wouldn't want to take it off a project. That's fair. Especially a garment. That's fair. Especially a thrifted one. 276 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:57,040 Right. Because you don't know how well it's been cleaned. 277 00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:06,040 And it would also give you kind of a chance to go through the yarn and check for weak places, check for, you know, felting abrasions, things like that, 278 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:11,040 because you don't want to be in the middle of knitting it and then find that and be like, crap, now I got to cut it. 279 00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:15,040 Do the whole line. That's fair. So that's a really interesting question, though. 280 00:32:15,040 --> 00:32:23,040 That's not something I ever thought of. I had seen it for the first time extremely recently. Huh. And I thought it was interesting. 281 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:32,040 It is really interesting. And I don't have like a good reason. I just don't like it. It just bothers me. 282 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:40,040 You know, it just does. It just does. Because now I'm just thinking about that, that the stupid sweater song. 283 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:54,040 I hate that song. Oh, by, was that Weezer? I think so. No. But now I'm just like picturing this guy like walking and like their friend like knitting their sweater off into a new sweater like following behind them. 284 00:32:54,040 --> 00:33:03,040 Okay, but that's funny. While they're ancing and they're like, that would be neat. Like the one person on the floor ancing. 285 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:11,040 This guy just behind them like knitting another sweater. Well, if you're unhappy with the sweater, let me fix that. While you're wearing it. 286 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:22,040 So yeah. Just gonna pull it right. You don't read this shit. You literally like gave me this idea, sir. That's beautiful. That's where my brain went. 287 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:37,040 If you want to destroy my sweater, hold this end as I walk away. Oh yes, please. Knit this end as I walk away. I see this end as I walk away. As I walk away. 288 00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:42,040 If you want a whole new sweater. 289 00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:50,040 That needs to be on the PMSC. I'm putting it on right now. Sorry, honey. It's going on the PMSC caravan list. 290 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:59,040 Well, that's it for this week's topic. For additional content and opportunities to connect with the cast, check out our Patreon or our website at PardonMyStache.com. 291 00:33:59,040 --> 00:34:21,040 Be sure to tune in next week for more laughs, love and llamas at Pardon My Stache.