I'm Drea.
I'm Meg.
I'm Tina.
And I'm Jess.
And this is Pardon My Stash.
Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting, the fiber arts, and how awesome
it is.
Woo!
And before we dive in today, let's talk about what we are working on.
Jess.
A potion bottle.
Wonderful.
It's great.
Next.
No, I'm still doing that potion bottle dice bag thingy that I was just throwing numbers
into a crochet project.
And it looks super cute so far.
We did remote last week and now that I'm looking at it in person, it's super adorable.
So I'm at the neck of the bottle right now and I lost track of what stitch I was on,
so I'm just gonna go until I feel like it's where I want it to be and then I'm gonna stop
and hope it's not near the beginning of the project.
I had one of them stitch markers in here but I forgot to clip it so it fell out.
So we're just going, Tina.
I finished all my swatches for my Master Gauge sheet, at least in terms of the ones that
are not Lion Brand Hometown.
I've kind of done that one a lot of times.
I kind of have that in a lot of different sizes already so I've slacked on getting the
last one which I think is in, I think I was gonna get it in a 10, or no, not a 10, no,
lies.
13.
I was gonna do, yeah, I had 11, 15, and 10.
I didn't have 13.
Anyway.
So I'm done doing that for now and I am back to my super secret mission project and it
is, it is coming along.
It is slow going because it is a repeat that takes a while so, but I'm okay.
I'm good.
It makes me happy.
Good.
Drea?
Still doing the chemishawl.
I actually got a lot done on it in the last couple weeks.
I'm pretty impressed with myself.
As well you should be.
I'm using jeans.
Jeans.
I love that that's what the color is turned into.
It doesn't get old.
Jeans.
I love that.
Silver Moon Fiber Arts in fingering weight.
Excellent.
Faded jeans.
Excellent.
What are you working on, Meg?
I am working on the Sun Drop Top by Laura Ehler.
I am knitting it out of Dragon Horde yarn, gnome tweed in the Colorway Fairy Yule Tree
and I am still doing the raglan increases for the top.
I'm gonna touch it.
It softens up a lot when I swatched it.
It's unbelievably soft when it blooms.
Not loving the texture but I also know that it's gonna be a lot softer when it's blocked.
So there is that.
Be sure to check out our website PardonMyStash.com for more information as well as pictures regarding
our current projects, patterns and yarns.
So for this week we are gonna mix it up a little bit.
What are we doing?
And let me tell you.
I'm listening.
Are you?
No.
But wait, there's more.
So we're celebrating Maker Mart and we are Makering this podcast.
This is true.
So we're gonna talk a little bit about us the makers.
We usually don't dive too much into like us or random stuff.
We get random questions occasionally but they're usually about knitting.
So this is gonna be a very non sequitur episode about us.
I only knit.
I sit on a couch and I just knit.
I have no other interests, hobbies, people in my life, nothing.
Just you in the stash.
Got it.
That's it.
That's all right.
All right.
Roll the credits.
Yeah.
Good episode.
These are not gonna be like your it's not gonna be like our first episode where we talked
about you know this is what I do and this is my job.
These are gonna be some random random questions.
I would like to think we're a little bit better than our first episode.
A little bit.
So you're saying that people are going to get to know us as people not just as makers.
Yeah as random stuff.
Oh I like that.
Random random stuff.
All right well hit me.
So I'm ready.
All right.
I'm prepared.
Are you sure?
All right.
I'm gonna you know what pick a number 12.
12.
Wow.
She didn't give you the range.
Yeah I know.
Oh this one's particularly good for you.
If your pet could talk what would their voice sound like and what would they say about you?
Oh my god.
So Chester.
So I've got two cats and I've got Chester and Charlie and Chester is this really big
striped boy.
He's like a gray tabby.
He's got half a tail.
He's like 16 pounds of love.
But he has the tiniest little baby meow I have ever freaking heard.
Like he never grew into a voice.
Like he never got one.
So he would sound really high pitched I imagine kind of nasally kind of like a stereotypical
cartoon nerd I guess.
I'm just picturing the nerd from Hey Arnold.
You know the one that's a mouth breather.
Yeah that's what I'm picturing.
I don't think that he would be a mouth breather but he would.
More like Eugene from Hey Arnold.
Yeah.
Okay.
Eugene from Hey Arnold.
Got it.
And he would pretty much follow me around and just be like mom mom I'm here mom.
I'm still here mom.
Pick me up.
Like he's really cute because like he does follow me around the house when I'm home.
He has like.
He's your baby.
Like he.
Frank will be chilling by himself for like three hours and he won't see.
He's like I'm going to go to the bathroom.
Tina pick a number one through oh god there's so many.
One through a hundred.
Ninety nine.
Sixty nine.
You would.
I'm a pervert.
And that was the question.
That was the question.
No this was kind of I don't know.
No.
Well you know what no because you can do it for like the whole group.
What's a favorite memory you have of us together?
Oh.
Oh my god there's so many.
Favorite memory.
Probably the first Reinbeck I went with you guys.
Oh that was a good one.
When we did a good girl faces for Reinbeck fiction in front of the tree.
Yeah.
Actually you know what is tied.
It's between that Reinbeck thing that I just said the the day that we the first time I
went to Reinbeck with you guys because I know you went the year before without me and then
your bachelorette party.
Oh I always say that because Jess wasn't there.
I wasn't.
I include the Reinbeck moment because Jess was not there but I cannot ignore that bachelorette
party.
That was such a defining.
I think it was when I was like oh my god these are my people.
It was a glorious train wreck.
It was such a train wreck.
It was a glorious train wreck.
Everything went wrong.
Such a good train wreck.
Like Jess should have been there.
Best memories.
Because Jess would have been like howling at like all of that.
Oh my god.
Jess would have been like the one keeping everything together.
Like Meg told me about it later and I was dying.
Oh no because it is it is like that's that's my story that I break out when I'm like what
is the craziest thing that's ever happened to you and I'm like my entire.
Such a comedy.
You know what like really I should have looked at that and been like set up for the marriage.
The marriage is also going to be a gong show.
This is my first marriage not my second marriage.
Not to me.
Long story short without to get like horribly into it but it was just we we just it was
a gong show.
Donuts.
Twelve neatly packaged donuts at 9 p.m.
Karaoke.
Allergy attacks.
Allergy attacks from oh and and and facing your fears from syrup lights.
Facing your fears.
When you have seizures.
Okay so.
And then you didn't even touch on the karaoke.
Like the absolute.
I'm leaving the karaoke.
That can be left up to everybody's imagination.
You can leave it up to your imagination.
You guys can imagine what happened.
But it was it was it was a night.
Yes it's one of my fondest memories too.
Jess.
I'm trying to think.
Honestly it looks like oh oh no I was gonna say number.
Oh you want a number.
Okay eight eight.
You would.
Yeah.
What color would you choose to describe yourself.
I know what color I would choose to describe you but you go first.
Is it magenta.
I also thought magenta.
Oh yikes on my.
I'm kidding.
I don't know.
I mean.
I feel like it's like a swirly purple.
Why a swirly purple.
No it would be because it would be like the really really dark like intense purple.
But every once in a while you get like a flash of like a different color.
Like galaxy purple.
Oh I see that.
Yeah.
I can see that.
Yeah.
That's actually exactly what I was going to say.
It's a better name than swirly purple.
I feel like it's a really purple galaxy.
Galaxy purple sounds a lot better.
It's got a little bit of the blues in there.
Yeah.
I got you.
Meg pick a number.
16.
Where do you feel most centered and happy.
Oh that's such a good question.
So home probably seems like really trite.
But I really do feel like especially in the last year you know the first year that we
moved in here things were super chaotic.
But home really does feel like a haven now.
We were just talking about this the other day.
Like I love that I can walk in the door and I'm like this is safe.
But if I had to pick like in a place outside of my house I would I would say in the woods.
I feel really like on a really good sunny day and I'm hiking and everything just feels
fantastic.
So that would definitely be my my other really happy place.
42.
That's the answer to everything.
What was the first big purchase you made as an adult.
Oh I bought a car.
Oh the car.
Yeah same.
I got a Mazda CX3 and it was brand new.
It was I bought it in 2016 it was a 2017 and I actually just finished paying it off not
too long ago.
Like just like.
Oh my god.
Do you have that.
I can't believe you had a car that time.
Well it looks like brand new.
I paid it off early.
It looks like it.
No it's just more like it looks so good for being that old.
I didn't think it was that old.
I thought you bought that like three years ago.
No sometimes I feel like three years ago.
You keep it in good condition.
You do.
It looks really good.
It looks brand new.
Yeah.
Still rides pretty good too.
It's a really cool color.
Like it's a different kind of white.
It's called ceramic.
So is that really the name.
That is the name and sometimes if it's in like direct sunlight it looks white unless
it's next to a car that is white.
And then it looks gray.
But in like cloudy or overcast it looks gray and sometimes when it's raining it looks
silver.
It's pretty cool.
It's a great color.
It's a very good color.
And apparently nobody wanted it.
So I got like a little bit of a discount on it.
13.
What does your name mean?
Okay.
So I will tell you the story of my name.
So first of all my full name is Christina.
I only let people that I like call me Tina.
I feel so honored.
No like when I go to work and stuff if I'm like in a you know I will go by Christina
but but at home and like with my family and with my close friends Tina is my name.
Apparently at this point though the podcast is also Tina.
Like everybody knows me as Tina.
So my full name Christina first we got some Jesus in there.
So I got some Christ.
Okay.
So you know I was a holy baby.
I came out I was glowing.
All right.
So I found out I looked this up sometime or another but like my full name and entirety
means like Christ flowers.
Really like floral.
All right.
Okay.
I laugh because I always would say I'm like gentle like a flower and glowing like a holy
person.
And then and then yeah exactly.
And every single person that knows me is like that is not that is not you at all.
But okay.
Excellent 37.
If you were to perform a duet with a famous musician musician who would it be and why
the famous musician Dennis Leary.
Yes.
Glad she helped you there.
I was going to say the rock because that would be funny.
But Dennis Leary yes.
Perfect song.
I got you.
I know all them.
Okay.
But if you do that can I be your backup singer.
I mean yes.
I want to do all the callbacks.
It's my favorite part.
Do 40.
Well you know what Meg I am younger than you so maybe this works.
No.
What's one thing you tell yourself at my age.
No.
Hold on hold on hold on there's a second question on it actually there's a second question on
it.
Okay.
What's one thing your younger self would tell you.
Oh my god.
My younger self was an idiot.
So let's pretend 21 year old Meg is looking at you.
I'm not going to say age.
Okay.
Hey currently what what would 21 year old Meg say to you.
Die your hair.
That is what 21 year old Meg would say to me right now.
Oh I have so many grays it's not even funny.
I'm looking at you but you don't.
But we're not in our 20s Meg.
What did you expect to happen.
But this is 21 year old Meg.
Oh that's fair.
She's not exactly kind.
She's like come on stop it.
No I feel like 21 year old Meg would look at my life and be like you know that's that's
pretty good.
Like I think Jess would be a surprise.
So Jess was kind of a surprise to most people so there's that.
No but I mean like I I don't know.
Like I have the I'm married.
I have the kid.
I've got a job.
But like I'm pretty stable.
I think 21 year old me would be like kind of relieved.
Like OK.
She would be like why are you going back to school.
Aren't you sick of that yet.
I thought we graduated.
I thought we were done.
21 year old Meg you have a long way to go.
No I don't I don't really.
I'm not sure.
I would like to think that my 21 year old self would be would be happy with what I ended
up doing with her life.
But I don't know.
I also feel like 21 year old Meg was kind of dumb and made bad choices.
Some of the cozy shots.
Yeah those were pretty bad.
Not dumb naive.
Very naive.
Oh my god.
Looking at it with so naive.
It was so naive.
An experience.
Yeah.
Lack of perspective.
Yeah.
But that's the thing.
I would like to think that that 21 year old me would would be like cool.
OK.
I'm glad we turned out pretty stable.
I'm glad we're doing OK.
I stand by the dye your hair thing.
21 year old me like literally I you didn't know me when I was in college.
I dyed my hair all the time and I'm talking box dye in the bathtub.
My college friends doing it.
Yeah.
Bad choices.
I stopped doing that.
But I would have been like like literally back then I would have been like the second
you have gray hairs.
Nope.
Cover that shit up.
I would have a lot more to say.
But 21 year old me to almost 40 year old me.
I don't think she'd have a lot to say.
40 year old me to 21 year old me.
I would be like let me give you a huge cautionary tale.
To be fair.
Things you shouldn't do.
21 year old you.
You would also be like OK.
But I saw what happened because of what you're saying now.
And let me tell you I make better choices.
I do make better choices.
But I would I would have a laundry.
That's the thing though.
I have a laundry list of things that I would do differently.
But then my life would probably be different now.
I wouldn't want to change what my life is now.
So you know I guess 21 year old me just has to go through a lot of crap.
I met Jess when I was 21.
Yeah.
It's a long go.
So no.
So what your 21.
What you'd say to your 21 year old self be like yeah you know that that person you just
met that's your wife.
That's the one.
That is your your soon to be betrothed.
I know.
Weird huh.
Now we met this summer.
I moved home from college.
What nine years later we started dating when I was 30.
So nine years later.
All right.
Moving on.
35.
What is one habit you want to get rid of and one habit that you want to keep.
I like the one habit you want to keep.
I feel like that doesn't get asked enough.
Oh I procrastinate the out of everything.
Fair.
And it's not even because like I don't want to do something.
It's just because the idea of starting something new is just so overwhelming.
Starting anything is just like.
Fair.
Yeah.
So I always do my most work when I'm under the gun and under a lot of pressure and that's
terrible.
I would love to be a self starter and I guess I have it that I want to keep.
I know the answer to this one.
It's probably like my compulsive cleanliness.
That's fair.
Like I never want to lose that.
That's what wasn't what I was going to say.
What were you going to say.
How honest you are.
Oh yeah.
I am pretty honest.
Every time someone wants an honest opinion from you you give it.
I feel like that's a habit you always stick with.
You've never.
That's true.
I am a very honest person and now I'm a kinder honest.
Yeah.
No it's the truth.
2006.
They were they were opinions and they were brutal and I was not a kind person but.
But you've learned how to deliver the news.
Being honest doesn't mean that you need to be fair.
To be fair.
It's not like you were just walking into room like let me give you a frank appraisal of
your looks.
You know it's usually usually when someone was being an ass and you were deciding to
bring out the big guns.
That's true.
It is true.
You know.
That's true.
It was usually a usually my honest came out of out of a huge comeuppance.
Right.
Now I just.
It was it was not like somebody saying hey how do I look while you look like crap.
You got to be fair to yourself here.
But now I usually wait for somebody to ask me my opinion.
Throw it out there.
Guns blazing.
God.
All right Tina.
99.
Oh.
Give me the last one.
All right.
You asked for it.
If you woke up one morning and all of your problems were solved how would you go about
your day?
I don't like that.
You would probably live like Jeff and knit four to five hours a day.
Shout out to Jeff one of our patrons that let us know.
He knitted four out of five hours.
So OK.
I actually would be I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
I actually wouldn't know what to do because if all of my problems were solved like so
how are all of your problems like maybe you live in stasis but like more problems will
pop up like it's not like that's the nature of living.
Yeah.
That's why I'm kind of like it's like resolving problems.
Yeah.
That's literally all you do.
Problem comes up every single day.
It's maybe not a groundbreaking problem but you know something happens like there's never
a time when everything is perfect unless you're literally sitting in stasis.
OK.
So let's rephrase that.
Let's let's just say if you had if I had all the time in the world what would I do.
Well we could do number 94.
If you had a day to yourself what would it look like.
Where would you go and what would you do.
Oh yeah.
That's actually the perfect question.
Yeah.
OK.
So if I had a date of myself what would I go where.
OK.
I would do whatever I want.
It says what would it look like.
Do I have a limit of 24 hours.
Yes.
OK.
All right.
So let's see.
Well I would probably try to find I would probably go somewhere in Vermont or New Hampshire.
I would find a like a cabin with a beautiful canyon like mountain view and I would rent
it for the day and I would invite my friends not my children and fair.
That's fair.
And then and then my husband can come but he can't bring the kids.
And I would I would just chill like I would like get I would want to make sure there's
like some kind of beautiful windowed view and I would get a really comfy recliner and
I would lean all the way the f back where I could still see the view but I could like
knit and like put on some lo fi music in the background and just with like a weighted blanket.
I'd rather a mountain view than beaches.
Anyway continue.
I mean same.
Yeah.
No I hate beaches.
I just get sunburned and miserable and sweaty.
I like beaches when you can go scuba diving because then you're not really at the beach
you're in the water like you're in the ocean.
That's fair.
Yeah.
Unfortunately you have to like be at the beach before you can be.
Jess a number.
96.
No no not for her.
Oh no.
Why?
Go on ask the question.
Do you collect anything?
Yes.
I collect eyes.
I do have a collection of eyes.
Alright everybody sit back this is going to take a while.
Somewhere in the house.
I used to collect Snapple element bottles and then I.
Oh my god.
Yeah I had like all of them like I had like 60 some odd Snapple bottles.
Did your mother go nuts?
Yeah she recycled them on me at one point when I was doing something.
I forget I wasn't at home when I got back and they were gone.
She kept like six and for a while I also collected like the Snapple Sobe bottles because I really
like those.
They were cool they had the lizards on them.
I collect music boxes for a while.
I've got an assortment of those.
Bells.
Whole lot of bells.
There's so many bells in this house.
Everywhere.
Coins.
Especially like not American coins although I was collecting the state coins for a while.
I have everyone except for West Virginia.
Oh geez like put on the spot it's hard to.
Pokemon.
All the fun fancy games.
Those like.
Told you it was a bad question.
The little like D&D mystery figurines.
Oh my god.
The number of mystery boxes she got.
I have a little army on top of my closet.
She does.
Yarn.
I mean yeah yarn but not as much.
A lot more when I was like dragging everything.
Yeah there's just the.
Honest to god I would love to go through this house sometime and count all the dragon stuff
in this house.
A lot of it I haven't taken back out since we moved too.
Yeah there's more in boxes.
There is.
It's hard to believe.
Yeah I mean I probably could go on those are the big ones that I can think of off the top
of my head.
Shining rocks.
Order.
I collect.
I collect things.
I collect.
I collect frogs.
Like little wooden frogs that have the pegs so you run it over the back and it sounds
like a frog.
I have three right now but then I also have one that's a cricket.
I would say you had a cricket too right?
I want to get a big one though like a really big frog.
I've seen them they're like this big.
They sound like bullfrogs.
I collect birds.
Bird stuff.
So much bird stuff.
Yes.
I like birds.
Birds.
Six.
Do you remember the first novel you ever read and if so what was it?
Are we talking like kids book or adult book?
It says novel so I'm assuming it has to be not a children's book right?
Oh jeez.
Okay.
Maybe pick a favorite.
Yeah pick your favorite.
Okay well we'll do the most memorable.
Two birds with one stone.
Just like nerd alert.
The first adult book that I remember like buying.
I went to the bookstore and I actually paid for it.
It was a used bookstore Harbor Books in Old Saybrook.
I remember going because my class had just the movie had just come out and we watched
it for a Civil War unit.
I was in fifth grade.
I was 10.
We watched Gettysburg and I saw in the credits that it was based on the novel The Killer
Angels by Michael Schara and I was like well I'm gonna go read that book.
I was 10.
And I remember going to Harbor Books and the lady was like we don't have that and then
she actually found it on the bottom shelf and I bought this book.
It's actually a Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
I read that book.
I don't even know how many times I read it until the cover fell off and then my mom got
me another used copy and I read that one until the cover fell off.
I've read that book probably 70 times.
I brought it to the hospital when I was in labor.
I did.
I read it in the hospital.
Not when I was in labor.
I read it afterwards.
I'd say that's impressive.
No it wasn't actually.
But it was like literally the that was the beginning of my wanting to be a history teacher
because I loved it so much.
It was such a good book.
It's actually really really entertaining even if you're not like a huge Civil War buff.
It's a really really good novel.
So that's the first one that I remember like adult novel I remember reading.
The first like children's book that I remember reading from cover to cover was probably something
by Beverly Cleary.
I read all of her books when I was a kid called the Ramona books.
Dre number 57.
Oh no.
If you could have any animal as a pet what would it be and why?
I know this one.
An alligator turtle.
Why?
Look it up.
No no I mean like I've looked it up.
Explain why.
Okay.
I'm going to give you guys a moment so that you can look it up.
You the listener.
Now imagine that as like a talking piece when you have company over.
A talking piece.
Oh yeah.
I mean yeah it's a talking piece.
This is Harold and if he doesn't like you he's going to chew your arm off in one bite.
P.S. he doesn't like anybody.
He likes no one.
My favorite day ever was still the day that you asked Frank if you could get an alligator
turtle and he got all excited.
He was like word show me.
And then I sent him a picture and he was like absolutely not.
And you wrote back.
Fine.
That was the best.
Alright Tina.
Frank is like the constant voice of reason.
Seriously.
I feel like you know just correct me if I'm wrong but does it really require a lot of
reason to be like you should not keep an alligator turtle as a pet?
Considering how I get ideas in my head and then I run with them.
Yeah.
I'm imagining you now hauling one home.
Look Frank look what I found.
I would.
We can keep it right?
Where?
Shout out to all of the significant others out there who keep the crazy one grounded.
You know who you are.
Holla at you Pat.
44.
Have you kept any memorabilia from your childhood?
Yes.
I don't know where it is right now but I know what box it's in.
When I was younger I had a really really really hard time making friends.
Just in general.
I know that's kind of sad but I did.
I had a really really hard time.
I was really bad at social cues and stuff.
So I would do.
I would actually write like I love to draw.
So I would draw these.
I would get these like hardcover from what was it Walden books and they had these hard
cover tiny little sketchbooks that you could get that were like looked like a journal size
like a typical like small little journal.
Maybe like four by eight or four by six or something like that.
And I would use the pages as so it turned into a comic book if I kept writing in it.
So I have all of sixth seventh eighth and ninth grade.
I kept that I kept doing that.
And it was about situations that I would witness or like because a lot of times I wasn't involved
in a lot of the social stuff but like I would like watch other people argue about stuff
and I would be like well no.
And I would like make them into these dramatic scenarios and stuff.
So that's probably like I refuse to throw them out because it reminds me how far I've
come in terms of like my social anxiety and just understanding how to be human.
But yeah like I really love those books.
Very so often I'll look in them and then oh but you know don't get me wrong like I was
by by far not profound because there was like like sometimes I'll look back on them and
like if I had a crush on somebody I would make a comic page how I got married to them.
Oh man stereotypical 13 14 year old girl like we got this beautiful wedding and oh my god
it was so funny.
It was so I got married and divorced like 20 times.
Very good.
Like five pages later I'd be like okay.
But like yeah it was funny but yeah I like those little books.
Seventy seven.
What food reminds you most of home?
Reminds me most of home?
Meat bread and cheese.
Like a nice like skillet cooked steak with some sharp cheddar and homemade bread.
Nice.
Pick a number.
86.
Tell me about your childhood best friend.
Oh that's also my reaction.
So you know what I think about mine too.
No so um my best friend's name was Lainey.
She lived down the street well part time lived down the street from my parents and my mom
like dragged me over there because I really was socially awkward in school and Lainey
didn't go to my school.
She was also a year behind me.
But our parents met and they were like oh these guys are almost the same age let's get
together and I really don't know what happened because the first day we kind of stared awkwardly
at each other and then like all of a sudden we were hanging out every waking minute together.
We were both obsessed with the Olympics figure skating and gymnastics.
We watched them we watched the tapes with them.
We had so many sleepovers.
We eat cookie dough.
We did all the ridiculous crap together.
We're still we're still best friends.
We're still close.
She lives in Pittsburgh.
She has two kids.
We don't see each other very often anymore but you know we still message each other all
the time.
So we're still we're still close.
So yeah she's good people.
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