June 20, 2024 • 41 mins
Tina takes the cast through a fun game of Would You Rather with questions related to the fiber arts and crafting in general. Shenanigans begin to ensue immediately. Drea may have found the only reason why she would use laceweight (but doubled up!). Meg wants the option of unlimited access to patterns over yarn. Nobody wants to teach people over learning a tough technique (even if they were paid!). There are many, many more scenarios the cast is put through. Don't forget to let us know about your choices either on Instagram or on our blog!
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(00:00):
I'm Drea.
(00:00):
I'm Meg.
I'm Tina.
And I'm Jess.
And this is Pardon My Stash.
["Pardon My Stash"]
Welcome to Pardon My Stash,
a podcast about knitting within the fiber arts
and how awesome it is!
Woohoo!
I don't know why I read that like
(00:20):
a Spanish soccer commentator, but that...
Not in a volume.
Not in a volume if you were doing that.
Okay, anyway.
What are those like big, big trumpet things?
Vuvuzelas?
I don't know how you pronounce it.
Anyways, back to knitting.
No, not one of vuvuzelas.
(00:40):
Before we get started on this week's topics,
let's find out what everybody's working on this week.
Jess!
I'm making a drag orb.
It's a dragon orb.
It's like a borb, only it's a dragon.
And I'm making a black dragon
because I made a copper dragon,
but I'm not giving that one away.
So I'm making a black dragon.
And I haven't decided if I'm giving this one away.
(01:02):
Just for our listeners reference,
there's just roving all over the place.
There's just a pile of fur over here right now
and miscellaneous tools.
And there's like, like, he's got like a little nose
and a tail going on right now.
Like that's it.
I thought that was another crow.
He was blending into the rest of the fur.
(01:22):
Yeah, I gotta do another crow too,
but I want to make another dragon right now, so.
That's fair.
But so that's what I'm doing.
And I'm using a felted ornament base
that I got from Felted Sky.
And I'm using roving right now that I actually died here.
(01:43):
Ooh!
And didn't completely destroy.
So like that's my fun crow colors
is actually our Vishka colorway on roving.
That's cool.
And most of it looks like Vishka
and some of it came out a weird color
and I don't care because it's fine for felting.
That's very cool.
Meg?
I am almost finished.
(02:03):
Whoa!
Whoa!
With the third incarnation of my matchy makey.
Yay!
I've had a little snag here and there.
But it's the Owl Nuvo Cowl by Mary P Hunt.
And I am knitting it out of Malabrigo sock in Azules,
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which is a really, really pretty blue color.
And Ashen Bumble 8020 sock in the colorway appropriately.
Barn Owl, which is a really pretty like variegated brown.
I've really enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it more when I got really frustrated one night
because there's a lot of like big sections
(02:46):
of one color and when I would get tired,
I would kind of, eyes would glaze over and I'm like,
I can't tell if that says it's that six stitches
or seven stitches and I kept messing it up.
So one night after I went to bed,
after like my 10th fit of rage,
Jess actually took it upon herself to sit there
and count out every single one of those
and put the number next to it.
(03:08):
So after she did that, it flew.
So I didn't have to keep counting the little boxes.
I just looked down and see like,
oh, there's a little seven there.
So that was really nice of her
because she finished hers like,
I don't know, a month ago at this point.
So, but I'm catching up.
I'm almost done with it.
(03:28):
It's finally gonna be a finished project for the year.
Congratulations.
I've, this been a tough spring.
I'm glad it's almost done.
But you hit the halfway point of the year.
So maybe this is, we're getting there.
Almost.
Get in there.
Drea?
Almost done with the Arachne shawl.
More applause.
I've got 18 rows left and then I'm done.
(03:49):
Woohoo.
I'm also playing yarn chicken.
I can't wait to do that.
Cause we have the same yarn.
I have an itty bitty shawl left.
Drama suspense.
Lord.
And I'm looking forward to finding out
if I did good or not.
It is the Arachne shawl by Claire Slade Barely Knits.
(04:12):
I'm using plies and howl hounds in Penny
using Flower Moon and Nightmares plus 10.
Plus 10.
Plus 10.
Always.
Many nightmares.
Many nightmares.
What about you?
So before I get into what I'm working on right now,
I just want to announce that I was working
on a many chickens.
I love the yarn chickens.
(04:33):
They are fabulous.
And they're squishy.
I found a pattern.
It was called the Cluck Norris Gang on Etsy.
I was looking for machine knit patterns.
If you don't know, I have two Addi machines
and I have a bunch of yarn that I would really like
to use on the machine.
(04:55):
I don't want to hand knit it
cause they're not pleasant to touch
in a hand knitting kind of way.
So I was looking for patterns and I found the chickens
and I'm using that as a base,
but I modified the pattern slightly just so that
there would actually be like a chest on the chicken
cause I felt like the chest is really important to have.
(05:16):
Chickens do have really broad chests.
Yeah, I wanted them to have a big poofy chest.
So yeah, I think I've made about 12 chickens.
They're all laying in various locations in my craft room.
My daughter stole one and gave one to her teacher.
(05:37):
She didn't steal it.
She asked.
Okay, that's the best end of year gift though.
Like if a student gave me a chicken,
I mean, my kids don't give me anything,
but if they did, I would be so excited.
Yeah, she asked me if she could give one of the chickens
to her teacher and I said, absolutely, here you go.
Give a chicken to the teacher, why not?
Yeah, we had a craft show last week on Friday
(05:58):
and I had brought two of the chickens.
I hadn't finished many of them yet.
And I decided right then and there
that my table is now going to be bags and burbs
and I'm gonna have a bunch of chickens with my bags.
That's what I've decided.
It's gonna be fun.
So yeah, that's what I have been working on,
(06:20):
but what I have tonight is the seed dot beanie
in the super bulky version
and I am using Madeline Tosh ASAP in wilted.
And I remember last time we got together,
I was like, this isn't really super bulky.
I don't really think this is super bulky.
(06:41):
Well, now that I've like knitted up,
I'm using like 13s and 15s and it's not holy.
So I do find, this is pretty condensed.
So I'm going to take my last times comment back
and I do feel this sits in super bulky range,
(07:01):
but it's still a very small super bulky.
Like it's definitely not as thick, like a hometown.
What were the needles for the ones
that we did with the Mecca?
What was the needle size?
Nine and 10.
Yeah, so that is a huge difference.
Really big difference.
And I didn't think it would be
because it doesn't look that much thicker.
(07:23):
No, it doesn't.
But if that's 15s right there,
that's a huge difference in age.
Yeah, wow.
Yeah, and it doesn't, you just-
It doesn't look it at all.
It doesn't look like it would look like that.
It looks like the same fabric.
So yeah, it is indeed a super bulky.
So I stand corrected and I will learn to respect labels more
than assume that they are wrong.
(07:45):
I mean, we would have known this earlier
if you'd done one thing.
Did a swatch.
Yeah, if you had done a swatch.
If you had done a swatch.
Well, this hat is my swatch.
So-
Okay, but I've done that a lot too.
The hat is the swatch.
But other than me disagreeing with printed labels,
(08:06):
the hat itself is coming up really nice.
It is really soft if you want to touch.
Oh, I do love that.
It is very squishy.
I feel like that's gonna bloom like crazy.
Probably.
Not in size, but in the texture.
Yeah.
It feels like it's gonna bloom.
Hold on, hold on.
We're gonna, everybody gotta touch.
Without knocking over microphones.
Without knocking over mics.
(08:28):
But yeah, I think it's gonna come out really good.
And I will be happy to have that as kind of the sample yarn
for the seed dot beanie pattern.
If you're interested in Madeline Tash ASAP yarn,
you can find that at jimmybeanswool.com.
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And be sure to check out our website, partofmystash.com
for more information as well as pictures
regarding our current projects, patterns and yarns.
Okay, for today, we are going to be a little loose and fun.
And we're gonna play a fun game
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of would you rather fiber arts edition.
I am super pumped for this.
Like really pumped.
These questions are ridiculous.
I can't wait.
So if you wanna play along at home, you can.
And then you can send us your answers via comments or email
or blog post comments or Instagram, whatever you wanna do.
(09:31):
We'd love to hear what your opinions are
inside these comments.
I'll start, I'll go for like a softball on the first one.
So would you rather knit with bulky yarn
or lace weight yarn for the rest of your life?
Come on, man.
I said it was a softball, okay?
That is the biggest of softballs.
(09:51):
Bulky all the way.
All day, every.
Wow, this one's agony for you, isn't it?
No, this is actually pretty terrible for me because
I hate bulls.
I hate bulls.
All right, well you better think about it.
Honestly, and thinking about it real quick,
like 100% not bulky.
Really?
I'm gonna say that because you know what?
(10:12):
I can take lace weight yarn and make it into something else.
You can double it.
I can have like 10 skeins of lace weight
and make it into something that is not lace weight.
Listen, I will learn how to ply my own yarn.
I'll learn it.
And ply some lace together.
I am firmly in the camp of F lace weight, but.
(10:35):
I mean, I like lace weight.
You can combine it.
I think that I might be harder in the camp of F bulky weight.
I just don't like bulky.
I would go bulky.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because you know what?
I actually really do like working with bulky.
I really do.
I don't mind it.
It's okay on occasion.
I think I don't wanna live there.
It would get really like after a while,
(10:56):
like that's an end to all summernets.
You have to find some really like,
I'm not a person that can wear a bulky weight sweater.
You know, that's gonna look real weird.
So I'm gonna have to find some ways to finesse that.
But there are a million patterns on Ravelry.
So I'm sure I can find a few that would work.
(11:17):
I would probably start making holy sweaters
because of all the lace.
Just so that there's airflow.
But I still think I'd rather do bulky.
I would.
I understand your point about doubling lace weight though.
I can appreciate that.
Double, triple, quadruple, ten times.
Just not by a 12.
12 ply lace weight.
(11:38):
Oh my God.
All right.
You ready for another one?
Oh yeah.
Would you rather have an unlimited supply of yarn
or unlimited access to every knitting pattern?
B.
It's fair.
Definitely.
I already have more yarn
than I'm ever probably gonna knit with.
(11:59):
So. That's fair.
An unlimited supply of yarn
does not really get me that excited.
I'm kind of, I'm with you on that.
I'm probably gonna go patterns too
because I definitely have reached sable times four.
So it's an unlimited supply of yarn.
Is it of your choice?
Ooh, that's also a really good caveat.
Well, I'm gonna assume so
(12:20):
because unlimited access to all patterns
means you would have unlimited supply of all yarn.
So yeah, your choice.
It's unlimited supply of bulky weight yarn.
Here's what you get.
Here's your winning.
Here you go, Drain.
No, lace.
You already chose lace.
So tell me.
Okay, unlimited supply of lace weight.
But if it's my own choosing for the yarn,
(12:43):
I'd probably go with the yarn.
Because I feel like,
patterns are patterns.
And I'm okay with having limited access to patterns.
Yeah, and to be devil's advocate,
you know what, a pattern is a pattern.
They all tend to be the same after a while.
(13:03):
Exactly.
So.
Like once you get the basic idea
of what a pattern is supposed to be,
you can do anything with that.
Sometimes I don't wanna think that.
Mine's fair.
I don't do the math.
I don't bop around too much
and have multiple different,
like I'm assuming this is patterns
for like any pattern as in any,
like I could do knit crochet.
(13:25):
There are felting.
There are felting patterns.
I feel like.
Yeah, the question says knitting,
but let's just say patterns.
Let's just say patterns.
All patterns.
For me, patterns is probably.
I feel like I would be a lot more adventurous
because I really, you know,
you wanna pay what the pattern is worth.
I'm not advocating for all free patterns.
But if I had unlimited access to patterns,
(13:47):
I think I would be a lot freer with like,
yup, gonna try that.
Instead of being like,
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
Before I outlay the money,
I wanna make sure I really wanna commit to that pattern.
That'd be a lot freer if I knew that I'd have to pay.
I would like to think that in this question,
you wouldn't get them for free,
but someone is paying for them for you.
Okay.
So that everybody wins.
It still stands though.
(14:07):
If I'm not paying for it,
I'm gonna be a lot freer with like,
I'm gonna try everything.
Yeah.
Would you rather teach a beginner craft class
or learn an advanced craft technique?
Learn.
I don't like teaching.
I'm not gonna help you.
I do not have the patience.
I'm sorry.
I teach enough.
I don't wanna teach anything else.
(14:28):
I am capable of teaching somebody like basic crafts,
but that involves a lot of peopling
that I don't always have the capacity to do.
There's also a huge difference between like,
being capable and finding it enjoyable.
That's, yeah.
There's a lot of things that, you know,
we all can do,
but I don't wanna spend my time doing them.
(14:49):
Like, this is a hard pass. If I'm teaching you a craft,
I really like you.
Right.
There's a positive relationship going on.
Even if I'm being paid to teach these people a basic craft,
I think that I would much rather learn a craft.
Yeah, I think we're all on the same page with that.
Yeah.
I think I can speak with some minor authority here
(15:10):
in saying that I love history like so much.
There are some days where I'm like,
this career path was a choice.
I do not wanna teach this right now.
I do not wanna teach to these people
that I'm in the room with.
I just don't wanna do this.
Yeah, cause that's true.
You're not necessarily picking who the class is.
You're not picking the class.
(15:30):
Yeah, it's one thing if you're teaching it to your friends
and you're relaxed in a venue of your choosing,
with a beverage of your choosing
and snacks of your choosing,
and you can take as much time as you want.
But if you are teaching a course
and you are being paid and you are on a time crunch
and there are people in there that may or may not be
the friendliest and most amicable of people,
(15:53):
that's gonna change the playing field quite a bit.
And you know what?
I'm in the camp of this is a hobby.
Yeah, teaching is my real life.
This is my hobby.
Very fair.
Nope.
Okay, I like this one.
Would you rather always have perfect tension
or never drop a stitch?
(16:15):
That's a good one.
Perfect tension.
I'm gonna go with her.
Picking up a stitch is 90% of the time, pretty easy to do.
There is very little that is more frustrating
than constantly trying to get gauge and tension
and not getting either of those things.
Yeah, I don't, I'm, I don't know.
(16:37):
Because there's a lot of lace things
that I like working on that would be great
if I never dropped a stitch.
I think that's really like,
that would be a great question if you were like,
can I pick this before each project?
Because if you're doing a project with some crazy like,
That's fair.
Patterns where dropping a stitch is like,
it's the end of time, like you're never gonna be able
(16:58):
to pick that up, then yes.
But if you're doing something like a sweater
where you really do not wanna cast this on 15 times
or make 15 swatches, yeah.
That's a toughie.
Would you rather knit with needles too short
or needles too long?
Short.
(17:18):
Do we have the option of them being circular needles?
I think it would, circular or straight.
I don't think that's specified.
So, because I don't, I don't find it to be too much
of an issue if it's a circular needle.
If it's a circular, I'd rather them be too short.
If it's like double points too long.
I agree.
(17:39):
I agree with that.
What if they're straight?
I don't know because I don't know.
Give me broomsticks.
I don't F with straight needles.
Honest to God, back in the day I used to be like
longer needles 100% because then you have less chance
of dropping stitches, especially when you're a newbie.
But dude, when you start using those like,
the eight inch straights and like,
(18:02):
everything is falling off, that was kinda my big thing.
But now, I tried a couple years ago,
I don't know what I was thinking.
I tried to use straights and I was like,
what the hell is happening?
They're so long, they're 14 inches
and I'm just wielding them, like no.
Oh God, I don't know.
If I had to use straights, I think I'd rather quit knitting.
(18:23):
I'm serious.
I am so freaking serious.
If I had to go back to knitting straight, on straights,
constantly, I think I'd rather quit knitting.
I'm serious.
There is a would you rather.
It's really funny.
Would you rather knit with straights or quit knitting?
I think I really would.
(18:46):
No, I'll give you a better would you rather.
Would you rather knit with straight needles
or knit with scratchy acrylic for the rest of your life?
Straight needles.
You're freaking mean.
I know, they both suck.
No, I would take the straight needles.
Yeah, straight needles all the way.
Come on Meg, you gonna quit?
Yup, I'm gonna quit.
All of that is terrible.
Because you know why?
(19:07):
I will back myself up.
This is supposed to be fun.
And nothing you just described is fun.
That's the point of would you rather Meg.
Well, no, because all of the other questions,
I'm like, you know what, I can work with this.
I cannot work with either of those things.
Neither of those is fun.
And when the hobby stops being fun, I stop.
(19:28):
Okay, so we're just gonna adjust the game
that there's would you rather or quitting.
Would you rather burn in hell?
Like that is where we're at right now.
Quitting is always an option apparently.
I didn't think that there wasn't,
but I'm like sitting here, I'm like, oh no, no, I don't,
no, and also like, I'm like, what am I gonna knit
for the rest of my life, scarves?
(19:50):
I mean, you could always knit panels and then.
Seam things.
Yeah.
Ew.
Let's get some mattress seams going, all right.
Oh my God, no.
It totally looks like one piece.
You know, I've never actually done a seam sweater.
I gotta put that on my list of something to do
because I've never done it.
(20:11):
I do mattress seaming a lot with the knitting machines
because you can only go so far.
Yeah, of course, of course.
There's so much knitting you can do.
Then you get, you gotta get your time.
But if I had to do that by choice,
like with hand knitting, I'd be like, why?
Why am I doing this?
Right, no.
All right, so here, I'll do a softer one
(20:33):
since we did a couple hard ones.
Let's do, would you rather craft while watching a movie
or while listening to music?
Movie.
100%.
Yeah.
Visual.
Music is fine if I'm like in public,
like on a train or something like that.
(20:54):
You know.
Circumstantial.
Right, if I wanna conserve the battery life on my phone.
Oh, we gotta.
So. Prioritize that.
Yeah, right.
When I'm drawing, I do music
because the drawing is the visual
and having something else on is too much.
But knitting, crafting, stuff like this is more tactile
(21:16):
and not as visual, as weird as that sounds in my head,
but it is, it's more of a touch than a watch.
So I like having a movie or something on
while I'm doing that.
No, I think that's totally fair,
especially when you get to a point
where you've been knitting for decades
or crafting for decades in general
and you don't really have to look down as much.
(21:39):
That tends to take away the visual a lot,
especially if you're doing something that's easy to repeat.
So.
All right.
Good boy.
Oh, that's terrible.
Okay.
I'm gonna lay it on us, yeah.
Would you rather have a massive yarn stash
with no projects or endless project ideas, but no yarn?
(22:02):
What's the point?
I know, quit.
There's no point to that.
Yeah, I mean, but here's the thing,
is there a way out of these things?
I don't know.
Is it just spending a lot of money?
Yeah, is this a resolvable question?
Because what's the point?
Well, in either of these cases, you can't do anything.
You could roll in the yarn.
Well, there is something to be said for yarn and stake or,
(22:23):
because I have done that many a time.
Okay, I can see that.
I'm still like.
I feel like the endless project ideas,
but no yarn means you have nothing.
Yeah.
You just have nothing.
Right, like that just seems so like, and I don't know.
So we're gonna quit. Futile.
We're gonna quit, okay.
I guess, I don't know.
Like, there's just no solvable answer there.
(22:46):
Okay, that was my first set of 10 questions,
which weren't adjusted,
and these are my second set of 20 questions,
which were adjusted and are hysterical,
and I'm really excited to get into the set.
What's adjusted mean?
Adjusted meaning I told it to be funny and witty.
Oh, all righty.
(23:07):
So would you rather drop stitches every row
or have your yarn tangle every 10 minutes?
Quit.
I'd rather quit.
Jess lives with me.
She can tell you either of those situations, I'm quitting.
I'm taking care of both of them.
No, she really would.
(23:27):
I'm gonna take the tangle.
Yeah, I think I'd go tangle.
At least then my work isn't being sacrificed
every few stitches.
You get 10 minutes of peace.
Yeah.
I can't do it.
I love how Meg's just quitting everything.
I can't, I'm sorry.
Listen, I can't, I couldn't do it.
It just, that would demoralize me so much.
(23:50):
It really would, but in both cases,
I would be so demoralized that after probably like
the third or fourth time of both,
I'd be like, and I'm putting this away for the night.
So I would never get anything done.
These questions are so dumb.
Would you rather knit a sweater for a giant
or socks for a mouse?
At least the sweater for a giant
(24:11):
will keep you occupied for a while.
I'm gonna go with socks for a mouse
because at least it's quick.
Yeah, but you probably have to use lace weight.
It's so tiny.
It's a good thing that I signed up for all that lace weight.
Like, you get the little sewing needles and thread
and then you just like make little booties.
(24:31):
Well, that's just cute.
I'm gonna go with the mouse too,
just cause that sounds cute.
And a giant feel, I feel like they'd be grumpy
and asking me every five minutes.
You don't know, I don't know their life.
I don't know, I'm just making stereotypical assumptions.
I would get bulky yarn and make a nice big bulky sweater.
With our bulky stash.
With all that bulky stash,
make a nice big bulky sweater and be fine.
(24:52):
Oh man, these are terrible.
Okay, would you rather knit with eyelash yarn?
No.
Or, I should say craft.
Craft with eyelash yarn or craft with itchy acrylic?
No.
Eyelash.
That makes me quit.
Oh man.
That's a quit for me.
(25:12):
If I had to, I'd pick the eyelash over.
I have done.
Over the.
I would do the acrylic only if it meant I could wear gloves.
Cause at least then I could pick the weight.
The whole thing is the scratchy.
There's nothing wrong with acrylic,
but if you make it an unpleasant experience,
the whole, half the point of knitting
(25:33):
is the tactile experience and feeling the yarn.
You take that away.
Might as well just quit.
We're just gonna quit I guess.
I'm quitting.
I said I'd use eyelash.
It's not great though.
I don't know what I would make with it.
Would you rather, this is so dumb.
Would you rather have yarn that's always too slippery
(25:54):
or needles that are always too sticky?
Slippery.
Slippery.
Slippery.
I don't know why, but when it said needles
are always too sticky, I just imagine like gum on needles.
No, that's what I mean.
Every once in a while, if you get like the box store needles
and it has this sticker on it,
and I've dealt with this, and it drives me up a wall.
(26:16):
So I would rather have the slippery yarn.
I was also thinking about like the time that my ex's cat
found one of my wooden needles and chewed the hell out of it.
And they were not cheap.
So I'm like, I'll keep working with it.
And every time I pulled the yarn over,
it would get stuck in all the little teeth holes.
And that was really annoying.
I'd rather deal with the slippery yarn
(26:37):
and just be more careful about dropping the stitches.
Would you rather use a pattern written in a different
language or one missing key steps?
Language.
Right?
That's what I was trying to say.
Translate that thing.
Yeah.
Google translate.
Translating is always an option, but.
It can be funky on the translation too though.
(26:57):
But trying to figure out missing pieces is no bueno.
Yeah.
I'm skilled, but I don't think that I'm skilled
enough to do that.
I got one that I know you all are gonna just say quit.
Would you rather have your yarn stash smell like pickles
or wet dog?
Pickles.
Pickles.
I'm trying.
Oh my God, I hate both of those.
I hate pickles.
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That's what I said, you're gonna quit.
Oh God.
I love pickles.
No, pickles can be amazing.
I'm gonna go with pickles only cause I know
what wet dog smells like and it's not pleasant.
I also know what wet dog smells like.
No.
But pickles could be pleasant depending on the type of.
Could you wash it off after?
Like when you block your stuff?
Listen, the yarn itself has a smell when it's wet so.
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Yeah.
I'm like if it could be like washed out, pickles.
Okay, fair.
It doesn't specify that you can't wash it so.
I guess that would be.
Skimmy the pickles guys.
Love pickles.
There's going to be a pickle fest coming up soon.
Did you know that?
I wanna say I saw it.
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Do you wanna go douse the yarn?
I actually really want to go to this pickle festival.
Could you brine this yarn for me?
It's my next project.
It's coming up next month, I'm very excited.
Oh my god.
What is this?
Okay, would you rather constantly miscount stitches
or have a gauge that changes every row?
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I'm gonna go with miscount stitches
because you know what, I do that anyway.
You know what, I'm gonna go with you on that one.
I'm gonna miscount because I already miscounted two.
You already do it.
I already do it.
I was literally sitting here when you said
like miscount stitches, I'm like well it's gonna be
the other one and then you said it
and I was like thought too soon.
I really like nothing enrages me
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like miscounting stitches consistently but no.
That's awful.
You're quitting again.
No, no, no, no, no.
Hey, no, no, no.
I will deal with the miscount stitches.
I'm gonna be mad about it but the other one
is so much more heinous.
Yeah, that is pretty heinous.
I'm gonna have to give it that.
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Ah man.
Would you rather have a cat that loves to play
with your yarn or a dog that chews your finished projects?
I got the cat, man.
Yeah, I already have the cat too.
Yeah.
You know what, seeing that I have a dog
that has terrible breath due to his third teeth problems,
I do not want them chewing on my finished projects
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because it would literally just one bite
would mean it's over so I'm gonna go with the cat.
And it just says that they like your yarn.
It doesn't say that they're eating it.
It just says that they're playing with it.
Yeah and you know what, they do that,
you yell at them, you take it away.
They move on with life.
Would you rather use only neon colored yarn
or only brown yarn?
Neon.
I was gonna say neon too.
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I'm gonna say neon.
Yeah, because at least you have some color variety.
You have options.
Although I don't know, could it be different shades of brown?
Yeah.
Because that might actually be more my speed.
Yeah.
If I could do like a variety of brown.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Nah, give me the action green.
I feel like there's an account that does that.
There's an account out there that is mostly
like a muted tone like tans and browns.
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Oh yeah, no, no, no.
I know who you're talking about.
I don't remember off the top of my, sorry,
I don't remember what their name is or anything like that.
But there is an account out there
that specifically just uses that.
Neutrals.
So we know what her answer would be.
Oh man, would you rather your knitting,
your craft project shrink three sizes
or grow three sizes after washing?
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Do I know in advance?
That makes all the difference.
It does.
Yeah, sure.
If I know in advance, I would rather it grow.
Same.
Yeah.
Adjust for the gauge.
Think of how much faster you would get that project.
Yep.
You get to make it three sizes too small.
Mm-hmm, that's true.
Hell yeah.
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Yep.
Just adjust for the gauge.
Yep.
But you would have to do gauge swatches every time
to make sure things fit.
Look, I could do it.
You would do it for that?
I could do it.
You could do it.
I didn't say I would, I said I could.
I said I could.
Would you rather craft with wire or craft with spaghetti?
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Ew.
At least wire would keep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Spaghetti's just gonna rot.
I just remember that video of the person
with the ramen bowl and they're just knitting
the ramen noodles.
No.
I guess if you don't care about things keeping,
if you're doing it for an art design.
Well, I guess if it, is it spaghetti with sauce on it
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or is it just like.
It just says spaghetti.
So you could, I guess spaghetti your way.
Well, the thing about like spaghetti is that like,
if you leave it out, it doesn't really rot.
It just kind of like turns dry again.
Hard, yeah.
It just turns back into like uncooked spaghetti.
So it wouldn't be very comfortable.
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No, but neither would wire.
So there is some yarn that is made with stainless steel.
Wait, are we wearing the wire and the steel?
I don't know.
I didn't realize we were wearing.
90% of the stuff that we knit, we wear.
So I think it's a fair question.
But there is some yarn that is made
from stainless steel wire.
I think it's by Haboo.
I've never touched it, but I've heard it's really cool
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and it actually is wearable.
So I think it would depend on what wire.
Are we talking barbed wire because that would suck?
Or are we talking like.
It just says wire next.
We didn't get malicious here.
We just said wire.
I don't think that I would.
This isn't sadistic, would you rather.
This is where you draw the line with questions.
This is where.
I don't think that I would craft either of those materials
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with the intention of wearing the item when it was done.
I think I would craft those materials
with the purpose of creating an art project.
Like a wire chicken or a spaghetti chicken.
Like something that's visual.
Or like a votive holder or something like that.
I could see that.
Or a chicken.
I'm sorry.
So wire or chicken.
Or a chicken.
All right, so this is a specific project.
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So if you were making a project
that required a left and a right.
So mitten, socks, something like that.
Would you rather find a hole in your finished project
or discover you needed two left ones?
I can fix the hole.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with the hole.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Although to be, well.
To be fair, if it's something like a mitten,
you literally just have to rip back the thumb.
Hmm.
Yeah, hole.
It doesn't specify.
Fix the hole and create an afterthought thumb.
Yes, and it doesn't necessarily specify
the size of the hole either.
So it could be like a massive hole.
It could also just be like a yarn over
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that you hadn't intended to put in there.
Right.
Like is it a hole as in a dropped stitch?
Or just like a hole?
Well, if you're finding a hole in your finished project,
I feel like that's you looking at your finished project
and realize you've dropped a stitch.
Can the hole be the turned thumb?
I don't think we could specify where the hole locates.
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I love how we keep asking you like,
can we negotiate?
I'm the DM of this game.
Can we negotiate?
Can we negotiate?
Where the hole?
I'm the DM of what you're at.
Now you know how it feels.
Roll for perception.
Roll for perception.
Now you know how I am, right?
That's funny.
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Let's see.
No, no, hey.
Would you rather have to craft everything
using only your toes or only your fingers?
That's not a question.
I already only use my fingers.
No, like no needles.
That's what it's implying.
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Oh, oh, oh, okay.
No, I also misunderstood that.
This is implying you don't have hooks or needles.
Like you have to do like finger knitting.
My fingers, I would rather do with my fingers.
You guys, no, I don't want to do toes.
No, I don't like stuff on my toes.
Look, if I had to and toes were my only choice, fine toes.
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But I feel like that would take a lot of like extra practice
just to get the dexterity to be able to do anything
with your toes because your toes are not
inherently designed to do that.
But I'm dying that we were all like, fingers done.
All of us interpreted it wrong.
That's okay.
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We're all tired.
Would you rather have your yarn run out
with 10 stitches left or find a knot
in the middle of the skein?
Oh my God, the knot.
Yeah.
Absolutely the knot.
10 stitches is just depressing.
Wait, how big is the knot?
Oh, that's a really good point.
Yeah, is it a part of the gradient change?
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Sometimes that is inconvenient.
Yeah, if you're doing like a stocknet sweater,
it's really hard to hide the knot.
It's a pain in the neck.
It is a pain in the neck.
Can I like just find a real close,
check on those last 10 stitches?
Yeah, you did that with your more simple lines,
you stole my old yarn.
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I didn't, I just made it with those simple lines.
Oh, you just made it, but you were planning on it.
I was planning on it though.
You were planning on cobbling with my old yarn.
I'm gonna go with the 10 stitches
because I feel like I could find yarn to replace it.
Oh my God.
I'm gonna deal with the knot.
No, I just, I feel like in my case,
it would be like in the armpit or something
and I'd never wanna wear with the project ever.
Yeah.
It would look weird.
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See, I'm gonna say the knot,
but it's mainly because yarn chicken gives me like,
I get so ramped up.
When I start to see the ball getting smaller,
it's not just like,
I don't just discover it the last 10 stitches.
I'm sitting there for like a good, I don't know,
40 rows going, crap.
That's about where I'm at.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
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And I don't, yeah.
I don't, it's a whole experience.
I'd rather deal with the knot.
Yeah.
She tiny.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
That's, and it's like a-
We're gonna need the Mission Impossible music.
It's a squishy ball too, so it's not as much in here
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as what it looks like.
Would you, what?
Okay.
Would you rather have a project unravel in public
or discover it's full of mistakes when you're done?
You need to play Guster's The Sweater Song over this,
over this section, right?
Wait, what was the other question?
Because that's all I can think about.
Oh, okay.
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Project unravel in public
or discover it's full of mistakes when you're done.
Either way, it's getting-
Depends on the caliber of the mistake.
I feel like either way, it's getting unraveled.
So at least if it's unraveled in public,
it's already unraveled for me.
Yeah, but I mean, I'd rather, think about it.
I'd rather see the mistakes at home
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and either fix them or try,
and I'm imagining being at Ryan Beck
and you got your sweater and all of a sudden
it's just got tails falling off of it in public.
And I'm like, no, that sounds terrible.
I don't wanna do that.
That does sound terrible, but-
I think I would much rather have it unravel
without my knowing.
In public, I'd much rather have it,
let it be, let it go,
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because I would never go back and fix the mistakes later.
If I put all that effort in
and then found all those mistakes,
I would never get the executive function together
to unravel it and fix it.
I have this visual of us being at Ryan Beck
and your sweater's unraveling
and nobody notices it until we're about to leave.
(38:33):
And all you have left is the collar and you're like-
And just all this yarn.
What is happening?
We'll let it go.
F it.
Well, I think also it's also the caliber of mistakes.
Are we talking about like color work
where you can be like, you know what?
F it, duplicate stitch.
We're just gonna nip these in the butt
and it's not, or are we talking about like-
I guess it could be circumstantial.
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A massively dropped stitch
where the whole thing is gonna fall apart
or you made one sleeve too short
or things like that that are like-
I don't know.
I feel like mistakes give me anxiety
in the way that yarn chicken gives you anxiety.
So I would rather it unravel
because at least I can potentially do something with it
or have a good laugh that my sweater completely,
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I don't know why it's a sweater,
but that my thing came apart in public.
I'd rather have it just be completely out of my hands.
Go with God.
Jess.
I think I would rather find out after the fact.
So you guys are all unravelers.
Oh, you're not an unraveler.
You're not unraveling.
I don't want it to unravel in public
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because what if I don't have something extra?
Like if I find mistakes afterwards,
I'm like, cool.
And it goes into like the pile of shame.
And I just don't look at it.
The pile of shame.
Let me be a spectacle.
Then I will end the would you rather game
on a very silly question that is not practical
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or make any sense.
Lay it on me.
Would you rather your knitting needles
double as a flame thrower or a flashlight?
I'm gonna go with flashlight.
I'm gonna go with flamethrower.
I'm gonna smite my enemies.
I was just sitting here like,
why would you put flamethrower and flashlight together?
Well, if you've already got a flashlight,
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then I can have a flamethrower.
All right.
Then we can.
Look, but here's the thing.
We're good.
House is protected.
Well, it's protected and also we don't have to worry
about the snow blower and I can just like clear out
the driveway.
Take your knitting outside and torch the driveway.
I'll knit.
As I'm knitting, like it's burst in fire.
There are many applications to having a flamethrower.
I just feel that I shouldn't be trusted
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with a flamethrower, so I'm gonna go with flashlight.
Stick with flashlight.
We're just gonna stick with the flashlight.
I just feel like.
I definitely shouldn't have a flamethrower,
but I want one anyway.
I feel like I would be in a grocery store
and my project would be in my bag
and then all of a sudden there's flames
flying out of my bag.
There's your bag, it's gone.
Yeah, look.
It spontaneously combusts.
It was offered to me.
It was a choice, I made it.
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I'm Drea.
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I'm Meg.
I'm Tina.
And I'm Jess.
And this is Pardon My Stash.
["Pardon My Stash"]
Welcome to Pardon My Stash,
a podcast about knitting within the fiber arts
and how awesome it is!
Woohoo!
I don't know why I read that like
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a Spanish soccer commentator, but that...
Not in a volume.
Not in a volume if you were doing that.
Okay, anyway.
What are those like big, big trumpet things?
Vuvuzelas?
I don't know how you pronounce it.
Anyways, back to knitting.
No, not one of vuvuzelas.
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Before we get started on this week's topics,
let's find out what everybody's working on this week.
Jess!
I'm making a drag orb.
It's a dragon orb.
It's like a borb, only it's a dragon.
And I'm making a black dragon
because I made a copper dragon,
but I'm not giving that one away.
So I'm making a black dragon.
And I haven't decided if I'm giving this one away.
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Just for our listeners reference,
there's just roving all over the place.
There's just a pile of fur over here right now
and miscellaneous tools.
And there's like, like, he's got like a little nose
and a tail going on right now.
Like that's it.
I thought that was another crow.
He was blending into the rest of the fur.
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Yeah, I gotta do another crow too,
but I want to make another dragon right now, so.
That's fair.
But so that's what I'm doing.
And I'm using a felted ornament base
that I got from Felted Sky.
And I'm using roving right now that I actually died here.
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Ooh!
And didn't completely destroy.
So like that's my fun crow colors
is actually our Vishka colorway on roving.
That's cool.
And most of it looks like Vishka
and some of it came out a weird color
and I don't care because it's fine for felting.
That's very cool.
Meg?
I am almost finished.
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Whoa!
Whoa!
With the third incarnation of my matchy makey.
Yay!
I've had a little snag here and there.
But it's the Owl Nuvo Cowl by Mary P Hunt.
And I am knitting it out of Malabrigo sock in Azules,
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which is a really, really pretty blue color.
And Ashen Bumble 8020 sock in the colorway appropriately.
Barn Owl, which is a really pretty like variegated brown.
I've really enjoyed it.
I enjoyed it more when I got really frustrated one night
because there's a lot of like big sections
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of one color and when I would get tired,
I would kind of, eyes would glaze over and I'm like,
I can't tell if that says it's that six stitches
or seven stitches and I kept messing it up.
So one night after I went to bed,
after like my 10th fit of rage,
Jess actually took it upon herself to sit there
and count out every single one of those
and put the number next to it.
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So after she did that, it flew.
So I didn't have to keep counting the little boxes.
I just looked down and see like,
oh, there's a little seven there.
So that was really nice of her
because she finished hers like,
I don't know, a month ago at this point.
So, but I'm catching up.
I'm almost done with it.
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It's finally gonna be a finished project for the year.
Congratulations.
I've, this been a tough spring.
I'm glad it's almost done.
But you hit the halfway point of the year.
So maybe this is, we're getting there.
Almost.
Get in there.
Drea?
Almost done with the Arachne shawl.
More applause.
I've got 18 rows left and then I'm done.
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Woohoo.
I'm also playing yarn chicken.
I can't wait to do that.
Cause we have the same yarn.
I have an itty bitty shawl left.
Drama suspense.
Lord.
And I'm looking forward to finding out
if I did good or not.
It is the Arachne shawl by Claire Slade Barely Knits.
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I'm using plies and howl hounds in Penny
using Flower Moon and Nightmares plus 10.
Plus 10.
Plus 10.
Always.
Many nightmares.
Many nightmares.
What about you?
So before I get into what I'm working on right now,
I just want to announce that I was working
on a many chickens.
I love the yarn chickens.
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They are fabulous.
And they're squishy.
I found a pattern.
It was called the Cluck Norris Gang on Etsy.
I was looking for machine knit patterns.
If you don't know, I have two Addi machines
and I have a bunch of yarn that I would really like
to use on the machine.
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I don't want to hand knit it
cause they're not pleasant to touch
in a hand knitting kind of way.
So I was looking for patterns and I found the chickens
and I'm using that as a base,
but I modified the pattern slightly just so that
there would actually be like a chest on the chicken
cause I felt like the chest is really important to have.
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Chickens do have really broad chests.
Yeah, I wanted them to have a big poofy chest.
So yeah, I think I've made about 12 chickens.
They're all laying in various locations in my craft room.
My daughter stole one and gave one to her teacher.
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She didn't steal it.
She asked.
Okay, that's the best end of year gift though.
Like if a student gave me a chicken,
I mean, my kids don't give me anything,
but if they did, I would be so excited.
Yeah, she asked me if she could give one of the chickens
to her teacher and I said, absolutely, here you go.
Give a chicken to the teacher, why not?
Yeah, we had a craft show last week on Friday
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and I had brought two of the chickens.
I hadn't finished many of them yet.
And I decided right then and there
that my table is now going to be bags and burbs
and I'm gonna have a bunch of chickens with my bags.
That's what I've decided.
It's gonna be fun.
So yeah, that's what I have been working on,
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but what I have tonight is the seed dot beanie
in the super bulky version
and I am using Madeline Tosh ASAP in wilted.
And I remember last time we got together,
I was like, this isn't really super bulky.
I don't really think this is super bulky.
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Well, now that I've like knitted up,
I'm using like 13s and 15s and it's not holy.
So I do find, this is pretty condensed.
So I'm going to take my last times comment back
and I do feel this sits in super bulky range,
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but it's still a very small super bulky.
Like it's definitely not as thick, like a hometown.
What were the needles for the ones
that we did with the Mecca?
What was the needle size?
Nine and 10.
Yeah, so that is a huge difference.
Really big difference.
And I didn't think it would be
because it doesn't look that much thicker.
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No, it doesn't.
But if that's 15s right there,
that's a huge difference in age.
Yeah, wow.
Yeah, and it doesn't, you just-
It doesn't look it at all.
It doesn't look like it would look like that.
It looks like the same fabric.
So yeah, it is indeed a super bulky.
So I stand corrected and I will learn to respect labels more
than assume that they are wrong.
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I mean, we would have known this earlier
if you'd done one thing.
Did a swatch.
Yeah, if you had done a swatch.
If you had done a swatch.
Well, this hat is my swatch.
So-
Okay, but I've done that a lot too.
The hat is the swatch.
But other than me disagreeing with printed labels,
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the hat itself is coming up really nice.
It is really soft if you want to touch.
Oh, I do love that.
It is very squishy.
I feel like that's gonna bloom like crazy.
Probably.
Not in size, but in the texture.
Yeah.
It feels like it's gonna bloom.
Hold on, hold on.
We're gonna, everybody gotta touch.
Without knocking over microphones.
Without knocking over mics.
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But yeah, I think it's gonna come out really good.
And I will be happy to have that as kind of the sample yarn
for the seed dot beanie pattern.
If you're interested in Madeline Tash ASAP yarn,
you can find that at jimmybeanswool.com.
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And be sure to check out our website, partofmystash.com
for more information as well as pictures
regarding our current projects, patterns and yarns.
Okay, for today, we are going to be a little loose and fun.
And we're gonna play a fun game
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of would you rather fiber arts edition.
I am super pumped for this.
Like really pumped.
These questions are ridiculous.
I can't wait.
So if you wanna play along at home, you can.
And then you can send us your answers via comments or email
or blog post comments or Instagram, whatever you wanna do.
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We'd love to hear what your opinions are
inside these comments.
I'll start, I'll go for like a softball on the first one.
So would you rather knit with bulky yarn
or lace weight yarn for the rest of your life?
Come on, man.
I said it was a softball, okay?
That is the biggest of softballs.
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Bulky all the way.
All day, every.
Wow, this one's agony for you, isn't it?
No, this is actually pretty terrible for me because
I hate bulls.
I hate bulls.
All right, well you better think about it.
Honestly, and thinking about it real quick,
like 100% not bulky.
Really?
I'm gonna say that because you know what?
(10:12):
I can take lace weight yarn and make it into something else.
You can double it.
I can have like 10 skeins of lace weight
and make it into something that is not lace weight.
Listen, I will learn how to ply my own yarn.
I'll learn it.
And ply some lace together.
I am firmly in the camp of F lace weight, but.
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I mean, I like lace weight.
You can combine it.
I think that I might be harder in the camp of F bulky weight.
I just don't like bulky.
I would go bulky.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because you know what?
I actually really do like working with bulky.
I really do.
I don't mind it.
It's okay on occasion.
I think I don't wanna live there.
It would get really like after a while,
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like that's an end to all summernets.
You have to find some really like,
I'm not a person that can wear a bulky weight sweater.
You know, that's gonna look real weird.
So I'm gonna have to find some ways to finesse that.
But there are a million patterns on Ravelry.
So I'm sure I can find a few that would work.
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I would probably start making holy sweaters
because of all the lace.
Just so that there's airflow.
But I still think I'd rather do bulky.
I would.
I understand your point about doubling lace weight though.
I can appreciate that.
Double, triple, quadruple, ten times.
Just not by a 12.
12 ply lace weight.
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Oh my God.
All right.
You ready for another one?
Oh yeah.
Would you rather have an unlimited supply of yarn
or unlimited access to every knitting pattern?
B.
It's fair.
Definitely.
I already have more yarn
than I'm ever probably gonna knit with.
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So. That's fair.
An unlimited supply of yarn
does not really get me that excited.
I'm kind of, I'm with you on that.
I'm probably gonna go patterns too
because I definitely have reached sable times four.
So it's an unlimited supply of yarn.
Is it of your choice?
Ooh, that's also a really good caveat.
Well, I'm gonna assume so
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because unlimited access to all patterns
means you would have unlimited supply of all yarn.
So yeah, your choice.
It's unlimited supply of bulky weight yarn.
Here's what you get.
Here's your winning.
Here you go, Drain.
No, lace.
You already chose lace.
So tell me.
Okay, unlimited supply of lace weight.
But if it's my own choosing for the yarn,
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I'd probably go with the yarn.
Because I feel like,
patterns are patterns.
And I'm okay with having limited access to patterns.
Yeah, and to be devil's advocate,
you know what, a pattern is a pattern.
They all tend to be the same after a while.
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Exactly.
So.
Like once you get the basic idea
of what a pattern is supposed to be,
you can do anything with that.
Sometimes I don't wanna think that.
Mine's fair.
I don't do the math.
I don't bop around too much
and have multiple different,
like I'm assuming this is patterns
for like any pattern as in any,
like I could do knit crochet.
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There are felting.
There are felting patterns.
I feel like.
Yeah, the question says knitting,
but let's just say patterns.
Let's just say patterns.
All patterns.
For me, patterns is probably.
I feel like I would be a lot more adventurous
because I really, you know,
you wanna pay what the pattern is worth.
I'm not advocating for all free patterns.
But if I had unlimited access to patterns,
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I think I would be a lot freer with like,
yup, gonna try that.
Instead of being like,
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
Before I outlay the money,
I wanna make sure I really wanna commit to that pattern.
That'd be a lot freer if I knew that I'd have to pay.
I would like to think that in this question,
you wouldn't get them for free,
but someone is paying for them for you.
Okay.
So that everybody wins.
It still stands though.
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If I'm not paying for it,
I'm gonna be a lot freer with like,
I'm gonna try everything.
Yeah.
Would you rather teach a beginner craft class
or learn an advanced craft technique?
Learn.
I don't like teaching.
I'm not gonna help you.
I do not have the patience.
I'm sorry.
I teach enough.
I don't wanna teach anything else.
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I am capable of teaching somebody like basic crafts,
but that involves a lot of peopling
that I don't always have the capacity to do.
There's also a huge difference between like,
being capable and finding it enjoyable.
That's, yeah.
There's a lot of things that, you know,
we all can do,
but I don't wanna spend my time doing them.
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Like, this is a hard pass. If I'm teaching you a craft,
I really like you.
Right.
There's a positive relationship going on.
Even if I'm being paid to teach these people a basic craft,
I think that I would much rather learn a craft.
Yeah, I think we're all on the same page with that.
Yeah.
I think I can speak with some minor authority here
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in saying that I love history like so much.
There are some days where I'm like,
this career path was a choice.
I do not wanna teach this right now.
I do not wanna teach to these people
that I'm in the room with.
I just don't wanna do this.
Yeah, cause that's true.
You're not necessarily picking who the class is.
You're not picking the class.
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Yeah, it's one thing if you're teaching it to your friends
and you're relaxed in a venue of your choosing,
with a beverage of your choosing
and snacks of your choosing,
and you can take as much time as you want.
But if you are teaching a course
and you are being paid and you are on a time crunch
and there are people in there that may or may not be
the friendliest and most amicable of people,
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that's gonna change the playing field quite a bit.
And you know what?
I'm in the camp of this is a hobby.
Yeah, teaching is my real life.
This is my hobby.
Very fair.
Nope.
Okay, I like this one.
Would you rather always have perfect tension
or never drop a stitch?
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That's a good one.
Perfect tension.
I'm gonna go with her.
Picking up a stitch is 90% of the time, pretty easy to do.
There is very little that is more frustrating
than constantly trying to get gauge and tension
and not getting either of those things.
Yeah, I don't, I'm, I don't know.
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Because there's a lot of lace things
that I like working on that would be great
if I never dropped a stitch.
I think that's really like,
that would be a great question if you were like,
can I pick this before each project?
Because if you're doing a project with some crazy like,
That's fair.
Patterns where dropping a stitch is like,
it's the end of time, like you're never gonna be able
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to pick that up, then yes.
But if you're doing something like a sweater
where you really do not wanna cast this on 15 times
or make 15 swatches, yeah.
That's a toughie.
Would you rather knit with needles too short
or needles too long?
Short.
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Do we have the option of them being circular needles?
I think it would, circular or straight.
I don't think that's specified.
So, because I don't, I don't find it to be too much
of an issue if it's a circular needle.
If it's a circular, I'd rather them be too short.
If it's like double points too long.
I agree.
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I agree with that.
What if they're straight?
I don't know because I don't know.
Give me broomsticks.
I don't F with straight needles.
Honest to God, back in the day I used to be like
longer needles 100% because then you have less chance
of dropping stitches, especially when you're a newbie.
But dude, when you start using those like,
the eight inch straights and like,
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everything is falling off, that was kinda my big thing.
But now, I tried a couple years ago,
I don't know what I was thinking.
I tried to use straights and I was like,
what the hell is happening?
They're so long, they're 14 inches
and I'm just wielding them, like no.
Oh God, I don't know.
If I had to use straights, I think I'd rather quit knitting.
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I'm serious.
I am so freaking serious.
If I had to go back to knitting straight, on straights,
constantly, I think I'd rather quit knitting.
I'm serious.
There is a would you rather.
It's really funny.
Would you rather knit with straights or quit knitting?
I think I really would.
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No, I'll give you a better would you rather.
Would you rather knit with straight needles
or knit with scratchy acrylic for the rest of your life?
Straight needles.
You're freaking mean.
I know, they both suck.
No, I would take the straight needles.
Yeah, straight needles all the way.
Come on Meg, you gonna quit?
Yup, I'm gonna quit.
All of that is terrible.
Because you know why?
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I will back myself up.
This is supposed to be fun.
And nothing you just described is fun.
That's the point of would you rather Meg.
Well, no, because all of the other questions,
I'm like, you know what, I can work with this.
I cannot work with either of those things.
Neither of those is fun.
And when the hobby stops being fun, I stop.
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Okay, so we're just gonna adjust the game
that there's would you rather or quitting.
Would you rather burn in hell?
Like that is where we're at right now.
Quitting is always an option apparently.
I didn't think that there wasn't,
but I'm like sitting here, I'm like, oh no, no, I don't,
no, and also like, I'm like, what am I gonna knit
for the rest of my life, scarves?
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I mean, you could always knit panels and then.
Seam things.
Yeah.
Ew.
Let's get some mattress seams going, all right.
Oh my God, no.
It totally looks like one piece.
You know, I've never actually done a seam sweater.
I gotta put that on my list of something to do
because I've never done it.
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I do mattress seaming a lot with the knitting machines
because you can only go so far.
Yeah, of course, of course.
There's so much knitting you can do.
Then you get, you gotta get your time.
But if I had to do that by choice,
like with hand knitting, I'd be like, why?
Why am I doing this?
Right, no.
All right, so here, I'll do a softer one
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since we did a couple hard ones.
Let's do, would you rather craft while watching a movie
or while listening to music?
Movie.
100%.
Yeah.
Visual.
Music is fine if I'm like in public,
like on a train or something like that.
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You know.
Circumstantial.
Right, if I wanna conserve the battery life on my phone.
Oh, we gotta.
So. Prioritize that.
Yeah, right.
When I'm drawing, I do music
because the drawing is the visual
and having something else on is too much.
But knitting, crafting, stuff like this is more tactile
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and not as visual, as weird as that sounds in my head,
but it is, it's more of a touch than a watch.
So I like having a movie or something on
while I'm doing that.
No, I think that's totally fair,
especially when you get to a point
where you've been knitting for decades
or crafting for decades in general
and you don't really have to look down as much.
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That tends to take away the visual a lot,
especially if you're doing something that's easy to repeat.
So.
All right.
Good boy.
Oh, that's terrible.
Okay.
I'm gonna lay it on us, yeah.
Would you rather have a massive yarn stash
with no projects or endless project ideas, but no yarn?
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What's the point?
I know, quit.
There's no point to that.
Yeah, I mean, but here's the thing,
is there a way out of these things?
I don't know.
Is it just spending a lot of money?
Yeah, is this a resolvable question?
Because what's the point?
Well, in either of these cases, you can't do anything.
You could roll in the yarn.
Well, there is something to be said for yarn and stake or,
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because I have done that many a time.
Okay, I can see that.
I'm still like.
I feel like the endless project ideas,
but no yarn means you have nothing.
Yeah.
You just have nothing.
Right, like that just seems so like, and I don't know.
So we're gonna quit. Futile.
We're gonna quit, okay.
I guess, I don't know.
Like, there's just no solvable answer there.
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Okay, that was my first set of 10 questions,
which weren't adjusted,
and these are my second set of 20 questions,
which were adjusted and are hysterical,
and I'm really excited to get into the set.
What's adjusted mean?
Adjusted meaning I told it to be funny and witty.
Oh, all righty.
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So would you rather drop stitches every row
or have your yarn tangle every 10 minutes?
Quit.
I'd rather quit.
Jess lives with me.
She can tell you either of those situations, I'm quitting.
I'm taking care of both of them.
No, she really would.
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I'm gonna take the tangle.
Yeah, I think I'd go tangle.
At least then my work isn't being sacrificed
every few stitches.
You get 10 minutes of peace.
Yeah.
I can't do it.
I love how Meg's just quitting everything.
I can't, I'm sorry.
Listen, I can't, I couldn't do it.
It just, that would demoralize me so much.
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It really would, but in both cases,
I would be so demoralized that after probably like
the third or fourth time of both,
I'd be like, and I'm putting this away for the night.
So I would never get anything done.
These questions are so dumb.
Would you rather knit a sweater for a giant
or socks for a mouse?
At least the sweater for a giant
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will keep you occupied for a while.
I'm gonna go with socks for a mouse
because at least it's quick.
Yeah, but you probably have to use lace weight.
It's so tiny.
It's a good thing that I signed up for all that lace weight.
Like, you get the little sewing needles and thread
and then you just like make little booties.
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Well, that's just cute.
I'm gonna go with the mouse too,
just cause that sounds cute.
And a giant feel, I feel like they'd be grumpy
and asking me every five minutes.
You don't know, I don't know their life.
I don't know, I'm just making stereotypical assumptions.
I would get bulky yarn and make a nice big bulky sweater.
With our bulky stash.
With all that bulky stash,
make a nice big bulky sweater and be fine.
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Oh man, these are terrible.
Okay, would you rather knit with eyelash yarn?
No.
Or, I should say craft.
Craft with eyelash yarn or craft with itchy acrylic?
No.
Eyelash.
That makes me quit.
Oh man.
That's a quit for me.
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If I had to, I'd pick the eyelash over.
I have done.
Over the.
I would do the acrylic only if it meant I could wear gloves.
Cause at least then I could pick the weight.
The whole thing is the scratchy.
There's nothing wrong with acrylic,
but if you make it an unpleasant experience,
the whole, half the point of knitting
(25:33):
is the tactile experience and feeling the yarn.
You take that away.
Might as well just quit.
We're just gonna quit I guess.
I'm quitting.
I said I'd use eyelash.
It's not great though.
I don't know what I would make with it.
Would you rather, this is so dumb.
Would you rather have yarn that's always too slippery
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or needles that are always too sticky?
Slippery.
Slippery.
Slippery.
I don't know why, but when it said needles
are always too sticky, I just imagine like gum on needles.
No, that's what I mean.
Every once in a while, if you get like the box store needles
and it has this sticker on it,
and I've dealt with this, and it drives me up a wall.
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So I would rather have the slippery yarn.
I was also thinking about like the time that my ex's cat
found one of my wooden needles and chewed the hell out of it.
And they were not cheap.
So I'm like, I'll keep working with it.
And every time I pulled the yarn over,
it would get stuck in all the little teeth holes.
And that was really annoying.
I'd rather deal with the slippery yarn
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and just be more careful about dropping the stitches.
Would you rather use a pattern written in a different
language or one missing key steps?
Language.
Right?
That's what I was trying to say.
Translate that thing.
Yeah.
Google translate.
Translating is always an option, but.
It can be funky on the translation too though.
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But trying to figure out missing pieces is no bueno.
Yeah.
I'm skilled, but I don't think that I'm skilled
enough to do that.
I got one that I know you all are gonna just say quit.
Would you rather have your yarn stash smell like pickles
or wet dog?
Pickles.
Pickles.
I'm trying.
Oh my God, I hate both of those.
I hate pickles.
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That's what I said, you're gonna quit.
Oh God.
I love pickles.
No, pickles can be amazing.
I'm gonna go with pickles only cause I know
what wet dog smells like and it's not pleasant.
I also know what wet dog smells like.
No.
But pickles could be pleasant depending on the type of.
Could you wash it off after?
Like when you block your stuff?
Listen, the yarn itself has a smell when it's wet so.
(27:40):
Yeah.
I'm like if it could be like washed out, pickles.
Okay, fair.
It doesn't specify that you can't wash it so.
I guess that would be.
Skimmy the pickles guys.
Love pickles.
There's going to be a pickle fest coming up soon.
Did you know that?
I wanna say I saw it.
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Do you wanna go douse the yarn?
I actually really want to go to this pickle festival.
Could you brine this yarn for me?
It's my next project.
It's coming up next month, I'm very excited.
Oh my god.
What is this?
Okay, would you rather constantly miscount stitches
or have a gauge that changes every row?
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I'm gonna go with miscount stitches
because you know what, I do that anyway.
You know what, I'm gonna go with you on that one.
I'm gonna miscount because I already miscounted two.
You already do it.
I already do it.
I was literally sitting here when you said
like miscount stitches, I'm like well it's gonna be
the other one and then you said it
and I was like thought too soon.
I really like nothing enrages me
(28:42):
like miscounting stitches consistently but no.
That's awful.
You're quitting again.
No, no, no, no, no.
Hey, no, no, no.
I will deal with the miscount stitches.
I'm gonna be mad about it but the other one
is so much more heinous.
Yeah, that is pretty heinous.
I'm gonna have to give it that.
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Ah man.
Would you rather have a cat that loves to play
with your yarn or a dog that chews your finished projects?
I got the cat, man.
Yeah, I already have the cat too.
Yeah.
You know what, seeing that I have a dog
that has terrible breath due to his third teeth problems,
I do not want them chewing on my finished projects
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because it would literally just one bite
would mean it's over so I'm gonna go with the cat.
And it just says that they like your yarn.
It doesn't say that they're eating it.
It just says that they're playing with it.
Yeah and you know what, they do that,
you yell at them, you take it away.
They move on with life.
Would you rather use only neon colored yarn
or only brown yarn?
Neon.
I was gonna say neon too.
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I'm gonna say neon.
Yeah, because at least you have some color variety.
You have options.
Although I don't know, could it be different shades of brown?
Yeah.
Because that might actually be more my speed.
Yeah.
If I could do like a variety of brown.
Yeah.
Maybe.
Nah, give me the action green.
I feel like there's an account that does that.
There's an account out there that is mostly
like a muted tone like tans and browns.
(30:08):
Oh yeah, no, no, no.
I know who you're talking about.
I don't remember off the top of my, sorry,
I don't remember what their name is or anything like that.
But there is an account out there
that specifically just uses that.
Neutrals.
So we know what her answer would be.
Oh man, would you rather your knitting,
your craft project shrink three sizes
or grow three sizes after washing?
(30:30):
Do I know in advance?
That makes all the difference.
It does.
Yeah, sure.
If I know in advance, I would rather it grow.
Same.
Yeah.
Adjust for the gauge.
Think of how much faster you would get that project.
Yep.
You get to make it three sizes too small.
Mm-hmm, that's true.
Hell yeah.
(30:50):
Yep.
Just adjust for the gauge.
Yep.
But you would have to do gauge swatches every time
to make sure things fit.
Look, I could do it.
You would do it for that?
I could do it.
You could do it.
I didn't say I would, I said I could.
I said I could.
Would you rather craft with wire or craft with spaghetti?
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Ew.
At least wire would keep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Spaghetti's just gonna rot.
I just remember that video of the person
with the ramen bowl and they're just knitting
the ramen noodles.
No.
I guess if you don't care about things keeping,
if you're doing it for an art design.
Well, I guess if it, is it spaghetti with sauce on it
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or is it just like.
It just says spaghetti.
So you could, I guess spaghetti your way.
Well, the thing about like spaghetti is that like,
if you leave it out, it doesn't really rot.
It just kind of like turns dry again.
Hard, yeah.
It just turns back into like uncooked spaghetti.
So it wouldn't be very comfortable.
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No, but neither would wire.
So there is some yarn that is made with stainless steel.
Wait, are we wearing the wire and the steel?
I don't know.
I didn't realize we were wearing.
90% of the stuff that we knit, we wear.
So I think it's a fair question.
But there is some yarn that is made
from stainless steel wire.
I think it's by Haboo.
I've never touched it, but I've heard it's really cool
(32:15):
and it actually is wearable.
So I think it would depend on what wire.
Are we talking barbed wire because that would suck?
Or are we talking like.
It just says wire next.
We didn't get malicious here.
We just said wire.
I don't think that I would.
This isn't sadistic, would you rather.
This is where you draw the line with questions.
This is where.
I don't think that I would craft either of those materials
(32:37):
with the intention of wearing the item when it was done.
I think I would craft those materials
with the purpose of creating an art project.
Like a wire chicken or a spaghetti chicken.
Like something that's visual.
Or like a votive holder or something like that.
I could see that.
Or a chicken.
I'm sorry.
So wire or chicken.
Or a chicken.
All right, so this is a specific project.
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So if you were making a project
that required a left and a right.
So mitten, socks, something like that.
Would you rather find a hole in your finished project
or discover you needed two left ones?
I can fix the hole.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm gonna go with the hole.
Yeah.
Yeah.
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Although to be, well.
To be fair, if it's something like a mitten,
you literally just have to rip back the thumb.
Hmm.
Yeah, hole.
It doesn't specify.
Fix the hole and create an afterthought thumb.
Yes, and it doesn't necessarily specify
the size of the hole either.
So it could be like a massive hole.
It could also just be like a yarn over
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that you hadn't intended to put in there.
Right.
Like is it a hole as in a dropped stitch?
Or just like a hole?
Well, if you're finding a hole in your finished project,
I feel like that's you looking at your finished project
and realize you've dropped a stitch.
Can the hole be the turned thumb?
I don't think we could specify where the hole locates.
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I love how we keep asking you like,
can we negotiate?
I'm the DM of this game.
Can we negotiate?
Can we negotiate?
Where the hole?
I'm the DM of what you're at.
Now you know how it feels.
Roll for perception.
Roll for perception.
Now you know how I am, right?
That's funny.
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Let's see.
No, no, hey.
Would you rather have to craft everything
using only your toes or only your fingers?
That's not a question.
I already only use my fingers.
No, like no needles.
That's what it's implying.
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Oh, oh, oh, okay.
No, I also misunderstood that.
This is implying you don't have hooks or needles.
Like you have to do like finger knitting.
My fingers, I would rather do with my fingers.
You guys, no, I don't want to do toes.
No, I don't like stuff on my toes.
Look, if I had to and toes were my only choice, fine toes.
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But I feel like that would take a lot of like extra practice
just to get the dexterity to be able to do anything
with your toes because your toes are not
inherently designed to do that.
But I'm dying that we were all like, fingers done.
All of us interpreted it wrong.
That's okay.
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We're all tired.
Would you rather have your yarn run out
with 10 stitches left or find a knot
in the middle of the skein?
Oh my God, the knot.
Yeah.
Absolutely the knot.
10 stitches is just depressing.
Wait, how big is the knot?
Oh, that's a really good point.
Yeah, is it a part of the gradient change?
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Sometimes that is inconvenient.
Yeah, if you're doing like a stocknet sweater,
it's really hard to hide the knot.
It's a pain in the neck.
It is a pain in the neck.
Can I like just find a real close,
check on those last 10 stitches?
Yeah, you did that with your more simple lines,
you stole my old yarn.
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I didn't, I just made it with those simple lines.
Oh, you just made it, but you were planning on it.
I was planning on it though.
You were planning on cobbling with my old yarn.
I'm gonna go with the 10 stitches
because I feel like I could find yarn to replace it.
Oh my God.
I'm gonna deal with the knot.
No, I just, I feel like in my case,
it would be like in the armpit or something
and I'd never wanna wear with the project ever.
Yeah.
It would look weird.
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See, I'm gonna say the knot,
but it's mainly because yarn chicken gives me like,
I get so ramped up.
When I start to see the ball getting smaller,
it's not just like,
I don't just discover it the last 10 stitches.
I'm sitting there for like a good, I don't know,
40 rows going, crap.
That's about where I'm at.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
(36:49):
And I don't, yeah.
I don't, it's a whole experience.
I'd rather deal with the knot.
Yeah.
She tiny.
Yeah.
Oh my goodness.
That's, and it's like a-
We're gonna need the Mission Impossible music.
It's a squishy ball too, so it's not as much in here
(37:09):
as what it looks like.
Would you, what?
Okay.
Would you rather have a project unravel in public
or discover it's full of mistakes when you're done?
You need to play Guster's The Sweater Song over this,
over this section, right?
Wait, what was the other question?
Because that's all I can think about.
Oh, okay.
(37:30):
Project unravel in public
or discover it's full of mistakes when you're done.
Either way, it's getting-
Depends on the caliber of the mistake.
I feel like either way, it's getting unraveled.
So at least if it's unraveled in public,
it's already unraveled for me.
Yeah, but I mean, I'd rather, think about it.
I'd rather see the mistakes at home
(37:51):
and either fix them or try,
and I'm imagining being at Ryan Beck
and you got your sweater and all of a sudden
it's just got tails falling off of it in public.
And I'm like, no, that sounds terrible.
I don't wanna do that.
That does sound terrible, but-
I think I would much rather have it unravel
without my knowing.
In public, I'd much rather have it,
let it be, let it go,
(38:12):
because I would never go back and fix the mistakes later.
If I put all that effort in
and then found all those mistakes,
I would never get the executive function together
to unravel it and fix it.
I have this visual of us being at Ryan Beck
and your sweater's unraveling
and nobody notices it until we're about to leave.
(38:33):
And all you have left is the collar and you're like-
And just all this yarn.
What is happening?
We'll let it go.
F it.
Well, I think also it's also the caliber of mistakes.
Are we talking about like color work
where you can be like, you know what?
F it, duplicate stitch.
We're just gonna nip these in the butt
and it's not, or are we talking about like-
I guess it could be circumstantial.
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A massively dropped stitch
where the whole thing is gonna fall apart
or you made one sleeve too short
or things like that that are like-
I don't know.
I feel like mistakes give me anxiety
in the way that yarn chicken gives you anxiety.
So I would rather it unravel
because at least I can potentially do something with it
or have a good laugh that my sweater completely,
(39:14):
I don't know why it's a sweater,
but that my thing came apart in public.
I'd rather have it just be completely out of my hands.
Go with God.
Jess.
I think I would rather find out after the fact.
So you guys are all unravelers.
Oh, you're not an unraveler.
You're not unraveling.
I don't want it to unravel in public
(39:35):
because what if I don't have something extra?
Like if I find mistakes afterwards,
I'm like, cool.
And it goes into like the pile of shame.
And I just don't look at it.
The pile of shame.
Let me be a spectacle.
Then I will end the would you rather game
on a very silly question that is not practical
(39:57):
or make any sense.
Lay it on me.
Would you rather your knitting needles
double as a flame thrower or a flashlight?
I'm gonna go with flashlight.
I'm gonna go with flamethrower.
I'm gonna smite my enemies.
I was just sitting here like,
why would you put flamethrower and flashlight together?
Well, if you've already got a flashlight,
(40:17):
then I can have a flamethrower.
All right.
Then we can.
Look, but here's the thing.
We're good.
House is protected.
Well, it's protected and also we don't have to worry
about the snow blower and I can just like clear out
the driveway.
Take your knitting outside and torch the driveway.
I'll knit.
As I'm knitting, like it's burst in fire.
There are many applications to having a flamethrower.
I just feel that I shouldn't be trusted
(40:38):
with a flamethrower, so I'm gonna go with flashlight.
Stick with flashlight.
We're just gonna stick with the flashlight.
I just feel like.
I definitely shouldn't have a flamethrower,
but I want one anyway.
I feel like I would be in a grocery store
and my project would be in my bag
and then all of a sudden there's flames
flying out of my bag.
There's your bag, it's gone.
Yeah, look.
It spontaneously combusts.
It was offered to me.
It was a choice, I made it.
(41:02):
That's it for this episode.
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