I'm Drea.

I'm Meg.

I'm Tina.

And I'm Jess.

And this is Pardon My Stash.

Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about crafting inside the fiber arts and how awesome it is.

Before we get into today's topics of things, what are we working on at our little circle today?

Meg?

i am working still on winter light by meg gadsby and um yep haven't knit it since the last time we talked so it hasn't moved oh how exciting all right hey listen it's been a week man it has been it's been a week it's really pretty though the fade to like the pinkish purple i love it it's it's keeping my interest and you know what sometimes it's It's all you need.

It is fiber optics cashmere gradient in Texas blue bonnets.

Nice.

Jess?

I am still working on the catnip pullover by Andrea Rangel.

I got a row done.

Yay!

Good job.

Look at it.

I'm like, I'm almost...

to the bottom of its feet like we're getting there i'm using uh critical hit dies uh sorcerer in displacer and embers um and you know this might be done before fall we'll see what happens nice it's going slow but it's slowly happening treya banana peels i love how it's just like so aggressive Still working on that Bananasaurus.

Nice.

By Emerald Rose Crochet.

Big twist.

I bought it from Joanne's Direct.

Wow.

No scalpers.

If you know, you know.

If you know, you know.

And I'm using, I think it's called Sunshine.

And I am now doing the inside of the peels with vanilla cake.

Nice.

It's like a cream color.

They really have nice names for their colorways.

They do.

And you know what?

I never thought that I was going to use Chanel yarn again.

But you know what?

Here we are.

Here we are.

Here we are.

I bet you didn't think you'd use bulky yarn ever again either.

It's a smaller yarn.

It's a smaller yarn.

Yeah, because you don't have the bulky.

That's technically the worsted, isn't it?

Is that the worsted?

Yeah.

Oh, that looks big for worsted.

Because their bulky is called plush, and that's what I have.

Oh, wow.

Yes, and this is baby bear.

Tina?

I am working still on the Frankenstein cocoa beanie by Judith Marie Nitz.

It's not actually called the Frankenstein cocoa bean hat.

It is just the cocoa bean, but I added some rows just, you know, for flair.

for flair i'm using uh malabrigo rios in uh liquid amber and i think i'm in the second repeat yeah i am i don't know i keep starting hats and stopping them before the decreases so maybe i'll have a hat someday one day one day you could just make them cowls too I could do that.

But that would require finishing the project.

Apparently, I'm adverse to that.

That's fair.

Yeah.

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All right, so I'm Bring in the chaos again.

We're going to pretend that we all just graduated fiber arts high school.

I'm sorry that we're bringing us back to high school, but I am.

I'm in high school every day.

Oh, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I'm putting you back there.

Just spent seven hours there.

I thought it would be fun if I threw out some superlatives that are fiber arts realm.

Are we voting on this?

You can vote or you can just declare or you can demand it.

I don't know.

It's very loose.

Loose interpretation.

I'm not going to start counting hands.

There's only four of us.

But I have two hands.

Okay.

I guess we're going to have six votes then.

Or no, I can't.

Wow.

Hold on.

I guess we're going to have eight votes then because apparently I don't know how to count.

No, that's still not right, is it?

Four?

No.

Two times.

Yeah, eight.

Eight is right.

I can math.

I have a computer science degree, a bachelor's, if you will.

I finished calculus one.

Okay.

Although I did finish it with brownies given to the professor.

Thank you.

Thank you, professor at Central.

Anyway.

You an intellectual.

I'm such an intellectual.

I know how to bribe with brownies.

All right.

So I'm just going to get into it and you guys give me your thoughts.

I'm going to start with most chaotic good with a skein of yarn.

Jess.

Oh, Jess.

It's not even a question.

I agree.

Could have stopped with most chaotic, Jess.

Okay.

I made a camel.

Yeah, I feel like you can take a skein of yarn and just basically it turns into something and it's awesome every single time.

wait oh my god this is obnoxious okay so just so you guys know i went and asked chad our friend chad over at chad gbt some some of these some of these are a little weird so most likely to accuse yarn of lying is this implying someone is like paranoid i feel like it's more like Assuming that they did everything right and they're still not getting what they expected.

Oh, I see.

So clearly it's not a me problem.

It is a yarn problem.

The yarn says it has like 400 yards and you did a 300 yard project and ran out.

And you ran out.

Oh, yeah.

That is infuriating.

Okay.

But which one of us would likely accuse the yarn for being at fault?

Not us.

Oh, that's probably me.

I was going to say, Drea, because I just can envision you being like, do you know?

You said 360.

This is clearly 358.

It's the yarn's fault.

That would definitely happen to me because I'm going to forget that I swatched for that one time.

And that is clearly the yarn's fault because they should have included enough yardage for the swatch before they gave me the yardage.

Yeah, and a lot of them don't.

I know.

It's very unfortunate.

Always the yarn's fault.

Not mine.

I'm perfect.

Well, there you have it, friends.

You can't even keep a straight face while you're saying that.

Most likely to accuse yarn of lying, Drea.

Thank you.

I accept.

The nomination that you gave yourself.

I'd like to thank me for believing in me.

Sincerely, me.

Most likely to roast you with love.

Like roast you without making you cry.

Keeping it lighthearted.

I don't know.

I'm taking that more as like gentle bullying is the love language.

Well, I mean, if I had to call somebody out on that, it's you, Dre, again.

I'm sorry.

You've done that to me before.

I accept that as well.

I can't help it.

I didn't realize, but I was like, wait a second.

I'm just reading Drea's superlatives.

Hold on.

Let me move on.

I'm a trash goblin, so.

Okay.

Who would most likely knit you a sweater and never mention it?

None of us.

None of us are that humble.

There's not a single person at this table.

My ego is very much in check.

No, it's not.

There is not a person at this table that...

A sweater?

Maybe a hat.

Oh, yeah.

Maybe a hat I could do in secret.

But there's no way I'm knitting a sweater and not telling you I knitted it for you.

Stop it.

Would that imply that I would, like, make a sweater and then, like, leave it at your house?

Yeah.

And no one's gonna do that.

No one's gonna do that.

Honestly, first of all, if you are doing that, can you tell us your ways?

Because that sounds like...

like agonizing and you want to make me a sweater like seriously you don't have to mention it yeah yeah you can do it in secret i want a mystery secret like oh my god like no that that's that's no stop it most likely to just eyeball it not me just yeah emphasis on i eyeballs we're not talking about the eyes i'm talking about the eyes but yeah no yeah that yeah i'm like oh i'm sure i'm sure this will work i can make this work it's like it needs 400 hours i'm like at 350 i'll make this work okay but you know what i will i will say though you accept like you will be like you know what this didn't work out and it didn't work out because i didn't try like i didn't actually like plan this out it's true so i'll admit my mistake while i'm adding in some weird other yarn to the end of it i have done that she does most likely to say trust the process and mean it meg i was gonna say really i think that sounds like you a hundred percent cool I like that.

Because I feel like you're the wise one coming to give us kind words.

Oh, that's really sweet.

That's true.

And you're just like, yeah, guys, we could do this.

And then we're all just like, we're trash goblins.

like in the past you have to like I'm pretty sure at one point at least one of us has been like I don't like the way this like is looking and you've been like no trust the process once you block it it'll be fine yeah so this is killing me because I do not do that like you said that I'm like I don't do that I'm sitting there going why is this working and screaming yeah but this is saying who is most likely to say it and you are nice to other people you should probably be nice to yourself oh I try but it doesn't work it's my biggest flaw who is most likely to turn a tangent into a ted talk you you yeah oh yeah really in the best way though in the best way as in like we'll tangent off but then it'll become a full actual like yeah topic you you may tangent off but you bring it back around to relevance Jess tangents off and God knows where we're going to end up.

Listen, it makes sense to me.

I'm sorry you guys can't follow my thought process.

I have to tell you, though, I would be similar to Jess, but I think, honestly, my ADHD meds bring me back round.

I think that is what brings me back.

Because even my therapist has been like, wow, you've brought it back to the point.

And I'm like, yeah, I can do that now.

That's a skill.

It is, man.

That's a skill.

It is.

Who is most likely to bring snacks and forget their project?

You.

You.

What the heck?

You bring snacks more than anybody.

Oh, I do.

And half the time you don't take out your project.

You also have brought snacks and not brought your project.

Yes.

Like, that's literally you.

Oh.

To be fair, Jess and I can't not bring a project.

That's fair.

That's true.

So, yeah.

Literally, it could only have been the two of you.

I mean, I could try to pretend, but.

And you both bring snacks, but Drea usually brings snacks and her project.

You have forgotten your project.

You know what?

I feel like this is intact on my memory.

No, it's not.

And we're really grateful for the snacks.

Yeah, they're good snacks.

You always bring cheese, and I love that for me.

Listen, I just look out for everybody else.

I didn't get into this body by accident.

Okay.

Most likely to accidentally join a fiber cult.

No.

I love how the answer's just no.

I feel like all of us are too suspicious for that.

Yeah, we are very paranoid.

You know what?

I think it's less that we're suspicious and more that we don't.

enjoy being around that many people that is a lot of people oh i don't want to socialize no yeah we're not into large groups of people also cults require you to give up your money and no we're too cheap for that i don't i don't have any to give up so yeah they'll never take me i think most likely to accidentally join a fiber call is gonna be somebody else not here sorry that's never gonna happen Okay.

Most likely to lose a needle in the couch forever.

I think that's all of us.

I was going to say, I'm pretty sure that has happened.

Most likely.

Do you know how many times I have sent your children, your children, Tina, under your sofa so that I could get my stuff?

My children are fantastic navigators and finding things.

They fit into small spaces.

Tina, I'm going to be so sad when your kids are...

They're going to grow up.

Or grow.

Listen, I'm going to have an 11 -year -old this year.

And she is almost five feet tall.

Yeah, man.

Growing.

Yeah, I don't even know what to do with that.

Trust me.

It is crazy.

All right.

Now, no one's done this, I don't think.

But if someone were to, most likely to finish a sweater during the podcast.

Not like start to finish.

Just finish it.

I know this is not me because I would be too distracted.

I cannot finish a sweater.

No, I'd be the same way.

Like, no.

I like to finish my sweaters at like 1030 at night while cursing that I have to be up at five and just getting angrier and angrier.

But knowing that there's no way I'm putting that down for tomorrow.

This happens to me all the time.

I feel like this could be Jess because I feel like Jess has randomly like been like.

I'm done.

And we're like, wait, we were in the middle of a topic.

No, hasn't been a sweater.

Hasn't been a sweater though.

But you have definitely finished things in the middle of a topic.

And we didn't realize you were finishing something.

She also finishes her sweaters like at 1 a .m.

I do.

She absolutely does.

Most projects at 1 a .m.

I'll be sitting there weaving in my ends watching my YouTube.

Watching my shows.

Watching her stories.

Watching my stories.

Who has the best reaction to yarn crimes?

What's a yarn crime?

I don't know.

I think we're going to define it right now.

No.

What's a yarn crime?

I don't know.

I'm going to go with Drea because I feel Drea has the best reactions to a lot of things.

I mean, she did react to noobs, which is a crime.

Noobs are a crime.

I feel like noobs themselves are a hate crime.

I feel like there we go.

They're a crime and I hate them.

Oh, Lord.

Anyway, my statement stands.

My statement stands.

I mean, yeah, if anyone's going to be visceral to something, it would be you, Dre.

It's true.

All right.

I can't control my mouth.

I really can't.

I'm just going to basically anything here that says roast or say something.

Surprise.

I am the queen of roasting.

I've gotten better at.

restraining myself who is most likely to make me cry while editing the podcast episode cry with laughter not cry like ah sorry i forgot the laughter part wait who's likely to make me cry while editing with laughter while editing a podcast episode is it yourself no You are funny.

No, I don't laugh at myself.

Actually, I am mostly cringing when I hear myself talk.

You have no idea how many times I've cut myself out because I'm like, absolutely not.

I sound like a...

So who does make you laugh?

If it's not Jess, it's you.

But Jess usually makes me giggle the most because you guys don't know how many times that Jess says something and you don't even hear it.

i hear it though that's fair like all of a sudden like there'll be like a conversation here and jess is just like That I.

I keep kind of talking to the mic when I'm not paying attention.

I don't know what I'm saying.

I thought I just had that stitch marker right here.

That's hilarious.

Just aggressively like angry at their stuff.

And now our listeners know something else.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That is absolutely.

You may never know because.

Secret talking.

Almost always when I'm editing, like even if it's definitely like, it's like you, like Meg and Drea talking, like I always have to look at Jess's track because she's mostly even, it won't even come up.

Yeah.

It won't even.

come up on the thing but i have to like play her just to hear the it's just quiet enough that it doesn't alert you outright but loud enough that if you don't take it out it'll be in there well sometimes it's sometimes they're funny and i like that's why if you ever hear some of jess's lines and it's super distorted it's because i'm bringing up the volume like a thousand percent so you can hear what they're saying oh my god the more you know all right Most likely to have a spreadsheet for their yarn stash.

You.

Come on.

I don't like how quickly you said that.

Tina, nobody else at this table is going to have a spreadsheet for their yarn stash.

Stop.

You're the one that knows exactly what you have.

I mean, I have a spreadsheet for the business, but not for the stash.

So I don't think that counts.

But Tina.

Like you literally do yarn spread for yarn saver.

Like you literally do that.

You know, it's true.

I do.

And you did it before it was a business.

I.

This is a bad thing.

Honestly, I aspire to that level of type A.

I'm never going to be there, but I aspire to it.

I may have spreadsheets circling back as far as 2017.

So why are you looking at us with this?

Because I don't like being called out for it.

She didn't think we knew.

I thought it would have been like a little bit of a debate.

I didn't think it would just immediately be.

Okay, hang on a second.

Hang on.

The rest of us, do we have yarn spreadsheets?

No.

All right, end of discussion.

Moving on to the next topic.

It had to be you.

Thanks.

I have a lot of spreadsheets at work, but let me tell you.

Don't we all?

But none of them are yarn.

No, none of them are yarn.

Wow.

Sorry, girl.

You know, it's true.

Thanks, guys.

I just really appreciate your call.

There are so many worse things that any of us could have been called out on.

That's a pretty good thing.

I wish I was that organized.

How dare you be organized?

Such an insult.

Who's most likely to forget what they were talking about mid -sentence?

Either you or Jess.

ADHD.

I want to go with Jess.

Sometimes both.

Sometimes both.

At the same time.

Is it a joint award?

Do we get a joint award?

Absolutely.

Take it together.

Yeah.

Sure.

Most likely to say, this is Jess.

I'm already calling you out.

This is you.

Most likely to say, this pattern's fine while actively changing every row.

I mean.

With the fire.

I feel like you have done that.

I have done that.

Most likely to design a pattern inspired by a minor inconvenience.

Jess.

You know, I think so too.

That kind of goes off of this pattern's fine while actively changing every row.

Yeah, that kind of does go in.

It's the same thing.

The reason why you're changing it on every row is because there's a minor inconvenience.

This is a minor inconvenience.

I don't like the way you do this year on over.

God.

Most likely to have a crisis over sleeve length.

Meg.

Meg?

You were not there for the calliope.

Yeah, that was bad.

I finished the calliope and I put it on and I almost had a nervous breakdown because the sleeves were like they weren't three quarter and they weren't wrist.

They were this weird area in between that made me look bizarre.

And it was a week before Rhinebeck and I was like.

Cool.

I worked so hard to get this done.

And Jess was like, it's going to be fine.

We just block it.

And you guessed it.

We blocked it aggressively.

And the sleeves were great.

Most likely to create lore for their yarn choices.

Jess.

What?

Listen, I don't know what Chad's up to, but...

Chad's got some weird questions.

I'm kind of digging it.

I don't know what it means, but...

It sounds like something Jess would do.

Well, it sounds like giving like their yarn a backstory.

Yeah.

That's a lot.

I mean, to be fair, like a lot of the names for our yarns have come from Jess.

So I guess that makes sense.

Yeah.

I can see that.

Okay.

This is an easy one.

Most likely to yell at yarn for misbehaving.

Is that easy?

That is easy.

Who is it?

It's either you or Drea.

That is true.

That's fair.

Honestly, it's really you, but I just don't want to be like, I'm actually going to go with Meg because I can't believe you were like, is that really easy?

Yeah, it is.

Because you are far more vocal when your urine is misbehaving.

No, I'm really mad about it.

And I will quietly get angry.

I will quietly huff, be really mad about it.

Not say anything and quietly put my project away and then wait for somebody to ask me what's wrong.

Look, I'm going to get on with my life, but I'm going to be real dramatic about it first.

Oh, God.

Yeah.

I don't know.

I guess I just didn't think about it.

But you're right.

I don't know.

I don't know the answer to this one.

Who is most likely to keep a yarn they hate just in case?

Oh, my God.

That's true.

It is true.

No, I'll take that.

Oh, no.

It absolutely is true.

Sometimes I'll get rid of it when she's not looking.

No, I have.

Yeah.

Just like this is enough.

No, that is true.

I don't know why.

Because sometimes she'll try to use it again.

Yeah.

And then it will still hate it and then pull the project out again and put it away.

And so sometimes if that's happened a few times, I will quietly take it away.

I didn't know you did that.

I did.

Oh, look at that.

So this other one that says most likely to fall in love with the wrong yarn again is Meg.

I mean most likely remember that one that fell apart and the colors are really pretty but it fell apart and you put it aside and tried it in a different project because you still love the yarn and then like like a Not even a quarter.

It was like a couple rows in.

You're like, I remember why I put this yarn away.

Oh my God.

I forget what yarn that was.

It was really pretty.

I forget.

It was a yarn company that went under.

It was like white and blue.

It was a yarn company that went under.

Oh, was that the one that you were going to make that beret?

I was.

Yeah.

And because they actually mislabeled the yarn.

They said that there was, it had a fiber content that.

They did not have it.

I can't even remember the company.

They ended up going under.

Oh, God.

I got that from Hither and Yarn.

And it was so soft.

I don't remember the company because by the time I got rid of it, the label was gone.

And I just recognized it.

It was literally like I would knit like five stitches and then it would just break.

The yarn would just break.

Oh, man.

And I'm not a, you know me, I'm not a tight knitter at all.

Yeah.

And it would just snap.

That sucks.

It did.

yep and it was it was pretty it was soft it was really nice i put it in a bag to throw away i'm pretty sure i tossed it otherwise i'm gonna come no it was probably a good thing because you know what i'll probably pick it up again it was really nice i know i felt bad I'm not asking that one because that one, I know you guys are going to say it's me.

So I'm just going to skip it.

No.

You know what it is.

Absolutely not.

Most likely to finish a project and immediately give it away.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

The rest of us do that.

A hundred percent.

We may give things away, but I literally have like no knitted items.

Not as much as you.

I do now.

I have that.

I have a couple of sweaters now, but like I did not for a long time.

I still don't have hats.

I still don't know where my other hat is.

See, I would maybe say Drea, but I feel like Drea plans to give her things away.

Like she makes things to give them away and you make things and they just end up being given away.

See this.

There's a difference.

Drea is most likely to knit a baby blanket for a stranger's dog.

Oh, God, that is real.

That's fair.

See, I'm the other one.

I'm just like, I just randomly it's gone.

And Drea is like, wait, oh, there's a dog.

Drea knits things to give away on purpose.

Or most likely to make eye contact with someone and gift them a hat.

I will absolutely make something with the intention of giving it to somebody.

But I am also that person where if you offend me in any way while I am making that project for you, it is no longer for you.

And that's why I don't tell people.

I know, same.

I do the exact same thing.

You would be the one making eye contact while gifting hat and it would be really weird and awkward and then you would walk away because I can 100 % see you doing that.

Absolutely.

I can see you're doing that with the turtles.

Yeah.

We talked about that.

I do that when I give away mustaches.

Right back.

Gotta make it weird or it's not worth it.

Who is most likely to buy yarn because it looked lonely?

I don't think any of us.

I do that with toys but not yarn.

Okay.

Wrong hobby.

I wouldn't buy yarn because it looked lonely like on the shelf or on the display.

I would buy yarn because my bag looked lonely while it was empty.

That.

And here's the thing with yarn like even if it's a lone skein you can pair it with something else.

Yeah.

It's not like a lone toy for lack of a better descriptor.

You can find it a friend.

Talking about yarn skein feelings.

Who is most likely to emotionally bond with a skein?

Oh, you and all your groovy hues.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like it's not all of them, and I feel like it's not constant, but you've got your faves.

So there is a set of white and green skeins that are in fingering weight that I have from groovy hues that, to be honest, I did buy it with a project in mind.

I still have the pattern.

I probably bought it at this point.

It's probably like eight or nine years ago.

And I don't know why.

I just have such a, I love those skates.

They're just so, I could see them in that pattern.

I could see it done.

I just, it's not done.

It's not there yet.

It's not done.

What were they supposed to be?

It was this duo tone, like a short sleeve top.

And I can't remember.

I bought it from some it was a this was when I was in North Carolina because it was my friend from South Carolina who showed me the pattern I don't remember if we were going to knit it together or if she was like oh this pat this pattern maker is really good I don't remember I just remember having the conversation with her about that top and she made hers I did not make mine because you know a plus a plus you'll get there when you're feeling it okay so um Chad says he's going to get feral with it, and he's going to give 30 glorious, unhinged, deeply weird, and knitting superlatives.

So here we go.

Great.

It's going to be weird.

It's time to get weird, people.

It's already been weird.

No, it's getting weirder.

Oh, great.

Who is most likely to perform a yarn seance to find a lost skein?

Okay, stop.

Come on.

Stop.

Come on.

I mean, not me.

I mean, maybe.

Maybe me.

I might.

We'd be there with a self -made yarn Ouija board.

I could see you and Jess doing that, actually.

Together.

Very much so.

Even for the sake, if we were doing YouTube for some reason as an episode, I could totally see you guys doing it.

Even when you said that, it didn't seem weird to me.

Well, pet to Meg, it was a blasphemous.

No, it's really weird.

No, I would do that.

It's weird.

That doesn't mean it's not weird.

That's fair.

Fine.

I'll admit that it is weird, but fine.

Who is most likely to knit a hex or curse into their project and give it to someone?

You.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Don't resent me.

What?

I would totally like in the case like you were talking about how like if somebody started to like get you angry and you were making something for them.

So like I my answer is usually that I like to give it to someone like close to them and make them watch me give it to that person, even though they don't know that I was going to give it to them.

I know.

I'm anyways.

But but if if if I had like if I felt like I could like curse them because they did this, you'd have to do something really, really bad.

Like you would have to really.

Like a curse is a serious business.

Like you have to really, really do something bad, bad, bad.

I understand.

I'd think about it.

I would help you do it.

As the doer of the group, I would help you do it.

All right.

So who, let's see.

Oh boy.

This stuff is so weird.

Most likely.

Who's most likely to build a tiny yarn throne and call it the council?

Jess.

Yeah.

Talk about hopping right on that one.

But you're not wrong.

I'm not wrong.

I could totally see you.

I swear to God, if I come home one day and she's sitting in the den on a pile of yarn and she goes, welcome to the council, I'm just going to walk out of the room.

I'm just going to walk away.

Okay.

Who is most likely to knit a hat for a ghost because they seem cold?

Tina, what are these questions?

Okay, I'm going to skip that one.

These are weird.

I'm going to go back with Drea because she's doing the seance apparently.

So we're just going to keep all the supernatural stuff on your side, okay?

Yeah, Drea would totally do that because she'd knit a weird hat and someone would be like, well, who's that for?

And she'd be like, for the ghost.

I mean, it wouldn't be Casper.

I mean, have you seen him?

No.

He's got a really big head.

He does have a really big head.

Yeah, it's too big of a head.

I'd be working on that forever.

It's fair.

That's like almost half a sweater.

Yeah.

No, thank you.

A regular size ghost, maybe.

I don't know where Chad pulled these from because they are very oddly specific, such as who is most likely to weep softly while holding a skein named Seafoam.

What?

I just have this visual.

Honestly, I'm going to claim that one.

This is why I don't trust ChatGBT.

No, but honestly, I'm going to claim that one because if anyone was going to cry over a skein of yarn, it's going to be me.

No, it is absolutely going to be me.

If somebody sent me yarn for Yarn Saver that I knew was really rare and hard to get and it had a massive cut at the bottom that just cut through all the strands, I would be crying over it.

No, that's fair.

I would absolutely.

I don't know about one named Seafoam, but.

No.

Maybe that's the color way.

You were laughing so hard I thought that you said a yarn named Steve and I was like this is just getting real weird and I don't understand these questions.

That would be a color you enjoyed.

I thought it was Steve and I'm like why are we naming our skeins of yarn?

Can we stop?

Okay I'm going to create a color and name it Steve now just because.

Wow.

Oh my god.

And if that comes out and y 'all see it.

No other explanation.

Who is most likely to design a pattern based on a dream they had?

You.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Why is this me?

Because none of us design things.

I don't design things.

I did it once.

If I did, the spite one worked, but.

But you know what?

If I were to design a pattern, it would be from a dream.

Yeah, you'd have to be like inspired somehow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm not saying I'm gonna, but I'm just saying if I were.

It's not going to be an original idea for me in a waking mind.

It'll be from the ghost.

It's got to be deeply subconscious.

It's got to be deep in the subconscious.

That's what's going to happen.

Listen, you're going to hold a seance.

A ghost is going to come in.

It's going to want a hat.

It's going to tell you the hat that it wants in your dream and you're going to make the ghost the hat.

I mean, maybe.

This might turn into a D &D campaign at this end.

Oh, Lord.

Who is most likely to knit something for their therapist?

You know, I might.

I could see you guys doing it.

I did this once a long time ago.

And I guess they have a thing where they can't accept gifts.

So I don't know.

It's happened in the past where I've tried to give something and they're like, no, we can't take gifts or whatever.

So what I did was I said, oops, I left a shawl on the chair.

I guess you'll have to give it to me.

Back to me next time.

And I made it really awkward and she started laughing really hard because I was making it super awkward.

I would love to make something for my therapist, but we are all virtual.

I was going to say you're strictly virtual.

That's fair.

Me too.

I haven't been in the same room as him in almost six years now.

Seven years now.

Six years?

I don't know.

Some amount of time.

That's fair.

In a long amount of time.

I'm the opposite.

I see mine in person more than I do telehealth.

I like having the option of finishing therapy and then just like falling over to the side on the sofa and continuing to cry without having to drive.

I'm the psychopath that goes at 9 a .m.

in the morning and then continues my entire day.

Absolutely not.

I make appointments directly after it.

Oh, so you can run from your feelings?

Yeah, it's pretty effective, actually.

Gotta go to that appointment.

All right, now that we've trauma dumped.

Who is most likely to knit a sweater that is also a bag, that is also a blanket, that is also a hat?

Jess.

Soon as you said that, it's also a bag.

Does that exist?

I'd give that pattern a look.

Yeah, that's like, you know, I could see the sweater bag and blanket.

The hat is what's throwing me because it's a big hat.

That's going to be a big hat.

Maybe if you fold it.

You got to fold it.

It's like origami or something.

Yeah, that seems.

OK, but Jess would do that.

Who who is most likely to smuggle their yarn project into the dentist chair just in case?

All of us.

Yeah.

Every single one of us.

I think so.

Who's most likely to record an episode from inside a stash closet and call it Yarnia?

What?

That is either me or Jess, though.

Hello, guys.

Welcome to Yarnia.

Today, we're going to find a lamppost because I can't see.

click there we go all right since we did just really really weird ones how about we do some traditional ones so that we can end on a not weird note so who has the best color work skills who do you think um i say jess i would also say jess either meg or jess yeah I don't do a lot of color work, so.

I don't do it as often either.

So yeah, definitely the mega dress.

I'm going to give it to Jess because I have a beast of a time when there's like long rows of color work.

Like I'll do it, but I'm going to get dramatic about it.

Jess doesn't get dramatic about it.

She just does it.

Point to Jess.

Who is most likely to finish a project early?

Oh, not me.

Definitely not me.

I don't think any of us.

I think the person who finishes the earliest or at least on time would be Jess.

Yeah.

You're the best at hitting deadlines that you set for yourself, I think.

I was going to say, if I do have a deadline, I usually do somehow hit it.

The only time I ever hit a deadline is if I'm doing a test.

And I haven't done a test in like two and a half years.

So yeah, there's no deadline.

I just don't care.

Who is most likely to teach a new knitter?

Meg.

Meg.

Meg.

Not me.

I don't teach.

I have taught a couple of people, but not nearly as many as Meg has.

I taught a lot more people than I ever expected to just because y 'all came and asked.

You're welcome.

Y 'all came and asked at that very unhinged knitting night.

Show us your way.

That was a great knitting night.

That was a good night.

um who has the most impressive finished object i think that's tough to gauge yeah because we've all got pretty i think i think if you're going by like items it that would be hard to gauge because like i feel like everybody like it's certain like this would be almost like specific categories would be specific things right I think everybody has like an impressive.

I think everybody's knit something amazing.

At least at one point.

Yeah.

Who has the fastest needles in the group?

Not me.

Probably me, actually.

I do knit pretty quickly.

Yeah.

If I sit down and do it.

Yeah.

There's the catch.

There's a catch to it.

But yeah, I would agree.

I don't think we have anyone for this one.

who's the most zen about making a mistake oh lord um i i would say jess yeah you don't get upset you just figure out how to work around it you know or or go back and fix it she's also like i i know i do this tina i don't know if you do this i know drea does this but she fixes the mistake without putting it away and pretending it doesn't exist for a while And I know we both do that.

I do, Jess.

I don't put it away.

You do that too?

Okay.

Yeah, I go and fix it.

Yeah, I know.

But after fixing it, I will put it away.

Like, I'll be like, okay, this is fit and I'm done for the day.

You and I have done it and we're done.

Like, I might take a break just after fixing it just because you're like, ugh.

See, I will put it away for an indeterminate amount of time.

Years.

It may never be seen again.

I got a few downstairs.

And then I will fix it and then I will put it back in time out because just because i fixed you doesn't mean that i'm ready we're not speaking still still mad at you over it yeah i remember the branwyn shawl i put that away for a long time oh my lord i do remember that yeah i think the longest i ever put something away for a mistake was the shawloween and i put it away for two days because i had to go back You had to rip out a whole section.

Rip out a whole section.

A whole section.

Because Mariel jumped on her and tore out part of it.

It was a yarn over twice, knit twice, yarn over twice.

Just the whole thing was this honeycomb yarn overs.

And I tried for about an hour to figure out if I could just somehow pick it up.

And I was like, you know what?

It's going to take me less time just to go back to the last section and start over.

So I put it down for two days that time because I...

unraveled it i put it away and then two days later i'm like okay i'm gonna pick up them stitches again but yeah yeah that that was tough but yeah usually i'm yeah you're right i'll usually either ignore it or fix it all right who is most likely to try a new technique first Jess.

I was like, these are all Jess.

I'm going to try to find one that's not Jess.

Oh, who has the most whips but is still thriving?

You.

You know, sometimes I can do good things too.

I'm not just a trash heap.

It's okay.

I also have a lot of whips, but I'm not really thriving.

You know what?

You know what?

This one is not me.

Okay.

it used to be me who has the biggest yarn collection it is definitely not me anymore I am literally regulated to you know those like cubby bins I have you have actually pared down quite a bit I have a three by seven of those cubby bins that's all I have and like a couple on the pegs that's about it having not seen Drea's stash in a while I really have no idea Ours has been pared down quite a bit too.

But if you're counting the critical hit stash, then it's definitely us.

Okay.

If we're not counting the critical hit stash.

I don't think critical hit just because you could sell it.

Right.

It's not ours.

It's not technically ours.

Because if you do that, well, then it's me again because I have non -savers.

Okay.

I don't know.

I have not seen Drea's stash in a while.

All right, Drea.

So I'm not sure.

Time to fess up.

You know what?

No, it's going to have to be Drea because Jess and I, our stash is divided.

Like the stash downstairs is half and half.

Yeah.

So I think it's going to be Drea.

So if it's...

Back on top.

For a while, you were consistently the biggest stash.

Tina unseated you in like 2020.

Oh, God, right?

But you consistently had the biggest stash.

I did.

For the longest time.

Only because I did a major de -stash.

I have never really de -stashed.

I just...

No, you haven't.

You haven't.

I just keep all that.

I might use it at some point.

And you know what?

If you don't, it's there to admire.

Yeah, I really don't get rid of like anything.

So what, what are you, what is your containers right now?

Like, what are you, how much do you think you're like, if you had to describe it?

So I have a long low cabinet with a glass doors.

Pretty sure it was an entertainment center at one point, but you know, it's got, it's better this way.

It's better this way.

And then I have, then I have like the crap yarn that's downstairs, you know, like the, the big box stuff.

Oh, okay.

Not this big box stuff that I'm currently using, but that other big box stuff that I just.

That you bought and you're probably not going to use.

Probably not, but I got it.

Okay.

It's definitely dry.

It's dry.

It's definitely dry.

And then I have another bin of big box stuff that is in my eyes, not crap.

And I am actively using that.

So I've got the nice stuff in the cabinet and then I've got.

like two or three bins we might be even then maybe i don't know we'd be a close call we'd have to do a final count that cabinet is like jam -packed though like i cannot put more stuff in there are not jam -packed I don't even know what's in there anymore.

I think we got to give it to Drea.

Yeah.

Congratulations, Drea.

I proceed to give you the crown like they do in Miss Universe.

God, it's about time it came back to me.

It's been a while, man.

There's no reason she's been hanging on to those.

I gotcha.

One day.

Maybe.

One day.

You don't know me.

All right.

So we're getting towards the end.

So how about for the last four superlatives?

How about we go around and pick what we think is each other's superlatives, like most applicable.

So let's start with Jess, just for fun.

What do you think Jess's superlative, if you had to just choose any of them or anything?

Most likely to try anything.

Oh, I like that.

Most likely to try anything.

I accept that.

Yeah, I like that.

I would say that.

Very good.

I can agree with that.

Yeah.

I would accept that title.

Thank you.

And what about Meg?

Best?

color theories like working together.

Really?

Yeah.

I like that.

You tend to choose the best colors for the projects you're working on.

Thanks.

I was going to say something to the effect of like best, like most practically.

and beautiful like finished objects yeah like i always feel like everything you make is like something that you can use like it's not you know like sometimes sometimes i make things and you're just like uh i don't know if i would i'd wear that too but like all of the things you make are practical yeah like you would you wear and you wear them and you use them and like i said the colors always make sense for the project like listen i can make cool stuff but i just use the colors i like and sometimes they don't make sense but your stuff makes sense thanks I'm going to go with most practically pretty.

How's that?

There we go.

And Drea.

How about Drea?

Listen, most committed to single projects.

Oh, no, that's true.

Like you definitely start and finish.

I do.

I would even stop it at most committed.

Yeah.

Like literally just be like.

And not even just the committing to one project, but the like you are you are not as much as you talk about like, oh, I make a mistake and I get rid of the project.

You usually really don't like you usually do finish.

I do always go back to it.

And you really do like commit to I am terrible with making people stuff and you commit to making people things and you actually finish them.

So good follow through.

Thank you.

Always.

I'm a true project monogamist.

Single -minded focus.

You're very committed to that relationship.

All right, I guess me.

Tina, if you didn't know.

I forgot your name for a second.

Oh, good.

I'm glad I said it then.

I was glad you were there to clear that up.

So I know that we do a lot about Jess being like the MacGyver.

with knitting.

But I really, and I don't know if I want to say like most resourceful, but I feel like you do a lot of follow through.

of i'm gonna do like even just getting this podcast off the ground like the idea you you get an idea you are the doer but that's the thing you get an idea and you implement it almost immediately yes and but you do that with your projects too yeah you do that with your projects too which is why you have so many whips We counted them last time.

Is this turning into a therapy session?

No.

Listen, you cherish your whips, all of them.

I do.

I have 15 right now.

I know.

And you know what?

And I know a bunch of listeners right now are just going to go, wait a second.

I thought you paired that down.

I thought we were doing well.

We were, guys.

And then I don't know what happened.

Life finds a way.

I don't know what happened.

Ideas, okay?

Ideas.

I don't know what happened.

But at the same token of always following through, I do immediately do it and sometimes without plans.

Yes.

And that's not good either.

But you've had like solid implementation of many things.

Not just this podcast, but look at Yarnsaver.

If you give me an idea and I think it has an ounce of credibility, I will most likely be like, all right, and we are doing this.

Right.

ASAP.

Right now.

Wait, no, we have to go eat.

Nope, right now.

We're doing this right now.

Oh, God.

I know.

It's bad.

I know.

Sometimes it's mildly inconvenient.

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