Episode 50 - Crocheting Is Fun!

Welcome to the worst of fire podcast, i'm troy one of your hosts, i'm simone another host and i'm the corner. Goblin uh, and this is a fiber podcast shot on location in the middle store uh at belfast. Minnie mills in belfast prince edward island whoo. I almost messed that one up it's been a while it's been a while. It'S been a hot minute, it's been it's been almost a month, um, so uh. I was out with covid two weeks ago, um. So i don't have to worry about that. For the next 90 days, right, that's how that works, but uh i mean our mass mandate goes down today for us uh. It was friday for the rest of you guys. So i mean cope is over right. Is that what that means? I mean yeah as far as i'm concerned, i'm in a mood today, if you haven't noticed yes, troy came in with peanuts this morning and i'm like is everything: okay, that's like the first red flag, yeah yeah, yeah yeah! That'S it's peanuts! Choice, stress yeah! Whenever he was sick, i dropped off. He had he just asked for chips, but yeah. I dropped off a big thing of peanuts for him because i'm like he's gon na need these yeah yeah and uh. When i opened them like. I didn't open them that night, but i opened them. I think the saturday night they were gone, that night yeah. I ate all 750 grams of they're so good. They really are. I love me: some peanuts, peanut everything yeah like if i were allergic to peanuts. I don't know what i would do, but that being said like i can't i'm not supposed to have cheese or ice cream. In i mean i'm managing like peanut butter, you know so good. I had peanut butter cup ice cream, the other night paid for it dearly later, but um yeah like it was almost worth the little tiny scoop i took almost only the sciences could combine peanut butter and garlic if only they they do. It'S called thai chili sauce. Yes, peanuts: oh yeah, i've had that you're right yeah and it's amazing yeah. Well, you could drink it yeah, it's so good. They finally done it yeah they finally done it. They finally done it. You know 1300 years ago, or something like that anyway. Now i want thai food thanks: matt yeah you're welcome. I'M gon na have to go home, make thai food yeah yeah twist my rubber arm anyway uh. So i think we have a pretty good episode today because we got some stuff done. We started some new things um and we have a month of work to talk about so um. Do you want to talk about yours? First? Are we doing whips or finished objects? Let'S do whips all right, so i think i only brought the one today um. This is the bersay pullover by marie wallen from her shetland book and i'm knitting it in nitpicks palette and many colors of their um nitpicks palette. Did you bring um the collection of them? I didn't, but these are my handy dandy notebook. Oh you have. Oh, you did all the things so there's three: six: nine 11 colors wow. So i wrote down the um like it's knit with the jameson spindrift okay from the book but um i chose nitpick palette colors, so i just wrote down like the number and then the corresponding color, so that whenever i go to the charts, because the charts are In black and white and it's different symbols, i'll just add the little symbols here too, so that i'll know what color is wash whenever it comes to the color work but yeah. So starting my little notes and just doing the ribbing right now on 2.75 millimeter needles. I really like that color i do too um and you won't be able to see it from the the camera, but we'll take a close-up. It'S very speckly and feathery. It'S a beautiful heather with like lots of little splashes of red blue, and i think i see, yellow in there too yeah um clematis heather is the name of it and i like nitpix palette um. I would have used our colors, but we didn't have the entire range of colors that i needed. So next best thing was nitpicks yep um other than that. I don't really have a whole lot to say about it. I guess because i mean i'm not very far into it yet so i'm just doing the ribbon ribbing it's knit bottom up and then the sleeves which i'll probably do two at a time: okay, magic, loop, gross yep, and that way, when once leave's done they're both Done i mean i can support that i can support you wanting to do both sleeves at the same time. Oh, that reminds me of a project i did not take with me today. Uh-Oh. I was just thinking about that yeah i didn't take them. I didn't see them before the show and i didn't want to say anything they're sitting on my piano at home. Oh no, i'm sure they're beautiful i'll, bring it to the tm on on monday and i'll. Take pictures for you guys i'll talk about it in a minute yeah anyway. Sorry, if you had them here like so you they were basically done when i saw them, they are done. They'Re done, oh yeah, they're, just sitting at home on the piano. So that way, i wouldn't forget them when i know what they are: yeah yeah yeah. Actually, i think last knitting podcast, you've forgotten them home too. Yeah, probably that tracks for troy, probably didn't even cut his hands either. No, they are done. They are completely done. So no end shaming requires no. There will be other end shaming later on in the podcast. Don'T you worry? No promises, no promises so you're promising, not you're, not promising. To end. Shame me no promises. Okay, that's as committal as i'm getting okay, yeah, okay, so yeah moving right along. What are you working on um, so uh? Those who follow our instagram would have seen a very badly taken picture, because i could not get these to look neat at the point where they are um. But i decided to do a throwback thursday yesterday um, because i got a notification in my on my phone that i had posted a picture of these socks. A year ago, um before i decided to frog them and then when i was out sick, uh and finished a couple other projects, i decided to like restart them um, so i have restarted them. I have uh double, checked and triple checked uh all my counts. At every point, um, i'm in uh, both my stocks - are exactly the same at as of this time, uh and uh. It'S it's coming along. I'Ve already turned my heels. So now, i'm just doing the cuff um. This is the linea sock by um. I can never remember where the argos, i think it's sort of lava no minus tears - is that what it is no, no uh it will be down below it'll, be down below yes, it'll be down below um and uh yeah, and it's made out of um red Island fibers, uh, bfl and nylon blend - i don't know if she has a name for it yet, but when i bought it was bfl plus nylon, yeah um in the color irish moss. I love that color. I love this color too um and i can't wait for the next. You know week or two when i actually finish this, because there's another project that i'm taking my time that i have been donating most of the time to um that i'm going to uh share a little bit later on, share a little bit later on. But i'm gon na wear the crap out of these socks because they've been a long time coming. Yep um and i've been purposefully like not buying more yarn from her. Until i have finished these socks, um yeah, it's pretty bad. When your phone calls you out like hey a year ago today, yeah hey here's your conrad moment, oh bird, sorry about joanne. If you saw the instagram post, she put me up to it. I did that you did i'm telling when she comes in later today, perfect ratting, you out, i should have got the black pipe cleaner for inside jokes, guys, yep she'll, throw them at you yeah. She will um so uh yeah. So that's what i've been working on. So i'm working, which i remember now, uh that i was gon na promise to do a tutorial on how to work socks two at a time um, but i got this far and just remembering this moment, so it won't be this pair of socks. It'Ll, maybe be the next pair, so i was gon na say like i don't think you ever don't have a pair of socks on the needles, so yeah yeah um, although the chances are good. The next pair of socks that i'm working on i'm going to be using my chaugu needles that i got because i still haven't used the ones that i showed you in, like the previous preview. The previous episode that why did my yarn haul in yeah um, yeah, um, so uh? I haven't, i like i've, taken them out of the package and i would not over, but i haven't cast anything on with them. I love my tiago shorties yeah, so i think i'm going to uh wind up my earth, magic ball or sea witch. I don't know which one it's one of those two yeah and i'm just going to do a vanilla, sock, just bang one out really quick lex is going to call me out. I can hear my stomach. Oh, is she yeah because she mentioned in one of the previous episodes that she could hear someone's stomach rumbling and it's like? Oh, i know exactly who that was yeah yeah. They called it yeah um yeah, so uh, i'm using 2 16 inch or 40 centimeter. If you prefer centimeters with the circular needles, um circular needles to work on this, so it's worked much the same way as the magic loop um. In fact, when you follow directions for any pattern, you follow the directions for the magic loop on them um. It'S just that this is the superior method, in my opinion, because you don't have to re-adjust your stitches after you've finished a row. You just pick up the other set of needles and start working, but of course you have to be very careful that you don't forget to switch needles because remember when i oh, i said last time: yeah yeah, i don't know how that even happened, because it was Just oh, it was a puzzle, it was a puzzle and i can one-up that um, because when i was sick i was watching um art, history, videos and i knit all four sides onto one needle how in the world yeah yeah, so i ended up um. I ended up like it was easy, since i did all of them, but um. I ended like when i went to go switch sides and this needle dropped to my bed and i looked down and i just have like a you, were clearly delirious from fever. You had to be, i think it was after my fever broke actually, but that was your out man, that was my yeah uh, so uh anywho uh. So but it was easy enough that i just i just slipped my stitches back on properly because it was just slip: the back stitches back onto my back needle um, but yeah so in when you're, using a magic, loop um on one of these sides. We'Ll say this side for the sake of the argument. There would actually just be more cable here and that's where the loop, the magic loop comes from. So what you would do is you'd pull out one of these needles so that we had enough space that you could work across and knit across and then you'll have uh your needles open on one end and you have to pull out your loop on this other End making sure that it always stays there and readjust so that way you can keep working this. You don't have to do any readjusting, because once you finish working on the back needle you just switch to the front needle and then you go back and forth each side um now, so you work both fronts and the both backs um out of time. So you do both runs and then you switch needles do both backs and switch needles. I am a fan of the two at a time, yeah again yeah once you get on it, i find it's hard to get off of it, because even when i try the um my twisties since they're, both the same size, i'm going to cast both of them On and i'm going to see if the length of the cable is going to affect my gauge in any interesting way. Hence, why i'm doing a vanilla sock for myself, um, which i mean if there is a problem i'll just do really patterned socks and then no one will notice the gauge difference yeah and see. I love the small circs for uh color work so like mittens and things like that. That'S my favorite thing yeah, because then you don't have laddering yeah and it's perfect because you just it's just like knitting, a hat but tinier yeah yeah but yeah. So that's that's that um. So you said that that was the only weapon, progress that you that i have worth of progress in progress uh. Yes, the only one that you took today, yeah um, i'm still working on sun status, but not so much um, because i was trying to finish two other projects, but we'll talk about that in a moment: okay um. So the other thing that i am currently working on is um, a tunisian crochet scarf little triangle scarf um. So for those of you getting our subscription box uh, this is part of your subscription box. Um. So you'll get a pattern to do this, as well as a honeycomb cable, knit version of this, because this is the honeycomb stitch in tunisian crochet um and i've just uh. While i was sick, i was also watching a lot of uh tnl yarn crafts um, and she is a wicked crocheter and designer and she does a lot of tunisian crochet and i really like the stitch work um. I think you guys might have might remember me gushing about tunisian crochet when i bought some cotton to do some tunisian crochet and then never touch the cotton um. This was the crochet hook i bought for it, so i am using the crochet hook um, but i love it. It'S it's really relaxing um. I don't know how to fix anything in it. Yet so i'm just ripping out my mistakes, um, but i mean it's crochet. So it's pretty fast um yeah, so um. Is it a yarn eater? It is more of a yarn eater than i would like it to be. Okay, but i mean crochet is a yarn, a yarn eater anyway, and this um is almost like a smock stitch, because if you look closely there'll be a picture, it's like um, like the the construction of the stitches. This is just regular, simple, stitches and purl stitches. Um, the construction of the stitches is that once you work across like i've done, my my forward pass is what it's called and then you do a backwards pass where i'm basically chaining all the way back across in the loops that are here. So every pass. It'S like me doing the entire row and then chaining a chain to get back to the stars right. So it does eat eats up, but that's what's giving you that um, like that really cool texture. You'Ve got like the lattice on the front and then you've got like the the fabric in the back um. I think that once i block this, the stitches will relax a little bit more and be a little bit more spread out. Um because, like the back, is really quite bumpy um and like once, it's blocked and relaxed and stretched um. I think that will lead itself to be a a more a more draping fabric than it currently is um, because it's a little bit thicker than i would want it to be. Despite the fact that i'm using a four and a half millimeter hook on a fingering weight yarn, which that's usually enough to lighten things up, yeah um but yeah, i really really like it um. It has really clean edges. It does. I was admiring the i-cord like edge on the outside uh and that's i i i'm not doing anything special on this edge. This is just literally the uh it's for me. It'S my right side. If you were left-handed to working left to be your left-hand side, it's my starting like once i do my backwards pass and have one uh one loop left on my hook. It'S the loop! That'S here yeah right um, and this is just a really simple um stitch, because it's um it's a yarn over and uh alternating uh, simple stitches and purl stitches, which are the two basic stitches in tunisian crochet and if you're stacking them properly. You get this honeycomb effect, it's really really easy. Um yeah and the hook that i have which i do have a couple of hooks coming in a couple of sizes. I'Ve got the five millimeter because i think it might be better for our fingering and i've got the seven millimeter which will work well with our worsted um, coming in from uh knitter's pride, the company that our needles are come from. They'Re interchangeable like this one um. So uh like it's just like our interchangeable, um needles tips where you can screw them onto your cable um and you can use the end cap like the stitch holder cap that people are confused with these are when they buy a set of cables um. This is one of the uses of them um yeah, so you just attach that on and you can swap out any cord length that you need, but you don't need to have a special hook like this. You can use a regular crochet hook as long as it's like the same width all up and down the barrel. So not one of the like waves hooks that we have or like a clover hook. Uh you'd have to be using like one of the dreams hooks that we have like a or an aluminum hook like a susan, baits or uh a void hook, or something like that, and you can do. You can learn your stitches really easily um. I also bought some cotton for me to practice other stitches and make some dishcloths, which i will show them to you later. Once i get my uh my hooks um yeah, but i'm i'm really liking it uh, i'm not nearly as fast as as i like. I feel like if i were um doing the honeycomb stitch that i have notes for for um. The knitting version of this um i'd be done: okay, yeah um, but of course like i'm, i'm purposely being careful because i'm not super used to this, and i don't know how to fix my mistakes on it right because, like if i like, i know my knitting Well enough that i can fix just about any mistake without having to rip back unless it's lace, which then still i can do that a little bit, but you can put in a lifeline. You can't do that with crochet. So what i've been doing is when i find a mistake, like i go, find whatever row, i have to rip back to put my hook into that appropriate loop and then just rip it, but i'm not frogging it i'm just ripping it but yeah. So that is the other work in progress that i've been working on cool a little redundant um. How are you doing for time? Great excuse me. Eight minutes. Eight minutes um. We probably have enough time to do one or two fos and then we'll come back and do the rest of them. Yeah. Okay, i have a few. I have a few yep, okay, okay, good! You go first, all right, um, i'm gon na start with willow sweater! Oh yes yeah, so i finished it beautiful yeah and looks like she's already worn it. Yep yeah she's been wearing it already um. I haven't taken any pictures of it yet, but it fits her perfectly yeah um and i love the cuff detail. Yeah. It'S really pretty and then like the little eye, color down on the bottom yeah, and i made it a little bit long on the arms. I thought just in case she grew and i think she grew again because they are like just just perfect and it's like. Oh, i'm glad that i did them longer yeah. Well, i mean, and the good thing about the way that this is constructed is that if they get too long and or she gets too long like yeah - i don't you don't have to chop it. You probably just need to like find your end rip it out and there you go, add a few more rows, yeah so top down construction guys. This is the gold wing pullover by jennifer steingass, and it's knit in our island collection worsted. So this is like a blue tweed um. I think we just called it blue tweed yeah, it's the one, that's behind my head, this one and then silver yeah and it's beautiful yeah, i'm really happy with it and it looks great on hershey yeah. It'S very squishy. Yeah, i love the um. This is one of the the ones that you dyed the wool for yeah and i like the squish factor, yeah the best, it's very squishy, so i was a day late. I couldn't quite finish it in time for her birthday, but i finished the next day: okay yeah, so she got it very close and i had to fess up because she just assumed that i was making a sweater for me yeah. Well, that's been waiting six weeks for his and i haven't even started your birthday: that's okay, but yeah. I usually i'm pretty good at you know making my deadline, so i was what's that, like mildly pissed, that i didn't well, more than mildly. I was like frank. I just can't do it, but i mean i don't know i i had some uh start itis. I guess you could say where i just wanted to start everything like every new project that came across my plate. I was like. I want to start this. I want to start that, and i want to start that, and i don't want to finish anything and that's not me. I think that was an island thing, yeah, those those couple. Last weeks there and uh - you know like kim mentioned in her newsletter about you - know her wanting to start projects too and joanna tanya, and i had been like. We went for a visit um the day after so it was a saturday because we went we had coffee and uh. I was telling kim, i said, i'm the same way and normally you know three projects max. You know like that's, that's all. I i give myself space for in any discipline and that's how i get around it right. So it's like. I can have three spinning projects. Three knitting projects, three moving projects: okay, yeah, that's how you get around it. So i make myself rules that i can still like and break around exactly yeah, so yeah um. I was a day late, yeah but close, but you know what they say: close only counts in horseshoes and hand, grenades. I mean yeah, i suppose um, but it's beautiful and if she's already been wearing it yeah, she really loves it. That'S good yeah, and that was another one of the is that for me, mom. I hope you could make me one like that. She probably has an amazing collection of your knitting, though she has a few sweaters now um, because i admit that sage more pull over um. That was my first like all over fair isle um and i didn't love the way it looked on me. So she's like i'll, wear it and she does all the time and it looks cute as a button on her. So it's another one of those sweaters that you know looks great on everybody else, but i put it on i'm like it's not doing me any favors. Just cinch it at the waist. That'S my that's! That'S my fix for everything, yeah yeah! That'S all you need to do just very two. Thousands, like i mean we are of that era. Just get a great big. You know eight inch wide belt with a huge button on it. That covers. Oh, no! No, that is 1980, my friend, those huge belts of the buckles that you can find all over the place so like the secondhand stores they they came back in and the when we were in junior high. So back in the uh mom jeans, i feel like mom jeans came back like five years ago and they're still like yeah they're kind of making a full comeback yeah. But i i can kind of understand those a little bit like the higher ways to jeans. I'M all for that, because hip huggers man, no, no! Oh! So it's nice to have something that goes past. The hips yep! That'S that's kind of closer up on the belly. I guess yeah because it your body it gives you a better shape in my opinion, whereas if i wear hip huggers like the muffin top, is unreal, it's disgusting. That'S a very foreign problem to me because my lower half is a 2x4 like. I have no there's. No curvature like women are like hourglass. Just it's true, it's the family curse. Actually, if i'm being honest, we all kind of have no butt. That was like judah was over at nana's the other day, and he said something about oh nana. I know my dad has no butt it's because you have no butt and he looks at him and she goes look who's talking buddy. He didn't realize he didn't realize he has no butt either. No, he had no idea crushing yeah. So it's like squats are your friend yeah spots: yeah. Yes, lots and lots. My family have butts, but they are this way, their side butts yeah, so we've disintegrated into side blocks and muffin top yeah yeah. Remember we're talking all right! Well, uh, by that note, uh we'll be right back after a few pictures of stuff that we talked about with some more f0s uh, so welcome back um. So uh you just finished speaking about your sweater yep um, so i am going to pull out um. I'M going to pull out one of my projects, i'm going to pull out this guy, okay, um so um. I love the colors yeah. The color is great uh, so this was the uh fall of malabrigo rios um. I think it's what it was um that i purchased at the woolen heart in uh. I was gon na, say kentfield, but it's fulfilled um and i have not blocked this um because i do need to block it to stretch it out a little bit. This way. Um but uh it was beautiful um. This is i the it up, the showtime hat by michael selleck, um tom selleck's brother. Yes, i'm sorry, i couldn't help myself uh and um yeah. It was a fun. It was a fun little crochet. It was just um. It'S mostly single crochets and treble crochets um, with some half double crochets down in the the brim um. I actually completed this hat twice because the first time before i like actually finished off the top here um, i did it with the the pattern. Calls for a four millimeter needle or hook not needle hook. I used a four and a half knowing that i needed to go up because that's just how i am with crochet, i'm a tight crocheter and it was still way too small uh. So i went up to a five and once it's blocked, i think it'll be, i think, it'll be fine um, but yeah it's a fun little crochet, i think um. I think uh. I might make this pattern available since it's a free pattern um for people to pick up with our uh coordinate sets, because you can just do a row of the coordinate, sets and just change every round and you can get a really cool um. Like zigzag step motion um with it working um yeah, but it's really easy to get on um easy to fix. When i would muck it up. Um and uh. The squish factor is really really quite nice, yeah um but and the colors yeah i'm a sucker for those colors. Yes, yeah um. These aren't colors that i would have gone for um. My friend alex picked them and we're at the woolen heart um and he picked. He picked good colors, yeah, yeah um. He doesn't know it yet, but i'm gon na be sending this to him for his birthday, that's awesome june. So what is the squish factor on that? You didn't give a number too bad. You didn't sew that end in there squish factor squish factor five like that is really it's a good. You can fold it over too. It'S a good squish! Oh yeah, it's a good squish um, but it's also due to its construction, because it's single crochets um, that's cool too all right, um, single crochets and then you're doing a credible, uh crevel treble crochet over top the single crochet. So it's like a double thickness um. So it'll be a really really warm hat, despite the fact of being crochet um and with the exception of one little spot here, it is completely seamless um and i have not turned in my ends. Yes simone, i see you keep looking at the ends. Shame um! We just need a big bag, but um yeah. It fits nice, it's got a big head and it fits my ponytail. It looks good yeah. I like it right um and you should definitely wear those colors. What you should definitely wear those colors more often, but won't it pull out the pink tones of my skin what's wrong with that, i have pink tones, you're, pink yeah, embrace it pink and proud. Well, i mean i'm pink until i'm on the beach and then when i take out my shirt, i am blinding me too. I'M like edward cullen from twilight light if it's not diamonds, instead of sparkling, it's just like anyway. I think i i think i said everything that i needed to say about that pattern: the yarn, oh, the the colors uh uh volca. There we go um. So yes, now i'm done all right. So my next finished project is another sweater. I finished my rocket tea, so the snap tag tea, it's very soft, yeah and so squishy and i love the finished sweater. I just don't know, i don't love how it looks on me, so everybody else that wears. It looks great. I put this on and i described it as looking like the paper bag princess yesterday, because it's too boxy for these big honking shoulders, and i tried to tell her that boxy is in right now, because it is yeah. Well, i'm not cool enough to be in so yeah anyway. This is the rocketee by tanis fibert, and it's knit and point prim sock and uh row and kidzil case and the kits okays is ochre and then autumn birch for the point, prime sock or snap attack snap attack yeah, because i mean he perfectly matches it. So yeah i'm disappointed that i don't love how it looks on me but, like i said, the finished sweater is is so nice and it's it's very cuddly and soft. So i'm going to gift it to somebody so they'll they will receive a very nice squishy sweater. Okay, well before you gift it to anybody. Um there is a craft that you can do with coat. Hanger sewing uh. You sew the bottom edge of that and what you do is you bend the coat hanger in such a way that it looks like a cat cave and then the neckline is where the cat goes in and then that way, snap attack can have the snap attack Sweater and have a little cat cave for himself. Yes, wow wow, i mean it looks terrible, but i mean it'd be pretty cute that the snap attack gets the snap attack sweater. I tried sorry snap attack, sorry snap attack. He helped he laid on top of it. He decided, actually, it was funny, it was white yarn when she started yeah. I took a video one night because i was sitting knitting and he got bossy and he like jumps on top of my knitting and then just starts kneading it, and i was like okay good enough. So i took a video and then i showed it to troy and he's like. He really goes to town and you're knitting. Doesn'T he and i'm like yeah, he decides when i'm done yeah. He was very needy that day yeah. I made that joke already this morning. That'S why she doesn't like it see. I can't stop like petting my sweater, because it's so it's lovely, it's so lovely and i do like the color a lot yeah. So i knit this with uh. How much ease like calls for like six inches of yeast? Doesn'T it yeah, i knit it with four um yeah i knit the 38, so it was four inches ease and i think that i will probably knit this again but with zero e's, because jen hicks knit a zero e's version and it looks amazing on her. So i'm thinking i might just need to to go down to the size, 34., okay, yeah, and that will that will work better for me because yeah um linebacker shoulders. This just looks like i look like spongebob square commands. No, you don't! Oh when yeah! Well, i kind of want to see i wanted to see it on and i need some proof. We'Ve got the mug right there so just make that face yeah. No, no so somebody's gon na receive a really nice sweater, okay, yeah and i'm just going to sit here and cuddle it before i send it on its way. So it sucks you put all that work in and now you're like this doesn't look good. It happens. Sometimes you know yeah, so that's the thing like not every cut works for every person right, exactly um and i mean knitting's fun that you can uh. You can design patterns to work for yourself, but, like i mean sometimes you just want to have the pattern that everybody else is doing right, hoping that, since it works, looks good in everybody and that's the thing it's like i've seen so many of these sweaters and It looks amazing on you know all these different body shapes and body types, and then i put it on and like not happening yeah. Just not me, which makes me rethink another project that i had planned because it was another boxy sweater and i'm just like. I don't think i'm gon na oh you're, rethinking it okay, yeah yeah. So if i do it, i'm gon na have to modify it a lot, because it's a caitlyn hunter pattern and she does a lot of like kind of boxy fits too and i fell in love with the sweater. I have the right yarn in my stash, so it would be good for my maker's dozen, which i'm getting close to finishing. Oh wow, but yeah. It'S it's a little boxy, so i don't know yeah, i'm gon na have to rethink that one. I think yeah. I made a mistake: you made a mistake and i need my crochet hook to fix it. So, oh, no uh, i'm gon na move to this. Oh look, there's a crochet hook on it. I need. I need a two millimeter crochet hook. Not this four and a half one anyway! So that's all i have to say about my sweater, okay, yeah um, so uh there. You might be seeing a theme here, guys um. I did a lot of crochet while i was out sick um. So the last one that i have today, which i still didn't darn in this is lovely. This is lovely. This is uh lost in time by uh. I looked her name up and i'm like i'm gon na. Remember that uh joanna lindell with my coffee um. So this is lost in time uh and i did it in. Oh look. It'S some mcclay's hair um. I did it in uh the ball of so soft uh. The rambulay lace weight in the colorway tanzanite from the taproot fiber lab, i think, is what they are calling themselves now. Yeah um - and this is one of the two balls that i bought there uh and i'm really pleased with how this turned out um. I have enough left over that. I probably could, because i still have quite a bit left over yeah. I probably could have done another repeat of the the pattern, but i would be playing with some yarn chicken um and then i don't think i would have had enough to actually do the tassels there. At the end, the squish factor with this yeah, it's it's beautiful, um and uh like it's uh, it's a it's a lace, weight um in like actual physical gram to like yardage only um, because otherwise i would call it a light. Fingering um. There are some spots here that, if you look really closely like you can see that they're strands that are definitely a lace weight, but just the nature of a one ply. Um single bobbin yarn like this one um there's going to be some inconsistencies with the thickness, and i think it blends itself really nicely to this this kind of pattern because it makes it really rustic but have like a little timeless classic classic to it yeah. Well, it gives it a nice texture, yeah, it's it's really really nice um, so i'm very very pleased with it and there's like almost a little bit of a sheen to the ramble leg, which is really amazing, um and uh. Once i pick out all the dog hair and my own hair that i've crocheted into it um i'm actually going to send this to the ladies back at the tap root. So that way they can use this as a model in their store. Of course, they're going to have to do more of this line of yarn, which sorry not sorry but um, then people can see what it looks like done in a beautiful beaded lace, um, knitted piece that uh sarah did. Oh, that was gorgeous yeah um. Is that the laminaria or alien, oh, i think, was aeolian yeah um. I can't remember it was one of the two yeah yeah um but yeah, and so now they have a crocheted version um but yeah. So i'm very pleased with how this turned out. Um yeah yeah yeah, it's gorgeous yeah. I mean the back side, looks nice too um, but it doesn't have like the the popcorn stitches, which i kind of think. It adds to the hot corn stitches and seeing like the through the back loops, giving those like little ridges. There makes it look really pretty um yeah, so i'm going to finish darning in my ends and trim some pieces and send it off here, probably next week to them so they'll get it i'll, probably ship it out monday um. So if they're watching the podcast, surprise uh and then, if you're not watching the podcast, then you'll probably receive it on friday in a week's time, um yeah, because it's it's really lovely to work with too good job. It does look absolutely gorgeous yeah. It was. It was really and the the pattern once i got onto it. It'S super easy um like doing the counts, because um like the starts to the rows is a way is a type of crochet that i don't like doing. I don't like like this. One is a chain three and that counts as your first double crochet. I don't like doing that, because i can't get them to look the same on both sides. So then, when you're doing back and forth, like you would on this one, i have like rippled edges because they're not even um, so i have been doing like a chain - one um double crochet, um to uh sorry chain, two double crochet to make my first crochet Um so like having to remember like okay, so i did this and then i have to do this. Many sometimes my increase increases are off because you're increasing on the the top edge, as well as the center um, so checking how many i start and end with uh was the only tricky part. The rest of it was just you know, making it making. It goes making up as you go along and if there's a couple spots, where there's mistakes - and you can you can fudge it and no would know, and so i did um yeah. So that is my other finished object. Very good. Do you have any more? I do i have two more no three, oh wow yeah here i thought i was productive. Um. Oh yes, the mittens for the sub box um, i knit the little shop demo and they're very squishy and they are very squishy yeah. So this is the orange um. Color set that troy sent out and i chose to do the kind of like solids as the the base and the tips of the finger and thumb and then the more kind of speckly ones as the linen stitch in the center. And i'm pretty happy with how it turned out um the linen stitches definitely are neater yeah. But that being said, i only used half a box for that pyramid to make the whole pyramids, so you could in theory, get the mittens and the matching hat from one sub box. Yes, because uh, when i did my tester like i mean i did the smallest size um, it only used 40 grams yeah. I think it was 38. So, and i mean i don't have small hands, but they fit mine, yeah yeah and they fit mine too um. But i have a big head, so you know what my grandmother used to say: little head full of it big head full of no she'd, never finish it! Okay! Well, i just finished it for you and you're right, because my eyes are brown anyway, i'm not bleeping! Yeah, it could be worse, you could have what is it? You call mine, candy, apple, splatters, green apple splatters. Why is candy apple somehow worse, and this is what we talk about off camera as well, except we're generally considerably more crass nonsense, we're so professional? Oh yes! Yes, we're, yes, we're totally buttoned up we're very diplomatic off camera yeah. We have no personality, we're no fun! No! No! This is all the show, oh terrible, so my next finished objects are all spinning related okay and i brought something in to show, but i forgot it in the background, but that's okay um! I will talk about it in a minute, so um these three, i'm stealing. This from this question, okay, they're from our ottawa wool board spinning bags. I decided to just separate them and spin each color as a two ply, so i can do color work and i'm very, very happy with them. They'Re beautiful um. They came out approximately fingering weight and uh yeah. I'D say this: is the sports and yeah, like i'm really happy with with how they turned out. I think it's gon na make a really great colorwork project, um, so much so that i think i might have to pick up another you're funny yeah. You were wrong yeah, but it was very funny yeah, which makes it even funny he didn't have his gobble mask on or his usual face. So yeah yeah, like he's currently wearing makeup, and it's so hard to put that makeup on to make it like eyeliner yeah. He puts the white stuff on the inside of his eyes to make him have anime eyes. Oh yes, yes, that's cool, though right yeah, super cool thanks, so yeah these are from our ottawa woolboard spinning bags. We still have a bunch of those in chop. So if you want a really nice natural wool that has significant bounce and squish factor, these are a lot of fun um. Somebody else got some and they decided to spin it as a marl, which i think would be really nice too, like a three-ply marl. So that way you know you have all three colors twisted together. Uh but y'all know me: i love color work, so i'm gon na spin for color work and my last finished project is kind of a long time. Coming this is hand spun from the merino that i dyed with acorns yes yeah. Yes, so i dyed it with acorns, but in the process i kind of let the wool boil a little bit, so it got a little felted um, but luckily i was able to spin it anyway. It was just a little hard on the hands, so it took me a lot longer yeah to get through it, but and the color is actually turned out really nice yeah yeah. So i remember you were concerned about the color as well: yeah um, it's almost like a greeny gray. It'S almost if you mix those two colors together, oh yeah, good point. So this was yeah. This was the acorn with a little bit of iron and alum. As a mordant uh, so i morton did it with alum, i should say, and then i added a little pinch of iron just to the end of the bath to kind of deepen and sadden it almost because i just wanted kind of a a different color. I wanted to play okay, you know so what's going to happen, if i do this and if you add too much iron um, it can make things sticky. So i was really conservative with the amount of iron that i used and i'm glad because i didn't need any help with you know it being a difficult spin. But lesson learned, don't let your will boil. I mean yeah, if only i could learn that one anyway. So uh yeah, i'm really happy with how it turned out. So i'm just gon na add that to my bag of hand, dyes, because i have a whole bag, believe it or not, of um hand-dyed hand. Spun yarns in my stash that i just haven't been able to decide what i want to do with yet i'm thinking down the road, i'm probably just going to do a weaving project. Okay, yeah and it'll be for me: there's no way anybody's getting the naturally dyed stuff out of me because then they'll wash it and then it'll fade, and i still have the mugwort that i died the wool and then i have the butternut dyed um wool as Well, so that's two other colors, okay and i've got goldenrod and sumac, and at least four others so yeah yeah awesome. I'Ve got some neat stuff in the stash for down the road when i have more time yeah that time when we say martin, when we have more time that more time never seems to come no anyway. No and i i think that i'm okay at budgeting my time i just i don't know too many ideas so uh. I think i did talk about the because i did take a picture of them at home. I just want to go home socks um, so i did do them. I did bring them in the following weekend. So that way, simone could test a test to the squish factor, um and sorry um. What'S the the brand that, like it's their brand, which are winter knits but they're, what was the brand of their yarn? No, it wasn't their yarn um. It was west coast color coast, color, yeah, no fancy color west west coast, color west coast, color, yeah iron squishier. It just does um, i love my. I just want to go home socks yeah. Those are my cozy socks around the house, i'm going to make uh another pair of socks of the worsted here for myself, eventually, probably in that green, not that i don't already have green socks that i'm currently wearing and knitting and well not yeah. At the very moment, but yeah they're in your bag, they're here actually oh yeah, yeah yeah, not, but you never have enough green socks um. That is true, but uh yeah. So uh i did. I do remember talking about them. Um, oh yeah, you weren't here evan was here that day, yeah yeah yeah, so um. I will bring them in on monday, for you matt and we'll take a picture of you wearing the goblin mask. I mean with you without your makeup um. Yes, without your eyeliner yeah, without your eyeliner um and uh to get a reaction because um yeah, i think you'll like them and i think they're going to fit. I think yeah yeah and they look amazing. They do they're very squishy. I am going to go and get that other thing anyway, all right, so i have been doing some product testing for a fiber friend, uh dorsan of savoy baskets, has kindly sent me uh a prototype for a drop spindle, spinning basket. Um and i've been given a good whirl hahaha, you like that, and i can't say enough good things about it. I'M really really loving the basket. It'S got an adjustable strap, so you can just kind of slide it on over your body and it hangs by your hip. So you can stand and spin or you can even sit and do your drop spindling, i'm not going to say, sit end um yep yep. My brain is just gone today. Sorry, it's okay, you're a basket case. So many bad puns in this episode, so the basket's really lightweight. I really really love it and i i can't say enough good things about it. Um. It holds quite a lot of fiber. So i put like four ounces of fiber into the basket and the drop spindle sits in here quite comfortably. She'S also got a neat little loop for securing the drop spindle so that it doesn't go. You know all held her skelter and fall out, which is perfect and yeah. I'Ve been using it outside a lot. Actually so i'll go in the yard and do some drop spindling and just kind of wander around enjoy the sunshine and uh yeah. It'S perfect for it. Um i've already spun about half of my fiber uh, i'm on to like the second cop's worth, because you call it a cop on a spindle right, so uh yeah you're the expert, i'm uh, i'm really looking forward to seeing what this looks like and i love The basket she's going to be one of the vendors at the pei fiber festival. So i highly encourage you to check out her baskets yeah, i'm i'm so excited to have one of my own. Now i fell in love with them. The first time i saw them and i'm just kind of yeah trying to save your pennies yeah yeah so whenever she asked, if i would be willing to to test it out for her, i was like yeah that'd, be awesome, so yeah, i love my basket yeah. I know it's beautiful cuddle, it um, and then she you said that she's planning on making an improvement as well like having additional loop on the outside of the basket. No, no um she'd started off with a loop on the outside and then um. She put it on the inside: oh okay, yeah yeah, so uh yeah, if you're coming to the pei fiber festival, definitely one of the vendors to check out yeah for sure um and those of you who are interested in taking simone's drop spindle class. If you don't already have a ticket, your sol is sold out. She sold at her class in uh 10 days. It was quick yeah. I think the first day you sold most of the spots and then it took a few days for that last spot to sell yeah yeah. Congratulations. Thank you. Uh! I'M excited, but i'm also really nervous. I'M not gon na lie because i can't talk at the best of times. That'S why we have you because you're a better talker than i am me with my stuttering problem. I don't think so. Um anyway! Well, i mean matt carried the last episode because i was painful. I cut out all the painful bits that wasn't how painful it was guys was that evan though i don't are you replacing me in your minds with evan already? Was it the goblin or was it the troll yeah who can tell only we really know yeah um? Oh, we had a another customer come in uh last week who thought that simone and i were the married couple so just to be clear, just be clear: um. We are not married, we are just friends and co-workers, yes, um in fact, matthew and i are married. Lori is just want it. You need to become okay with yourself matthew, i'm not ready. I mean everybody can tell with that. Eyeliner, not the saying that wearing eyeliner is necessarily gay, but anyway i'm wearing it's okay, so straight chin is, and i just set back all the gay breaks for about 15 years. Sorry guys, i'm just gon na clear that whole section just move god. I wonder how much she saw of you to think. Oh yeah. They must be a married couple. Well, it was five seconds what was it last last winter we were both wearing our mini mills, t-shirts and we had our hair tied back we're going around the bell and hazel looked at us and she's like you guys, are even starting to dress alike, long hair. You tie it back, so it doesn't get in your face. Yeah or somebody doesn't like rip it out of your head when you're carrying boxes - and i didn't mean to that - was funny the look of logan's face. Oh yeah, like i ripped a chunk of hair so uh, we were moving um, big boxes, big boxes of super washable down to the mill and uh. These boxes are packed fuller than they usually are usually they're, like 40 45 pounds, which i can manage on my own no problem, but these ones were like 65. um. So i like, i was like packing them on top of like a dolly and i got some of simone's hair. I didn't have my hair tied back my bad um and, like i, i took it from her and then i put it down and using the force to like lift the box. I just ripped out, like probably 25 hairs from her head. No, all at once and like i said, logan was standing there. He was just horrified yeah and all we could do was laugh because he was like yeah, so yeah and he's deployed. Yeah tie your hair back back yeah, but i mean also troy: don't worry about people's hair you're, a hair puller from way back, anywho uh. Do you have any any more finished objects? Um. I think i think that is it okay yeah. I think it might be time for us to do a store update, because we have so many things yeah to update yeah um, so uh and a lot of it is out of my reach, so uh bear with me for a moment. Okay, it's within your reach. Everything else is with okay. Yes, all right. I don't know where to begin um, so i'll start with the biggest item corwell yeah. So we now have uh core wool available again um, so that is uh, i'm just putting it on the floor. So i have more space to top um. It'S coral um! It'S a coarse new zealand wool, um that we get from the same company that we're getting our merino and our rambulay from um and uh. It'S a it's actually, not that coarse, so it doesn't feel bad. So uh we might actually make some of it available for spinners as well or, like i mean we're gon na be selling it by the pound for 15, as is for core wool. So transmitters can use that as well if they so choose yeah um, but we might do some fun colorways later when you know, there's less it's less pressing for us to do other things. Um it'll give us a chance to like play with a little bit and see if it's something that we think that you know people will actually use yeah, yeah um but um it. It works great for for needle felting um. The next thing i want to bring talk about is we finally got our gleaners in um, so we're not gon na make these available online because there is a few uh local spots that have theirs available online, so we're just going to have hours available in the Shop um, so these guys are incredible. If you watch the episode where i did a very blurry uh, very steamy, um uh, deep hilling of this sweater, actually um and uh yeah they're great um they're super easy to get in um.