Fiber Arts Curses, Blessings, and Beliefs

I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. And this is Pardon My Stash. Welcome to Pardon My Stash, a podcast about knitting, the fiber arts, and how awesome it is. Woo hoo! Sorry. Sorry it was delayed. That's awesome. Before we get into this week's topics, let's share what we're working on now, Drea. I am working on our make-along project. I am doing the Arachne Shawl by Claire Slade. I am using Plies and Hellhounds Penny in the colorway Nightmares and Flower Moon.

It's going to be orange and black. And I am at My First Spider. Yay! That went fast. It did. Wow. This is actually only about three days of work. Wow. No, she flew through the first section. That is really fast. Yeah. The first section is fast once you get a hang of it, but I just, I don't have, the only time I've been finding it is with games lately. Yeah. Yeah, she was done with that first section like, what, a couple weeks ago almost, right?

Yeah. And I've only worked on it like three days, like I said. I watched three football games and did this and that was it. And this week I've been having a sensory problem, so I'm not working on it today. But I got a lot done and I'm very happy with the way it's coming out. I love these colors and I like the way it feels. Like it's, it's coming out really nice. It looks very squishy. Do you want to touch it? I'd love to. It's got, it's got cashmere in it. Oh, it is kind of squishy.

Yeah. It feels almost like a light brioche. It feels almost double, like double knitted. Yep. It feels nice. Very cool. Well, it's got the stranded color work. Yeah. So it's going to be slick. Meg? I'm also working on my Matchy Make Along project. It is, I always forget because she has two different designs. It's Find Your Fade by Dre Renee Knits. I am knitting it with Jess. We're both doing the same one. And we are using Critical Hit Dyes, the Wheel of the Year collection.

It was eight colors that we released last year in a subscription. So I've already done Samhain and Yule and I'm about a, I don't know, quarter of the way through with Imbulk. I am having fun with it. I mean it is like, the color is really what kind of makes it exciting because it is kind of repetitive. It's a lot of garter. The lace is, the lace is interesting.

But kind of like the blending the colors is kind of fun and it's kind of neat because at first I'm like, I don't know if these colors are actually going to blend really well. But the way that she staggers them makes it really seamless. So it's kind of hard to tell sometimes which where the colors end and where they begin. It's really interesting. So we're having fun. It's looking good. Well, I like it a lot. Thanks. I kind of can't wait to be like longer so you can see like more of the fade.

So even still with the length that you have, you can see it. You can kind of see how it faded into the different colors. So yeah, it's fun. Yeah I'm familiar with the colorways. So I can see where the colorways are, but it looks good. I like that. Thank you. Gina. I am also working on the arachnid shawl with Dreya. I'm her matchy make-along partner.

The only difference in mine is, I'm not going to repeat everything she said, but the only difference in mine is that I'm starting with black and she started with orange as the main color. So when my piece currently looks very black and hers looks very orange and then at the end we flip. Same shawl, but it's inverse. Yeah, basically. That is neat. Yeah, it'll be fun. And we'll be able to know which one belongs to who. And I definitely am not as far as Dreya.

But I really like the way yours is coming out. I like that black. It's really cool the way that you guys have the two different colors. Yeah, I think she did like half, like she was at this when I was at like the tip. It was just because I kept getting distracted. I think it was during one of the games that San Fran was playing, so I was just completely not paying attention to my project at all. I got no horse in the game anymore, so it's really easy for me to. Yeah, some of us not be invested.

It is what it is. Jess? So, I mean, I am working on the find your fate as well, but I put that on hold for a little bit because because I'm way behind her and she's trying to we're trying to do it together. But she knits a lot faster than me and I keep getting distracted. So I'm taking it. She's way ahead of me. I love that we have the same problems here. But I also had a different project, so I'm working on that now and I am doing the what is this called? The Lamina wrap.

Yeah, Lamina wrap by Amber O'Brien. In the Flowers of Hyrule Advent that we did. And I'm more than halfway done now. And it's actually is what I sit down and actually do. It's a really quick knit. Like I can get through a full stripe of color in about two hours. So it's going pretty, pretty fast.

And I want to try and finish that because I have another project I want to start when it's done because I don't like having too many whips on at the same time because then I get distracted and forget what I'm working on. So I also only have like two main project bags that I like to use. And you know, if they're full, I can't fill other stuff in them. See, I just take them out. No, and then I never find that. And I'll lose them. Exactly. No, no, that's the point. No, that's the point.

So where I want to finish these. So, so they got to get finished. It looks really good. Thank you. But yeah, so that's that is what I'm doing. I'm like using this weird sorcery method of not having to weave in one end of a new color work. And it's working pretty well. I have like little loops on it. It's kind of cool.

But yeah, if you want to see pictures of our current projects or get more information about part of my stash, please be sure to check out our website, part of my stash.com for info, pics, patterns and yarns. All right.

So it's been a little bit since we've spoken to all you folks because we took our yearly little break. And it was it was an all right break. I feel like we all still had a lot to do this January anyway. So everything was on fire. January's tough. January is real tough. January is not really like this was a tough January. Relaxing month. It was kind of a rainy month. Everybody was sick. Everybody was sick. Everyone had stuff going on. Pour one out for Pat.

Pour one out for Pat and his poor, his poor flu. My coworkers got to the point where they're like, how's everybody doing? I'm like, if one more person in my house gets sick, I'm just going to set the whole thing on fire and walk away because I have every surface. I have washed every piece of fabric like I don't know what else I can do at this point. Everybody's sick. So yeah, January, man. It's over tomorrow. We are in February. Yeah. Oh, thank God. We will be in February.

Thank God. I was looking at topics that I wanted to do. And of course, it's February. So everyone thinks Valentine's Day and the thing that always pops up is the sweater curse. I'm sorry. I'm like, no, he does. Right? No, am I right? It's love, it's love, but the sweater curse. Love, boyfriends, but the sweater curse.

But I was like, okay, okay, wait, we have talked about the sweater curse before, but I was like, you know, I wonder if there are other superstitions and stuff surrounding yarn that isn't just the sweater curse, seeing that that's a thing. So that's what I kind of looked into. And I found a few which I thought were kind of fun. And I also figured maybe we could see, because I know everyone has their actual own kind of things that they kind of do.

I mean, I guess not everyone, but a lot of people have certain things that just in their own head, they're like, no, I don't do this for this reason, or I do do this every time for this reason. So figured we'd talk about some of the ones that I found that were kind of fun. And then also get into like maybe what anybody else does or has as their own personal superstitions. So they're like I said, the first one that always comes up because it's related to love is the sweater curse.

Like I said, we've all gone into that before you're not supposed to do a sweater for your significant other because before things are set in stone, because it means that they will inevitably break up with you. That is the curse. I'm not saying that's what actually happens. Did you know there's one for socks too though? That supposedly if you similar curse, if you if you make your significant other socks, it is it will encourage them to walk away from you.

Wow. Yeah, I was like, oh, that's interesting. That one I did not hear before. I feel like at this point, I'm pretty safe to make Frank some socks. I don't think he would walk away even if I told him to. I was looking at it and I'm like, I wonder why that's a thing. But if you really think about it and if you're thinking like, okay, maybe it's like when you first meet someone and you're like, oh, I'm going to make them a sweater and it takes you a little while to make a sweater.

So maybe it's like, yeah, in the interim, you find out it's not going to work out and you break up. But so I feel like once you're together for a while, like you can see if it's going to be safe or not. So what you're telling me is if I want someone to leave me alone, I need to make them a pair of socks. Guys, I made all of you guys socks. It's meant to be. You don't like us? I gave all of you guys socks.

Actually, I gave all of you guys socks for my wedding and that didn't work out, but I kept all of you guys. So I feel like that's not really a real curse. So I made my ex-husband two pairs of socks. So maybe there is something to go along with that. He got my first two pairs of socks ever. You didn't even make a pair for yourself? No, I made one sock that was a disaster. I mean, like I did the I did the heel flap inside out. Don't I don't even know how that happened. That's impressive.

No, it really was. Excuse me. That's a design. And then the toe. You know how you're supposed to put this the decreases in the corners of the needles? Yeah, I just whacked him wherever I wanted them. So there were just decreases literally. Yes. That's a funky looking foot. I still have that sock. I love that sock. It's ugly as sin, but I kept it because I was so proud of it. I went on my foot and I was like, look at I never made it a partner. I was like, look at my sock. It's a sock.

It looks like a sock. This is great. It's functional. It's a mess, but it's functional. You know, it's funny that one sock was what prompted me to start making socks. Hey, yeah, you looked at my sock. I was so impressed. You were like, look at that. But then I did. I did make him a pair of socks. And then about, I want to say like two months later, he was looking at my stash and he saw some yarn and he was like, I really want socks made out of this. I made another pair.

And we are no longer together for many reasons. I really don't think the socks had anything to do with it. And I will say that my second and third pairs were much better than that single one. The socks didn't help. Wait, well, if it's going with the curse, then the socks didn't help. The socks did not help things along. Maybe it's not so much like that it puts a curse on. Maybe it just brings to the forebearer like if this should work.

I did, however, I did start making him a sweater when we were engaged. It was nice of you. I bought the yarn. I cast on. I got about halfway through the chest and then I got bored. Fair. But you started it while you were engaged. You're right. I did. I did. I did start it when I was engaged. So I still call it a pair. I still call it part of the sweater curse. Still say it counts. That's fair. You made me a pair of socks.

I did make Jess a pair of socks that got destroyed the first time she wore it. That's not your fault. No, no, it is my fault. They destroyed the curse. No, I think it's honestly because I don't kitchen her well. I don't. I don't. And I have this problem where my toes unravel. So Jess. My skin is acidic. I mean, that's not your fault. Yep. No, it is. So, so, but yeah. So I thought that was that was interesting, though, because I had never heard of the sock one.

But so I had to throw that one in there. One of the other ones I read was don't start a new project on a Friday or it's doomed to never finish. Oh, that explains everything. That's a lot of people say that. There are a lot of people. That's the reason. That's why. You know, I don't know. It's not for any personal reasons or bad management skills. No, no, no. It's it's it's you're starting on Friday. Dang it. Dang. I like some of these. I tried to figure out like why people thought that this one.

I couldn't find a reason. So maybe, you know, maybe this is you just don't start a project on a Friday, even if you really want to. Just don't start. Just don't. Just hold on. I can't handle myself right now. Oh, that's the reason. You know. It's just that one I found interesting. But I figured everyone would like that because, you know, it's a great excuse for later on. Like you're like, oh, no, it started out on a Friday. That's the reason it's just can't do it now. It's written in the stars.

Must be why I didn't finish my teapot cozy. I'm so excited for that snail. The instructions were really bad, though. Oh, I hate that. My pineapple one was really bad, too. I shouldn't say bad. It was just it was complicated. No, mine was just bad. It wasn't explained well. And there's two two better ones on this one. I feel like everyone will also enjoy, which is you're supposed to leave a mistake in your work somewhere. I heard that. And there's multiple reasons. Leave a mistake.

Like you just, you know, you're like, oh, this is perfect, but let me just mess this up. Like, come on. This is a thing in like a lot of different mediums. Like it's not just in knitting and crochet. Like this is a thing in art as well. I mean, it said I want to say it's Michelangelo left, like actually put a chip into I forget which statue it was because he said it was so perfect. It was almost as if it were made by God. So he made a chip in it because he didn't know much.

Well, that's why he put a chip in it. So no, but that's that's part of why that's some people believe you're supposed to make a mistake. That's an Amish belief too, that you leave mistakes and things so you're not, it doesn't make it look like you're trying to compete with God. I'm going to go and say that I always follow this rule accidentally. See that, but I don't have a single project. It doesn't have some mistake in it.

I mean, every time I lose my stitch count and just say F it, like it's, it's, you know what I think to myself, I'm just trying, I'm just trying not to compete with God. But here's the thing, because that's, that's one of the things. One of the other things, um, and I guess it's, this is more from an Irish superstition is when whatever you are working on, you put a piece of your soul into, so you leave a mistake that your soul can escape out of. So you're not buying it. That was an Irish thing.

So you're not binding yourself into the project. You leave a mistake to get out. There's also one also in the Irish that's like, if you're not afraid for your soul escape, there's also to keep the faith from getting in there and messing stuff up. Like there's, there's a bunch of different reasons why they say leave a mistake in your work. I just think like plenty of people had reasons why, you know, when, you know, that one guy points out the mistake, you're like, oh yeah, that's on purpose.

That's for God. That's for God. They don't steal you away. You ungrateful swine. I know when you said, when you said mistake, like, so you leave a piece of your soul and then you make a mistake. I'm like, because your soul's mistake. No, don't let your soul escape. God. No, no, no. I think I'm going to say, I'm going to do, I'm doing this for God for every little thing. And everyone's going to say, Oh, you're, you're religious. No, no, no, no. I'm just, you know, I'm not perfect.

And if I'm perfect, you know that I'm God. So I don't want to like get too ahead of myself. Yeah, no. So, so I, I just, I feel like we all just make mistakes anyway. Like it's so hard to not make a single mistake. I'm sure it was like a turn of phrase. Someone told someone when they pulled up their blanket and there was just holes everywhere. They were like, no, that's good. Look at all the wonderful things you did. Like for all the souls to escape. Yeah. I think at that point you're pushing it.

Like it's supposed to be one guy. I feel like it was a response to somebody who just couldn't help themselves, but to point out, Oh, look, this is a mistake here. Well, it's for God. Yeah. Just, just to like shut them up. Can you stop trying to constrain my soul? It's for my soul to leave.

No, but I thought it was cute because I was reading some, and someone commented and they said they're one of their grandmothers actually did that and they would somewhere in the shoulder of like a sweater would pearl two stitches together instead of knit. So it's like, it was hidden, but it was there. I like that. And they knew that it was like a meant mistake. And I was like, Oh, that's kind of cute.

And it's also like looking back on it and your family are like, Oh, this was definitely made by grandma. Like, look, there's a little that's like, I thought that was neat. Like almost like a little trademark. Yeah. That's cute. I love that. My kids and grandkids will know which ones were made by me because they're not finished. All the nine weeks. Stop starting them on Friday. Is he going to get them? Friday gets me every time, man. Oh God. This is really, this is really good, Jess.

I'm enjoying learning about. I thought they were finding out all the reasons why this isn't working out. There were like two more. I found one of them was another one, which I was like, and this one just spoke to me because I took theater classes, but you're not supposed to knit on stage. And here's the thing with that. And a lot of, I'm not sure the exact reason with why the knitting on stage.

The only thing I can kind of think about is like when this superstition was made was probably when people were using a lot of straight needles and straight needles hanging out backstage in the dark can be kind of dangerous. Also make a ton of noise if you drop one backstage. So I think it kind of something like that probably came about the same reason, like the reason why it's unlucky to whistle on stage or everyone's like, you know, you're inviting like demons and stuff.

The actual reason for that is back in the day before headsets, the stage crew used whistles to tell them what to do. And a whistle could either mean like they'd do something silly, like end the scene before they should or do something dangerous, like drop a set on stage.

So, um, so it's probably something more related to that, but I thought that was kind of interesting because again, it speaks to my heart being backstage and let me tell you as a stage manager, I would not want needles like clanking around on stage when we're trying to have a moment or you know, here in the like, well, they're supposed to be like a break or a beat or you know, something that could be annoying. Annoying.

So it was probably something like that, but yeah, they, you know, got to add that luck thing to get actors to actually listen to them. Well, I was just thinking to myself, that is why actors look so horrible pretending to knit because they can't do the actual knitting because then it's bad luck. I feel like most doctors just don't put in the effort. I'm making excuses for any of that. And for anyone who is actually like acting and they have to do knitting and whatnot on stage.

All of these curses somewhat get canceled out except for saying McBee when it's written into the actual script. Like if the script says you're supposed to do it, the only one that you're still supposed to be careful with is saying McBee. No, they're all curses, Jess. They're all curses. No, even, even if it's in the script, always curse. No, just McBee man, always curse, curse on you, curse on your family, curse on your cow.

Only McBee man, you just, you gotta, you gotta do the whole hold your breath when you get off stage every time you have a scene with that. Ask me how I know. We had someone fall through a trap door. It was bad. He was okay. He actually, it was weird adrenaline rush. This guy, he like fell through the trap door, which we had it opened in years. It was funny. We opened it to do the play. In our first run of it, he backed up and fell into the trap door and there was a moment of like, Oh my God.

And I don't know. It had to be the adrenaline. This dude like just sprung up out of this trap door, which was a good like seven, you know, feet down with like a little bench in there so you could get up. So he had to jump at least four feet and he did somehow jumped out of this trap door, landed on stage and just went straight into his lines as if nothing happened. And everyone is like, okay. And then the call to fire the next scene and we had to stop the show for a little bit anyway.

But you know, I'm just saying you just don't say McB without doing the thing. I actually didn't know about the hold your breath thing at all. Yeah. There's like, you're supposed to hold your breath and I forget what you're supposed to do something when you do it. And it's real quick because it's meant for you to go backstage and do it like right at the end of the scene if you say his name. But it is a thing that you can do because you're not supposed to say his name. It's the cosplay. I know.

All right. Interesting. What's the last one? So the last one is actually a cute one, which is just saying if Mittens knitted in summer will be warm and strong. And I guess the idea behind that is if you manage to knit it in the summer, it's going to take in all of that summer heat and transfer it to the mittens. It doesn't make much sense if you're knitting like ornate mittens to start them in winter. Odds are you won't finish them. That's fair. That's a good point. Or you'll rush them.

Or you'll rush them because your hands are so cold. You need them faster. So yeah, summertime you can take your time and really, really get nice mittens done. Yeah. I've never knitted mittens. So no, and they're supposed to be like another connection. Like if you gift the mittens, like that keeps a part of the person who gifted them to you with you. But if you shake the hand of a person who is also wearing mittens, like the love of that person gets transferred through the mittens.

So that's kind of cute. So yeah, that was, I was like, I don't know if that was added on or if that was part of the original one, but I was like, that's interesting. That's an interesting thought of it. So I'm like, what are you going to do? Shake off your mittens to shake? Like, or it's like, what, how? No, you pass it along. Are you passing? Passing the love. Those are the main ones that I found.

And then like I said, of course everybody kind of, I know a lot of people believe in the, in the sweater curses and whatnot. And I have, I have a random one. I don't know if it's a thing, but it's a rule I have for myself. And that's if I make three mistakes in a row, I'm out. Like it's time to put it down. You know what? I think that's fair. So it's like, I make one and then the next stitch I make another, or like within the next two or three stitches, I make another.

I'm like, okay, and we're going down and it is time to stop knitting today. But yeah, I don't know if that's a curse or, but it's definitely a rule that I follow. I think it's definitely a sign that you're like, it's not that it's maybe not the wrong project, but it's definitely not the right project for right this second. Yeah. Maybe the wrong time. And maybe in an hour it will be the right project, but it is not the right project for this minute in time.

So time to, time to move on to something else. F up the three, then make your hands free. That's pretty good. That was poetry right there. I love it. Write it down. Good job, Dr. Seuss. No, well they're doing the curse things. Oh, your mittens are warm. It's I got to, you know, there you go. I have a new curse or blessing, curse blessing. I don't know.

I did the same thing when I was writing my papers for college, except it was more like, if it takes me more than 10 minutes to write a sentence, it's time to put it down. Like if I am so tired that it is taking me this long to put words on paper, we're done because I, the rare occasions where I was like, I'm going to push through that. I would then open my computer the next day and be like, what drunk individual wrote my last three paragraphs? Good for me.

I mean, honestly, like 10 PMU and 10 AMU are two very different people. I don't have a 10 PM me anymore. Oh no, 10 PM me is in bed. I was going to say, I don't see 10 PM anymore. I get up at five. So I do not get up at, I do not go to bed at 10. The only time I'm up that late is for the late football games during the season. I don't even make it that late anymore. I can't do it. No, man. I'm probably still knitting. I'm just like zombie, like total zombie face. And I'm like, why am I doing this?

You need a good garter stitch project for that. Yeah. Well, here's me with that day lily shawl that I've been, I've been frogging and frogging. I'm going to try it like during the day, not on a Friday in the summer. What else do I have to do? Not for anybody that I love. When you're home alone and there's nothing going on. Make sure the owls are facing the right way. Put on some light music and just chill. Yeah. That's, that's the thing though.

There are some projects you just cannot do when you're distracted. I have done the first 30 rows of that day lily shawl at least eight times so far and have ripped it out. You know, when you got to do that, you got to put something on the TV that you have seen a dozen times. Yeah, nothing new. Yeah. That's how I am with color work too. I cannot watch anything new. That's when I put like Downton Abbey on or something I've seen a million times and I'm like, cool. I don't even need to look up.

I know what's happening. I honestly think it's the DPNs. Like I'm not, cause you have to do, there's a lot of the rows are like yarn over knit, yarn over knit. And I'm like, every time I do that with DPNs, I lose a yarn over or I do an extra or a tar. Can you get a nine inch cord? Yeah, it's time. I just need it in that size. I have it. I have thicker ones like I have eights and tens that are in the little nine inch. Get the nine inch cord because then, then you don't have to worry.

I'm the same way. Yeah. Because God forbid a yarn over falls off the end. It's like, yeah, I'm all done. I'm done. This isn't happening anymore. Like, no, I can't, I can't do like tiny work in the round on DPNs. It's just not me. Yeah. Not a thing. I do think it's the needles. I don't think it's the, but you know, what, what's the curse with the, you know, DPNs in your hands and you're gonna, you know, be really sad in the sand. I don't, I have no idea.

We all know you just got to stop starting them on a Friday. It's beautiful. It's really it. Listen, this is off the cuff. Okay. Imagine what happens when I actually sit and like practice. If you guys are listening, these are all going to be on t-shirts. No, I hope not. Too late. Oh God. I don't know. My, my thing is, and I'm kind of going against it right now because I have two projects of the same kind, but I usually don't have two projects of the same, um, method going at the same time.

No, I'm the same way. Like I usually don't like doing that crochet or an it and a felt or, oh, see, I usually don't have like two, like two shawls or two hats. Like I'd rather have like a complicated project and an uncomplicated project. That's fair. I do like having one and one of these. So like to fulfill different needs. Yeah. I have none of those, but I'm like, what's the point if I'm doing like one cabled hat? I'm not going to cast on a second cabled hat. That's stupid.

Like just finish one cabled hat and then do the other one. This doesn't actually stop me from doing anything, but if I am winding the yarn and I get yarn barf, I immediately assume that this project is cursed. I'm going to do it anyway, but I'm like, this is nature's way of telling me this is not going to go the way I want it to. And that's not like, I can't even say that like that's been proven right. It hasn't been because I have had yarn barf like you wouldn't believe.

And my method of dealing with yarn barf is to deal with it for about three seconds, then yell for Jess and then walk away while she untangles it because she likes to untangle it. I don't. But I'm always like, this yarn is cursed. This project is cursed. The universe is telling me not to knit this, but then I do it anyway. So it's not a very productive curse. Is this when you're pulling from a cake? No, this is just when I'm winding it. Oh, just actually physically winding.

No, no, no, no, no. I'm not talking about like pulling out yarn barf. I'm talking about like when I am caking it. And it barfs on the... Yeah, it barfs on the... And then I'm just like, clearly... It's not meant to be. It's not meant to be. You know, I should, you know, my daylily shawl yarn definitely barfed while I was winding it. Nothing makes me angrier here. You know what's really funny too? Because I used to be like, God, why didn't the dyer fix this? What is going on?

And I was like, why aren't they fixing that? And now like I wind my own yarn and I'm like, stupid dyer, why didn't you fix this? And it's like, and it's ours. And I know in theory that's not even a thing, but I did. I used to be like, oh my God, like why are skeins like this? Why don't they just cake them? Like why don't they just mail them in cakes? Da da da da da. Oh my God. My favorite is still, you'll call me in and I'll like just pick up the yarn and you're like, do you just want to cut it?

And I'm like, why did you even call me in here? Let's just call it. Let's let this 200 yards go. We're just going to use the other two. You cut it and then you roll the other one and then you have like the big cake and look. Oh, so just pieces. Let me tell you something about me that you probably already know, but you know, I don't have patience, patience is I have patience with other people. I have no patience with myself.

I have patience all day long for my students, but when it comes to me not getting something right on the first try, oh no, absolutely. The incompetence is just astounding. Just cut it and be done with it. Like I can't, I have no patience with myself. So yeah, no, she'll come in and I'll be like, I'm just going to cut it. She's like, why? It's not that bad. So stupid. I'm not proud of it, but it's me. I have no patience with myself.

Well, I'm just like, if you're going to do it, do it before you call me in. You know, I'm not going to let you just cut it. If you say, do you cut it before you call me in? They're like, I'm not going to say anything. No, but then you'll see it and be like, why'd you do that? Why'd you cut it? It was right here. God, I actually don't really believe in any of the curses. I kind of just like do whatever I want. I just do what I want.

If something bad is going to come of it, like whatever, I'll just cross that bridge when I get to it. You know, I can understand that to a degree because it's like, especially lately, it's just been feeling like there hasn't been reprieve. So I'm like, you know what? Yeah, basically. You know what? You know what, guys? You know what? Like if it's just going to keep getting worse, like what can be worse? Let's just keep going worse. Why not?

At least there's variety and you're still surprised by life. At least the consistency is that it's worse. It's different. Like luck can cancel luck at some point. Yeah. No, yeah. It's like two negatives. You would think. It's just everybody. It is. It's like illness and like just like, it's like all over the place. And just random stuff. It's February tomorrow. Thank God. Yeah. I keep telling myself that.

And then it's going to be March the next day because that's what happens to me with February. It doesn't matter if it's leap year. It's short literally. Soon it will be summer. Oh, wow. We just took a tour. I tell myself this. It's practically Christmas. No, no, no, no, no. You know what? Get your winter gifts ready. No, absolutely not. If you haven't started your Christmas knitting yet, you should. Rhymebex around the corner. I mean, you should really though. Your sweater should be done by now.

I finished, you know, two minutes after midnight on January 1st. I technically finished mine two minutes before midnight on January 1st. Well, there you go. And that's all the time we have for this week. For additional content and opportunities to connect with the cast, be sure to check out our website at partinmystache.com. And remember to tune in next time for more tips, knits, and wits at Part in My Stache.