¶ Intro / Opening
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 within the fiber arts and how awesome it is. Yeah. Yeah. Before we start this episode, let's see what everybody's working on. Drea. I decided that I didn't like the way the Bananasaurus was coming out because there was like I got the body done and then I didn't like the invisible decreases that were
going up the back. And I'm not sure if it's because I was using the wrong size hook or if I did it wrong. So I frogged the whole thing. Was it cathartic? Yeah. Good. I have frogged and restarted this thing like eight times now. I frog it like once a week. Frogging crochet is kind of fun because I don't know. It doesn't seem as like, I don't know. It doesn't get stuck on itself. You're right. It doesn't get stuck on itself. You could just go. Just rip it. Yeah. Rip it and rip it.
So that's gone. That's not a thing right now. I think I'm going to restart it again with a smaller hook size. I think I was using a bigger hook because it was easier to see the stitches. But now that I'm a little bit further along in my crochet, I think that I will be fine with a smaller hook size. So for today, I'm working on turtles. I'm working on a green turtle. It's going to have a brown shell. I'm very excited. I'm using Big Twist Baby Bear. In green. I think
it's sage green, but green. Most likely sage. Big Twist likes to use the word sage. And brown sugar. Yeah, it does look like brown sugar. And maybe one day I will have a bananasaurus, but it is not today. And that's fine. That is fine. And I forgot where I was on this pattern, so. Well, we'll let you figure out that count. Very good. So remember last time when I said, okay. I don't remember what I did last week. So last episode, I said, I've been working on this sweater
for a long time. And you all were like, good for you. We're proud of you. You can stop being proud. You can stop being proud. Castanitis. I still have it. I just don't feel like it. Like legitimately nothing happened to it. I just like two weeks ago, I was like, if I have to do one more round of stocking it in the round, I'm going to lose my mind. Well, I'm proud of you for recognizing when it was time to put it down. You know what? Thanks for still being proud of me, even though
I did my thing that I do. as it is March, and I cast on something different because why not? Well, what is it now? So this is called Winter Light by Meg Gadsby. And it is a very, you know, right now this is what I need to do. It's a very simple shawl pattern. It's like a once -gained wonder. And I pulled a ball of yarn from my stash that I've had for about two or, I can't remember, two or three years. That I bought at Rhinebeck. It is fiber optics cashmere gradient in Texas
blue bonnets. And I had started making something with it and I made a mistake and I couldn't figure out where I made the mistake. So I frogged it a while ago and it's just been balled up and sitting on a shelf in our basement for a while. But I really love this color. I especially love
the blue. So that's why I picked a simple shawl because I wanted the gradient to really shine um when i get to that point so um that is what i'm working on right now tina um so i haven't the hat i was working on last time i haven't touched it since then so i'm literally on the very again the very last row of this hat before the decreases i did make progress on it i just yeah there's more instead of being in the section before i'm in the last row of that section so
i'm pretty darn close but the project i was working on last week is the northward beanie by tin can knits um i am using sugar sugar maple fibers single ply bulky in sugar maple Nice. That's a lot of sugar maple. I know. I have to say it's slow because otherwise I'm like sugar maple. Wait, am I talking about the yarn or the hat? Hold on. I don't know. Sugar maple hat made with sugar maple yarn and the colorway sugar maple. I love it. Yeah, it's just very sugar maple -y,
yes. I love it. I am still working on the catnip pullover by Andrea Rangel. I did get a little bit further. I have been working on it slowly. I've been working on more Legos, but I have been working on this. I also did just get a set of those spiral needles that I keep talking about that look like a unicorn horn, and they're called
Ewencorn. by addie um and they're spirally um they're not the um what is it the the square the rocket ones they're not those they don't have like the little little divots it's like a spiral um and i like them i i can't like i don't i think it the whole point of them is so your yarn's not supposed to slip off it as much i don't know if it's doing that or not but i like the way it feels so I'm happy with them. I've done two rows with them so far. But I like
them. So we'll see if that sticks. But yeah, I was super excited. Really, the feel is the only important thing. Pretty much. And the only thing I'm kind of sad about is that I don't think they come in a lace tip. They're just sort of like a normal. tip yeah and and they're they're okay um again I'm weird because I use lace tip for everything so it's um I have to kind of readjust how I stab my yarn um But other than that, they're actually, they're really nice. So if they come
out with a lace tip, I might try those. But for right now, these are nice and I am enjoying them. And if you want to see pictures of these projects that we are talking about or get more information about Pardon My Stash at all, be sure to check out our blog that can be found at pardonmystash .com for info, pics, patterns, and yarns. All
¶ The Main Topic
right. So this week, short story, I was looking for my notions bag, which was not in my yarn bag because I forgot I took it out a week or so ago to find scissors and I left it wherever I put it. So when I found it, I went in to get, I think it was scissors again. And I realized there's a lot of stuff in here. Not particularly from the project I'm working on now. Some of these are for like, multiple projects that I was working on in the past. I think some of them
were crochet projects. But it got me thinking about what do people have in their notions bag? Do you just have for the current project? Do you have like a set of things that you have just all the time in your notions bag? Do you switch stuff out all the time? And so I decided a fun thing to do would be let's empty our notion bags
and see what we match with. because i want to know i'm really excited because the last time we did a notions bag episode was literally season one that's oh wow like it was like episode four and it was way more um it's not as fun This will be more fun. It's more like, this is what's in my bag. This is what's in my bag. You know. Go around the circle and empty your bags. I want to see, like, does everyone have the same stuff? I mean, I'm sure I have stuff in here that shouldn't
be in a notions bag anyway. If you got through season one, God bless you. I know. I just want to state for the record, I have two notions bags. Yeah, you do. I do, too. I do, too. I mean, I do have some stuff in my actual yarn bag just hanging out in there. Yeah, same. I have a notions
bag in my yarn bag. Also, for the record. one of my notions bag like they it looks like a watermelon slice that's a watermelon honestly i'm just i'm drawn to this 3d taco pin oh my god that's fantastic that's really cute i mean we can't start off which one i have pins all over my notions bag I definitely split my pins between my notions bag. So this one does not have all my pins on
it. Yeah, no, I have a couple of my pins across notions bag, but I feel like the majority of mine are on this particular one because this, this is my double agent knitter crocheter bag. So it's got most of, cause I've had this one the longest, but I do have a smaller one. That's sort of like eight bit video game stuff, which is super cute, but it is smaller. So that usually just carries needles, but. I like my pins. I used to have a ton of pins. I used to have this
G bag. I had a ton. I remember the G bag full of pins. And then that thing got nasty. I needed to wash it. You take the pins off and then you don't put them back on. Yeah. Well, then I switched to a G bag. It was a beige bag with a letter G on it. Oh, yes. So I had that. I've had that for I had that. I got that a long time ago in North Carolina and I went to wash it. And then like I went and got obviously like a backup bag and it hasn't changed. And I mean, it's back.
So the only pins I have are the ones I think these were Christmas pins that you guys. Oh, yeah. Someone gave me. Oh, yeah. I have that on there. But yeah, so the I have what it's called the bag with the stuff I usually use and then the bag with the stuff I sometimes use. I think that's really smart. And I think I should do that because I just have like the bag with random
stuff and the other bag with random stuff. Because like the one I usually use has like certain things in it that I use all that like scissors or something. So much smarter. And then this one has like. stitch holders. I don't use those every single time. The stuff you don't need every time you go out. I sort of do that, but then they slowly merge together into one and then split again, but then they flip -flop by that point. Your bags are like the universe. They're like a lava
lamp. I have one right now for knitting, which is my swatches are for wimps bag with all the pins on it, and then my crochet one is my watermelon bag. See, that's smart, too. That is actually smart because then you just grab the one that you need for that project. I should do that actually. It would make more sense. You should do that. Because I just have boxes, like cardboard boxes that I'm just like, here, everything can live in here now. Yeah. I know. I know you know. All
right. I'm going to dump mine and see what people have similar though. Okay. Wow. We're going to make a lot of noise. Yeah. No, I'm telling, listen. All right. We're going to start. I can't believe all of that fit in that one little bag. That's really impressive. I'm not going to count the yarn scraps that I cut off and just throw in my bag so my cats won't eat them. I think we can safely say everyone has at least one yarn. No, I don't because I threw them out today. Oh,
I did throw them out. Well, I did. Well, I get so nervous about the yarn scraps because cats will eat them. And if they eat them, it can twist around their intestines. So I get very nervous. Don't have any yarn scraps. You know what, guys? Maybe. Some people don't keep their bags clean. So right there. Just me and you, I guess, Dina. Whatever. The agents of chaos. Okay, okay. But I'm going to start an easy one like scissors. Like scissors, I feel like. Scissors. I feel
like most. I have scissors. You gave me my pair and it's cute because I have another pair somewhere, but these ones are rainbow. And they have like little. So I had a pair of regular scissors, which is no longer in my knitting bag. It's migrated. But in my crochet turtle kit, they gave me like these cool like. Oh, the little, the shears. Oh, yeah. They almost look like gardening shears. No, those things are great. Honestly, I use them more for belting, but they are amazing. I love
these things. Because they clip off little like. Tina is still getting scissors out of her bag. No, like, because some of them are at the bottom. Okay. Girl. Why do you have so many little scissors? I technically should have two of these collapsible ones. Okay. The collapsible ones are cool. I know. I have two knit kits. Oh yeah. I have my. And the knit kit has like a. I'll say I have my knit kit ones. Yeah. So if you don't know what the knit kit is, it is literally called
the knit kit. And there's also, and you can basically, it has like, it's like a good little mobile option that you can take with you. We've talked about it before. Yeah. They're still around. I also
have a knit kit. in my kit and the best part for me for this one is that it has a three number row counter yeah yes no that is awesome because most row counters do stop at two I had a digital one that went up to three but the battery ran out and I don't feel like figuring out how to change it I have two of them I don't know where my second I know it's somewhere in here but there so there's two collapsible and then I have Old reliable, which I've had. This is an old. Those
are nice. This is an old pair from Joanne's and it was from a sewing kit. I would say those definitely look like sewing scissors. Yeah, but they're so useful. Yeah, no, they're so good. And then I have these. These are my, I call them my plain ones. They're itty bitty. Oh, they're so tiny.
they're sharp though like they are literally they're tinier than the tiny scissors yeah I you're thinking we're talking about the tiny scissors these are like even half the size yeah it's just enough that if I were to stab somebody with them they would go like oh yeah but hey I can't oh you know okay don't endorse stabbing people on this podcast all right so if you know the airline industry is listening to this please let me through TSA I won't stab anybody with
my tiny minuscule scissors thank you these are my because these are what those are for they always get through tsa so they're good like that all right so scissors we all have a cutting device all right all right next one i'm going to do is because it's another pretty common one a uh row counter i i'm not going to count my um my knit kit anymore but got it yeah see your counter plain boring green one for the win if you have the knit kit that row counter does count but
i have a separate little yeah i'm not going to count cheap anymore Like, I think we got a just bag of these, and I lose them all the time. The spoolies. Yeah, the cats use them as toys. I have three. Dre's got a collection of these going on right here. Oh, you got one that's, like, different, too. I like that one. Yeah, I've got three different ones. I've got a small black one. I've got a small red one. And then I got
a big black one. I like these ones, because depending on the needle, like, you can just leave it on the needle, depending on the project. That was the thing. I don't. Oh, there's another pair of scissors in here. Oh, my God. Hold on. So this is a kit I just got. It's cute. It's all black. Oh. Okay. Oh, so everything in it's black. Everything's black. Okay. So this kit I got.
Is that a file? yes you know what to be i'll be completely honest with you i bought this i think it was last year it was like closer to christmas time and it was a little pre -order for this or pre -order or they just like sold out of this like kit that and it says like knits black at night i can't remember the exact name of the item but basically it's a little tin with like all black items and i love and if you have ever seen me in public all i wear is freaking
black so um i was just really I was like, ooh, this is nice. So I've actually never opened it. I've taken it with me. Is this the first time you're going through it? So I've taken out the tape measure, and I've taken out this sticker before. But I haven't actually dumped the whole thing out. So let me just, because I think I see. Yeah, look. Look at these. They're even smaller. Oh, yeah. Oh, I mean, the eyes are like huge, which is hilarious. Yeah, the eyes of those
are massive. Don't worry about those fat fingers, guys. They will get through. I love these. OK, so but I was trying to see if it had a row counter. I don't think it does. I think I always rely on my knit kit one. That's fair. I don't have an additional one outside of. All right. So three, but not one. OK. Those are the cutest little scissors. Other comment. I have tapestry needles. I have like a little tube that has two big tapestry
needles and then three like actual sharp. I think they're upholstery needles or something similar to that because I like to stab my knitting when I weave my ends in. Just remind me. I just threw a stitch marker on the ground. Just someone remind
me of that. yeah i'm gonna be so for real i never have tapestry needles yeah you use mine oh i always i'm like jess i need a tapestry needle because for whatever reason i always lose them so i know i even gave you a little tube i know i know i know they're they're they've got to be in my other my other notions bag but yeah no i never seem to have one on me ever yeah okay um so uh this knit black kit has a black metal tapestry needle and then the one i have for like
all the other ones so this was from quarter stitch um which is down in louisiana but they had this up for sale online it's this little like wood carved container that i can twist open oh And then it has a key chain on the end. So if I wanted to put it on my keys, I could. But it has all my needles. It's like a fancier tube than the one I have. So this is a beautiful product. But the reason why I bought it is because it had the bi colors. And I was really excited about
that. That is fun. So yeah. So it was like, this is my gay pride item. Just this little tapestry needle kit. All right. Next up. I have two tapestry needles, and I have an embroidery needle. Yeah, see? Nice. You got to have a sharp one just in case. You never know. Next pretty standard notions bag, stitch markers. I have a couple loose ones hanging out, and then I also have a little, I think it's supposed to be a pill case, and that's
filled with just a ton of stitch markers. I probably do not need all those stitch markers at any one time, but they live in my notions bag. I know there's like a buttload. So I have, I also have the pillbox. Jess and I got these both in Marblehead a few years ago. I have this adorable set of stitch markers that Dre got me for my birthday last year. The birds. Oh, the birds. They are a whole collection of different little birds. Some of them are 3D. Some of them have hats.
Some of them are 2D. I love these so much. Cause they're just so darn adorable. Um, and then I have another one that I got because I, um, I wanted more stitch markers that were like non dangly for projects that like, I was trying to do color work and doing color work with a lot of dangles was driving me crazy. Cause they were literally like every nine stitches, there was another stitch marker. And I'm like, this is driving me crazy. So I got this wooden box full
of, and these crack me up so bad. They are stitch markers shaped like little cat heads. Oh, those are cute. They are adorable. So they're like round with little ears. So fun story about this box. I got the box and I got it the day before I was supposed to take Mariel to gymnastics. And I go to leave for gymnastics. And as I'm putting her in the car, I put the stitch marker box on top of the car. Okay. Get to gymnastics, realize it is gone. Realize it fell off somewhere.
The next day I'm taking a walk. It is like negative degrees outside. It was freezing. And I'm walking down a couple streets down and I see gold in the middle of the road. These were all over the road. And I found all but one. One I did find later and it was destroyed. But I found the box and I found all the stitch markers by some miracle. So those are my cats. I got a lot of stitch markers. Those are really cool. They are super cute. I have a whole box of plant stitch markers that
Meg and Jess gave me. All the plants. All the plants. I love these plants. Some of them are succulents. Some of them are shamrocks and leaves and cactuses, cacti, whatever you want to call them. But I love these. I haven't used them yet. But I love these. And then I have, like, three more bags of just random stitch markers. You know, your good old purple and greens. The good old reliable, the purple and greens. I've got some pineapple ones. And I've got these, like,
round ones. Do you remember these? Oh, my God. I still have some of those. She wrapped me up a whole bunch of stitch markers in a ball of yarn for a birthday gift once. And I still have some of those left. Yeah. I still have those.
metal um they're almost like little flowers and they look like like wreaths or that was in 2012 that was like 13 years ago oh my god i still use them sometimes but they are very bulky like they're thick i'm just mega impressed that like you have that many stitch markers left from 2012 yeah like because these things vanish like nobody's business unless they're super unique and you're like oh i can't if i drop that one i gotta go digging and find it that's the thing right if
it's a junky one i don't search no you're like i'm good like the purple and green but the nice ones absolutely not do you know which ones i actually really miss the ones that look like little uh yarn balls oh yeah i love those i think those are all gone now I think I might have like a couple left. Yeah, but they're not. Yeah, they're mostly gone. Did you do? Yes, I did. So for me, stitch marker. I actually laid everything out because it's like it was just like all over the
place. I was trying to see everything. So the knit black kid has this really cute like heart charm and it has like a clasp and it has a bunch of like I would say like black. pins and then it has uh stitch markers as well just round black ones super pretty and then I have two of these um They're like count as you go. Like they have numbers on them. So like you can like mark where you're going. Those are so fun. Yeah. One of them is broken, but I refuse to throw it out.
And then the other one is fine. So I keep both. And then I have my stitch marker gift from Megan Jess for Christmas, which was puppies. Because clearly, if you don't know, I run a retirement home for senior dogs in my house. That's all I adopt. I only like to adopt senior dogs. I
don't know why. have a calling um so i yeah there's a lot of doggy things but like i have let's see what's in here there's a shiba inu there's a husky there's a malamute there's a schnauzer that's another schnauzer there's a corgi corgis yes a corgi butt i like the corgi butt but yeah there's a bunch of those And then I have like random ones. So like there's a lobster clip on one and I would know exactly what that was for. It was for a project where I needed to know where
the front was. Yeah, you got to have those. And then I have I want to who is who's this is yours,
isn't it? the green rubbery ones no those are just uh those are old reliable those are just reliable those could be anybody's they're not mine i borrowed this from one of you at some point uh it could have been any one of us and that yeah i have a yeah sounds like that's one of them those purple and greens i'm like somebody this is somebody's i just i don't know why for some i'm like just remembered that that like that one's not mine i have to give it back I
was going to say, everyone's talking about their cool ones. I didn't talk about my cool ones because they're all in here. But I was going to say, I have like little cats and paw prints that I got from Tina a while ago. And then I have my birds that all came from Meg. I have crows and I have falcons. And then I have a whole bunch of weird ones that I just got like beads from Joanne's. Poured one out and turned into stitch markers. Yeah, Jess Hand makes a lot of our stitch
markers just for funsies. Just for funsies. I got some cool scaly hearts and stuff. Like, they're fun. Yeah. I guess I'm never going to open that again. I tried to open it. There's a tin and I can't unscrew it. Right? It's like. Oh, my God. Yeah. Run it underwater. I forget if it's hot or cold. I might need a Patrick. Dude, I'm going to die if it's pry apart. Oh, my God. If it was pry apart and we're sitting here like twisting it. I don't think so. No, I screwed
it. It's definitely a screw. That was my older one. Dude, that thing is like glued shut. Oh. Oh. Pop. I didn't need a man. I needed a Drea. Oh, it's true. I'm here for you, Tina. Thank you. Thank you. Is that one of them try on your sweater things? Yeah, the wires. Oh, barber cords. Yeah, that's it. Barber cords. I have one of those somewhere. I do not. All right. So moving on. I have a pen. Several. I do not have a pen. I don't have a pen either. I have a pen. I have
a pencil and two highlighters. I used to have a pencil, but that disappeared. I don't know. I probably used it for something else. I have a needle holder thing. I have one. Yeah. When you're done, you put your needles in it so your project doesn't fall out. Yeah. I know I have some somewhere because you gave me them, I think. The llamas? Oh, yeah. No. See, I have goats on my project. But then I also have this little
S -shaped thingy. There's different sizes and you can put the needles in and they just stick the needles together. And they're actually really fun. I like my green one better. This is my purple one. I don't know where my green one is. And now I'm kind of like sad. I also have a lone cat paw because it's... That too. No, just one. The other one is somewhere. But the reasoning is that this is made for like size, I want to
say 10 plus. uh needles which i never use so i use one and i just put both needles in it at once so i have the same thing somewhere and and i do the same thing like it's unless you're using massive needles that thing is not staying on no but it's super cute so i keep it in my bag because it's a little orange spotty cat paw and it's adorable and i have a second one somewhere um here do we we start to go off the rails with mine not terribly i have um A bunch of lone circular
and double points. Oh, girl. Yep. I think most of these are size three. These ones are just for, like, sleeves. Like, these are tiny. I've got, like, tiny ones. I have a bad habit of cannibalizing cords. And then I have some double points. So I've got a spare cord and the set of needles that this cord I have came off of that are size tens. Jesus Christ. I'll be okay, people. Hold on. And I have the, what's it called? The black stoppers. Oh, yep. In that same vein, I also
have a crochet hook. i have a whole bag of crochet do you have an entire interchangeable needle set that's what i want to know i know you know what that you like took it and mold at least yours is organized though mine's just i don't remember what i used you didn't see the pile of needles size 11 yeah so i want to these are from hats so when i'm done with a hat i just don't put it away just throw it in the bag Tina's bag is literally a Mary Poppins bag. No, it's
fantastic. You'll want it. She's got it. I have a lone pair of interchangeable needle tips in size six. I have one double pointed needle that I use for cabling. And then I have my US sevens attached to a interchangeable cord. Yeah, I actually just recently did clear out my interchangeable needles and my needle cords. I do have a crochet hook. It's good for picking up. No, this one is not good for picking up things. I don't know why I have this. This is massive. I just have
it. I just have it in my bag. Is it a J? It's red. An I or a J? Maybe an H. It says... No, 5 .5 millimeters. I don't know what that means. Me neither. I do have that. 5 .5 is going to be there an H or an I. H or an I. Here you go. Don't quote us on it. Don't listen. We don't know. It's higher than a G. You were using it for granny squares and it probably just got lost in there. Yeah, you're right. I was. No, I just, I remember that. I have two. They're so nice.
And they're fancy ones. They are fancy. I have a K and a G. The K is for my fat projects and the G is for little stuff. Yeah, I just have a G right now. And I honestly think it's because I dropped it on the floor and found it and threw it in here. Oh, I have three metal ones, too, because why not? I mean, yeah. How do you have that many crochet hooks and you don't crochet? Wait. I drop stuff all the time. That's the problem. And then I like can't find. So these are the
ones I usually use to fix stuff. It's the double headed. I love the double headed crochet. So I have two of them. I never find them. So I go with the crochet hook because I can't find them. You know what I'm saying? Your mom got me a really nice. It was like a it looked it was like a marbled oval thing. And if you could pop out both sides
and one side was a stitch. um a seam ripper and the other side was a tiny crochet hook and it was awesome and I don't know where it went and I gotta find it because it was cool and I'm surprised it's not in here um I'm not um okay so and i have a little uh keychain which i thought was my uh make one left make one right reminder but it's not it's a uh swatch ruler which why do i have this no bam so do i i don't have one of those but mine is like a but i also do wraps
per inch on this yeah yeah so i wrote in pen oh that's on the back of mine that's fair i should write if i need to so okay okay fair i do yarn saver and i have to identify yarns all the time so that's why this is on here but like literally i wrote like super bulky erin worsted dk like how many wraps it is on the back of this and then i just i've been using this to like determine what things did you guys all like get one without me i was gonna say during how do you not have
one of these i don't think until no because i definitely got that at i bought mine in north carolina i dropped all the needles jess and i went to it was years ago it was um local i think it was a no what was it local yarn store day yeah we went to local yarn store day at knit and pearls and we both got ours because ours both say knit and pearls yeah yeah I don't mine doesn't say knit and prep mine says I had one exactly like this though that had to make one
left make one right because I actually do use those and I always forget how to do it every single time um I actually have a wraps per inch tool oh in my bag that's fancy not oh you know what I got this from um the woolery when i bought uh the new drive band for my canadian production wheel um i want to say like it was like x amount of money and you got free shipping so i threw this in because i thought especially with doing hand spun it would be good to know you know what
the thickness was yeah um have i ever used this i have not but i have it yeah but it's cool sure that's like slightly different yeah No, you kind of thread it through the top. I see. Yeah. That is really cool. So I do have it. That's fun. But I've never used it. Hey, you know what? I haven't spun in a long time because between the kid and the cats, the drive band is always falling off. Yeah, I know. I put it back on the other day and then it came right back off again because
cats. That's how they roll. All right. I also
have this iChord tool. and tina i'm pretty sure you can i gave everybody yeah mine isn't another i think it's my other pouch yeah and i i have actually used it before it took a little bit of getting used to but it's super cute and i like it and i don't know why i'm like actually i probably shouldn't keep it in this bag because i'm afraid it's gonna break my break the little hooks but um but yeah it's actually really cool it's it's like a three hook i chord Um, there's
like a hand motion that you do and it creates an eye cord. It's really cool. Um, I have one, but it is definitely at home in my yarn cabinet. That's like, I know exactly where it is, but I haven't had the opportunity to use it yet.
No. it is it is fun um i have this one and then i have a meg got me like one of those ones where you turn the handle it makes one that is also like a crank yeah i have a crank one too so i have a crank one too no those are i do not have that one in my bag i'm just saying that the crank one is a pain in the ass though with the weight that's true because you got to kind of pull it otherwise yeah it's it it doesn't um tension yeah the tension screws it all up yeah you got
to keep the tension um Then, okay, so the last yarn -related thing that I have in here, and I don't know why it's in here because I did not use these beads for this, but I have beads. They're shek seed beads. They're like turquoise. They're pretty. They are pretty. They are. I'm trying to remember why I put them in here at all. Because I have a separate bag that just has all my beads. So I think I was intending to use them and then just didn't and never took them out. I don't
remember you even buying those beads. I know, right? I don't remember those beads at all. Aren't those nice? And I generally remember the beads. They are definitely the color that I used for my Morgana shawl. So I'm wondering if I was going to use them for... my tapestry and then realized I was using worsted weight and these wouldn't work. No, because you were using white ones for that. I think that you bought those and you bought the blue ones that you used from Organus. Those
ones are slightly off. Now I'm remembering because you didn't have the yarn with you so you bought two different kinds of beads because God forbid you take the yarn to the store and compare them. I wasn't thinking. So we just have all these beads. But they're so pretty. I really should put them into I have a bag that's just beads and they're awesome. There's so many. I didn't know she had a bag of beads. I do. It's my Halloween cat and pumpkin bag. It's a drawstring. Also,
can be used as a weapon. Yeah. Sure could. The amount of beads in there. Sure. It lives under a table. I mean, you could also scatter them on the floor. Yeah. Those are the clear ones. Slip them up. Yes. Never. So I do have beads. And then I have like a candy wrapper and a little heart that my daughter made me that I don't remember it ending up in there, but it ended up in there. Cute. And that is everything that is in my notions
bag right now. The only thing that I probably need for the project that is in this project bag with the notion bag is the scissors. Like, I don't know why the rest of this stuff is in here right now, but that's the way it is. What do you guys have that's extra? I have a needle gauge. Oh! We have one of those. We do, but I don't know where it is. I know where it is. I have a couple of them, actually, but they're not in this bag. I only know where one is. I
was like, that's the standby. This is old reliable. Susan Bates. Who doesn't have a Susan Bates? I like the... Is that the mindful one, though? The blue one? Yeah, this is the mindful one from Knitter's Pride. And it's a little bit more compact. And it doesn't bend as much. Oh, that's fair. Mine's deformed. Yeah, but you know what? The Bates one has the crochet hook ability, too. Yeah, it does. Yeah. But yeah, I have two. Why not? Why not? Why have one? I have two. I also
have a nail file. Oh, I have that, too. I have a bunch. Hold on. I got this. And that one. And I got this one. The little one. What are the nail files for? In case you got a hangnail. Yep. Like snag. That is so smart. I was suffering from that earlier today and I got really mad. And then I just, I just bit my nails until it stopped. This is too many nail files. I think Tina has some to spare. I will pick one. Oh my God. It's so cute. Along that same vein. I also
have nail clippers. Oh, see, that's smart. That is smart. Also doubles as scissors. Now I want a pinch. It also doubles as scissors and a pinch. Yeah, I really need to put a pair of nail clippers in my bag. Because I have this one that I love because it's compact and it has its own little case. And I love this one. And then I had bought that one because it was on super duper clearance discount because it was after Christmas. It has Christmas patterns on it. And I was like, I don't
care. I'm going to use it for my nails. Yeah. So I grabbed that one. It's still taped shut. Yeah. I didn't open it yet because I've been using this one. But I have that one as backup because this one could go bad. No, I like this
one. I want this. blue one with birds on it yeah but i always try to make sure that i have something to take care of nails because you never know when no that is smart i on that vein um so because i also deal with like bad cuticle issues and when they bleed this is so this uh yeah my skin my skin's horrendous i get psoriasis on my hands and my nails in particular the skin around my nails like just calluses and peels all the time so sometimes if i have something that's probably
going to be an issue but i don't want to pick at it i'll throw it's like a basically a finger cover yeah and the reason why i like these in particular is because they have openings on the bottom and so if i'm using this on a finger that I usually knit and not look, but I have to feel it. So if I put a cover on there that I can't feel. It throws you off. Yeah. But this one, because it has these little openings on the bottom. Oh, that's so smart. I can still feel the yarn.
Yeah. So it works for that. No, that's pretty good. That is cool. And it's the size of my pointer finger because that is usually the one that has a problem. See, I use those that work because they are good little rubber finger peach turners. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Helps me turn the pages faster.
So you don't have to lick your finger. to be honest I think that's what these are originally I just use them as finger covers but like yeah it's I think if you look up like a page turner cover or something for your fingers like it would come up I have like little leather ones of those for my when I'm doing needle felting which I should use more often than I do because they do work when I use them and when I don't use them I stab myself so also good to have i have
a charger block nice you know what that's reasonable too because if you're knitting in a random spot and then your phone dies and it has your pattern on it you can at least charge it unfortunately i do not have the charger cable to go with it but i do have the block but people are more likely to have the wire than the block it's true that's fair so it is true i have the tag for jeans That is hilarious. Take a picture of that. That is memory. I was going to say, we should take pictures
afterwards for the blog. Jeans. I also have a random button. Who knows what that was for? And then just some more of those little black covers for the interchangeables. Oh, nice. Yeah, caps. And then in my crochet bag, I also have eyes. Oh, eyes. And look. I have more eyes. Look at that. I'm working on a box of eyes. I have a bag of eyes, but I am still missing a box of eyes. Just make sure you keep the eyes in there so you don't lose the eyes. I need to get more
eyes. No, you don't. You need to find the eyes. No, because I don't know where they are, and all I have are the boring ones. Oh, my God. You could search. I have a bag of noses, too. You could look for the eyes. I did. They're missing. They're in the ether. They're probably in the closet in the craft room, which I am not going into. I do want to get like one of those big boxes. Because I'm going to run out of eyes for turtles. You should get one of them bead boxes.
Yeah, that's what I want. Well, you can get them online. And it has like 150 pieces or something. And it's all different size eyes. That's nice. Different colors, different sizes, different shapes. I was going to say, if Joanne still has storage stuff, they have those organizers there and you could get the organizer and then wherever you want to get the beads or the eyes, you could get the eyes. I know it's a good idea. I just
haven't done it yet. Dear God. I don't have any eyes on me because I'm not making chickens currently.
Well, that's it for my notions bags. that's all i got in there what you got meg so i actually don't have that much um in my actual bag there's nothing else i've gone through that but in my in my project bag i have two more things i have a pair of barrettes of course uh that probably came off my kid at some point and i just took them off and threw them in the bag And I have a little bottle of handmade hand lotion in the scent Fig. Oh, yeah. It's hand cream. It is super
nice. I love this. Because I tend to, especially in the winter, my hands get really dry. And I have the same issue with the yarn catching. So I have that in here. And I think. That is also smart. Oh, no. One other thing I forgot. I have my. Little rubber stitch tip covers that are shaped like owls. I love these. I love my owls. And that's it. I travel pretty late. I need to get some dragons. I feel like there are dragon stitch covers and I need them. There probably
are. Start looking for them. I know. Put it out there. If you make... I know there's people out there, small businesses, that make needle cover, like needle tops. If you have one that's a dragon, shoot just a DM. I'll look it up. I guess we're going to address the elephant in the room. That is my stuff. Yeah. What else do you have? What else can you have? So one thing you guys didn't talk about was you didn't talk about a tape measure.
I never have a tape measure. I usually do have a tape measure and I have one from Socks for Sam. I also have my socks. Yes. But I had taken it out of my bag recently because I needed to use it. And then I put it down on the coffee table and that's where it still is. Gotcha. So I have. three retractable tape measures and then I have one traditional tape measure. I don't like measuring people's bodies with a retractable. It drives me nuts. And the retractables are never
long enough. It's not very well maintained right now. It's kind of a hot mess. I tend to take my kids measurements a lot for different things. So I have to keep my good old reliable pink. No, I actually used to have a traditional one in my bag and now right now it's in my room. And I just, it never made its way back. But no, it's smart because it's true. Like the retractables don't. They don't measure as well. Yeah. If you're measuring like people, I don't know why. I do
have a retractable. I forgot about it because it is in my, my knit kit and it just sort of lives inside of it. Retractables for me are very good for small conditional things where like I'm trying to figure out if I did my four inches
of sweat. Exactly. But if I'm measuring a body, I need a thick, old reliable rubber tape measure so that's why i keep this this one around um i always have it with me this is this is old as hell i've had it yeah but they hold up that's exactly like mine only mine's like blue yeah mine's nice i have a really old yellow one too but it's yellow yeah i don't know where it is at home but i know i got one it exists no that's smart to have though okay so did you guys talk
about cable needles i use my um yeah double double points but you have a legit one and the legit ones i i usually have and i don't and i'm sad at myself i actually don't enjoy using the no i don't either i always use a double point so i don't mind this one if if it's a large cable i like to use one um but the ones that come on the knit kits are sufficient for me that's true they're a little bit shorter and they're a little bit more reasonable to deal with um but not if
there's a lot if it's a big cable like if i'm putting six stitches away it needs to be my favorite cable needle is the short one but it has a little bump in the middle that's my favorite I have those too. Like those are so good. I have actually like a, at home I have a, I have a notions notebook with all the stuff I don't take with me all the time. And one of them is like where I keep all my cable, cable needles. And there's, I have these, this is like an old Joe. It's probably
a Joanne. It looks like it was like, there's like a thin one, a medium one and a thick one. And then there's the one with the bump in the middle. I have those three too. So it works. I have stitch holders, metal ones. These are for sleeves, and that's why I carry it with me because sometimes I get to the end of the... That's smart, though. I get to the end of the yoke, and I'm like, oh, I got a split for sleeves. Oh, God, I got nothing to put the sleeves on.
So I just keep them with me. I like holding them with the metal over the, like, doing it piece of yarn because it's just, I feel like it's easier to get out. You know what? I like using the cable needle, like, and I cap the ends of them. Then I could just... Put needles on them and pick it up without having to re -pick it up. Yeah, that works too. I just don't like doing a piece of yarn. I don't like the piece of yarn. No. It drives me nuts. I have those, what did you
call them? The wires? They're barber cables. Barber cables. Thank you, Meg. They're so cool. I have this set. It's purple. It's with a purple and a green top. And I have a purple and a green corresponding wire. You just see the green right
now, but there is a fluorescent. purple under there um nice and then apparently this black kit came with a black one so there's a black one too um and then i'm trying to think if there's anything else i didn't talk about you know what i didn't have this time around and i don't know where it went my paper clip I know. I don't know where my paperclip is. I just realized my paperclip is not in my notions. How many people have we converted to use a paper? I know it was blue.
It like came out. With my colorful rainbow paper clips. And I kept a blue one in here all the time. And I just realized that it is not in here. Jess, you're going to do seven noops for penance. No. Listen, I did a whole shawl with noops. She doesn't even mind them as much as the rest of us do. It's true. You got to stitch like 10 inches of stock in it. You got to make a super bulky
hat. oh i don't think i have super bulky oh well i know someone who does it might be your wife um i think the only other thing what's that this yeah um well It's a light. Yes. And it goes on your neck. Yes. It's a neck light. I have one of those too. Yeah, me too. I bring this with me because sometimes I end up in situations where I'm bored, but it's like dark for whatever reason and I can't see. Like when you're at the movies. Yeah. Yeah. Or like. I think the last time I
used them for a long time was when we did. It was a Halloween and I was stuck in the golf cart because I couldn't do the walking. And so like the kids are going around and I had my knitting with me and I had my little thing because Pat was driving the golf cart with like a bunch of lights on it. But it was like colored lights. So you couldn't really see what you were doing still. And it was nighttime. It was the disco cart. It was. There you go. Yeah. I like bringing
this with me just in case. Yeah. I have one of those at home. I don't. have one with me here and then uh yeah and then my two knit kits because this one my original one my original knit kit um was there's a couple like there's a couple pieces missing and it broke like the latch it doesn't hold yeah mine yeah let's say yours but the new one i'm looking at like even comparing these two like the new one like looks like a heavier duty I want to get another one. Yeah.
Because it's now, the new one says it's a knit and crochet kit. Oh. That is cool. But that one's like, it's a psychedelic octopus. And then the other one I have, the older one I have is a plaid octopus. Yes. Got to have variety. Yeah. Got it. I think that's everything. I don't know. You think. You never know. I'm waiting for you to crack out a whole other bag and be like, well, forgot this one. Well, I mean, I didn't, like, I have a binder that I take with me everywhere
because I like. patterns that are printed um sometimes i go off my phone but um i yeah i'll whip out it's like a one and a half inch binder with like folders and papers in it and then yeah so my bag is like it's like a full tote yeah the tote is full it is and i didn't even talk about well you never know just two oh i only have two projects with me thank god if there was more it would be very full tote um in my actual bag i have my yarn i have stuffing for
the turtles yeah and um i didn't notice this until i went looking for something else but um i also have a bottle of sriracha hey a bottle of sriracha oh my god for those times when you're knitting and you just need some sriracha man look i gotta spice up my life sometimes you never know when you need a little bit of spice yes So my bottle of Sriracha. It's not a small bottle either. No, it's really big. It's not my travel bottle. It's like a honey sized bottle of Sriracha.
Yes. Oh my God. That's funny. Well, at least we're prepared now. Yeah. We weren't prepared. For what? We don't know, but we're prepared. I'm prepped for anything, including serious flavor. God. Wow. I can't. Oh, wait, hold on. Wow. I haven't brought. I'm sorry. Wow. Steve took a minute there. He was so like. Taken aback. Taken aback by everything. And that's all the time we have for this episode. As always, a special thanks to our sponsor, Jimmy Beanswool, who is
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