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I'm Drea. I'm Meg. I'm Tina. And I'm Jess. And this is pardon my stash. Welcome to part of my stash a podcast about knitting within the fiber arts and how awesome it is. Before we get into today's topics, let's find out what everybody's working on. Andrea? I am working on the arachni shawl by player slayed or verily knits. I am usingflies and hellhounds, Penny, in Flower Moon and nightmare. And this is my PMS matchy make along thing that I'm doing. Yeah. What a great, great thing you're doing. Have even done projects. I have even done, like, two rows since the last time we talked. I'm I'm going to give that a round of applause because I know how much you've been struggling. Yeah. So I started today without the glove and let me tell you. Oh, no. Soon as I touch the ear, and I was like, nope. That's not for that. Not yet. Not yet. You'll get there, though. Yeah. I know. But it how far are you getting it so far? How how much, Iraqney can we see? I'm still about, halfway through the spider? Oh, yeah. Oh, no. No. I won't ask you any more questions about it because now we have dropped stitches So let's go to Jess. I am working on the, between the dragon and his rep by Kathleen spurling. I am at more than halfway through. I'm on the big dragon parts. I'm getting to the part of the pattern that I altered. We'll see how that looks when it comes out. I think it'll be fine. But, yeah, this is, I'm doing this in the critical hit dies, Haladin, with the colorways, copper dragon, and Thunderwave. And this
Regarding our current projects, patterns, and yarns. Welcome to this week's topic. This week, we're gonna get a little controversial up in here. Oh. We're gonna press some buttons. And spooky, I guess, because it's so suspicious. You're setting the ambiance. Thank you. No problem. We're going to talk about pattern and design ethics. That's right. Get your pitchforks out. You know, when you're on ravelry and you see some patterns and they look really similar. Yes. I have seen that and it is quite interesting seeing 2 patterns looking very similar to each other. You wonder, if they may be inspired or something. Well, is it inspiration or is it that it's it's blatant? Like, do you think it's intentional? And and how do you feel about it? I think one of the issues is, like, if you if you look for a Stitch Bible, quote, unquote, for lack of a better word, or a Stitch book, there are only so many. Yeah. It is it is actually really hard to make up a new stitch pattern that has never been used before. So There are so many ways to stitch a stitch. Yeah. And I'm trying to think off the top of my head. I I do not believe you can copyright, and and I'm sure that someone will will tell me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe you can copyright a stitch. I don't think you can do that. You can copyright a color work pattern. Sometimes you can loophole and copyright the name of a stitch, but then someone else can just change the name and change the name. And you can cop and some lace patterns are, copyrighted. Like, you can't you can't pirate those. It's murky at best. But I know. It's it's I don't know how you can take take a a stitch out of, say, like, the Vogue Knitting, whatever the hell it is. I have it downstairs, but, god, if I know the name. Make a
I've I've always been meant to do this. The Portuguese in me is is running towards the Portuguese knitting. Like, oh, here we go. Like and it's been really great to just, like, reconnect with my roots and, like, where I've come from and, you know, all these different, like, and, like, different things that, like, my family has made that, like, now I could actually look at it and go, oh, I I could make that. I could figure that out. Like, that's so cool. But, yeah, those are my moments. That's awesome. Yeah. I I know I always, like, kept my knitting up from when I was younger just because I never knew when I, you know, wanna make another mane for a dragon, and it was good to have the knowledge of how to do that. Don't me. But I think the moment where I was like, oh, man, I should actually look more into this knitting wise was when I made a friend a hat and I made up my own color work for it, with with the Norse runes because he was, like, super into that, like, into the runes and all that. So so I made that and I found out that color work was really fun. Yeah. And I've actually I've come back to that and I've gotten better at color work and now I like doing the the the 2 strand version of it whereas I used to hold both colors in one hand. Now I, like, can do what is it? Continental style if I'm doing color work. I'm still my tension is not great when I but I kinda want to learn Continental style all the time because it I do go faster with it. The crochet one was when I found out I can make, like, little animals and I made a Magikarp that turned into a Gyarados. I mean, that was pretty cool. I was like, this is awesome. And then yeah. So I my crochet is mostly like animals and amigurumi.
I guess it is mindful. But Well, I mean, that's essentially being mindful because you're you're listening to your body and listening to what, whether or not you use the word mindful. I'm just using mindful as a general term, but that's essentially what that would be doing is I'm pretty thoughtfulness if I do say so myself. I think you have lots of thoughts in your head. I try to keep them inside a lot of the time. Yeah. Knitting is definitely, like, a distraction for me. So when I when I don't want to do anything but let my hands go, then it's when my body's ready for it. Yeah. And I have, like, an avoidance mindset. So if you give me something that I was going to do, but now you tell me that I have to do it, I'm just not gonna do it. I was gonna do it, but now I'm not gonna. Because you said I had to, so Yeah. Forget that. I've been trying to work on that. It's not been very successful, though. As long as you're trying. I'm aware of it, and that's about where I'm at. Yeah. Hey. That's better than most. What about you, Meg? I have noticed over the last couple years, I don't tend to get projects off the ground in the first half of the year. I have a very bad track record with completing projects that I started before May. I don't know why. And I don't know if it's a work thing because I tend to be to have much more time. I tend to be more relaxed in the summer. But but then in the fall, like, I'm still getting stuff done. So I I feel like that can't be it. I don't know. But the ironic thing is you also tend to start a lot more. Right? I start a lot. No. I have terrible startitis from, like, January until April. We're all cast on a whole bunch of stuff and nothing will stick. And then all of a sudden the planets will align and one thing last year it was Calliope. One thing will stick, and then I'm good.
Really want to Just don't start. Just don't start. Just don't start. Just don't start. I can't handle myself right now. Oh, that's the reason. You know? It's just that that one I I found interesting. But I figured everyone will 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 Steak. Can't 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. What's that? The instructions were really bad though. Oh, I hate that. Oh, cool. One was really bad too. I shouldn't say bad. It was just it was complicated. Yeah. No. Mine was just bad. It it wasn't explained well. And there's 22 better ones. 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. Yeah. 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 wanna say it's Michelangelo left a 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 want it. So 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 gonna go and say that I always follow this rule accidentally. See? But I don't have a single project that doesn't have some mistake in it. I mean, every time I lose my stitch count and just say f it, like, it's
