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Speaker 1:
[00:02] Welcome to the Very Pink Knits Podcast, the companion podcast to the Very Pink Knits YouTube channel. I'm Staci and I'm here with Polly.

Speaker 2:
[00:09] Hi friends.

Speaker 1:
[00:10] If you would like to get your knitting question on the show, you can email it to podcast at verypink.com, or you can join us on Patreon and get priority in your question by going to patreon.com/verypinkknits. You can support the ad free show, jump in on a free trial, check it out. I'm getting through all these things so quickly. So fast. I'm super efficient today. Our yarn patron, as always, is Turtlepurl. Turtlepurl makes identical twins self-striping sock yarns, and they're always putting out new colorways, and you can follow them on social media or visit turtlepurl.com. I will have a coupon code in the show notes, so be sure to use that for 10 percent off your order. She's also a very nice person and we like supporting nice businesses with nice people.

Speaker 2:
[00:57] Let's hear it for Emily and the cannonball socks that I'm wearing right at this moment.

Speaker 1:
[01:02] Are you wearing it? Why? Is it cold?

Speaker 2:
[01:05] Oh, yeah. Virginia has lost its mind.

Speaker 1:
[01:07] Okay. We're having very spring weather here right now because it's raining and it has not been very warm, but wool socks.

Speaker 2:
[01:15] We're getting very little rain. I don't know what's going on with that. On Friday of last week, it was close to 90. Oh, there were 90 degree days last week. We went to the beach and my kids were swimming. It was summer. Then yesterday, it went down into the 50s and it's in the 50s again today.

Speaker 1:
[01:33] Okay. Sweatshirt and wool socks, cannonball. Cannonball is Polly's favorite colorway.

Speaker 2:
[01:39] That's the best colorway.

Speaker 1:
[01:41] You were able to snag some.

Speaker 2:
[01:42] Yeah. I'm not sad about it. It's nice to be cozy.

Speaker 1:
[01:46] Oh, no. Yes, yes, yes. I definitely, in Texas, wear wool socks past what people would think would be chilly wool socks days, just because the house is chilly in the morning and it's not like your feet feel like they're sweaty or anything. They're just comfortable in wool socks. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[02:05] You look down and you're just happy.

Speaker 1:
[02:08] That happens too. Yes. Yeah. What are you working on right now?

Speaker 2:
[02:12] Oh, okay. So the last time that we recorded, was it a bonus episode? I think it was.

Speaker 1:
[02:17] Yes.

Speaker 2:
[02:17] Okay. I talked about like, I'm circling something. Well, I had applied for a test knit and I was waiting to see if I would get it, and I did. So I'm test knitting the Purple Moon Pullover by Isabel Kramer.

Speaker 1:
[02:33] It's probably not released yet, is it?

Speaker 2:
[02:35] It's not released yet. No.

Speaker 1:
[02:37] Okay. So there's no place to see this?

Speaker 2:
[02:40] Oh, you can see it. If you go to Isabel Kramer's Instagram page, you can see it, because she put the test call there. It's like shades of purple, two shades of purple, stripes, a raglan. Please.

Speaker 1:
[02:54] It's always risky to name a knitting pattern off a color.

Speaker 2:
[02:59] I thought that too, because mine could not be farther from Purple Moon.

Speaker 1:
[03:04] Oh, did you pick other colors?

Speaker 2:
[03:06] Of course, yes. Her sample is knit in a fingering weight and a lace weight, a fingering sock yarn and then a mohair. It's a contrasting color stripe. I'm not a mohair person. When I applied for the test, I said I'm going to use two different colors, but I won't be using a fuzz. They were fine with it. I'm using a tomato red and a camel color. It's really pretty.

Speaker 1:
[03:36] Is there a main color and then a secondary color?

Speaker 2:
[03:39] No, not really. You start the stripe sequence with what I would call the main color, but they're exactly the same. Each stripe is the same width.

Speaker 1:
[03:47] Oh, that is your jam right there.

Speaker 2:
[03:51] It's totally my jam.

Speaker 1:
[03:53] Striped sweaters.

Speaker 2:
[03:55] I had this red yarn. It's from Yarn Jam in my stash from Marilyn Sheep and Wool maybe last year, maybe the year before. And I kept looking at it and thinking, I kind of want to put this with another color because the more I looked at it, the less I felt inclined to have a solid color red sweater.

Speaker 1:
[04:13] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[04:14] And mom and I were talking and she said, I feel like camel would look really good.

Speaker 1:
[04:18] Oh yeah.

Speaker 2:
[04:18] With that red. So then a little time went by and then I saw that test call and I thought, okay, this is perfect.

Speaker 1:
[04:25] Did you end up buying the exact same yarn?

Speaker 2:
[04:28] Yes. Same base, same everything, just a different color.

Speaker 1:
[04:31] Okay. So you have the tomato color and this camel color and they're both from the same yarn jam. I can't think of the tomato without thinking of tomato jam. Oh, delicious. We're saying jam a lot in this episode.

Speaker 2:
[04:47] We are. We are. But yeah, it's really fun. I split for sleeves.

Speaker 1:
[04:52] Wait, wait, you've already done this much?

Speaker 2:
[04:55] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[04:55] You've already knit the yoke? Uh-huh.

Speaker 2:
[04:57] Okay. Yeah. I don't know what came over me, but I was really energized and ready to get going.

Speaker 1:
[05:02] I guess so. Yeah. Okay. That's nice. All right. Have you posted anything yet?

Speaker 2:
[05:07] No, not yet. I thought I'll talk to Staci about it, and then I'll post some pictures.

Speaker 1:
[05:11] Oh, okay. Okay. So we can check out your Instagram or Ravelry, I suppose.

Speaker 2:
[05:16] Yeah, both. They're in both places.

Speaker 1:
[05:18] I'll see if I can find, or you can send me a link to the test knitter call out so people can get a look at it with the mohair. I want to see the mohair also.

Speaker 2:
[05:28] Full disclosure, the design has no finishing around the neck and it's short sleeves. I thought to myself, okay, I'll knit it as she has it. Then once I submit my project and pictures of it, I'm going to go back and pick up for some ribbing around the neck and I'm going to make long sleeves.

Speaker 1:
[05:48] That is really nice of you to fulfill the test knitting. Oh, yeah. I'm happy to do that. Before you go back and make it exactly the way you want it. That is very nice of you.

Speaker 2:
[05:59] Well, thank you. I'm happy to do it. I enjoy knitting similar patterns, but that are slightly different. I think people's approach to short rows and what have you is interesting.

Speaker 1:
[06:11] Yeah. You learn a lot about knitting different designers patterns for sure.

Speaker 2:
[06:17] So anyway, that's what I'm working on. What are you working on?

Speaker 1:
[06:20] I'm still knitting sleeves, man. I'm still knitting sleeves on my Mia sweater. Like last time we talked, well, during the bonus episodes, like I was on the first sleeve. I'm still on the first sleeve. Granted, I'm-

Speaker 2:
[06:33] You have long arms.

Speaker 1:
[06:35] I'm knitting it to the pattern specifications at this point. I'm just trying to get close to the 45 centimeters I need. And I am splitting my time with that and socks, so I'm not completely focused. But here we are, we're recording on Tuesday because we had stuff going on Monday and I knit a lot yesterday. I didn't have a lot of work to do yesterday because I was going to, we were going to record the podcast and I was going to do the editing and everything. So I ended up with a lot of free time yesterday and I spent that knitting. And still, every time I pull out the tape measure, it's like 10 more centimeters, you know? Of course, I'm getting close and I'm making progress. And I'm not discouraged by it at all. But the only thing that I find discouraging is that I want to come on the podcast and say, okay, oh, because I do have other news, my yarn for my heritage sweater.

Speaker 2:
[07:29] Yes.

Speaker 1:
[07:30] Okay. So you knit the heritage sweater. I thought that is so pretty. I really want to knit that too. You sent me a link to the exact yarn that you used. The heritage sweater is a top-down raglan with color work, and the pattern shows lots of different colors in the color work. You did one solid color in the color work. I think that's something that I really liked about it, was just the two colors in the sweater. Then it's staked with the button band, so it's a cardigan, and I loved it. So you sent me the exact colors that you used. Those colors were no longer available.

Speaker 2:
[08:09] Oh, sad.

Speaker 1:
[08:09] So I don't know if you bought the last of it, or because you've posted about it, other people did what I did. It's like, I want to make that, just like that. So I ended up getting a slightly different, because you used navy or, there's a little bit of variation in the color of the blue, isn't there?

Speaker 2:
[08:28] A little bit.

Speaker 1:
[08:29] Okay, so the closest color would be a navy.

Speaker 2:
[08:33] Yes, it might even be a little darker, not darker, but it's got some black in it, some like really dark charcoal maybe in with the navy.

Speaker 1:
[08:42] Okay, and then a soft cream color.

Speaker 2:
[08:45] Correct.

Speaker 1:
[08:46] Okay, so those were your colors. Those were gone. So I got a slightly different blue color. It's still dark blue, but it's not as dark as, and it doesn't look as heathered as it looks more solid. And then a very light peach color instead. So the blue and the peach.

Speaker 2:
[09:05] I can't wait to see.

Speaker 1:
[09:06] And I just, it's, one of the things I like about yours is that there's such a high contrast between the two colors. So I'm not going to have as much contrast. I'm just hoping that the color, that the color work pattern still really shows up. I think it will.

Speaker 2:
[09:20] It will. It totally will.

Speaker 1:
[09:21] The yarn's already here. So I need to finish these darn sleeves.

Speaker 2:
[09:25] And then you can start your staking or your swatching project.

Speaker 1:
[09:29] That's it.

Speaker 2:
[09:29] Cause you need to factor in like a week.

Speaker 1:
[09:33] It took you a week.

Speaker 2:
[09:35] I can't wait to hear how long it takes you.

Speaker 1:
[09:39] How many swatches it's gonna take?

Speaker 2:
[09:40] Watch, Staci's gonna get gauge the first time.

Speaker 1:
[09:42] First try with no difference between color work and one color stockinette, right?

Speaker 2:
[09:47] No difference whatsoever, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[09:48] No difference. No, I'm not gonna curse myself like that. So I don't know how long it's gonna take. But the yarn is here. I'm excited to do this. But I'm still, I'm happily knitting away. You know, I mentioned that I'm watching Mad Men again and it's really holding up, so I have good TV. I took a break from Mad Men because I did a really smart thing. You know the show The Pit on HBO? Yeah. Have you watched it the first season?

Speaker 2:
[10:14] No.

Speaker 1:
[10:15] Okay, dude, the show is so good.

Speaker 2:
[10:17] I mean, I'm prone to medical anxiety, so like ER, those types of shows, I don't gravitate toward.

Speaker 1:
[10:24] Okay, this is an emergency room. This is an emergency room, so things can get a little gross, but they can also be a lot ridiculous. So that's part of the show, but most of the show is about these people and their lives, of course, not the medical.

Speaker 2:
[10:38] Okay, maybe I'll check it out. I've heard rave reviews, like people love it. Okay.

Speaker 1:
[10:42] So the second season came out, and it's like, I don't know, 14 episodes in the second season that come out weekly. You know how I am with my shows. I want to watch the whole thing all at once. I don't want to wait a week for the next show. So I saved them. While everyone else in the world is watching episode by episode, I saved them. And as soon as I saw advertisements from HBO that, season finale of The Pit this Thursday, and it's like Monday, I'm like, okay, I can start now.

Speaker 2:
[11:12] I know what I'll be doing this week. That's great.

Speaker 1:
[11:16] Like with just like a few days, I watched the whole season of The Pit, back to back to back to back, which is a lot. Like I had some pretty crazy dreams about emergency rooms and stuff. It's a lot. But so I had really good TV to watch then, and now I'm back to Mad Men where there's a lot less. There are fewer firecracker accidents in Mad Men than there are.

Speaker 2:
[11:39] I'm happy to hear it. Yeah. I remember really liking Mad Men.

Speaker 1:
[11:44] It's good. It holds up. Of course, it holds up because it's a show about the 1960s. But it's just really well done as far as like the production value, the cinematography. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[11:59] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[12:00] I'm glad to not be wearing pantyhose anymore, among other things.

Speaker 2:
[12:03] Oh, yes. I think heaven's for the women that came along before us and said, no more.

Speaker 1:
[12:10] My legs are pale, and that's just the way they go out to the world. That's just the way they are.

Speaker 2:
[12:17] Yeah, it's okay.

Speaker 1:
[12:20] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[12:20] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[12:22] Well, okay. Well, I talked about my knitting, and I talked, I didn't mean to talk about my TV habits, but that's part of my knitting, kind of.

Speaker 2:
[12:29] I like to, always like to know what you're watching because I need recommendations all the time.

Speaker 1:
[12:33] Oh, and then we have the book group on Patreon, where people talk about what they're reading, which is really helpful.

Speaker 2:
[12:38] That's really helpful, unless you're me and you're listening to Lonesome Dove for the second time because it was just that good.

Speaker 1:
[12:44] You finished the whole thing?

Speaker 2:
[12:45] Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[12:46] Because it's really long, isn't it? Yes. It's so good. Also, we figured out that I didn't want to listen to the audio book Lonesome Dove because the narrator was a problem for me. And then we found out from a Patreon member that there's a new version with a new narrator. Isn't it Will Arnett?

Speaker 2:
[13:07] Yes. He's the same narrator from a book that I think you read, Devil in the White City. Okay. Does that ring a bell?

Speaker 1:
[13:17] Yeah, I don't know that it was him, but.

Speaker 2:
[13:19] It is, it's the same narrator.

Speaker 1:
[13:21] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[13:22] He's a master, he's wonderful, it's really good.

Speaker 1:
[13:24] But he's an actor, isn't he the actor from Arrested Development?

Speaker 2:
[13:29] I don't think it's that same Will Arnett, is it?

Speaker 1:
[13:31] Or am I, I'm really bad at celebrity names.

Speaker 2:
[13:34] Someone's screaming at me. I just picked up my phone like naturally. One moment, please.

Speaker 1:
[13:40] Okay, so this is Polly and I both have this thing where if a book is really good, you're not ready to let it go, go back to the beginning and read it again, back to back. That sounds like what Polly did. Okay, this has to go on my list.

Speaker 2:
[13:53] Well, I'm going to have to circle back and let you know if it's the same Will Arnett, because I can't do this research at this moment, but I don't think it's the same guy. But oh man, if it is, now I'm going to have to start over again and like picture.

Speaker 1:
[14:05] I'm going to find out.

Speaker 2:
[14:07] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[14:08] Right now, Will Arnett. I think it's just me too. Based on the provided search results, there is no direct connection between actor Will Arnett and the classic Western mini-series Lonesome Dove, not the mini-series.

Speaker 2:
[14:23] Not the mini-series.

Speaker 1:
[14:29] Thank you, AI.

Speaker 2:
[14:32] AI doesn't want us to read.

Speaker 1:
[14:34] Lonesome Dove audiobook by... Yeah, this... Read by Will Patton. Patton.

Speaker 2:
[14:45] I thought, like...

Speaker 1:
[14:46] He was so far off.

Speaker 2:
[14:47] Where did I... Well, I agreed with you though. Yeah, it's him.

Speaker 1:
[14:50] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[14:53] Good thing this isn't a book.

Speaker 1:
[14:54] Why do we got this? No, this is not a book. Readers... It is a readers' podcast in a way because knitters read for the most part.

Speaker 2:
[15:04] But, okay, yeah, our knitting info will be correct.

Speaker 1:
[15:09] We'll stick to knitting now. Let's go ahead and do some of these questions.

Speaker 2:
[15:13] Okay. Hi, Staci and Polly. This is a totally random question that I've occasionally pondered since I took up knitting. Why don't we see 100% acrylic fingering or DK weight yarn with a low price point and ease of washing? I would think it could be a popular product. Thanks for all you do from Jen in Alberta, Canada.

Speaker 1:
[15:32] Hi, Jen. They do exist. You can get 100% acrylic fingering and DK weight, and it's entirely possible that we have different chain stores like the big box chain stores between Canada and the US. But I know that Hobby, H-O-B-B-I-I, that's a company that you, I think they're in Europe and you can order from them. They have an acrylic fingering and DK weight. Knitpix also does.

Speaker 2:
[16:06] Definitely Knitpix does. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[16:08] But then as far as the big box stores go, the big chain craft stores like Michael's and Joanne isn't around anymore, is it? I don't think so. Anyway, they have all those and oftentimes it's called baby yarn. It'll be called baby yarn because it's a fine weight, you know, DK or fingering and then easy wash. So it'll be out of acrylic. They do exist. They do exist. So check out Hobby and Knitpix because I know they have, Knitpix has like a lot more acrylic than I think they used to.

Speaker 2:
[16:40] Yeah. Knitpix has a lot more bases than I remember them having. Like Un-Gyde, Un-Gypey? No, just within the category of fingering weight. They have a lot of different options to choose from.

Speaker 1:
[16:52] They've taken on yarn companies that used to be independent. I think they're buying them up and selling their yarn. Because for a while I was wondering, is Knitpix acting as a retail store for other yarn companies? Now I'm actually thinking that they're just scooping up these smaller yarn companies and selling the yarn. Wow. Under the Knitpix umbrella. Okay. I know that there's some, a lot of discussion going around in the knitting world right now about Jimmy Beans, Knitpix, all of these companies are actually part of a larger company and they're not actually as independent as they seem.

Speaker 2:
[17:28] Oh yeah. I've heard of that.

Speaker 1:
[17:30] Yeah. I don't know all the details, so I don't want to go into it too much.

Speaker 2:
[17:35] Interesting.

Speaker 1:
[17:37] It's always independent when you buy from an indie creator.

Speaker 2:
[17:40] That's it. Check out Yarn Jam. Check out Turtlepurl. Here we go.

Speaker 1:
[17:46] When is Marilyn Sheep and Wall?

Speaker 2:
[17:48] I'm not going. It is. It's the first weekend in May.

Speaker 1:
[17:52] Why are you not going? Don't you always go?

Speaker 2:
[17:54] I always go, but remember we talked about how I don't feel like I can take two selfish trips a year, and I really want to go to Reinbeck, so I'm letting Marilyn Sheep and Wall go this time around so that I can go to Reinbeck. I fully expected to have sadness because it's coming. It's soon. I don't have any sadness, so I'm very relieved.

Speaker 1:
[18:16] You're just looking forward to Reinbeck then, which is in the fall, right?

Speaker 2:
[18:19] Correct. We're so busy right now. In fact, it was my daughter's birthday very recently, and she chose to go to some local farms for her family day time. And guess what I bumped into? A whole bunch of little lambs. So that was wonderful.

Speaker 1:
[18:35] So you got your sheep and wool part of...

Speaker 2:
[18:38] Correct. I got my livestock fix. And the yarn part, you know, I still have a lot of yarn, so I'm just working through it. We're good.

Speaker 1:
[18:45] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[18:45] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[18:46] I had forgotten that we had talked about that, but okay. I did see a post about Marilyn Sheep and Wool coming right up.

Speaker 2:
[18:53] All right. Let's get to the next one. Okay. Dear Staci and Polly, I'm a long-time fan, love your YouTube videos, love the podcast and love your patterns, especially the socks.

Speaker 1:
[19:02] Thank you.

Speaker 2:
[19:03] I have a friend who's having a problem with the increases on a top-down raglan sweater. If a knitter were to miss a raglan increase on the increase row, could the increase be made on the next row of plain knitting? Would it be noticeable? Would it make the raglan look weird? Again, asking for a friend, Winky Face, Michelle in Northwest Houston, Texas, USA. Hi.

Speaker 1:
[19:26] Hi, Michelle. Michelle lives very close to me. We talked about this after she sent me this question on Patreon. She's just, I'm also in Northwest Houston. We are not far from each other.

Speaker 2:
[19:36] That's cool.

Speaker 1:
[19:37] Okay, so she has a friend.

Speaker 2:
[19:40] Uh-huh, wink, wink.

Speaker 1:
[19:44] Who apparently missed an increase or two on a top-down raglan, and she's wondering if it's going to be noticeable later on. My answer is yes. Like those increases end up making kind of a line of pattern that unless you have like, if it's plain stockinette, yes, it's going to show. Unless you have a variegated yarn or a stitch pattern going on where that will make it less noticeable. But if you're looking for it, you'll find it even with those other things.

Speaker 2:
[20:16] If you're looking for it, you will find it.

Speaker 1:
[20:19] That seems really deep, Polly.

Speaker 2:
[20:22] Well, because I missed an increase on a raglan.

Speaker 1:
[20:28] Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[20:29] I did not go back and fix it. I just made up for it in the next row. I told myself, only if I were looking for it, would I be able to see it. Nobody knows to look for it. Now, if your increases are made with yarn overs, that would be obvious, I think, more obvious.

Speaker 1:
[20:46] You don't think a make one or a KFB is that obvious on plain stockinette?

Speaker 2:
[20:51] I think a KFB is, because the B makes that pearl bump. Right. But for me, just the make one, it's not obvious. If I can, I'll make a picture and show you.

Speaker 1:
[21:04] Okay. I think it's more obvious.

Speaker 2:
[21:06] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[21:10] Unless you have a lot going on in the fabric with color and stitch patterns and stuff, that would maybe be the only time I'd leave something like that. I wouldn't leave it on stockinette background.

Speaker 2:
[21:20] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[21:22] Okay, you got kind of two different...

Speaker 2:
[21:24] Well, as with all things with knitting, right? You know what's going to work for you.

Speaker 1:
[21:28] I mean, you can take in other factors. What if she's knitting this out of lace weight yarn, lace weight mohair or something?

Speaker 2:
[21:34] Then you're not going to see it.

Speaker 1:
[21:35] Move on. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[21:37] You're trucking.

Speaker 1:
[21:38] Okay, good luck. Okay. Let's get one more question.

Speaker 2:
[21:44] Okay. Hi, Staci and Polly. This question is more for Staci, but I'd love to hear Polly's ideas too. I love all your videos and return to them over and over to remember all the fantastic methods and tips you provide. I really enjoy the podcast while on my walks or knitting. I live in Minnesota where it's cold and dry in the winter. Right now, we're in the middle of an extra mid-March blizzard. When the weather is like this, I look down at my hands and want to know what you do to keep your hands and nails camera ready. My hands are so dry. I try to keep them moisturized, but in the winter, it just seems like an uphill battle. I'm sure that working with fiber doesn't help matters. Do you have any tips you can share on how you keep your hands and nails in such great shape, or do I just need hot, humid Texas to heal my hands? Right now, I'm particularly challenged by a fingernail that splits and snags on just about anything. I'd love to know what the two of you recommend, Katie, in Minnesota.

Speaker 1:
[22:38] Hi, Katie. It's funny that you brought up Texas because my sister who moved here to Houston, she's in Alaska right now, and she's talking about how dry her skin is all of a sudden with the salt air, right? And humidity in Houston does feel good on your sinuses and your lungs and your skin, so that does play a role in how dry you feel. And I know that here in Texas, in the wintertime, my skin does get really dry, and I have to be careful just even putting my hand in my jeans pocket because I will tear the skin on my knuckles because the skin is so dry. And I mean, not like tearing it up, like emergency room tearing it up, but just make it so I don't want to get bring up emergency room images of me hurting my knuckles, like I've been in a bar fight or something. Yeah, well, I want to know what Polly does too. For me to have my hands like camera ready, and I do take a lot of care to make sure that my hands look good on camera, so that's not distracting at all. I moisturize pretty regularly. I use balm, like a solid lotion bar to rub into my cuticles. Then of course, I keep them filed, and then I paint them right before I shoot videos.

Speaker 2:
[24:04] Your nails always look so good. I was going to ask you if you went somewhere and had them done. You do them yourself.

Speaker 1:
[24:08] I do them myself. During the pandemic, I got very good at doing this myself.

Speaker 2:
[24:11] You are very good at that.

Speaker 1:
[24:13] But I think the most important thing that I do that keeps them from looking messy and snaggy is I really pay a lot of attention to my cuticles. I have a pair of cuticle clippers that I keep. I keep the cuticles clipped back anytime there's a hangnail or dead skin at the base of my nail or whatever, and that keeps hangnails from coming around later. This is also important with my knitting because that is the stuff that will snag on the yarn. If my fingernail or skin on my finger or something starts snagging on the yarn, I'm not getting any enjoyment out of what I'm doing. It is way too distracting. I know that our locations do play into this, Katie, but I think moisturizing and getting a good pair of cuticle scissors and keeping the hangnails clipped back and the cuticles clipped back, that is my advice. What is your advice, Polly?

Speaker 2:
[25:11] Cuticle scissors are a good idea. I don't know if I have any advice because my hands do not look anywhere near as pretty as yours, but I discovered maybe last winter that Kiehl's has a hand lotion that is wonderful.

Speaker 1:
[25:25] Kiehl's is a good brand.

Speaker 2:
[25:26] It's pricey, but they run specials pretty often, so I can get it on sale, and it is good stuff.

Speaker 1:
[25:34] OK. Oh, also, I use Aveda hand cream, which is also a good brand. Yeah, I love the smell of it.

Speaker 2:
[25:42] I love the smell of that stuff. I could conjure it up if I think about it right now.

Speaker 1:
[25:45] Yes. It's a little bottle that I can keep in my knitting bag also.

Speaker 2:
[25:48] Yeah. Yeah. I also got at Marilyn Sheep and Wool some, is the word tallow? Tallow bomb?

Speaker 1:
[25:57] I know tallow is like a fat.

Speaker 2:
[25:59] That's it. The shepherdess made it from the fat after butchering her animals.

Speaker 1:
[26:06] Okay.

Speaker 2:
[26:07] She added some essential oils so it smells good. Boy, does that do a nice job on my cuticles.

Speaker 1:
[26:13] Wow. Okay.

Speaker 2:
[26:14] Yeah. But it's not even a product that I could find. She just-

Speaker 1:
[26:18] No, that's the kind of thing you have to get at a fiber festival, I think.

Speaker 2:
[26:21] I mean, there are tallow balms available out there.

Speaker 1:
[26:25] I'm sure. Yeah.

Speaker 2:
[26:25] Yeah. That might do as good a job, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 1:
[26:29] Right.

Speaker 2:
[26:29] Okay.

Speaker 1:
[26:30] I didn't even know there was such a thing.

Speaker 2:
[26:31] So that's nice.

Speaker 1:
[26:34] Okay, Polly, we have an episode here. And while you have stuff to show us, we need to see tomato jam sweater.

Speaker 2:
[26:43] Now I want tomato. That's a thing, right? Tomato jelly, pepper jelly.

Speaker 1:
[26:50] There's that too.

Speaker 2:
[26:51] Either way, I feel like the situation calls for brie and a cracker and some of that.

Speaker 1:
[26:57] You know, you can make that happen.

Speaker 2:
[26:58] It's not just be a dream. Okay. All right. Well, I'll put pictures at Polly.Knits on Instagram and Polly Baker on Ravelry.

Speaker 1:
[27:05] Very good. You can find me at verypink.com, VeryPinkKnits on Instagram, VeryPinkKnits on YouTube. I'll put all those links in the show notes. And that is it for this week. So until next week, stay warm, my friends.