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Type B Knitting is a weekly knitting podcast for the Type B crafter. Sisters Veronica and Gosia chat about WIPs, yarn, test knits and the knitting projects that don't go as planned, because knitting is a journey, not about the finished garment. New episodes every Tuesday.
Guess who's back? I'm back again. Hello! Welcome to Type B Knitting podcast with two sisters. Yap and about knitting, knitting related things. I'm one of the sisters, Gosia. And I'm Veronica. Yeah, it's been a little, it's been a hot minute. Yeah, it's been a second. Finally back. For this first episode back, we can kind of catch up and chat about what we've been up to and any knitting updates. I don't even remember what we left off at. I think it was just like the, we're leaving. We're leaving for a little bit, guys. I think that was, I mean, that was technically the last one that we recorded.
Yeah. Do you have any knitting updates that you want to share or do you want to also kind of like life update? Life update, you are now a Mrs. Congratulations. Yes, thank you. Yeah, life update, I got married. Yeah, no, it was great. The day was beautiful. Weather turned out perfect, I feel. And then went on my honeymoon to Portugal, so that was super fun. But yeah, so during that time, I did finish my test knit. I actually finished my test knit before we got married. So I think I did it like the week before or something or like the week of, I'm not really sure. But yeah, test knit is done. The only thing that I need to do is add buttons to it, but that seems like a winter time project.
So I literally just have it like folded up because I'm like, I knitted it for my husband to wear. So I'm like, I'm not wearing it. And obviously it's like summer time where we are. So like, I don't really, it's not like pressing that it doesn't have buttons. So, but yeah, test knit is done. It was really fun. Remind us again what the test knit was. So it was the tattoo flash cardigan by B creative knits. B-E-A creative knits. Yeah, no, it was super fun. It was really well written. I don't, I don't, I don't know if it was her first pattern or if it was her first pattern test or something. I don't know, but it was really well written. Like I, there were barely any edits, honestly. And yeah, like all of the dimensions and stuff like that, I was hitting.
So I was like, honestly, like, it's great. Yeah, I think there was more, it was more like typos. And then she also had some videos links that like I didn't necessarily need to use because like I know how to do German shirt row. So I think some people had like some comments on the videos. But other than that, like it was a really great test knit. Like pattern was written beautifully, very much highly, highly recommend. If you guys like that, it's on our, it's all over our Instagram. So if you like that pattern, go buy it. It's available now. So yeah, no, it was fantastic. I really liked it. So yeah, test knit is done.
Yeah, so what I'm working on now is I am doing a also I don't think $0 make is on our bingo card. I'm I'm checking. I it's not because I looked at it recently and I was like, it's not on here. I think it was one of the ones we had suggested, but it's literally not on here. Are you sure? Are you sure it's not the bottom row? Yes, spend zero on a make because I literally have self knit tank as that. Oh, wait, maybe I'm literally gonna fact check you. You should absolutely fact check me. Wait, let me look at our Instagram. Guys, check out the Instagram where we get fact checked. Instagram type be knitting pod.
Interesting. Also, we're so close to 100 followers on our Instagram. We're four away from 100. That's so cool. Bingo updates. Oh, spend $0 on a make Izzy Bingo Square. I am so sorry. That that one and that one's on me. Trying to lie on the pod. I got called out. That's okay. So that means I already did it, which is great. So now I am doing I mean, I guess I didn't have to do a $0 make, but it was more like I just want to use what I have. And this was again, right before I was going on my honeymoon to Portugal. So I was like, let me just see what I have. Let me see what patterns I have. And right now, so I don't go.
She probably don't know this because she isn't this woman is not on tiktok. So you wouldn't know because this was kind of like blowing up on tiktok. And it's the roomy raglan by Jules after field, I think is how you say that. And it's a free pattern. It's a really like nice simple raglan. And I honestly just used it for a guide just for like the neck and then obviously like how many stitches I need to cast on. But now I'm kind of just like free balling it. So like I know how to do a raglan sweater. So it was a good starting point, but I kind of have veered away from the pattern. But again, like super easy to read free pattern. It was written really well.
So if you guys are looking for just like a nice raglan pattern to have in your stash just to keep it as like a good reference. I would definitely recommend that. But yeah, I'm currently stash busting, which I am so happy about. That's really fun. Yeah, I'm super excited about it. So I'm just doing like a stripey sweater. And yeah, no, I'm like super excited about it. Like I am just so happy to like stash bust and like some of it just get out of my stash because I don't want to see it anymore. Some of it's like super old. I'm like using some yarn from the first ever knitting market that Gosha and I went to, Yarn Market.
Because I still have that in my stash. I'm like I'm just trying to get rid of it at this point. And then yeah, I have a bunch of like cascade 220. I have some like alpaca yarn that I'm getting rid of. So, and I really like when sweaters have like variations in the yarn. Like I honestly even like when it's like variation in size and you kind of just keep the same yarn or sorry you keep the same needle size but like sometimes it's thinner sometimes it's thicker I think it looks really cute. But it's all like around the same size but I really like when yarn is knit together and like a sweater or project and it has like different texture like I think it's really really cool.
Like some of it's more fuzzy than other stripes so I think it's really cute. But yeah, I'm like really happy with how it's turning out. I was skeptical in the beginning but I think it's gonna work out really well. So check out the Instagram guys for a picture of that because I will post that before this episode. But yeah, that's what's going on with me. Cute. Yeah, you sent me a picture of your like progress so far on that Scrappy project and I feel like it's turning out really great. My problem with Scrappy projects is that I never have like good enough yarn and good yarn to make a good color palette.
I feel like that's what I always struggle with like I get the craziest colors. Yeah, it's like neon yellow neon orange and then like neutral brown. I don't know like something where it's like it does not go well together so like or have enough of something where I could match it. You know what's really funny is the best part about this project is that like I'm using pretty much like the same colors throughout but it's like different yarn in the same color. So it's like different variations of navy blue, different variations of a chocolate brown. Like it's very slight variations but like I pretty much stick to like very similar colors because I know what I like.
So it's kind of easy for me to just like, you know, even if I only can do like one or two rounds of a stripe in one type of yarn, I have something that's super similar that I could just swap out and no one would know. So I'm kind of doing it like piecing it together like it's like, okay, so one of them is cascade 220. The other one is the alpaca and then like, you know, if you space it out far enough, no one can really tell. So yeah, I have like two different chocolate browns that I'm using three different navy blues that I'm using that I'm trying to like get through and like, again, they're literally all in the same colors you legitimately cannot tell like it's, it's fine.
That's cool. No, and I like when I also like when a yarn is like, has a little different color to it and like texture like how you're saying so kind of what I'm working on currently is I'm working on the rhubarb sweater by, I want to say other stitch, Sarah. Yeah, my other stitch. So I'm currently working on the rhubarb sweater test knit for other stitch, and she recommended a yarn but she recommended like a wool and I was like, Yeah, I'm not doing that in the summer, you know, be happy that you've been knitting to begin with from June to August. Yeah. So, so I actually got a drops cotton, but it has like variation to it. I've been meaning to want to show you because it's cotton, linen, and something else. So like there's like different strands in it. So I think the linen is like the darkest. So there's like a little bit of like color variation with the yarn.
So it's really cool. And like, I think Gosha is using drops bell and I think it's cotton, linen and viscose because I'm literally looking at buying some and I was looking at it yesterday. So I'm pretty sure it's cotton, linen and viscose. That's the only reason I know that combo. Okay, let me pull a ball of yarn. Where does it? Yeah, literally cotton, linen. Yeah. Maybe you can see now. I saw online. Yeah, it has like really pretty variation. And that's what drew me to it because it like adds a little bit more to it. I don't know if this is true because it's like for all cotton yarns. I think cotton yarns are just so notorious for like, not fraying but like little strands kind of splitting. Yes.
So like I kind of knew that going into cotton. So at first when I was working with it, I was like catching, like catching not all of the yarn, if that makes sense. Like certain like loops would be. But now I think I got the hang of it a little bit better. So there aren't as many threads. It's still to me really worth it because it's like a really nice like fabric. It like feels really light. It's cotton. So it's like it would be warm, but it won't be like too warm. So it feels like more versatile. And then I'm okay with the splitting. And then the price was like pretty like reasonable. I think for the whole sweater, I spent $60. That's crazy. Like 60, 70 for the whole sweater and I bought like a lot extra too.
Like I think two or three extra balls of the blue just in case I wanted to like, I don't know, needed a little extra. So totally worth it. So I really like it so far. I highly recommend it. What colors are you using for the rhubarb sweater? I'm using so many. We'll just do like the main color like what give give the people a color palette. Let's this is a podcast. This is not a visual media. We need to paint the picture for them. So the main color I'm using is color 20, which is like a navy. So the whole sweater is this like blue navy color on the back. It has this like dark pink magenta. And then it says rhubarb on the back. It looks so good. Thank you. This is taking me like five ever. That's okay. On the front. On the front, it has like an illustration of rhubarb like the leaves. So it's three different pinks and three different greens.
Yeah, so they go by number. So it's kind of hard to tell but it's like a light pink like a blush and like a like middle of the road pink and then like three different genes are you following like the color pattern that the original creator did like pretty similarly. I'm following it pretty similarly because for me it was difficult to think of a like main color that wasn't blue that would match really well with the pink and the green like rhubarb. Yeah, so I just kind of knew I wanted it exactly how she had it. I think a lot of the test knitters are also doing that. There was one person that played around with different color for like the main color and they did.
I think like this golden color which actually turned out pretty fun and different, but still really matching very it's very like market. It feels very like markety like fun pop of color. I don't know. It's just a fun little thing. I feel like I'm like an oatmeal would be really cute like a like a sandy like beige would be cute with that, especially with like the pink. I feel like it would like pop really nicely. Yeah, I would have done something like that, but that just felt so boring to me. Yeah, and I personally love cream sweaters. I have so many cream sweaters and so many like white and cream tops.
So I'm like, oh, I don't have a lot of blue. I don't have a lot of like other like fun colors. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna kind of match it better to this. At the time I could not imagine any other colorway and my brain was just. No, I love the original colorway. I think it's so cute. I love a navy blue. I'm very much in my navy blue, chocolate brown, poopy green era. I'm always in my poopy green era. I was in the poopy green era before anyone else was, but I'm like still on it. I love a poopy green. I love a chartreuse. I love it. I love it like a yellowy green. I remember you were first to the poopy greens chartreuse trend and I don't think you're ever letting that go. I love it.
I feel like that's me with greens. I absolutely love green. Everything is either a white top or green. Yeah, those are my two favorite colors. I think the last thing I updated on the pod was that I was working on the Think Tank by Digen tank top. I did finish that. I actually finished that at the same time I got the yarn for this test knit. So I did end up finishing it. It just sat unblocked for so long. I also didn't gauge swatch for it. I kind of did gauge swatch for it, but I was like, it's close enough. So I am kind of terrified to try it on. Really? Does it look like too big? I don't think it's gonna fit the way I want. Wait, why? So when I was blocking it, it's really wide and sharp. Oh, that sucks.
So when I was blocking it, I was kind of stretching it as much as I could. And the lengthwise, I was like, oh, and I got a little bit of length that way. And I was trying to squeeze it in. That's so funny. And also, I kind of chose whatever yarn. I kind of followed the yarn weight they were giving me. But the strap one seemed such like it was like a sock weight. It was like a fingering sock weight. So I did the straps and the straps seem really like bungy. Oh, it's like elasticy. So I'm, I'm kind of worried it's gonna look really bad on so I don't want it. But it also might counteract the fact that it's super short.
It's just gonna, I just, I feel like it's gonna be really wonky. So I'm like, at least it's blocked. It's finished. Yeah, doesn't mean we need to wear it. We'll go from there. Literally doesn't mean to wear it. I should probably just take a photo or something as like, this thing existing for the yeah, completion on the pod on the Instagram. But that will be probably the one and only time you see it. Sometimes finished projects are not meant to be worn. And sometimes blocking literally ruins a project. I have, I knitted the cardigan number nine, I think my favorite thing, my favorite things that were.
And I have only steam blocked it. I've never actually blocked it. And I'm so terrified to actually block it because I love the way that it fits right now. So I'm like, if I ever block this, I think it's gonna look like I'm never gonna wear it. So I'm just avoiding it at like all costs like that. I feel like that's what I do. I'm like, like, sometimes blocking just legitimately ruins, ruins something and I and you're like, I'm never gonna wear this. Oh, literally. But I feel like you made that cardigan so many times. Did you block it the other times? Or did you only ever steam block that one I've only ever made once you're thinking about the OZetta Travelers cardigan that I've made multiple times that I don't own a single one anymore.
Um, I don't, I legitimately don't even know where those are. I'm gonna be honest, I don't know where they are. Um, yeah, I don't know. Sometimes blocking just like ruins things. So I'm like, why do it? Did you see that meme when I sent you where it was like this girl who made this? No, I said that to you. That's what it was. Get her on the pod. She gets it. That girl gets it. Yeah, literally, like sometimes, especially on this podcast where we're not like gauge watching all the time or ever. Yeah, sometimes like, especially like on this podcast, we might be gauge watching. We're not blocking those swatches. Trust and believe me and you are not blocking those watches. I've locked a swatch once and I'm like, good enough.
That's impressive. Yeah, I'm like, I'm never doing this again because it's so stupid. But I mean, it's not, it's really not stupid. Like I should be doing that because then I can actually wear the things that I make. But I'm like, so much work. No, I just have to accept that is how it is. And it's gonna look how it looks. And I if I like baggy sweaters, then I don't need a gauge. I just make a bag. I know we just can never make anything fitted. Yeah, unless we gauge spot switch and block that. Yeah, which that's asking. It's not the like gauge swatch that I hate. It's like, if I have to adjust anything on the gauge swatch and do it all over again, I'm gonna be annoyed.
You know, like if it's like, okay, well, I gave swatch that I blocked it and then it's wrong. It's like, okay, well, now I have to do that all over again with like a different thing. And then you might even have to do it a third time, which like at that point, I'm like, I'm not making this project because I'm like, I'm wasting my time. Wasting my time when I could be doing this. I could be knitting this wrong. I literally could be knitting this wrong and never get to wear it. Oh, but hey, I'll be knitting. Yeah, I'm like, that's the fun part. I'm like, I don't want to be gauge swatching like that's boring. Also in gauge swatches, you have to do pearls, which I'm like, no, I don't want to do that. Get me get me something in the round. It's literally asking to not be done. Begging. Begging to not be. Yeah, I agree completely, wholeheartedly. So is there anything that you are eyeing as like your next project? Anything that you have like?
You know, we were talking about how, you know, Gosha not doing these test knits in the summer have kind of like, reignited our love for knitting in the summertime because typically me and Gosha like abandon our knitting in summertime, like we do not pick it up. And for some reason, this, these like test knits, like obviously, because you have a deadline, like you're kind of forced to complete something like you have to get it done in a certain amount of time. So it's kind of like forced us to knit and during summertime, which we wouldn't do be doing typically. So like that inspired me to do my scrappy raglan. So I'm like, I just want to easy raglan. I want something in the round. I want something stock net. Like I don't want anything that I need to think about, which I probably shouldn't have done the stripes and the color work, but whatever.
So is there anything that you're kind of like eyeing itching to start once that rhubarb sweater is done? Is there anything you're like, Oh, I know this is like gonna be my next thing. There are so many good patterns out there. And I think it's, I think I saw this meme where somebody was explaining it where it's like, I don't want to knit in the summer. But the amount of projects that are just like accumulating in the back of my head for things I want to knit is just growing. It's a growing list. Like I am so inspired. It's funny because we were stash busting prior to then I got chosen to do the test knit. So I had to buy yarn for it. Now it feels like it was one step forward five steps back because I have so much yarn now. I think once I have the sweater done, there'll be a lot of it.
But like, I think going back to stash busting, I have an idea for like a scrap, not scrappy project, but like a stash bust to do like that, like a striped tank top. You know, because my first tank top went so well. I don't remember the pattern name, but it was the like the striped sweater that I made doing that, but just like on a tank top version. The last one that you did in the, what is it called? In the land cloud. Okay, yeah. Yes, doing a little tank top in that doing so basically like stash busting and like, yeah, really liking that yarn and wanting to do it for that. And I only have two balls of yarn left, but those are like huge where you get so much yardage.
So I feel like there'll be plenty, especially for a tank top and they'll like go quick. Do you know what I love? I love when, and I think this might be really cool. I don't know if you would wear it, but I would definitely wear something like this. You could do a sweater, stash bust with the lane cloud. Oh, but it's, no, you could do that. And then with like, do like stripes with the lane cloud and then a solid color that's in it. So it's like half of it is like this variation. Half of it is solid half of its variation. Like, I think that looks so good. So I'm like, if you don't want to do a tank top and torture yourself, you could just do a full sweater. Because I think two is plenty to do that because like, again, they're so big. So I'm like, I think you should do that. Like, that'd be so cute.
That sounds adorable. Like it would be stripes, but it'd be like colorful stripes with like, yeah, like how you're saying that'd be cute. But I don't know, I should check back how how many balls of yarn it took to make the sweater to begin with. And then kind of like reverse engineer to see how much I could make. I don't know. Yeah, but the tank top feels like it would go so much quicker. I mean, it would. That's also like a raglan sweater takes like zero seconds to make so. Then tell me why this one test is taking me a billion years. Well, that's because it has in Tarja, like a basic stock net raglan sweater with like nothing fancy. Like the thing that I'm doing right now is taking me zero seconds to do. Like I'm literally, I already slit the sleeves, like I'm already like halfway through the body more than halfway through. I'm like, I'm, oh my gosh, I'm in, I'm zooming through it. And I'm having a blast, you know? So I love that. Love that. Yeah. But I think that'd be cute. Even in the tank top, even if you do like stripes with that tank top, like that'd be so cute. Because I saw someone do that. And I'm like, honestly, like that looks so good. And I have, I have a lane cloud tweed. And I'm like, honestly, if I stash bust it, like even if I do like a really cool scarf, and like do it in stripes and like a scarf, I feel like that would be really cool. That would be really cute. Yeah, I feel like that would look good. So I don't know food for thought for you.
I'll think about it. I mean, I have so much time to think about it, because I'm still working on this testnet. I feel okay, what's taking me forever is doing the entire job, like pattern. And I think I just got really, really bored. Because like, imagine a you the letter you, and you're just doing like two columns. So it's just really boring. Yeah, you know, like, because it's like, you like each row, it's kind of like the same, you would think it goes quick, but I'm just bored. But then imagine a letter, letter B, it's kind of like you got those little loops. And it's really fun, because you are you kind of see it like, worked. So that's really fun. Something else, literally, as soon as I started this testnet, stoneware makes came out with the Pomodoro purse, which is like a knitted purse. And oh, yeah, it's like, it's either blueberries or like tomatoes. And what's really cool is they were changing a lot.
Of their, what's it called, like charts that they've already created to work with this pattern. So I think that's really cool. You could do like any style of pattern for this bag, which I think is so cute. What a fun like stash bust too. Because depending what you have, you can change like colors. And forever ago, I bought from like those like chart cards. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I found like, I got really fun, like chart cards that oh, I think it's like, oh, yeah, isn't it from like, a lot of nitpicks. Pacific. Oh, so it's like these little charts that you can like repeat and like, make like a color work pattern. So maybe that could work for it. But I thought that was like really fun. And I think that might be some of my next projects, also kind of seeing what for the bingo.
Get back to fun, you know, I know, I know. That's what. And that's why because I came off of what, what did I Oh, I made that like brown. Oh, god, what is it called? So I made I made two cardigans in a row. And I think that was my mistake. Because I was like, God, I'm so tired of making cardigans. Um, so I made, oh, I made the Zosha cardigan by Coco and more network, which was super fun. But again, it was like more color work cardigan. So I went from a color work cardigan to a color work cardigan. So I'm like, I really just want like a mindless project where I can just use up some of my stash, clean it out. And just like get it out of my space so that I can just like clear room for, you know, new stuff. And like, I'm so happy because a lot of this yarn, I've just had for so long, that I'm finally like happy to just like, be able to get rid of it. But go show knows more than anyone else how annoying I've been with I have told her I don't know for how many years now, maybe two or three, but I'm like, I want a cotton cable sweater. I'm like, I want a cotton this sweaters so freaking bad. Like it's something on my list that I've wanted for so long. Like I think it would be just so cute for like transition times like when it's I don't want something like super thick, but like it's really cute for like, you know, it's a little bit chilly out whatever.
And I've been looking and the reason I haven't made it is because I hadn't found a pattern that I really liked. Like a lot of the times like the cables were just like I just was not vibing with the cables. But I finally, finally, finally found a sweater that I love that I think would be so cute. And it's called the Tyra sweater by Ingrid DYB. It's literally so pretty. It's like, simple enough, but still like some interest in it. I literally think it's so freaking gorgeous. I love it so much. And it's really funny, because I was like, part of the requirements, I guess that I was telling Gosha about this cotton cable sweaters that I want it to be white, like I want it to be nice, like cream color, because it's like, oh, you know, if it's a cotton, I'm thinking like coastal vibes, you know, like fishermen, like, you know, we're on the beach, and it's like a bonfire.
And it's like a white, super cute cable sweater. But then yesterday, when I was looking at all the yarn, and I was looking at drops bell, they had a really pretty red. And I do have like a red cable sweater that I currently wear. That is from like American Eagle. And like the fabric in it is just not great. Like the it's obviously like polyester. So it just pills so much. But I do love that sweater. So I'm like, honestly, I'm like, I could make the cable sweater of my dreams in the cotton and then just remake it maybe in like a wool or something like that so that I have two of them. One for wintertime one for summertime like transition. But I know for like 100% fact, that is going to be my next project. Like I already know. I'm like getting ready to purchase the pattern. And like, I just need to figure out what yarn I want. I think I'm going to go with drop spell because again, like it's really reasonably priced.
And you I can like, yes, even for like the cable sweater, like I think it would literally be like $65 or something like that to make it. So yeah, I think that's, I think that's the next move. Question mark. Um, but yeah, that is I think that's what's coming up for me. So yeah, I'm very excited about that. I think what a good treat after doing a like stash bust, where you're like, I got rid of so much yarn, let me go buy some. Well, yeah, because it's like I need to build back up the stash, you know, I got to build the stash back up. See, you know, just for the next stash busting project. That's exciting. You should see her other patterns because there's a through your sweater. That is also like a different cable. Do you know the movie when Harry met Sally? Harry wears like this cream cable. That's what it reminds me.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, she has like really nice like plain like simple. I really like it. So yeah, that's definitely what's going on my cables next for 1000% sure. I know that cut to you talking about an absolutely different. No, you're just randomly like no, because I've been wanting it for so long. I've literally had the tab open to that pattern on my phone for like ever since I found the pattern, which I think was like four months ago, because I'm like, I was doing that. I think I found it while I was doing the test net. So I was like, Okay, obviously, I'm not going to do it while I'm doing the test net. And then I just wanted to bring a project on vacation with me. So I was like, Oh, I'll just start like a stash bust. You know, like, I think it'll be a good like brain break something like mindless to do before I like get back into cables, which like you do have to pay attention to. So I just wanted something like easy peasy lemon squeezy. Yes, absolutely. I get that. Well, it sounds like we have some really fun projects.
Up ahead. Welcome back to us. And we'll keep updating you. And what else? Yeah, thank you guys so much for listening. This has been type B knitting. I am one of your hosts Veronica and I am the other hosts. Gosh, I will catch you guys in the next one. Bye.