Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 183, which we're recording on January 1st, 2019, the actual New Year's Day.

Happy New Year. Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Shirley.

And we are recording out at UCSC again, but in a different spot than usual.

And we're overlooking the ocean, and we have deer right in front of us and a squirrel right in front of us.

And a giant cargo ship out there on the horizon.

It's just a stunning, beautiful crystal clear day.

And we took some pictures so we can share it with you.

But absolutely gorgeous day in Santa Cruz.

Chilly enough that were wrapped in handnets, though.

What are you wearing?

Charlene's wearing all the things.

I am wearing my 5,200K redux, as I call it, because this is the sweater that I ripped out from the bottom

to the armholes. It's a top-down sweater so the bind-off was at the hem of the sweater

and I ripped that out ripped out the sweater up to the armhole so I left the sleeves left the

yoke shaping and the neckline obviously and re-knit the body down and I'm so

happy I did because I've been wearing it almost non-stop since I finished it

got to love that because I just knit it as a straight plain a-line sweater, whereas the previous version had had an asymmetrical

hem that I apparently got tired of very fast because it, even though I wore it when I first made

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