Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 235, which we're recording on December 31st, 2020, the last day of 2020.

Woo-hoo! The very last day. Good riddance, 2020. I'm Gail. And I'm Charlene.

And it's been a little while since we last recorded. This is going to be a very nice part of my

little vacation week. I'm very much looking forward to chatting with Charlene

today. Yes, me too. It's been almost three weeks. We gave ourselves a little extra time in there

for a holiday break, but it's almost New Year's and we are starting to think about our

projects for the self-indulgent knit alongalong, and we hope you are due.

Yeah. I opened Ravelry today, so it's been a vacation week, so I haven't been on the

computer much, and I think there were 699 posts in the self-indulgent knit-along thread,

and my eyes almost popped out of my skull.

I had a similar experience, not being on the computer very much this past week, opened it up

and had a difficult time trying to catch up. And I haven't been able to pop into that thread

and catch up yet. I was just catching up on the December chat thread. So I have some

catching up to do. I love how chatty everybody in the group is. I do too. It'll be fun. It's fun.

We're so happy and grateful that you guys like to play along with us. Absolutely. All right. So what are you

wearing? Well, I'm not wearing it right now, but I have been

wearing my Ellery sweater this week. Elery is a pattern by Elizabeth Doherty with a circular

yolk with textured stitches around the yolk. It's knit top down, and I knit mine in a combo of Western sky knit's Moher Silk and the Marino 17 light,

which is the very, very soft merino.

So the combination of the two yields a very light and very soft sweater, which has been surprisingly warm, and since it's been

chilly here, I have been wearing it.

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