Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. This is episode number 253, which we're recording on

Thursday, September 9th, 2021. I'm Gail. And I'm Charlene. And it's been a nice week because we had a couple different

knitting experiences this week. We had the Zoom with Yarniak friends. And then we had to meet up

yesterday with a friend who was visiting. So it's been such a good week for me. It has. Just the

fact that we got to sit outside and chat, which we have rarely done in the past

year, with other knitters. So very nice. And the Zoom on Saturday, I went to Charlene's house. So we

were together outside in her yard on Saturday as well. So just wonderful. So what are you wearing, Charlene?

I have been wearing this week my little bird pullover sweater, which is a pattern by Vera

Volimaki. I made mine back in, let's see, spring of 2017, back in April of 2017, to be exact.

And Little Bird is a lace, weight sweater that I made in the Holst Yarn Coast yarn.

And the pattern as written is a tunic length pullover sweater

with alternating textural stripes of,

let's see, there's two different lace patterns, and then you have a solid stripe, alternating the textural stripes of, let's see, there's two different lace patterns, and then you have a solid

stripe, alternating the textural stripes. And I modified mine so that it was only, I think it was

about two-thirds of the length. Mine was not a tunic length, in other words, I made it more

hip length. So it was a short sweater

shorter than the original tunic length. And I really love it. It's one of those patterns that I have

always earmarked that I would like to make again. And I haven't yet, but yes, it is still in my cue to make it again.

You know, we should do that because you were so cute in yours yesterday.

You looked so cute.

Oh, thank you.

I really want to make another one too.

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