Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 260, which we are recording on Thursday, December 16th, 2021.

I'm Gail.

And I'm Charlene.

And we have a special guest for our year-end wrap-up.

Hi, I'm Robbie, boxy sweater gal on Ravelry. Our awesome moderator from our Ravelry group,

she helps us wrap up the year every year, which is always one of the highlights for us.

Robbie, what are you wearing? Today, nothing. It's warm,

but I do wear hand-knit socks to bed every night. A friend of my mention that she wore socks to sleep because she couldn't sleep if her feet were cold, and I tried it, and it works. I

fall asleep faster and sleep better wearing socks to keep my feet warm, so why not wear hand-knit ones?

The other thing, when it's cool enough to wear a sweater, it is typically my boxy, my volmeis-laced laced garment, which is a dark gray.

It's the AG-47 colorway, which is the color of tarnished

silver. I wear the thing so much. It's very, very worn. Well, well loved. Yes, well loved.

Let's not say worn. Let's say well loved. It's got lots of little pills on it. I'm actually at the point where I'm afraid to glean it because those pills are often just like single ply type things.

Oh, yeah.

With a lace, with a two-ply lace weight sweater, there isn't a lot of a lot of yarn there to glean. The pills are holding it together.

It still gets worn. I probably need to make another one. I've got

a light gray. So I need to add that to my list of things to consider at some point in the near future.

But really, when you consider it, think about do you ever notice pills on somebody else's

sweater when you're out and about in the world? I really do not. I do not. I don't judge somebody

else's sweater. So I think we're much harsher on our

own clothing than other people would be. And to be honest, on a lace weight sweater, the pills,

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