Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast.

This is episode number 316, which we are recording on Thursday, February 22nd,

204.

I'm Gail and I'm Charlene. And we're at the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor today and it is a

beautiful beautiful, beautiful day. And it feels like it's been so long since we've recorded. I was

mentioning to Gail and it's because the last episode we recorded remotely. So it's doubly nice to be able to see you in person, Gail.

Yep. To be able to be sitting in this lovely location. And once again, there will be some ambient noise, but it's delightful ambient noise.

Exactly. And it's funny, I'm remembering when we recorded remotely, I was in a rental place

and I had myself in this little area smashed between the wall and the bed with a table in

front of me that had pillows stacked on it to help dull any noise and I was sitting all cramped up

in this little tiny space. This is much more enjoyable.

We are pro professional. Oh my goodness. Okay, what are you wearing? Okay, I am wearing my sea coast

pullover sweater. This is a pattern by Hohe-locatelli. I had to look it up and the pattern was

released back in 2014. I knit mine in early 2015 and it is knit in this wonderful, wonderful yarn

called Malabrigo Rastita, which is extremely soft. It is a single-ply

yarn, and it has held up surprisingly well. Yeah, there's no pilling. It looks brand new.

There actually is pilling. If you look closely, there is pilling. When I put it on this morning,

I noticed pilling on it but I don't

think it's super obvious like like you were saying it's like the high friction areas inside

yeah yeah yeah exactly it's pristine so this is a circular yoke sweater very very simple in design and execution because the circular yoke is made up of

basic ribbing and as it is increased down the yoke towards the chest the ribbing just gets bigger so kind of like knit one

purl one and then maybe knit two pearl one that kind of thing it just it's

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