Do you know what types of garments and patterns you wear the most? Asking yourself a few simple questions can help you choose patterns that you will really wear. This is the basis of the Yarniacs Sweater Challenge, in which we take a critical look at the items we wear, and use that information to help us choose patterns that will fit our lifestyles, our bodies, and are comfortable to live in.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Yarniaks podcast. This is episode number 339, which we are recording on January 1st, 2025. I'm Gail. And I'm Charlene. And we have a friendly neighborhood crow in the background
0:22.9	serenading us. We'll see how long that lasts. Yeah. We're at the university again because it's a
0:27.6	beautiful day here in Santa Cruz and we wanted to start the new year outside. Outside. So what are you
0:33.6	wearing? I am wearing a sweater. Oh, you know, I forgot to look up when I made this,
0:39.2	but it's definitely a couple years ago. It's called Beacon, designed by Shelley Anderson,
0:45.8	and it is, the pattern page calls it a batwing, and you called it a dolman. So I'm not sure
0:53.6	if there's a difference between those i think they're
0:56.2	kind of the same thing okay okay so bat wing or dolman pull over knit from the bottom up divided at the
1:04.2	armholes and then the upper front and back are worked separately and then there's a very small seam at the shoulders
1:13.5	and then the tiny little they're kind of T-Rex sleeves like the boxy are knit from the edge
1:24.4	picked up along the edge, and then knit down.
1:31.2	I knit mine in a yarn that was new to me.
1:37.9	I've only used it once, only number one, which is made with Marino and Angora.
1:40.3	So lovely.
1:41.1	Yeah.
1:44.5	It's so lovely and soft.
1:48.3	These crows are just going off.
1:59.3	I love the sweater. It is warm. It is soft. I do wonder if the angora will felt too much eventually. I can already kind of see that the fuzziness...
2:02.6	I can kind of see what you're talking about.
2:05.1	Yeah, the fuzziness kind of blurs the stitches a little bit,
2:09.6	makes the stitches look less distinct.
2:13.0	But I don't think it's actually changing the fabric, at least yet.
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