Supporting Rural Births with Brittany Higgins

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And Katie, what are you cussing and/or discussing this week?

So I showed you guys my project.

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Katie, on Patreon, I don't post the whole video.

I only do our intro, so no one can watch this.

Shit.

[laughs]

Okay.

Have you checked our Patreon lately? You should still join Patreon, but.

You should still join Patreon.

[laughs]

And then if you ask real nicely, I will personally send you a picture.

How's that?

Okay, there you go.

So I'm making this project.

Many of our listeners probably know that I recently returned from a knitting cruise that was an 18-day vacation, and I picked making this shawl because, and I quote my own brain process, "It would be so much faster than making a sweater." I have been working on this shawl since the week before I left, which was now four weeks ago.

I worked on it for the entire time before the trip, literally the entire eight-hour flight over there, literally pretty much all day every day for the entire two weeks that I was there, including, like, bus trips, people-watching in foreign lands.

I showed it to the pattern designer who created the pattern that I am making.

The part I missed in all this was that, A, I would be hauling around a literal backpack full of yarn, because the yarn does not magically become smaller or lighter when you work it into a project.

It's just a different shape.

In a different form, yeah.

A different form, and that if you start a project with 12 stitches, but you add six stitches every two rows, it grows a lot, and this project is now approximately two and a half sweaters worth of knitting, and it's not finished.

So-

So-I'm just gonna say that the, what the best laid plans of mice and men, or the, what is it, humans make plans and God laughs? However you wanna put that.