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In process -- April 2019


Persephone
Sometime last month I made a pile of sheets for the seven basic plots, and wrote different structures for some of the different ones. Not all of them. This gave me an ending!  Last month I read a book that made me realize I need a timeline of backstory, so I took a sheet of paper and folded it in three. The central one was “world” and the left and right were for A and L. It became real clear real fast that I had a lot of timelines for A but only vagueness for L. She’s got actual times and dates now! It’s good. 

“Wind/Water/Salt”.
Chapter 15: This was getting pretty close to done by the time I posted in March. I think I got too bogged down in mechanics. I finally managed to get it up though. Maybe I’m getting faster?
Chapter 16: When I posted 15, this already felt close. I was working on it this morning, and it's looking really good...
Chapter 17: The plan isn’t to be running out of chapters to edit and working forward because I’ve forgotten to print stuff off, but I must say I think it’s working well for me.


Connecting
Critted 6
Got back 6

Subs
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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Had about 2 inches done at the start of the month. I did a few rows.
Drachen (knitty Fall 2018). Finished the back and skipped to the neck so I would only have the sleeves left when I weighed the yarn so I would be able to knit one sleeve until half the remaining yarn was gone and then do the other sleeve to match. Haven’t run out of yarn yet! And I’m not likely to, as I’d used just over half the yarn on the body. I knit an entire first sleeve then put the sweater on and that sleeve was not good, way too narrow. So I ripped it out and added two inches of width. At about 12” of sleeve I tried it on again and am much more happy.
Midsummer Aran (IK Summer 2013). Bottom ribbing as a travel project. 

Put the festive bias tape I made around armholes and neck I cut into an old black turtleneck. Now I have to figure out how to do a hem, and I may have a tank I will wear (rather than a turtleneck I won’t). I’m not entirely happy with the neck either, because it kind of sticks up. I wonder if I can put darts in the tape after it’s already been applied and sewn down?


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