In Process -- September 2019

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 19: Almost done?
Chapter 20: I started this month not even sure I need this chapter, and then found a point to it…
Chapter 21: This is one that massively benefited from research.

Persephone
Did 27 days worth of that Jane Ann McLachlan stuff. This was insanely useful to me, and totally shaped the story. I feel like I could write it now, but I don’t know if I should. Do I really need another completed first draft lying around?

Connecting
Critted 9
Got back 8

Subs

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Knitting
FI Corset belt. Started month half done. I did some rows, and it’s still half done. If this is going to get finished, maybe I will not start something else until it or all the socks are done.

Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Started the month almost done with the fair isle portion, getting ready to do the long boring expanse. I’m still on the long boring expanse, and finished a cone of yarn. My sister came up with the more accurate title.

Cleave (New Directions in Sock Knitting). Another one to use part (most?) of another cone. (I can buy a ball of yarn for every cone I use up, until I hit 24 which will probably take three years). I’m just past the heel on the first sock.

In sewing news, I did four darts and two seams on that dress I cut out last month, four out of 16 steps, which doesn’t really mean it’s ¼ done. Or actually maybe it does. I hate darts, and everything always starts with darts.

What I read: September 2025

LHC #295: "The Last to Leave the Room" by Caitlin Starling. Audiobook. Workplace horror? Loved it. "Careless People" by Sarah Wynn-Williams. Hard copy, for office Data Ethics book club. The stories about Sheryl Sandberg really made me like my boss better. LHC #296: "The Fated Sky" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. This got moved up the list because Ed had read book 1 in the series and got the rest out of the library. Loved it. He's got the next one in the series upstairs, I suppose I'll read it when he's done. LHC #297: "Bluegrass: A History" by Neil V. Rosenberg. Hard copy. No idea why it was on my list, I don't care that much about bluegrass. Nevertheless, the second half was interesting. I guess the first half was necessary, as it described in great length the way people came and went in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys band, and also how technology and social pressures affect how music is made and performed. LHC #298: ...

What I read -- October 2025

"The Moomins and the Great Flood" by Tove Jansson. eBook. I read this because Marissa Lingen loves them. It was fine? This was the first one in the series and the only one available online; maybe the later ones are better. Maybe they're better if you read them as a child. "The Relentless Moon" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. Read it because Ed had the whole series out of the library. It took a long time to get going, and sometimes I find MRK exhausting. Her white main characters all seem oddly aware of the Black experience. "The Martian Contingency" by Mary Robinette Kowal. Hard copy. Read it because Ed had the whole series out of the library. I don't often read subsequent books in a series in quick succession, and my reaction to this one is a lot of why: I found Alma's voice too similar to Nicole's -- sure, Nicole obsessed about food much more, but they both went on and on about "must support black guy in management" an...

In progress - January 2026

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Nothing Persephone (probably not its real name): NOthing Vinterlys: Worked on Chapter 2 some more. Critted 4 Got back 1 Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0 Knitting Georgia (Norah Gaughan). Started the month with one sleeve and half a front to go. Finished. Love this sweater. Aberlady (AS Celtic Collection). Did a few rows while listening to podcasts. Summer in Tokyo (Isager): Started. I was looking at the pictures and the charts, and the pattern as written is not what is in the pictures! So odd. I am going to finish up two cones of yarn with this project! Pretty exciting. I hope I don't run out of light blue. I was working along on it, and if you go and look at the sweater, it's knit bottom-up, and I was at the part where I only had two colors, about 5" maybe. And I was thinking, "wow, this is pretty ugly! Maybe I should stop...

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