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In Process -- October 2019


Wrote a little short story draft, which I don’t do nearly enough of. It might be good for me to finish up some short stories and send them out, just to keep in practice. 

Wind/Water/Salt
Chapter 19: Finished and posted.
Chapter 20: It was almost a two-chapter month, but I’ll keep slogging away on this guy.
Chapter 21: This chapter is very much in early draft stage, and it’s an important chapter (okay, they all are) so I’ve added a lot of flesh.

Persephone
Did the last three of those Jane Ann McLachlan challenges.  Also signed up for NaNoWriMo. If nothing else, this motivated me to collate the 3000 words that I wrote in various emails. If I even write 30 scenes next month that would be a win.

Connecting
Critted  5
Got back 4

Subs
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Knitting
Fair Isle Corset belt. Started month half done. I'm not sure I worked on it at all, but this month was mostly about socks so... maybe December.
Sunny skies of winter (KP 2015 FI) Started the month on the body decreases; now I’m on the increases again.It got surprisingly large surprisingly fast.
Cleave (New Directions in Sock Knitting). Done. 
Bertha socks (New Directions in Sock Knitting). Both yarns are on a cone, so someday I will use up two more cones, and be able to buy enough yarn to make Candlemas.
Maybe I should explain, when my mother and then my MIL, both knitters, died a year apart, I wound up with a LOT of yarn that won’t fit into the Yarn Containment Area (YCA). There’s a bag of 16 cones in the sewing area, and that’s a problem because it wrecks sewing as well as knitting (nothing wrecks my motivation for an activity like having to move a bunch of junk out of the designated area every time you want to start). About ten boxes of yarn (not huge boxes – think Knitpicks boxes) sit on or under the table beside the YCA, and that’s a space I’d like to use to write. It has to be fixed. So the rule is, I can buy a ball of yarn for every cone I use up until I hit 24, and then I’ll make a new rule. This will take about three years. 

I also tried sashiko. It’s fun! Maybe I’ll use up some fabric this way.
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