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In Process: July 2020

Mandolin without fretboard

Wind/Water/Salt

Chapter 23 - 30: Need to be taken up.  
Chapter 31 - 34: Finished and posted (in two batches). 
Chapter 35 - 37: I had read last month. This month I broke two of these chapters in half, making things I currently call 40.1 and 40.2. But I might get rid of 35, so everything could shift up? 
Chapter 38 - 41: Read all but 41 a couple of times, smoothed things out, aligned them with the way things currently unfold. 

Persephone (probably not its real name) 

2K words. 

Short Story

I wrote a few drafts of a steampunk story back in 2016, but then I became uncomfortable with where I had taken it and put it away. Then last month I read "Who was changed and who was dead" by Barbara Comyns, which had a lot of head-hopping. And I decided I wanted to head-hop a story. There was a really good reason to head-hop in this steampunk story, so I started another draft. I also thought about other ones. Not really productive, though.  

Connecting

Critted 31 (I put this on my activity tracker, and tried to do a crit a day. This turned out to be too much I think. Maybe I'll scale back to 20 next month? I wound up adding three people to follow just to make it work.)
Got back 19 (but clearly it got me lots of feedback.)
 
Subs  1
Out there  1
Rejects  0

Knitting

Soxx #24.5 (3).  Finished. 
Aberdeen Argyll (Martin Storey). Started month with 6" of body (doing it in the round instead of flat as in pattern). I was just past the spot where I should have started decreases for the neck when I decided to tink back three rows and have that happen at a more auspicious place. Then I counted my stitches in order to put the neck in the right spot, and realized I had decreased 5x too many (20 stitches) at the armholes, so I just ripped out four more inches and I guess it's good, because I'll be able to get the sweater on? Still sucks though. 
Feel good socks. I suck at lace! Finished. These feel weird to wear. Maybe I don't like this style of heel? Might be better after washing. 
Tauriel socks. Done. Love these socks, might be the yarn though. 
Neldoreth socks. Started the first. 

I also worked on my sashiko sampler and bought more floss so I don't run out. I can always find a use for black embroidery floss, I'm sure. 
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