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In process -- October 2020

I'd just started ripping out when I realized I should photograph it first

Wind/Water/Salt

Chapter 25/28: Took up. 
Chapters 26, 27, 29 - 38: Need to be taken up.  
Chapter 39 - 40: Finished and posted. 
Chapter 41 - 44 (of 48): Read and revised. 

Persephone (probably not its real name) 

I had a scene I wanted to write, and I needed to know where it fell in my chronology, so I dated a whole bunch of scenes. I also drew a setting. 

Short Story

Started one, worked on another. 

Connecting

Critted 12 
Got back 9 
  
Subs 0 
Out there 0 
Rejects  1

Knitting

Masquerade (Louisa Harding). Dealt with about 400 loose ends and blocked. Took the whole month.
Tee (me). It's a classic with set in sleeves, knit top down out of sock yarn. Last month I put this in time-out because I needed to rip back to just below the neckline (front) because the sleeve short rows weren't beautiful. I did the ripping out and started back, but didn't get far, because– 
Hexen Haxen socks (Knitty Deep Fall 2019). Yup, I'm back to knitting socks again, and you know what that means: we're on modified Covid lockdown again! Finished. 
Soxx 18. The object is to use up as much yarn as possible without buying more, and the book all these Soxx patterns come out of is great for that. Done. 
Soxx 22. Started.

I also worked on my sashiko sampler and finished sewing that tunic. 
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