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In process Nov 2020

Wind/Water/Salt: Sometimes it's afternoon and I think to myself, "well, I guess I should work on my novel now" and then I think "or I could just apply for a job." Because writing cover letters is less arduous than trying to fix this mess. 

  • Chapters 26-27, 29-40: Need to take up comments and revise.  
  • Chapter 41-42: Finished and posted. I was sort of stuck on Chapter 42 and tried to skip ahead to chapter 43, but it didn't work. Without motivating the different characters to do whatever they were doing, I couldn't figure anything out. So I went back. And forward. And back again. 
  • Chapter 43-45 (of 48): Read and revised.

Persephone (probably not its real name): Opened the file, added a few words here and there. 

Short Story: Finally finished one (i.e., polished). Made the first draft of another, edited a third. 

Critted 14   Got back  11

Submitted 1 Out there 0 Rejects 1 


Knitting

  • Tee (me). Started the month almost to the bottom of the armholes (I'm working top down) the second time around, having ripped most of it out when I was unhappy with the short rows. It's much better this time. The (short) sleeves are done again, and the neck, and I'm half-way down the body, which is pretty mindless. 
  • Soxx 22. Finished. 
  • Fenton's Arrow cowl (Knitty FF2018). This is the last thing on my planned list for this year, and I wasn't that excited to start because my yarn is the wrong gauge. So I switched yarn and ignored the flip that happens in the middle of the pattern, and it came out so great that I made a matching ski band as well, and then mittens. Used up a cone of yarn (7/24). They're all in the picture at the top of the page. 
  • Venezia Pullover (Interweave W2006). This has been on my list since 2006, and it will use up another cone of yarn. My current yarn diet says I can buy one ball of yarn per cone of yarn used up (until I get to 24 cones, then I can change the rules), and now I'm up by four, because I haven't been to a yarn store this year. I did the bottom edging and started the first pattern rep. 

I also finished my sashiko sampler and sewed a button front skirt. Alas, we're in lockdown again so I couldn't buy the buttons required for this one yet, so it's not finished, just the buttons and buttonholes and hem to go. 

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