Skip to main content

In Process: December 2020

Venezia


Wind/Water/Salt While editing Chapter 43, I realized there was no way to explain from where Preston (POV character) was what Abigail was up to, and how she managed to do it, so I broke that chapter in half and stuck another chapter in the middle. So then I had 50 chapters, maybe 51? Then I read to the end, and deleted Chapter 46, and broke 47 into three. This made it possible for the characters to behave in anything like a consistent way. I don't even know how many chapters there really are anymore. Maybe 53? 
  • Chapters 26-27: Took up comments. 
  • Chapters 29-42: Need to take up comments and revise.  
  • Chapter 43 (including 43.1): Finished and posted. 
  • Chapter 44-(end): Read and revised. 
Persephone (probably not its real name): I got to the part of my library reading list that had a lot of research books for this, which put me in the headspace again. This is the most musically motivated thing I've written, I think. Other people post soundtracks of their writing, but I don't really have that. More, I'll be listening to a song and it will trigger a scene. So a soundtrack would be potentially hundreds of songs long. 
Short Stories: Polished two a bit. I think when I get to the end of WWS 2.0, I will put, let's say, 5 stories on OWW as a palate cleanser. 
Critted 6  Got back 15
Submissions  1  Out there 1Rejects 0
Knitting
  • Tee (me). Started the month maybe five inches down the body, but worked a few inches while watching Deadpool 1&2 and several episodes of The Boys. This is more of a summer garment, though it would work well with that button front skirt I just sewed. So no rush. 
  • Venezia Pullover (Interweave W2006). Last month I had done all three hems (body and both sleeves) and started the first body pattern repeat. I had a major crisis at the end of the first repeat and tried a different colorway (on a sleeve, I did not rip out 25 rows of body) that I liked even less, then realized the problem was with the black/white chart I'd drawn myself, which had three rows black/white reversed. Once I fixed that problem the original colorway was tolerable. 

    At this point the project became a panic to see if I was going to run out of any colors. Four of them are I think from a line that was never released, so they wouldn't have been available even if I'd started knitting ten years ago when I bought them. Five of them don't seem to be available even though the line still is, or the manufacturer has changed the names of the colors or... something. 

    The whole thing is attached together now, and I'm at the neck. I had to make some minor modifications to the chart to conserve one color, but it's all good. 
Finished that button front skirt. Last month I couldn't buy buttons for it because of Covid lockdown. But I had a dentist appointment in Markham, where lockdown hadn't been applied yet! So I bought buttons. 

Oh, and I did the buttonholes by hand, and this is how I learned that Laura Ingalls Wilder is a liar: buttonholes by hand are not that awful to do. Kind of fun, actually. 
Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

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: ...
Read more

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...
Read more

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...
Read more