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In Process: January 2021

Never Stressed backwards is Desserts Reven. If I can't find a recipe with that title I may need to invent it.


Wind/Water/Salt 
  • Chapters 29-43: Need to take up comments and revise.  
  • Chapter 43.2, 44: Finished and posted. 
  • Chapter 45-(end): Read and revised. 
Persephone (probably not its real name): nothing to speak of.
Short Stories: Worked on a first draft of one.  
Critted 10 Got back 12
Highlights of the month (there were two): Someone who read a lot of the early part of WWS came back to the workshop! And I got into another workshop, this one looking a bit more goal-oriented (if the goal is to get published). 
Submissions 0 Out there 1 Rejects 0
Knitting
  • Tee (me). I'm almost at the bottom rib. Knit most of it while watching The Boys and Queens Gambit. Good shows. 
  • Venezia Pullover (Interweave W2006). Finished. 
  • Never Stressed Schweater (me). Started Jan 1, did body and both sleeves to armscye, joined it all up. 
  • Practice hoodie (me). Started the ribbing for the back mostly because I didn't feel like finishing the tee. 
Cut out another sewing project, bought the hardware for it, sewed a flat felled seam and some darts. 
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