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In progress -- Feb 2023



Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51: Still need to take up comments and revise. 

Persephone (probably not its real name): More words
Short Stories: Read one, decided the ending was crap, rewrote the ending (after thinking to myself, "What bad thing could happen to start the third act, rather than having everyone get together and do exactly what's expected of them?"). 
Critted 6 Got back 0 but also posted nothing. 
Submissions 0 Out there 1 Rejects 0
Knitting
  • Tay Tartan cardigan (Martin Storey). Started the month with about 20 rows to go on the upper sleeves. Finished these and knitted through to the shoulders, bound off and cut the steeks. This is not a nicely graded pattern. 
  • Cathar (self). Started month with 3/4 of the body edging done. Didn't progress. Thinking about starting again with smaller needles. 
  • Lotus (Norah Gaughan). Started month with 4 inches of back. Finished the back, and both fronts, and the sleeves, so there's just the seaming and the back insert to go. 
Sashiko project: Cut three inches off the bottom, inserted the zipper, kind of ready to start drawing the pattern on. 

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