In progress: August 2024

Very messy inside of an almost finished sweater.

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

Persephone (probably not its real name): Continued to think thoughts.

Short Stories: After posting that short story from last month onto the workshop, I picked one of those short stories I'd started and forced a plot onto it.

Critted 5 Got back 4

Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0

Knitting

Cathar (self). Started month with two inches done above the armholes. Listening to audiobooks, I finished the fair isle portion, cut the steeks, and set up and knit the neckline. Just the endless finishing now.
Blushing Cloud (Knitty S/S24). Started the month with (still) three inches of back done. Socks take priority.
Elbrus socks (Knitty first fall 2024). Finished.
Elbrus socks II. Started the first.
Pole shorts (Joan McGowan-Michael). I knitted these several years ago, but the crotch was too narrow so I rarely wore them. I still had a bit of yarn so I added a couple of inches, much more reasonable now. I will wear them for pole.

Sashiko project: Nothing.

Ruffle skirt: Nothing.

Purple Romper: The real problem that kept me from working on this was fear of running out of fabric. And also cutting. Feeling brave one day, I cut the sides so I could put it on, and realized it wasn't that bad, but that still I didn't really have enough hip room. I devised a plan to fix that, but unfortunately it didn't involve actually understanding how sewing is different from knitting so I'm not entirely happy. Maybe I can cover the worst bits with patch pockets?

Best TW feedback ever

Over at the dayjob, SMEs are feverishly trying to get documents back to me all marked up, in preparation for the release that's supposed to happen the week I'm back from VP. Today's best comment: Unfortunately not true. SMEs, they're so cute.

What I read: January 2024

"Morgan is my name" by Sophie Keech. Office book club selection. It gets exhausting to read about plucky young heroines who are terrible at needlework all the time. I should probably read some Jo Walton. I mean, you can be good at needlework and other things too! I didn't find this book very surprising. The first half was kind of boring, but it got better towards the end. LHC #233: "The Shifter" by Janice Hardy. I read her writing advice website regularly, so I thought I should maybe read an actual book to find out if she was worth it. Oh my, the voice of this book grabbed me immediately. The worldbuilding seemed shady but the voice was solid. It wasn't very subtle, but I might not be the target audience. LHC #234: "Ragnarok: The End of the Gods" by A. S. Byatt. At this point with my library account, I'm just guessing. I know there was something by Byatt there? I suspect there was. I did not know what to make of this book. Strange, but it w

What I read: March 2024

LHC #240: "Vita Nostra" by Maryna and Serhiy Dyachenko. Translated by Julia Meitov Hersey. All I knew going in was dark academia. This was a neat thing to read after A Deadly Education last month. The students can leave this school at summer and winter break, but maybe they shouldn't. Also, interesting education method, providing Sasha with a CD player and punishing her if she leaves it in the mode where it plays all the tracks in sequence. "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman. When I finished Ragnarok by AS Byatt (last month? January?) I was thinking it might have made more sense if I had any knowledge of the subject matter. The boy had left this lying around, and it was not a tough read. LHC #241: "Science on a mission: How Military funding shaped what we do and don't know about the ocean" by Naomi Oreskes. I deferred this once because it was so long. History of science is challenging for me to read, because of the need to get a grasp on dispr

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