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In progress -- September 2025

Wind/Water/Salt  Chapters 39-51:   Nothing.  Persephone  (probably not its real name):  Nothing. Vinterlys:  Almost to the end with marking chapters so I can fix the outline.  Critted  4  Got back  1 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Hamilton  (Self). Started the month with 27 rows to go on the second sleeve. I finished that sleeve and attached it to the body.  Color block sock . Started the month with all the finishing on both socks to do. That's done now.  Arundel sock  (Knitty). Started the month needing just the heels and finishing on both socks. That's done now.  Athabasca socks (knitty): Started the first, did the heel, decided I'd made a bad choice, ripped out the heel. Finished that sock, started the second. Most of the leg is done now, soon to do another heel.  Georgia (Norah Gaughan). I really needed something that wasn't a sock and that didn't need to b...

In progress -- August 2025

Wind/Water/Salt Chapters 39-51:   Nothing. Persephone  (probably not its real name): Nothing Vinterlys:  Continued marking the rest of the chapters so I can have an outline and then fix the outline.  Critted  4  Got back  1 Submissions  0  Out there   0   Rejects   0 Knitting Hamilton  (Self). Started the month with about 60 rows to go on the second sleeve. This is down to 27 now.  Color block sock . Started the month mostly done with the first (didn't tie in the danglers yet) and half the leg of the second. Finished all the knitting, just have to do the finishing.  Arundel sock  (Knitty). Started the month with the foot and ankle done on the first one, just the heel and cuff to go. Finished everything but the heels and danglers on both socks.  Sashiko project:  Nothing.  Ruffle skirt:   Nothing. Purple Romper:   Nothing. Nikka pants: Why yes, rather than finishing anything I've...

What I read -- August 2025

LHC #291: "Under the Pendulum Sun: A novel of the fae" by Jeannette Ng.  Hard copy. The Yellow Wallpaper with fairies and inappropriate lusts. Not sure I'd call it fun, but it was definitely engrossing.  LHC #292: "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" by Michael Chabon.  Audio book. Very fun. The reader was great. I wonder if I might have benefitted from a written glossary of yiddish terms though.  LHC #293: "Fabric: The hidden history of the material world" by Victoria Finlay. eBook. A lot of this book is about economics and the evolution of work. A s a professional writer at the advent of ChatGPT, it's somewhat distressing to read about spinners and weavers during the industrial revolution .  "The Travelling Cat Chronicles" by Hiro Arikawa. eBook. For office book club. When I started the voice was annoying and twee, but I was on an airplane so I just went with it, and it was a good book to read on a plane because it wasn't too taxin...