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In Process - September 2021

  

Toe prints on my ceiling

Wind/Water/Salt 

  • Chapters 31-51: Need to take up comments and revise. 
  • Synopsis: Maybe I should post it for comments. 
  • Had a glimmering of what to do with Fairfax next. 
Persephone (probably not its real name): I found myself writing and layering in the same scene over and over, which I guess is how I work now.  
Short Stories: 
Critted 11 Got back  2 
Submissions 0 Out there 0 Rejects 0

Knitting
  • Anna Maria (Faroe Island Knits). I'd done about half an inch of sleeve at the start of the month. Now I've got almost a foot of that and started the second sleeve as well. My yarn has dye lot issues. 
  • Knitloops (Knitty SS2021). Had first sock half way down heel. I finished that pair and started the next. 
  • Striped long-sleeved t-shirt (self).   I had shoulders and maybe 5 rows of sleeve at the start of the month, but this is good mindless knitting so I did a couple of inches in the car. 
Fixed what I cut out for my Queen's Gambit skirt; I started with the wrong pattern. This doesn't need darts. I hope it doesn't take as long as the last project, but I made a lot of mistakes to start so it's not looking good. 

Funny thing that just popped into my head. I used worry (like when I was a teenager) that I would get so good at things that the spontaneous brilliance that sometimes comes from mistakes wouldn't come anymore. Adulthood has shown me that this is so not an issue. At least not for me. 

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