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Unfocused creative urges
I want to knit today but none of the projects on my needles appeal. Ultimately that's probably good since I've resorted to medication because my hands and wrists hurt too much today. Right now they're just mildly sore but I know that's just because I took the painkillers.
Knitting status reportin brief:
Whitewater Wristwarmers: I still need to get a good photo of the pair I made for myself. I have completed one of the pair for Kris and would probably cast on for the second right now if I didn't know I'd find it hard to set down until I completed the tubular cast on the wrist ribbing the first pattern repeat up to the start of the thumb more than I should with sore hands.
"John's Sweater": Just two rows away from completing the second repeat. I managed to get three rows done on it yesterday despite the humidity making the yarn unpleasantly sticky feeling and hard to work with.
Heirloom/Lovely Lace Shawl: I'm only on row 28 out of 243, I really should work on this one. It's not charted though and working lace from written instructions (that are notorious for errors!) is just not appealing at the moment. Good news is that despite the yarn being 100% virgin wool I'm not having a reaction to it. Maybe I'm just sensitive to itchy and not really allergic? It would be nice if that were the case since some things (like complex lace) just work better with animal fibers it seems. And I could also try felting eventually.
I also have a couple things on needles that aren't really projects. One of them is that swatch from the Japanese sweater pattern with the cool wide cable. I might knock a few more rows out on that and just bind off and call it a failed experiment. I'm pretty convinced there's a translation error, if not then I'll consider it one of those things that works a lot better with a stretchy fiber like wool rather than acrylic. Maybe if I had done more rows before the start of the cable.... I'll probably play with the idea again in the future
The other is another double knitting swatch-thing. If it were in cotton I'd call it a hot pad or a pot holder but I don't really trust acrylic for that sort of thing so it's a... thingy. I've settled into doing double knitting with both hands, knitting the near side continental (holding the yarn in my left hand) and purling the far side English (throwing the yarn with my right hand, my normal knitting style). For spots where I reverse colors I'll knit English and purl continental but only if it's for a small number of stitches, continental purling makes my left hand unhappy, otherwise I stop and switch the yarns in my hands.
Non-knitterly stuff:
Despite the pseudo-jossing I'm still poking a bit on my last NaNo, mostly fleshing out side characters and trying to make the set of common technologies make sense with each other. If they have the technology available to accomplish some task and don't use it I have to have a logical reason why. Fortunately, things like "it costs too much" and "they find it morally repugnant" are "logical". Of course, for anything that is not used for "moral" reasons there is bound to be some group somewhere doing just that....
In a vague attempt to clean up part of my hard drive (HAH!) I dug around in my old writing files. Some of those ideas and story fragments are from twenty years ago (having moved from notebooks to my first PC and then traveling from PC to PC) and, well, they show it. I may have to find something that can handle Works files from Windows 3.1 days if I want to actually use some of those.
Anyway, I found some old characters that I might revamp for future NaNo attempts. I have a set of nearly seventy original characters from a Fanfic That Will Never Be Written (can we say Mary Sue tendencies?) that could have their fanfic origins removed quite easily, though some may not survive the operation. A slight tweak of the Childhood Trauma and the Morgan family would be good to go. One side character actually has a pretty good universe built around her so just shifting the lead to her rather than the matriarch of the family could even supply some sort of plot starting point... should I decide I want to write a modern/near future werewolf novel.
Alas, I'm still in the fandoms for the other FTWNBW character sets so it makes it hard to pull them out. They're also tied into the original worlds and character sets tighter than the Morgan set so it might not be possible. It's a pity since some of them are pretty interesting, but it's a multi-generational sort of set the grandkids might be salvageable.
I should draw.
Knitting status report
Whitewater Wristwarmers: I still need to get a good photo of the pair I made for myself. I have completed one of the pair for Kris and would probably cast on for the second right now if I didn't know I'd find it hard to set down until I completed "John's Sweater": Just two rows away from completing the second repeat. I managed to get three rows done on it yesterday despite the humidity making the yarn unpleasantly sticky feeling and hard to work with.
Heirloom/Lovely Lace Shawl: I'm only on row 28 out of 243, I really should work on this one. It's not charted though and working lace from written instructions (that are notorious for errors!) is just not appealing at the moment. Good news is that despite the yarn being 100% virgin wool I'm not having a reaction to it. Maybe I'm just sensitive to itchy and not really allergic? It would be nice if that were the case since some things (like complex lace) just work better with animal fibers it seems. And I could also try felting eventually.
I also have a couple things on needles that aren't really projects. One of them is that swatch from the Japanese sweater pattern with the cool wide cable. I might knock a few more rows out on that and just bind off and call it a failed experiment. I'm pretty convinced there's a translation error, if not then I'll consider it one of those things that works a lot better with a stretchy fiber like wool rather than acrylic. Maybe if I had done more rows before the start of the cable.... I'll probably play with the idea again in the future
The other is another double knitting swatch-thing. If it were in cotton I'd call it a hot pad or a pot holder but I don't really trust acrylic for that sort of thing so it's a... thingy. I've settled into doing double knitting with both hands, knitting the near side continental (holding the yarn in my left hand) and purling the far side English (throwing the yarn with my right hand, my normal knitting style). For spots where I reverse colors I'll knit English and purl continental but only if it's for a small number of stitches, continental purling makes my left hand unhappy, otherwise I stop and switch the yarns in my hands.
Non-knitterly stuff:
Despite the pseudo-jossing I'm still poking a bit on my last NaNo, mostly fleshing out side characters and trying to make the set of common technologies make sense with each other. If they have the technology available to accomplish some task and don't use it I have to have a logical reason why. Fortunately, things like "it costs too much" and "they find it morally repugnant" are "logical". Of course, for anything that is not used for "moral" reasons there is bound to be some group somewhere doing just that....
In a vague attempt to clean up part of my hard drive (HAH!) I dug around in my old writing files. Some of those ideas and story fragments are from twenty years ago (having moved from notebooks to my first PC and then traveling from PC to PC) and, well, they show it. I may have to find something that can handle Works files from Windows 3.1 days if I want to actually use some of those.
Anyway, I found some old characters that I might revamp for future NaNo attempts. I have a set of nearly seventy original characters from a Fanfic That Will Never Be Written (can we say Mary Sue tendencies?) that could have their fanfic origins removed quite easily, though some may not survive the operation. A slight tweak of the Childhood Trauma and the Morgan family would be good to go. One side character actually has a pretty good universe built around her so just shifting the lead to her rather than the matriarch of the family could even supply some sort of plot starting point... should I decide I want to write a modern/near future werewolf novel.
Alas, I'm still in the fandoms for the other FTWNBW character sets so it makes it hard to pull them out. They're also tied into the original worlds and character sets tighter than the Morgan set so it might not be possible. It's a pity since some of them are pretty interesting, but it's a multi-generational sort of set the grandkids might be salvageable.
I should draw.