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NaNo and knitting update
Nov. 5th, 2007 09:42 pmStill no idea where the story is going.
Have discovered a distressing habit to wander into talking head territory.
Like the characters, very WTF on the story. Though the idea of zombies created with technology for use as cannon fodder is oddly interesting. Of course someone else in the house has done it better, now that I think about it.
This original story is not as original as I would like I think.
I was lazy on Sunday so I'm trying to catch up today. Treating myself to an anime episode every 500 words seems to work pretty well.
I hope to have at least 8000 words when I stop tonight (which might be really early tomorrow with my habits).
My knitting is not going well with the writing. I need to do an inch of slip stitch rib on this hat and I hate my size 5 circulars. They are plastic and too flexy. Since the only place to get circulars in lengths other than 24"* is the yarn store I'm trying to hold off buying another one ($10 a circular, cripes!) since I am broke and have hopes for a Christmas gift of an interchangeable set. (I swear, if I don't get one for Christmas I'm going to squeeze the money from somewhere because I can get a set for the price of 5 or 6 regular circulars and save a ton of money in the long run.)
I still have a skein and a half on the garter stitch scarf, that's pretty damned boring to knit and I should leave it out where I will be tempted to pick it up and do a row here and there. The hat is currently in the prime sitting out spot though.
I'm not sure the dalek is going to make it. I'm using Caron Simply Soft on size 4s and there's something funky going on every knit to purl switch, it's loose and it shouldn't be. It's hard to tell though because I don't have enough rows to get a real good look at it. I'm actually very proficient with DPNs but you couldn't tell from this thing. I may frog it and use the yarn for something else, provided I can find some grey in another brand. I don't know. I did decide that bobbles are right out because they are boring, boring, boring to knit. I will be using some purchased mini pompoms instead. Assuming I actually finish a dalek.
*Annoyingly, 24" is actually usable for hats for myself or either of the Bills I might knit for, but the hat is for Dad and his head is only 21", hence having already had to buy one $10 circular for it. If the DPNs hadn't been getting annoying I wouldn't have bought it, short circulars don't get much use in my knitting, sleeves and hats, that's about it.
Have discovered a distressing habit to wander into talking head territory.
Like the characters, very WTF on the story. Though the idea of zombies created with technology for use as cannon fodder is oddly interesting. Of course someone else in the house has done it better, now that I think about it.
This original story is not as original as I would like I think.
I was lazy on Sunday so I'm trying to catch up today. Treating myself to an anime episode every 500 words seems to work pretty well.
I hope to have at least 8000 words when I stop tonight (which might be really early tomorrow with my habits).
My knitting is not going well with the writing. I need to do an inch of slip stitch rib on this hat and I hate my size 5 circulars. They are plastic and too flexy. Since the only place to get circulars in lengths other than 24"* is the yarn store I'm trying to hold off buying another one ($10 a circular, cripes!) since I am broke and have hopes for a Christmas gift of an interchangeable set. (I swear, if I don't get one for Christmas I'm going to squeeze the money from somewhere because I can get a set for the price of 5 or 6 regular circulars and save a ton of money in the long run.)
I still have a skein and a half on the garter stitch scarf, that's pretty damned boring to knit and I should leave it out where I will be tempted to pick it up and do a row here and there. The hat is currently in the prime sitting out spot though.
I'm not sure the dalek is going to make it. I'm using Caron Simply Soft on size 4s and there's something funky going on every knit to purl switch, it's loose and it shouldn't be. It's hard to tell though because I don't have enough rows to get a real good look at it. I'm actually very proficient with DPNs but you couldn't tell from this thing. I may frog it and use the yarn for something else, provided I can find some grey in another brand. I don't know. I did decide that bobbles are right out because they are boring, boring, boring to knit. I will be using some purchased mini pompoms instead. Assuming I actually finish a dalek.
*Annoyingly, 24" is actually usable for hats for myself or either of the Bills I might knit for, but the hat is for Dad and his head is only 21", hence having already had to buy one $10 circular for it. If the DPNs hadn't been getting annoying I wouldn't have bought it, short circulars don't get much use in my knitting, sleeves and hats, that's about it.
