Sew Dance

So, I have been working on something. Just a bit. Page 3 of Dragon Dancer. I'm rather entrenched in NaNoWriMo this year. With nothing else to do and an expansion of my 2017 novel, I'm just under 78,000 words at the moment. That is the most I've ever written on one story. And it's not done. Even if I finish the first draft by the end of the month, I'm not entirely certain this won't be split into two books as I add scenes and descriptions I've skipped during this draft.  I know I'm not reaching one of my beginning of the year goals of publishing. The story I thought I could do that with became a bit difficult with Covid and the fact that the beginning period was supposed to be taking place this year. I'll hold off on it. Maybe another time. Or turn it into a screenplay. It might work better if I don't have to fill in every detail of the late 1950s. I can let set design and costuming take care of that.

Yay! No more pink for a while! Although it's not until page 5 that I get the slightest hint of the subject of this piece. Anyway, off to crochet pumpkins.

I'm staring at 99% pink for the next 20 rows or so to the end of the page. The purple/gray was a nice break, but there are so many pinks! I did however complete the 2,018 stitches for the HAED challenge in under a week. With blocks of color each row is taking me about 30 minutes as opposed to 60 on Alternative Reality. Also picked up these from Herrschners. Oddly I didn't get a shipping notice, they just showed up at my door.

Not quite as much done this week. I blame the transition from pinks to purple and gray. I'm a little late in posting because I like to have two full days of stitching (aka my weekend) if possible. My off days got switched and then I woke up late Thrursday and forgot about it. Woke up late today too, but have just enough time to write this up.

So, back to the top of the rotation with Dragon Dancer and the extremely pink background. Didn't get quite as much done as I could've this week, but certainly ended up with more than I thought. Also took advantage of the labor day sales a bit (not quite as on sale as I would've liked) and got these.

Although I am stitching another tree. At least it's a pink tree... 90/98 rows. I didn't have quite as much stitching time this week otherwise I probably would've finished the page. I've been thinking of doing flosstube videos. Would anyone be interested in something like this from me? Something you'd like to see? What is the crochet equivalent of flosstube? Yarntube? These are the afghan books I ordered. all for the price of the kit of the stained glass tree one. Cuts down on my having to buy the kits as there are a few that I'm not totally in love with the colors for. And Clyde is weird and doesn't know what to do about snow crab. Looked at it, sniffed it, then finally batted at it. But didn't eat it.

Very pink. I started this 11pm New Year's Eve and have completed 50 rows. Slightly over half the page. This is far less confetti that Alternative Reality so that might explain why it's going so fast. By the way, this is the fabric. 29x36 including margins. Why did I choose one of the largest HAEDs? Got this one as my Loyalty chart from HAED, Lackadaisy Affinity. Also purchased a lot of afghan patterns from Herrschners with my birthday coupon. I'll take a photo of them when they arrive. Also won a knitting book from a contest I entered. And Clyde didn't quite know what to do with the crab.