This was one of those patterns that jumped out at me. I had been sitting on the yarn for some time and couldn’t decide what to do with it. The pattern was featured in Spin-Off, the Summer 08 issue along with an awesome gallery of examples in all different types of yarn.
If you don’t have access to the mag, you can get the pattern at HeartStrings Fiber Arts
The yarn itself is some hand spun that I did with some roving from Hello Yarn, which was one of my first attempts at a lace weight. It’s uneven but that’s part of the beauty of it now.
Thanks for the comments, hope this gives the rest of you some inspiration to try it with something you have lying around.
The reason I got the laptop a few weeks ago was as an excuse to get me writing again, not just here on the blog, but actually developing a story and writing. I’ve got the start of something churning around in my head, and I’ve been making bullet lists all weekend. I’ve got a couple characters that are starting to flesh out a bit, and now I’m sitting staring at a map. I’ve been driving my husband mad with “what if” scenarios. It’s complicated in a strange sci-fi alternate history kind of way. I’m not quite sure about some of the ideas I’m throwing around. I think they’re good, and will work for creating some tension, but I’m wondering if I’m going to get lynched down the road.
This part of the process for me is frustrating and fun. Dealing with what could be, and how things have changed throws so much out there to play with. Scrawling notes across a map and changing things around on the landscape is giving me a better sense of where and what I’m dealing with. Their world is starting to become a coherent place, and that in turn is making the characters easier to manipulate. Some of them are still a bit fuzzy around the edges, and there are two who are currently tapping their feet because I’m not moving fast enough.
I’m setting aside mornings for writing, first here, and then take everyone to their various places this morning. When I get back home, it’s going to be sitting and writing for at least two hours, with no interruptions. I’ve already mentioned to the husband that I’m not going to be answering the phone during that time. I’m shooting for a rough outline and a few odd bits to test the waters today.
Have you ever had one of those mornings where you get an amazing idea, just a flash of something, triggered by something you see every day; and it keeps growing 
yeah, like that….I’ll come back later and let you know how far it goes.
The husband is home until the 2nd I think, and the kid doesn’t go back to school until the7th, I love them both dearly, but I’m ready to have my mornings back to myself thank you. Things have been uneventful, or at least unblog worthy over the past few days. I have pictures that I should probably put in the galleries and things to write about, but it’s the holidays and I can’t be fussed to get it done. Staying up until 3am, getting up at 8am and then taking a nap mid day…..feels like slacker college days. I’ll get things sorted out and do something worthwhile later.
The month has flown by pretty quickly, and I will admit while writing every day has been interesting, I know that much of what has gone up here for content is not up to what I would have liked it to be. I’m happy to say that I have managed to get something written every day, even if it’s just throwing a pic or two up, but I know that I will probably not keep up the “every day” mode after this week.
This whole process has proved to me that I can stick to a schedule though, and that was part of my reason for participating. It’s said that it takes 28 repetitions of something to make it a habit, or something like that. So 30 days of sitting down here every morning to let something out of my head has done some good. I’m definitely a morning writer, my only problem is that I soon get distracted by my day. The next step is to plan ahead and make sure that the distractions aren’t there first thing in the morning. That would make sense wouldn’t it?
It’s not something I’ve mentioned here, but I’ve jumped back on a weight loss program as well. Great thing to try and do over the holidays, but at the same time, this is the time of year when I really need to watch what goes into my body. I get these consultations once a week, and it’s starting to actually sink in this time, as opposed to the attempt last year to do the same thing. I’m the only person who can make this work and do something about it rather than just sitting here accepting that I’m really crap at pushing myself.
What is going on right now is that I’m realizing that I’m slowly getting away from some of the things that trigger me to sit around and ignore all the things I should be doing, because it’s easier than trying and not succeeding. The whole vibe is making lifestyle changes, and I’m trying to do that with writing as well. I guess I’ll see where it goes over the next few weeks.