it’s been a week of, scribbling, typing, swatching, and fabric cutting
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
One final shawl shape swatch to add to book 1 of the Shawl Geometry Update.
Yesterday, I wrote in my monthly newsletter, that “Last time I wrote to you, I was getting ready to scribble all over these books in purple pen. And scribble away I have. Scribbles have been scribbled, scribbles have been typed, technical editors have been contacted, and more rounds of scribbles lay ahead. As always, I’ll be sure to keep you updated.”
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I’ve spent much of my time this week typing up those scribbled edits and fixing scribbled on graphics for the Shawl Geometry Books Update. I expect to be scribbling away again this coming week.
But in between scribbling, and typing scribbles, I did manage to knit a swatch. And also cut pieces for an over shirt from my summer wardrobe infusion plans. Maybe I’ll even find time to sew it together this week.
The pattern is self drafted, so rather than production line these shirts – cutting, and then stitching a handful at a time – I’m using this first shirt to test the pattern, which I’ll then tweak if necessary.
frogging, editing, and my summer wardrobe infusion
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
Two notable things have happened this week on the crafting front of my life.
Firstly, I frogged about 2 inches of my Lady Bat sweater.
I ripped back my Lady Bat sweater to before I joined the front with the back to knit the second sleeve. I started knitting the second sleeve two weeks ago, but tried it on this week only to discover that I didn’t make the front & back wide enough. Ah well.
Because of the sideways construction, trying it on (and getting an accurate sense of what of how much more you have to knit), really requires an extra hand or two.
So, I’m going to knit a couple more inches on the front & back of my sweater, before joining again for the second sleeve.
Secondly, I finished the first round of edits for the second book in the Shawl Geometry Series.
With this round of book edits, I finished the first book last week, and the second book this week, and I’m over the damn moon. I still have the third book to go, but it feels like a far more do-able task now that I’m two-thirds of the way through.
And I guess thirdly, I thought about sitting down with my no-longer-really-an-Anna-Dress.
My summery wardrobe infusion plans have sort stalled. I’m attributing this to the massive amount of time & attention the shawl geometry books update is taking, and also to the seemingly endless rounds of rethinks I’m going through with the was-originally-going-to-be-an-Anna Dress.
When I was originally planning this wardrobe infusion, I said I wanted it to be light, and easy, and breezy – both in the making, and in the final projects.
Easy & breezy is kind of the antithesis of what this project has been so far – so I’m also mulling over ways to reinvigorate, push the reset button, and get this project moving again. Because out of the carry-on-suitcase sized capsule wardrobe that I packed in the middle of December, there are only so many clothes that I can transition into summer.
Everything takes longer than I think it will. (Including writing this post).
Each Wednesday, I take stock of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
Books. Sweater. Dress. Books. Sweater Dress.
This continues to be the rhythm of my week – at least in my “not working on projects for other people time.”
And while there’s been more book editing progress than knitting or sewing progress. I have managed to sneak in time here and there to further my summery wardrobe infusion plans.
The editing is going – but I kind of underestimated exactly how much I had added, and how many pages there were to edit. So I just have to laugh every time I think about my original timeline for this project. But! This project is moving forward, just far slower than I had anticipated.
Which, is also a statement that could easily be applied to my summery wardrobe infusion as well.
Because everything takes longer than I think it will. (including writing this post).
Though I’m making tentative plans to make some time for making that is specifically focused on getting some of the smaller pieces of my summery wardrobe infusion made. Plus I’ve decided that a somewhat incoherent post every now and then is a-okay by me, so I will end this here, and go back to editing.
