(a little swatching and playing with sock yarn I dyed with food coloring)
Honey: I am going on a for-real vacation! Not a short, rushed trip to a wedding or to move kidlet into a dorm, an actual for-real go spend time with friends and get reacquainted with a city I love but have not been to for years and years!
Sting: I will have about 20 hours of work to do while I’m on vacation. I am glad I have a job, especially a job I like, even if it is a job with a company that, like many other companies right now, is trying to do more with less.
Honey: I plan to do a lot of sitting on my behind and knitting or crocheting while on vacation.
Sting: A new Raveler sent me a message that slammed one of my patterns. I suspect the Raveler’s aim was to leave a comment on the pattern page, not send me a direct message, but I got it. I tend to take a deep breath before checking my Ravelry messages anyway; I never know if someone is going to send me something sweet or a text-based slap in the face. It stung, yes, but I can see that it came out of frustration with a pattern that *is* problematic, in more ways than one. I’ve published errata for it, but it’s still confusing, and I sold all rights to it (because I didn’t know any better back then) so I can’t re-publish it. Yet it’s still out there, with my name on it. For a while, I’ve been thinking about how I could revisit the pattern and do something based off of it, charted out the way I’ve started charting out my more recent crochet patterns, without violating the copyright that I don’t own. Renegotiation might be possible but I have not had much luck getting in touch with that particular book editor, and I’m not surprised, really. I let her down by sending her work that wasn’t up to standard.
Honey: got my hands on Blue Sky Alpacas’ Spud & Chloe ‘Outer’ in 7200 Soapstone and it’s lovely stuff. Soft, soft, soft! I am crocheting up a pattern sample with it (another lace scarf pattern I’ve been noodling around with for a while) and it’s going beautifully.
Sting: a minor one – it’s been so hot that holding yarn has just not been fun. I’ll get over it.
