I just finished writing Year of the Dog ! It had a massive plot hole that I had to fix which turned out to be more work than I expected. Here’s a snippet: “Hey, Auntie Nell.” He wrapped his arms around her, bussing her on the cheek and breathing in pikake flowers and shortbread cookies. And suddenly he was nine years old again, and her solid presence had made his chaotic world stable once more. “What are you doing here?” He usually took her to dinner on Wednesday nights, but today was Tuesday. The edges of her smile faltered a little before brightening right back up again. “What, I can’t visit my nephew?” She angled around him to enter his home. “Is this your new house? Looks lovely.” Which was a blatant lie, because the fixer-upper was barely livable, much less acceptable to a neat-freak like his aunt. She also left four matching pink and purple floral suitcases on the stoop behind her. Only then did Ashwin notice the cab driver standing slightly to the side of the walkway. “Can ...
Captain's Log, Stardate 05.06.2008
So, I had this extra yarn in my stash, a nice pink Jiffy yarn. I’ve been making scarves and hats to give to my youth group girls as Christmas presents, and I’ve got a ton of scarves. I was tired of scarves.
I thought, why not a bag? I have the yarn and the inclination.
So I started. This is the reason I do not do a lot of multiple colors in my knitting.
Isn’t it hideous? Aside from the fact I have an extra hole at the top (you can’t see it) and the placement of the straps at the bottom isn’t quite even with the bottom panel, it looks like someone tried to stuff the poor thing in a girdle.
I know what happened—I was too tight in my tension when I was doing that topmost strip. Actually, if you shake the bag out, the other two strips of color are a tad tight, too. The bag’s actual silhouette looks a bit like my own—lots of lumps.
It’s … serviceable. Maybe I can trick a Junior High girl into thinking the pink color is cute enough to disregard the fact it looks like a squashed head.
So, I had this extra yarn in my stash, a nice pink Jiffy yarn. I’ve been making scarves and hats to give to my youth group girls as Christmas presents, and I’ve got a ton of scarves. I was tired of scarves.
I thought, why not a bag? I have the yarn and the inclination.
So I started. This is the reason I do not do a lot of multiple colors in my knitting.
Isn’t it hideous? Aside from the fact I have an extra hole at the top (you can’t see it) and the placement of the straps at the bottom isn’t quite even with the bottom panel, it looks like someone tried to stuff the poor thing in a girdle.
I know what happened—I was too tight in my tension when I was doing that topmost strip. Actually, if you shake the bag out, the other two strips of color are a tad tight, too. The bag’s actual silhouette looks a bit like my own—lots of lumps.
It’s … serviceable. Maybe I can trick a Junior High girl into thinking the pink color is cute enough to disregard the fact it looks like a squashed head.
Comments
I'll bid on it.
Two dollars.
It's cute.