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My increasingly aging gut has decided that alliums are evil. It will tolerate the occasional meal with onions, but leeks and garlic are not good. I feel sorry for the WBH, because he loves to cook and a lot of the recipes he's really fond of have a lot of alliums. Today I am paying for a fantastic salsa he made yesterday. There was about a cup or so left over, so I made a very California thing: scrambled eggs with salsa burrito style. Very tasty, but apparently the last straw. Well, not feeling up to running errands today gave me time to work on my current knitting project.
One of the very few down sides of knitting is running into techniques required for a project that you have to relearn regularly. I picked a fairly easy project, www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/big-crush
as a way to relearn stranded knitting. Two colors and aran weight yarn made for a project that's just ripped along. But this designer likes short rows. I use a version of short rows all the time when I turn a heel for socks, but that method isn't what the designer wanted. I blew a stupid amount of time researching the classic "wrap and turn" and then trying to figure out if German short rows would be better.... In short, I stopped working on my project for a couple of weeks, until I got tired of staring at the almost finished body and made myself get on with it. Since my guts were not happy today, I rummaged through various books until I found the most understandable instructions and finished the section.
For the first time in a very long time, I have the beginning of a story in my head. I have about 90% of Yuri 3 plotted out, but I've never had the opening scene for it. I should thank Guy_Grolit over on LJ for getting me to rethink several things. No idea how far the story will get, but I'm excited that I've got an opening scene at all. I know I'm excited since there's a line of open tabs across my browser with all sorts of intriguing research.
Cross-posted from dreamwidth.org
One of the very few down sides of knitting is running into techniques required for a project that you have to relearn regularly. I picked a fairly easy project, www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/big-crush
as a way to relearn stranded knitting. Two colors and aran weight yarn made for a project that's just ripped along. But this designer likes short rows. I use a version of short rows all the time when I turn a heel for socks, but that method isn't what the designer wanted. I blew a stupid amount of time researching the classic "wrap and turn" and then trying to figure out if German short rows would be better.... In short, I stopped working on my project for a couple of weeks, until I got tired of staring at the almost finished body and made myself get on with it. Since my guts were not happy today, I rummaged through various books until I found the most understandable instructions and finished the section.
For the first time in a very long time, I have the beginning of a story in my head. I have about 90% of Yuri 3 plotted out, but I've never had the opening scene for it. I should thank Guy_Grolit over on LJ for getting me to rethink several things. No idea how far the story will get, but I'm excited that I've got an opening scene at all. I know I'm excited since there's a line of open tabs across my browser with all sorts of intriguing research.
Cross-posted from dreamwidth.org