Number Nine Finally Up

Finally got the ninth chapter up! I'm not especially gifted with battle savvy and all the reading in the world seems to have failed to make me much of a tactician.I'm fine with the people stuff but once I have to come up with how long it takes anyone to travel across any terrain or stuff like that I start leaking self-confidence at an alarming rate! So, here's hoping those reading it are still enjoying it and those in a position to know will be charitable to my inevitable mistakes!

So What have I done this Week?

Laundry done? Nope. Although I did wash a load of towels but didn't manage to put them on the line. Hey, it's drizzling out there...on and off...when I look out the window...
Ironing started? Eh, negatori!
Floors swept? Carpets vacuumed? No and...nope.
But I have been knitting! Look, all the nice pretty things I've been making!
I made this lovely cat-ornament-cat-thing...

...and then I knit these really great felted slippers from a great magazine I bought when I was in Albany last...with wool that I also bought in Albany...even though I have an obscene amount of wool at home that I could have probably practiced with...but I digress!

The backs with the buttons are how the heels ended up because my feet are so ridiculously small that even felted the slippers were HUGE! But aren't they cute!!

Still knitting the Blush Vest and don't have a nice picture and we went to Albany for dinner with newly returned In-Laws (They've been to New Zealand, lucky hobbits!) so took slipper pattern and wool I'd spun and dyed and knit up another pair of slippers over the course of the night and even managed to felt them when I got home! And they turned out so well!!!

Aren't they pretty? The heels are different again to the first pair. I wanted to put a button detail on them again but they didn't fold over the way the first ones did and I didn't like how the heel kind of hung out. So I sewed them up to about 2cms short of the heel and then gathered the heel up so it made a nice circle where you heel goes. Hey, it makes sense to me! And they fit! What more could I want?

Well, I think that's about it. I've done a bit of dyeing acrylic yarns...not sure I want to do that again. It smells funny for starters! But I now have some interesting coloured yarn that I'm not sure what to do with, one of them so acrylic-y that it squeaks! I think that one may find its way to being a market bag or something.

This boring pink fluffy became this almost elmo-oh-my-god red fluffy stuff


And this was the Acrylic then...and now. Better colour, just as squeaky!

A most productive week...of a kind. Hey, the house I will always have with me but inspiration comes only now and then, or sometimes more often...depending on the yarn available...or the patterns that crop up...but definitely not as often as housework anyway!

I'll have to give serious thought this weekend though to vacuuming, laundry and ironing otherwise the Hubbie will begin to remonstrate. And I've got to have a look at Chapter Nine of Raven of Arlon before another week flies by. Sigh. Why can't I get paid by the quota of Creative energy I generate.
Oh well....
Happy Knitting :)

Chapter Eight :)

I've got stuff that I've done but I promised this chapter would be up by the 5th and...here it is! Blimey, where'd the time go? So now I've done this I can take some pictures and put up a proper post tomorrow.
Happy Knitting :)

Chapter Six is Now Up

I've just put the next chapter, Chapter Six up. Hope you like it.

New Chapter Up

I've just put Chapter Four up on The Raven of Arlon for any who might be interested. It has been a busy Christmas period and it promises to be an equally busy New Year.
Good wishes and blessings for you all!

New Chapter Up

I wanted to tweak these chapters a bit before I put them up but I'm having difficulty finding the time. So, anyone who reads them (God knows who that is!) be aware that I'm very interested in any insights that I may have missed and improvements I can make.
Anyway, Chapter Three is up :) on Raven Of Arlon

New Page

I thought I'd start putting a chapter every now and then of my book I keep trying to finish. I've actually finished it but the polishing process is the part that keeps getting me down. So maybe if I get some feed back I might get a bit more motivated. Raven of Arlon has been so long in the pipeline I can't properly remember when the germ of the idea first came to me but it's been like an albatross around my neck for such a long time now! So, feel free to comment. Just be gentle with me. I really want to get this one off my mind so I can concentrate on the other stories I have percolating!

Raven of Arlon is a story set in a psuedo-medieval world where seige and war bring out deep personal pain in those involved.
Go to the page Raven of Arlon and have a look and leave a comment here on the home page with this post. Constructive critisism greatly appreciated!