Time and Changes
It was about a week ago that I decided to look back and I realized that my last posting was in February 2012. Fiber I have knitted and crocheted many things in these missing years. Some of these were for myself, but most are for other people. I started working on a “marathon of fiber” project where I tried to knit or crochet 26.2 miles of yarn. This was good and bad for me. I had completed 44 items, the vast majority being hats and had used about 5.36 miles of yarn. The shear amount of time that I had spent on these projects burned me out. I have done little fiber work since December of 2014. Writing One of my avocations has been writing. I started a high fantasy novel years ago and I have been working on it more off than on since then. I have officially participated in one NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). That novel/novella of a little over 55,000 words is in its editing stage and may stay there for eternity. This last fall I entered a competition for a short