![Earlier this week, @marz1pan agreed to eat lunch at our local Irish pub to celebrate me finally finishing my draft of my Irish paranormal romance.
The proprietor, who sees me regularly, asked if I was knitting for a new addition. I said “No, these socks are for me!?!” and I held it up for him to see.
He smiled and walked away.
After he left, I asked Megan “Did he just ask if I was pregnant?”
She said “Yes. You didn’t misunderstand.”
And then I sat for a second. Someone asked if I was pregnant the week before Mother’s Day and I didn’t feel overrun by grief.
My gaping wound is healing and becoming a scar I can touch without it gutting me.
Two things have contributed to this:
- therapy
- doing the work of writing a heroine who finds joy after life lifes all over her.
While I hunt for and find joy on a regular basis, the act of working through this fictional plot has been healing. I’m so grateful for my writing journey.
I’m especially grateful to those who joined my Inner Circle Email List and read my romance shorts. Your support kept me trying when I got stuck. Thank you, Crew! I love you!!!
[ID: Frida Kahlo project bag folded down to show off the bees inside, rainbow shortie sock, salad, BLT sandwich against the background of a corner of my local Irish pub.
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Continuing along with the squares that make up the Neopolitan blanket that I sent to the Texas State Fair, here are the cables!!!The diamonds square is from Beautiful Knitting Patterns by Gisela Klopper p. 51
The next cable square is a complicated middle cable framed by two XO cables. The
two smaller cables came from The Harmony Guides 220 Aran Stitches and Patterns vol. 5 p. 34 and the main cable came from a variation of the cable on p. 69
The 3 giant cables are pulled from this pattern. The cables are 12 stitches wide total. The outer 2 twist to the right while the middle one twists left….sorry, no picture since I neglected to take one before I shipped it off.
The final cable pattern is from the Great American Aran Afghan book. I repeated Chart A from Barbara McIntire’s square (p. 45) twice. This one turned out slightly more narrow than I would have liked, but I was able to find a place for it since the Seaweed square turned out to be a little slender as well.
Katherine the Great
I like to think of myself as a storyteller. Mostly I tell stories about knitting.
I like to think of myself as a storyteller. Mostly I tell stories about knitting.
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