Just Create - Errand Edition

[silvercat17]

I forgot it was Saturday so here's your late Just Create check-in!

How are you doing? How are you feeling? What is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?

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[althea_valara]

Oh my gods I've been exploding with creativity this week!

The new tournament of my crafting challenge started, so I got a healthy dose of motivation from that. Plans for the challenges:
* Finish a crocheted shawl (already done!)
* knit a shawl out of green cobweb weight (very thin!) mohair and silk yarn, in progress
* crochet a beaded bracelet out of sterling silver wire. Materials arrived today!
* knit a racerbra, materials arriving on Wednesday.
* finished crocheting a purse, just the handles left

If all that wasn't enough, my friends started a kiss battle! I've always loved the idea of writing, but for years I haven't written because I've been fresh out of ideas. Therefore I'm thrilled that they started this, because I read some of the prompts and thought, "...I can do that!" And then did. I've posted two fics:
* https://seventhe.dreamwidth.org/437147.html?thread=6042011#cmt6042011
* https://seventhe.dreamwidth.org/437147.html?thread=6060955#cmt6060955

Tonight I worked on a third! It needs some polishing but I hope to post it tomorrow. I still can't believe I'm actually writing fiction again!

[readera]

Wow that's a lot! The mohair & silk sounds lovely.

[althea_valara]

Yeah, it IS a lot. I had a mini-crash yesterday because all that activity isn't sustainable, but I still managed to work a bit on the knitting projects and write a first draft of a new fic.

The silk and mohair is soooo lovely. It was weird knitting with it at first though because I'm a loose knitter and am usually fighting to make tighter stitches, but the shawl I'm knitting is *supposed* to be knit at a very loose gauge! The end result will be this ethereal wisp, and it's going to be lovely.

[readera]

Taking time to rest is good.

I tend to knit tighter then gauge so I have to try to make looser stitches. That shawl does sound lovely.