The month of April may bring showers (although it's just as likely to bring snow around here), but it also brings a month-long feverish writing jag known as Script Frenzy. This contest challenges writers of all levels to draft a 100-page screen- or stage-play in 30 days or less. It is the brainchild of the same folks who thought up NaNoWriMo.
So, I have committed to participating in both contests, in the spirit of challenging myself to do things that I've never done before. I am going to try my hardest to emerge at the end of April, able to call myself a screenwriter!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Monday, March 17, 2008
Getting started on another one of my goals for '08
Today I have started on my first sweater. It's going to be a seamless Icelandic yoke style done in blue and green heathered Lopi yarn. I am going to use the Zimmerman Percentage System to get the sizing right and pretty much make it up as I go for the color patterning. The nice thing about Lopi yarn is that the knitting goes quickly, since the yarn is so bulky! I pretty much have the ribbing for the body done already.
UPDATE: I now have the body over halfway done.
UPDATE 2: I'm now working on the sleeves, using the same 2-on-2-circs technique that I've been using for socks. I'm past the forearm shaping and into the straight stretch up to the underarms.
UPDATE: I now have the body over halfway done.
UPDATE 2: I'm now working on the sleeves, using the same 2-on-2-circs technique that I've been using for socks. I'm past the forearm shaping and into the straight stretch up to the underarms.
Friday, March 7, 2008
Unventing Things
I have been on the hunt for copies of Elizabeth Zimmerman's books for a while now (I know, I know, Amazon; but I like to flip thru a book before I decide to buy it). Anyway, I recently found a copy of "Knitting Without Tears" and have read it cover to cover within the last couple of days. I love her writing style and agree with the idea that had EZ lived a few years later, she would have made an excellent blogger.
More than the writing, though, I appreciate her approach to seamless sweater design. I now feel like I can make my own Lopi-style sweater on the fly, without having to slavishly follow someone else's pattern. I am really itching to start, and think that I will begin as soon as the current socks (done in basket-weave pattern) are finished.
More than the writing, though, I appreciate her approach to seamless sweater design. I now feel like I can make my own Lopi-style sweater on the fly, without having to slavishly follow someone else's pattern. I am really itching to start, and think that I will begin as soon as the current socks (done in basket-weave pattern) are finished.
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