{"id":4699,"date":"2013-04-03T02:37:02","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T07:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4699"},"modified":"2013-04-03T02:37:02","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T07:37:02","slug":"works-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=4699","title":{"rendered":"works in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March was a particularly quiet month here on the blog &#8212; probably the least post-filled in its eight-year history.<\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of reasons for that, but I won&#8217;t bother making excuses. Instead, I&#8217;ll just vow to resume writing here more often &#8212; and on broader topics than just the weekly notice of beautiful things in my life.<\/p>\n<p>To begin, I offer you my two works in progress:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/8614979499\/\" title=\"Works in Progress by kkfea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8104\/8614979499_9d8b0e3838.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Works in Progress\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The book, <em>Mrs Queen Takes the Train<\/em>, I began months ago, and it&#8217;s now past the return date. D.C.&#8217;s generous policy means that it really needs to go back in the next week, so I&#8217;ve been working on wrapping it up. As my mother (who started the book after me and still finished long before I picked it back up) predicted, while the beginning is a bit slow, it picks up once Queen Elizabeth II finally exits the castle. The book is told from the perspective of more than half a dozen characters, which makes for a certain amount of story time shift and of retracing of plot. But generally I&#8217;m enjoying the novel.<\/p>\n<p>The knitting is this year&#8217;s first pattern in the annual Sock Madness competition. This is my fifth year participating and the second time I haven&#8217;t advanced out of the opening round. (Interestingly, the other time also involved a trip to Salt Lake.) The pattern is called Sockdolager, and the yarn might be Trekking, but is definitely one of a trio of sock yarn purchased from A Tangled Skein before they went out of business earlier this year. (The other two skeins were Rudi&#8217;s picks.) My goal is to be done with this second sock before the winning knitter finishes her final pair &#8212; probably some time in late-May or early-June (giving me plenty of time to work on a belated shawl for my grandmother, just as soon as I find yarn for that project).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March was a particularly quiet month here on the blog &#8212; probably the least post-filled in its eight-year history. There are a variety of reasons for that, but I won&#8217;t bother making excuses. 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