Sadly, you can’t do everything.

The latest issue of Handwoven is out, and they’ve issued their Garment Challenge for this year.  The theme is sleeveless garments – vests, capes, ponchos, ruanas, etc. – and I’m cursing the timing because I have the perfect pattern, one that I was planning to use with the black-and-garnet Celtic braid fabric, and I simply haven’t got time to make it up.  Deadline for entry is April 1, and I’m fully booked on Autumn Splendor until at least mid-February.  Six weeks, sadly, isn’t enough time to weave, fit, and sew a garment, at least not to my standards.

But just for kicks, the pattern I was thinking of making up is Vogue 8674:

It looks like it has sleeves, but it doesn’t!  It’s a cape over a vest, and would be absolutely perfect for the Garment Challenge.  (And, it’s something I’d make up anyway.)  Which is why I’m so disappointed that I won’t be able to enter.

But, alas, one can’t do everything.

Meanwhile, I have finished knitting one blank for Autumn Splendor.  Three more to go; I’m targeting completing one per day, finishing up on Thursday, so I can have another dye-fest on Friday (which I have off for Christmas).  It’s possible I might take Thursday off as well – depends on how work is going.

Off to work on the book!  I have been reading The Creative Habit by Twyla Tharp, and it is giving me all sorts of ideas for organization and tone.  But at this point, I think the most important thing is to quit organizing and write.  So that’s what I’ll do for the next hour or so.