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Kaffe Fassett exhibition today at the Fashion and Textile Museum. *Lots* of colour! I think the most glorious things were several of the quilts, which were stunning. I've long had a dislike of many of the motifs he uses in knitting—I just don't think they're attractive shapes—and most of the things I've knitted myself from his book(s) were not on display, which meant I didn't like very many of the knitted items, but the quilts were amazing. Lots of great embroidery, too, but as that is mostly much more figurative I find it admirable but not compelling. There was a picture of snails in rich browns, creams, peachy pinks and pale lilac/blues, absolutely wonderful use of colour.

I went with a bunch of ladies from the knitting group, so it was excellent fun. Most of us continued, via lunch along the way, to I Knit London, a shop near Waterloo, purveying all kinds of beautiful yarn. I bought a skein of silk which contains 750m. Yep, it's very fine. I kept petting it, as though it were a particularly tame hamster. Imagine a petting zoo of silk/alpaca mixes in a variety of shades! Wouldn't that be adorable? No, I'm not drunk, honest.

Just spent some happy minutes browsing http://thatbadadvice.tumblr.com/
For those responses Agony Aunts *ought* to be giving. Wicked, but spot-on.

Got home and finished Miss de Bourgh in Bath, a quite delightful story based on the minor character from Pride and Prejudice. Lots of really nice character development, and beautifully written.

And, why not, a meme: I currently have 101 works archived on the AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 101 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

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A yarn petting zoo sounds wonderfully restful. All the texture, and no goats trying to eat your socks.

77!

Is the yarn petting zoo also known as your most expensive local yarn store? I would fully love one of those, though. Imagine.

Oh wow, sounds like a great trip. I love any kind of textile art installations, generally.

I LOVE iKnit. It's my yarnydownfall.

Does fanfic.net have an easy download option?

I'm used to AO3 where I can put stuff onto my ebook rather than only read it on the screen.

I'm embarrassing in good yarn shops, truly. I croon to them...

I Knit London is not precisely local - and though the yarn shop here is very reasonable, it's more about the Patons and Wendys than the silk/alpaca blends. I pet yarn at shows like Fibre East, though. It's hard to resist!

It was amazing how much *stuff* was fitted into basically three rooms, none of them huge. Kaffe Fassett's style works well being piled on top of itself!

I'd not been before, but I'm certainly a fan now. We were admiring a really pretty shawl that was draped over a form by the door, and the knitter was present - which was handy, because now at least one of our group knows where to seek it out on Ravelry!

I don't know if fanfic.net does that - I very rarely read anything there, these days. The story is in 18 chapters, so I hope it does!

#77: Prone

Three things I currently like about this story:

1. I still think I was right in my description of the Android, manufactured in the perfect boyfriend factory. Really, it was destined by the entire history of science fiction to go Horribly Wrong.

2. Chris cracking up on the table when he's recognised.

3. I'm rather pleased, still, that when that Dragon Challenge was released into the world, nobody recognised me as the author of Prone (though there were some very flattering guesses). I like to think it was a step up from my usual writing level.

I don't know, some of that bad advive seems logical to me *g*

For the meme, 68.

Some of the 'bad advice' made me giggle, some made me applaud! ~~Especially the 'fapping' ones.~~

#68 is The Educated Pig, a ST:TNG parody.

Three things I currently like about this story:

1. That Gamaliel Doofus dies of technobabble disease.

2. That Deanna looks constipated when she is trying to detect sentience.

3. Pretty much everything the educated pig says, but especially "Ugger me bay," complained the educated pig to itself, "but air they ick thay."

hee - thatbadadvice is something of a time suck!

Um - 42?

Those are three excellent things!

And oh, have you redesigned your page over here? Or have I been blind and not noticed before. No doubt it's the second.

I've switched to a different colour variation, but I'm afraid I'm way too lazy to do my own design! It's one of the defaults. Pretty, though.

It's a lot more to the point than most other problem pages, heh!

#42 (excellent number) is An Association with Dolphins, which was one of my series of ten* little stories for the final Dragon Challenge.

Three things I currently like about it:

1. Adorable friendship. I have slashed these two together, but I love them so much as friends.

2. Cooking references - which remind me, somewhat, of my 'A Tale of Dreams and Asses' story from SeSa in, hmm, 2007.

3. The image of Briahna cuddling a dolphin plushie as big as she is—the inevitable result of this Lance letting his inner kid out to play and shop for souvenirs.

* Ten. Yeah. Twice around the prompts. Particularly ambitious when I had done only eight of them the morning before the challenge was due to go live!

I didn't know there was a Fashion and Textile museum in London! But of course London has everything. Sounds cool!

I imagine my next two hours will be wasted on reading all that ~~bad~~ excellent advice....

#47, please!

Also, a yarn petting zoo sounds a lot more appealing than your standard kind--there's no chance of getting bitten, for starters!

Or pee'd on! Hmm - there was a wonderful popslash story in which JC ran a yarn shop and had 'kitten ratings' for his stock.

#47 is A Tale of Dreams and Asses, one of my SeSa stories that year.

Three things I currently like about it:

1. The structure - I am pleased with the minor conceit of selecting quotes from within the story to head up each little section. I don't know if anyone else ever noticed that, but I like it.

2. I remember being very firm with myself about showing, not telling, and conveying a lot of the action through dialogue, and I think I did.

3. I'm fond of pretty well all this story, but I think the little bits of Chris/Justin dialogue may just be my favourite parts.