Snowflake Challenge #8

[pensnest]

In your own space, celebrate a personal win from the past year: it can be a list of fanworks you're especially proud of, a gift of your time to the community, a quality or skill you cultivated in yourself, something you generally feel went well.


Um. It wasn't a good year, last year, and for one reason and another I slid mentally slough-wards for quite a lot of it. So finding something to celebrate is quite hard. Here goes.

I became Chair of my mixed barbershop chorus, and got us up and running again once we were able to meet outdoors.

I entered Yuletide for the first time, and won! Received a lovely fic and wrote one that was well-received. In another fic first, I wrote two stories in fandoms I'd never written before—one was my Yuletide story (Lord Peter Wimsey) and the other was a Mad Men story.

And because I have a feeling these things should be celebrated in threes, I also knitted a rather lovely grey and lavender shawl last year (actually finished it in February). It's here, but you may need a Ravelry account to see it.

Comments

[semielliptical]

The shawl is so attractive - great color combination! Here's to a better 2022, with more to celebrate by the end of the year.

[pensnest]

I must admit, I was very pleased with it. It has a good home now!

[writedragon]

Those are all lovely things that deserve to be celebrated! Life is so, so hard for everyone right now that even something that seems small is big, in the sense that you did it and it wouldn't have existed in the world otherwise. You made the thing, wrote the thing, and helped the music continue on. Bravo.

[pensnest]

Thank you - life is stressful for everybody, I think, even for the people I currently despise. It's good to have a chance to be creative.

[yarnofariadne]

Congratulations on all your wins ♥

[pensnest]

Thank you. It didn't feel as though I had any, last year, so I was pleased to find I had.

[turps]

Those are all excellent things!

I especially enjoyed seeing you throw yourself into Yuletide and have such a good time.

[pensnest]

It was definitely a good first Yuletide experience. Perhaps by the end of this year I may be up for writing more than one story!

[turlough]

You totally won your firstYuletide! You wrote a fantastic story and it will be loved by fans for years and years.

That shawl is so pretty! But yes, it's only visible to Ravelry members right now. You can however change that if you want to by first clicking on"Share this" in the upper right corner and then on "Share this page with others...". You'll get a drop-down menu where you can choose how visible the page will be.

[frausorge]

Kudos for all these things! Your Wimsey fic is fantastic and I'm glad to see it getting the warm reception it deserves.

[watervole]

Fascinating how different aspects of the pattern show close up and at a distance.

Holes suddenly become part of diagonal stripes.