There’s a new story barreling along this morning–not book-length, but it’s certainly alive and wiggling\u00a0 in the writer’s hands, tossing off new ideas every few paragraphs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Remember our discussion about top-down and toe-up sock knitters?\u00a0\u00a0 Thanks to that, I now know more about the great trade fairs at Fiveway, the craft guilds,\u00a0 the pride of one particular sock-knitter, the jealousy and vindictiveness of one of her former suitors (she’s happily married to a wool merchant) ,\u00a0 the duties of a Fair-warden, the duties of a Guildmaster in the Knitters’ Guild,\u00a0 how booths are arranged (but not yet WHY there’s a saddler at the far end of the row in which Gralin has her booth.) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Snippet:\u00a0 Gralin, a woman who sells the socks and other items she knits, as well as a small amount of spun and dyed wool in skeins and balls, is a member of the Knitters’ Guild and thus entitled to sell her Guild-approved wares in a special section of\u00a0 Fiveways’s\u00a0 Trade Fair.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The craft guildmasters walk through the guild section before trade opens, and make sure no one’s selling unapproved goods.\u00a0\u00a0 In the open market, anyone can sell anything.<\/p>\n
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Scyllin, the Knitting Guildmaster, smiled at Gralin as she stopped before her table.\u00a0 “We can count on you for an attractive display, Gralin.\u00a0 Is that a new dye in this pile?”\u00a0 She pointed to one ball, a dark purplish red.<\/p>\n
“No, Guildmaster.\u00a0 My aunt used healall root and added a touch of beanvine in the second wash…and it’s on a mix of Dintal brown and cream.”<\/p>\n
“Excellent,” Scyllin said.\u00a0 “How fast is it, do you know yet?”<\/p>\n
“She brewed before Half-Spring, and I’ve been wearing socks of that dyeing since, once a fiveday, to test.\u00a0 I have them on today, in fact.” Gralin stood and moved to the end of the table, lifting her skirt to show the socks, their color as strong as in the yarn on the table.<\/p>\n
“But you have no socks for sale with that shade,” Scyllin said.<\/p>\n
“Guildmaster, I guarantee the color in my socks for a full year and I cannot prove that yet.\u00a0 Next year, if the yarn sells, and my socks have not faded, I will have some.”<\/p>\n
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Keep in mind that before you see this story in a collection or anthology, details–even characters’ names–may have changed.\u00a0\u00a0 But for the moment, it’s coming along nicely, and I thought you might like to see a first-day snippet of something completely new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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