Slow But Steady

 

stack of loom state samples to be wet finished

This little pile may not look very impressive, but represents the better part of 8 hours of effort, not counting all the thinking and planning, the winding of skeins onto cones, the rummaging through my shelves, the trip to the local yarn shop to buy the yarn.

There are a variety of memes going around, one with a cross section of an iceberg with the tip showing above the water and the majority of the berg below the water line.  Much of weaving resembles that sort of image - the actual woven cloth is only the last bit of effort that people can see.

The same is true for teaching.  Again, the hours of thinking, planning, working out logistics, acquisition of materials, all before any actual teaching can happen.

The two cones in the background are the next yarns that will be sampled.  I have enough yarn I can then take what I learn from the sampling and begin to make an actual item.  In this case, a scarf.

The deadline to have my materials (all of them, not just the woven samples) ready is Oct. 1.  I have several more warps to plan and weave, none of them very large, but the loom needs to be dressed for each of them.  The samples will be different fibres, different grists of the same yarn blend, different weave structures.  All to show the length and breadth of the topic.  And that's just for the one topic.

And all of this effort may come to naught, depending on Life Happening.

Add in that I'm ghost weaving for another weaver, also with tight deadlines...

We now have nearly 300 wildfires burning, small towns have been burned down, some entirely.  Another larger town is currently under evacuation alert and may very well need to move to safety if fire crews can't get it under control.

Plus covid.  It's a double edged sword right now with entire villages needing to evacuate in the middle of a virulent pandemic.

Interesting times.  Interesting times.

Can we have a little 'boring' now?  Asking for a species....