Mastery Doesn't Mean Perfection

 

Like pretty much every other craft out there, just because you have been accepted as having a high level of mastery in said craft, doesn't mean you never make mistakes.  

Shocking, I know!

So I designed a warp for sampling for an article, then once the samples were woven I cut them off, wet finished them, decided I had enough information from that warp and switched to weaving the rest of the warp in tea towels.

Then set about weaving those tea towels.  Until yesterday as I was just finishing towel #2 and I finally spotted the mistake.  Turns out I'd made *two* mistakes in the treadling sequence, not just one.  If it had been one, at the halfway point in the weaving, I would have called it a design feature, but nope.  I had made a second one near the end.  

I finished that towel and stopped weaving for the day, then checked my treadling,.  Which, when I looked, very clearly showed the mistakes.  I had been too tired, or too distracted to notice it while I was editing the treadling sequence, apparently.

Either that or one of the brain bleed 'holes' had opened and I totally missed it.

After thinking about it all evening, I decided to continue, despite the mistakes, but when I got up this morning I decided I needed to fix it. 

I knew what I'd done, I pretty much knew how long it would take to edit again, and now aware of the 'hole' (and not tired from a day of errands and weaving) would pay particular attention to making sure I did it right this time.

I managed to weave 1.5 towels today.  I was given permission to increase my weaving time to 45 minutes *if I felt up to it*. and I have been taking runs at getting closer.  Today I did about 35 minutes the first session and 44 for the second.

Now I'm tired (again), and I'm thinking of laying down for 45 minutes before I start dinner.  I used to sleep 9 hours a night but over the years my body has gotten to the point where it can only manage about 6 hours.  It's not nearly enough and I have finally gotten comfortable with taking afternoon naps.  Hopefully by spring I will recovered enough that the naps will be fewer, but que c'est sera, sera (however that's spelled).