Winter

 

Snow!

Winter is settling in today.  So far we haven't been hit *too* hard, but it is winter and I'm so grateful that I no longer have to do those long winter road trips, just to sell my stuff.

(Speaking of which, the postal strike is still on.)

I am working on my attitude of gratitude, and finding satisfaction in working on articles for publication.  I am also regaining some of my strength and balance.  My speech is still...a problem...but I'm finding it easier to write.  Still need 5 or 6 (or more) passes through anything I write so I can pinpoint the sinkholes in my grammar.

However, I am beginning to see progress, building up on the cloth beam.  I'm well over the halfway mark on this warp, and have done the sampling so that I know what to do on the next.  Or, at least I *think* I know what I need to do to get the results I desire.  

Because that's the thing - it's all just conjecture until you actually sit at the loom *and then wet finish* the cloth.  Magic in the Water...

And now I have the information I need to work on the next article after this one - and I need to source yarns - if I can.  So far that's looking a bit bleak so I've sent a suggestion about what I could use.  

In the meantime, I still have this article to finish so I need to get back to the loom.  It looks like maybe 6 more tea towels to finish off this warp, then set up the loom for the 'real' samples for the current article.

Seems like thinking as a production weaver is so baked into my thought processes that not even a brain bleed can make me stop?