Amazingly, today is July 15th. That means the year is well over half-gone and I’ve certainly not said anything here about how Second Quarter went, much less what’s on the docket for Third Quarter. On the other hand, this has been a year of both inspiration *and* production – with the promise of much more to come.
Going back to the post in March, I had these as targets for the past three months:
- Project for Jacey – DONE
- A thing with linen – NOT DONE (but I bought linen!)
- Shirt fabric – NOT DONE
- Dishtowels – Half-done (that 16 yard warp is done and finshed)
On the other hand, I did manage to get another vest finished, which I think will stand in for the linen vest. I had a great opportunity to get even more comfortable with Fiberworks and how to play with threading/tie-up/treadling to design patterns. I also learned good lessons about color and made some improvements to my vest sewing abilities. The second is better than the first; I can see growth.
I also will lay a bit of blame on this beauty:
I still can’t believe I have this. And that I have a glimmer of knowledge of how to use it! Granted, it’s been sitting idle since it came home but that’s currently changing. A warp is going on thanks to Jeane loaning me her warping wheel and I expect to will finish that tomorrow. I’m putting on a six yard warp and I’ll sett it for twill on all 16 shafts. Then the fun starts. And re-threading will be easy if I want to do something else.
Separately, I’m also going to use the warping wheel to put a long warp on the Gilmore so that I’m ready for dishtowels there as well. And I’ve already wound a third warp that can go on the Baby Wolf for a bit of crackle play. This all goes for dishtowels for fair – and I’ve two more weekends of dyeing and that’ll be ready as well. Then it’ll be September and another three-month window gone.
My SOAR project is also limping along; only four bags of cotton spun up since the ginned stuff is slow, but I can backfill with the four ounces I’ve already spun. It really does go surprisingly fast – so once Fair is behind me I can focus and get the shirt finished. I don’t think I’ll do anything extravagant since it’s about the yarn and the shape. But, that’ll wait until I have yarn.
But, I’ve a reason for a seemingly meager set of work – a lot of thinking. Thinking about what gets my mind working and how to turn that into a set of tasks. That’s the real work to take me until the end of the year. Some writing, some reviewing, some discussing, some planning, and then a lot of working. 2014 is going to be an amazing year. At least I hope so. At a minimum, I’m going to learn a TON.
Ok, Lynn – please, please, please share more of what happened at NEWS. The tidbits just aren’t enough!
