Jacket Commission

There once was a lady (let's call her Silly Creature for that is what she was) who knew how to spin and weave. She had alpacas that had lovely soft locks. She was also working on her Master Spinner Level 3 homework. One day, she lost it totally, when a lady came and asked her to spin fibre and weave a jacket.... she said yes... which was her first mistake. Everyone else on the planet who was working on their level 3 homework was working diligently but Silly Creature was procrastinating about everything because if she did anything other than the jacket commission she felt guilty. If she did the jacket commission she hated it and wanted to work on her level 3. So one day right after the new year she put everything away and got out her fibre for the jacket commission. She wanted to puke since her new cotton cards were calling from under the Christmas tree, handles screwed on and ready to be used, saying,"Come and card your lovely soft cotton... come and card your lovely soft cotton...." this was terribly distressing but Silly Creature continued to work on the never ending pile of fibre on the floor. Soon she had a gob stopping pile of fibre spun and so she began to ply. The sound of the new cotton cards began to drift into the recesses of her mind and still she spun. Her lace gloves which she didn't get finished on New Year's Eve as she planned, were calling too, but she diligently ignored it and continued on working on her jacket commission. One day several weeks later she finished the jacket commission and looked up from her work with a smile on her face. This was not the ordinary smile of a woman with a completed project, this was the smile of a demented banshee. You see being torn in two by conflicting desires is not healthy..... the moral of the story is, do not leave jacket commissions till the last minute.... better still do not take commissions of any kind when working on your Master's.

I'm off to check out my rocker since I went off it the day I said yes!