Plug Away

The other day I mentioned that I would have to work till my hands bled in order to get my work done on my Jacket Commission and I pretty much did that yesterday. I flicked and carded fibre well into the evening last night. When I finished for the night, I had pricked my finger with the teeth on the cards so many times that it was quite sore. I have a bunch of rolags prepared for spinning today. I'm sure that the spinning will go much quicker than the carding did and I will probably blow through my stash of rolags pretty fast. That's the worst fault with carding.... unless you are using a drum carder it goes REALLY slow. I have a drum carder but I want to have a more hands-on control of the fibre processing so that I get a more refined finish.

I finished a question the night before last, on my level 3 homework! I'm ecstatic! I was looking for my lost dpns in my studio room that night, when I happened upon my support spindle samples from back in the fall which were hanging there, not mounted in my book. So I took the best of the three skeins and got down to it. I did the write up first, checked the skein for balance and did a little fiddling with it, then I tied off the skein and labeled it, printed off the write up and got it in my book, and I was still in bed by 11:30 p.m. It is good to see my work going into my binder. I always feel so accomplished. : )

Even though I have to work on the jacket commission... I am going to plug away at my level 3 in the evenings I think, that way I won't feel like I'm cheating on anything. I might even take one day a week to work on it so that I am making some progress. And as for knitting,... there's alway knit night... and my gloves...

It's a good thing to be able to plug away at my work.