Sometimes things just work out.... don't you love it when that happens. Yesterday I didn't write here because I was nowhere near a computer. Hubby just happened to be going into FSJ for a day of workshops and there just happened to be a spinning day at the house of one of he guild members. I took Hubby up on the drive to the home of my friend where we conferred about the level 3 homework.... (we did this before heading to the home of the guild member who was having the spinning day).....she is doing her Master Spinner certification too. It is great having someone with whom you can bounce ideas around. I think she may go on to do her Master Weaver certification while I'll probably go looking for further spinning certification..... maybe the Australian certification which I have looked into.... who knows. All I know is that I want to be the best that I can be at spinning... that doesn't make me any better or any worse than anyone else it just makes me want to excel as much as I can in what I do. It's not that I want to be famous like Judith MacKensie McCuin, (although that wouldn't hurt) but I just want to feel like what I do is the best... so I strive and sometimes it is a kick in the pants when you finish a question and you know it can be better but you don't have time to go back and fool with it anymore. When I finished my level 1 homework I still felt that I could have worked on it some more to get it right. The same thing happened when I finished my level 2 homework.... and that one really ate at me since my mark was a .5 less than my low goal.... it truly frustrates when you work really hard and you don't even make your low goal.
This year my goal is to make 86 as my low goal and 95 my high goal.... and I already blew the high goal when I got a 88% in my classroom exam. My friend got 100% her first year to my 97% then she got 97% to my 89% in level 2 (I should have gotten higher than this but blew two questions with less than the 10 metre skeins required.... Mine were 8 and 9.5 metres respectively. It was my own fault because I should have remeasured my skeins after they were washed... as a result I got a big fat 0 for those two questions just because I handed in less than the required amount.... regardless of the fact that I should have gotten marks for the written part of the question) and we'll see what happens in level 3... hmmm... but 88% for the classroom test was not a good beginning. I hate knowing I lost marks due to some stupid mistake on my part. (On my test I had a brain freeze and said that 9 x 5 is 36 instead of 9 x 4 is 36.... see.... dumb eh?) Every time I lose marks it's because of stupid mistakes. That's why the other night I looked at my knitted sample and felt it wasn't good enough.... so I raveled it out and did a different sample.... I can't show pictures though since Hubby seems to have hidden his camera and mine had the batteries just die. The new knitted sample is awesome. I may redo my woven sample too.... I'm just not satisfied with it!
Spinning is like that..... you can spend an entire lifetime trying to make one sample perfect. But in the end time is the issue..... that is why I'm disappointed to say that after level 6 in the Olds Master Spinner program I will not be able to go further unless I go to some other spinning program. I really wish there was a Doctorate to earn in spinning.... I'd do it in an instant..... then I would be a Spin Doctor (har har... pun intended.... ). Really life long learning is cool and my thing is learning spinning.
The Olds program is awesome.... but the Olds program is finite. There are only 6 levels in the Master certification program..... I'm already at level 3, and 4 is looming.... yes I use the word looming not because I'm dreading it.... (although I study flax and linen this year and that is a little scary) but I'm dreading it because I am one step closer to being finished. (Boo hiss hiss!) Maybe I'll just register again for level 1 under a different name and go through the whole process again..... think they'll notice?!!
I think I could have been a permanent student..... My motto should be..... "Life Long Learning.... Boom Chakalakalaka!"
Anyway, as a result of yesterday's spinning day.... I've turned some people on to silk hankies which I was spinning. I will be spinning more today... and then I'm weaving them for a distaff.... It is looking..... well quite frankly WOW! I can't wait to finish it. And hopefully I'll have located the charger, charged my batteries and be able to post some pics here. Now what did I do with the silk hankies I pre-drafted last night.
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