Panic Ville

Ok so this morning I'm in Panic Ville. I kept waking in the middle of the night last night and thinking about things to come... and things that should have come and time and how it slips past in a never ending eddy making you worry about missed deadlines. 

Upcoming events include a spindling course that I am teaching to several members of my guild. They are paying for this course (and no I don't get paid for this : (  because it is a fundraiser for the guild). It is the first time that I will actually teach a proper workshop so I have been getting ready for this with worry in my heart and anticipation in my mind. For the last few days I have been getting together photo copies and fibre. I have been preparing for any number and types of spindles showing up in my class and it has been no small task. I prepped fibre for two days so that all my students would be on the same page. From pencil rovings for beginning so that they don't have to draft or with a minimal amount of drafting to batts and rolags I've got it all. The rolags were the worse. I spent hours forming rolags from Polworth wool I had dyed a while ago and I ended up with a blister on the inside of my finger. (That doesn't mean that I'm carding wrong it just means that I have no thumb on my right hand and a blister formed when I was carding from holding the handle between my first and second finger. Yes I was gentle and no the teeth of the cards did not touch or dig in and yes I was like a bird.... I did it right.) Anywhy when I had prepped all my student's fibre this is what I had...

This picture doesn't have all the fibre I prepped but it had lovely colour so I had to add it here.

This picture has all the fibre I prepped.

Meanwhile I have spun lots of cotton but I still don't have enough for the level5 requirements. I am about 30 yards short. This is what I have....

I'm really proud of my cotton skeins. They look awesome.

So why am I in Panic Ville?  Level 4.  It has been on hold all week. I was supposed to have the flax and Lopi samples done by the 1st of March but that has not happened. I have been up to my ears with all this other stuff. But now that I've got the cotton spun and I have to wait until my cotton order arrives before I can spin more I have a little more time on my hands.  Today I have to do a little work on my spindle course that I will be teaching tomorrow and then it is time to catch up on write ups for my level 4 homework. So that means that once again I have to wait until Sunday before I cane get back to spinning flax. Line flax.  5 samples using various methods and then on to the 2 Lopi samples. That will put me behind a whole week. Argh!

When I get in Panic Ville I do have a tendency to go on a bit so excuse me for that today BECAUSE I'M DEFINITELY IN PANIC VILLE.