Oh Dear, Oh Dear, Oh Dear!!!

I feel like the rabbit in Alice In Wonderland... you know, the one that is always checking his pocket watch for the time. How has four whole days gone by without my writing... I can answer that one easily... I have been head down and arse up getting work done and I feel satisfied in saying that I am making great inroads into the piles of work which have been languishing for over a month.... problem is I just have gone all over the place and don't know whether my head is down or my arse is up! I am finished the next section of questions in my level five books and written them up and gotten them in the book today. I have decided to leave behind the TPI questions for the time being since they were daunting and really keeping me from doing any work at all. So today I started at the end of the questions and working my way back. No I haven't decided to work on the 50 hour project yet even though that is the very last question.  No I started working on the dye section. Yes I have done work on it before and some of it is done. But very little of it was in my books though the write-ups were done. I had one question that was not done at all and so I decided to sort out the whole mess and get it in the book and looking good. I didn't quite get it all finished but I am making progress there too and to be honest I am very pleased with one question in particular. I had to dye skeins of cotton in the primaries, the secondaries and the tertiary colours of the colour wheel... then I had to make a colour wheel with my skeins and it turned out better than I expected...

The greens in this picture are barely distinct but for some reason I couldn't get a picture that showed that. Then I dyed a section of cotton roving with Procion dyes and that is my first time using fibre reactive dyes. I had to dye a section of cotton roving and then spin a two ply yarn from some of it. I have to say that the colours came out lovely and bright. Cotton can be very dense and does not always take dye well but this was not too bad. Still there were some naturally coloured parts to the roving that I dyed.In the end I was very pleased with the result... it lent the skein I spun some interest.

Here's a little better shot of the yarn I spun...

After I finished what I could of the Dye section I moved on to the section on novelty type yarn through using spinning techniques and I managed a nice 4 ply cable yarn and got it finished. Then I decided to catch up on book work and it will take a little more work to catch up on all the book work that needs to be done.

So the result of all my confounded work is that I am in a terrible tangle because I should have just kept right on going with the tpi questions... now I have spinning from all over the place that are partially in the book and tonight I'm so tired that I can't make heads or tails of it.... On top of all that Daughter #2 is going through a Phantom Of The Opera love stage. She has watched it over and over again and right now she is watching it and to be honest I want to take a baseball bat to the T.V. !! I guess I'm just tired and need a break... so this is my break.

Teapot just made tea and I think I will go put my feet up and drink tea for the rest of the night... and finish my work tomorrow. Yep... now I just have to find a place where I don't have to listen to opera... (I actually love the Phantom Of The Opera... but not tonight)!

So I will try to get back to writing here a little more often even if it means writing about my boring spinning and stuff. ( I wonder if I'll get in trouble for saying that! Eh RG and MF and CJ)! And tomorrow... I will just have to sort out another bit of the mess that is my homework books... when I'm not so tired.

 See ya...