The pile of scarves continues to grow. I am trying to weave two scarves a day, although I don’t always make it. But if I don’t set a goal, I don’t do anything. Right now that just isn’t acceptable because the fall shows will be here all too soon and I have other things I want/need to do…like maybe host company in early August, spend the last week of August in Cape Breton, maybe take a workshop and visit with friends the end of September. If I am to have sufficient inventory for the first craft fair the end of October, I need to make them now. Because after weaving comes fringe twisting, wet finishing, trimming, tagging/pricing. If all I had to do was weave, I could take it ‘easy’ now, but the job isn’t done when the shuttle throwing is complete!
I also have been mulling over the teaching. When I was told I needed by pass surgery, I really thought my days of travelling to teach were over. If I was done teaching, I could get rid of the huge stack of teaching materials, which would free up a lot of room in the studio. But here I am, heavily invested in growing the Olds Master Weaving program, and now guilds are contacting me again to come teach. So today I dragged my big planning calendar out and will begin pencilling in tentative teaching dates for next year…and maybe even 2018…
Apparently I really don’t know when to quit!