These are the latest towels off the loom and wet finished, now being hemmed. I have enough I can offer them for sale on ko-fi, so they were posted. I forgot to say how many were available, so I’ll go back and edit the posting when I’m done here.
Today I had massage and chiropractor back-to-back. I was later getting going than I wanted to be in part because I started doing my ‘final’ edit read through before handing the thumb drive with all the essays to my editor.
Sometimes I don’t feel particularly like weaving after a 1-2 crunch, and so it was when I got home this afternoon. I looked at what I’d accomplished this morning and how many more were left to do and wondered if I could finish them all off. Most just required very simple ‘fixes’ and minor re-writes of a sentence to fix a pronoun or tense.
After my snack (I found a new cookie that might be ok with my allergies – we’ll see?) I went back to the desktop and continued going through the essays, one after the other.
No effort has been made to sequence the essays, and frankly, alphabetical by essay title might be how they are sequenced, in the end. Other than the Introduction, of course. I’m still pondering if I write an epilog, or bibliography, or provide an index. I still need to do an acknowledgement and dedication but that’s not an essay and best done once I see the shape of it all.
It’s almost stunning how something can be read several times, even with different pairs of eyes, and a typo will sit quietly waiting to be discovered. Or not.
But I can only do that kind of thing for so long and even though there are still 12 left to do, it’s better I leave those for tomorrow. I have dental hygiene tomorrow afternoon and I suspect weaving will be the last thing I want to do after that. So I’ll try to get one towel woven in the morning, then see if I can finish off the last dozen essays afterwards.
The files are being loaded on a thumb drive one by one so I can easily see what has been done and what needs to be done yet. And they automagically go in alphabetical order so I don’t even have to think about that part of it.
I find I am becoming tired of this project. I’ve basically done what I can do and need to turn it over to someone else to fuss over. OTOH, I have a class to prepare, and a workshop to pitch to the local guild. And tea towels to weave. Time to move on…