The reality is, if you are a production weaver (potter, woodworker, etc.) relying on the autumn/Christmas sales for the majority of your income, your year pretty much ends one week before your first show. Unless you are saner than I am and don’t book a bazillion shows back to back throughout October/November and December.
So this warp of muted blue/greens…
…is actually slated for next year’s sales. As is all other work scheduled during the next 2.5 months.
If I should get any of this warp woven, wet finished, hemmed and pressed in time for any of the upcoming sales, they will be a ‘bonus’. But I am not putting any pressure on myself whatsoever to have them finished for this year.
As soon as I get home from Calgary I will be plunged into finalizing the workshop in January at John C. Campbell Folk School . There is a faint possibility that I might do a workshop in Knoxville, TN after that but the time line is very tight so I don’t know if we can pull it together or not.
I have deadlines for the end of February for Handwoven submissions, one of which will require extensive ‘sampling’.
There is a Beginning Weaving Workshop here in Prince George in March and a workshop in Tacoma, WA in April plus the Vancouver Guild program following that.
And over riding all of these deadlines is the big deadline, the one I can’t miss, for the Next Big Project the first full week of May.
So yes, for me, 2013 is pretty much ‘over’ and I’m already working on 2014 deadlines….