Rolling up my sleeves

I finally stopped procrastinating and filed my taxes this morning, and to my surprise, I’m getting a substantial refund!  95% of it is going towards wedding expenses, but I did decide to treat myself to a small purchase, so I ordered a few more colors of fiber-reactive and acid dyes to experiment with.

Some other wonderful things have happened since yesterday!  Teresa, the dyer I was chatting with at CNCH, has a pile of tapestry yarns that she is sending me for cost of shipping (thank you Teresa!), and Jeane, a dyer in Southern California, has finished winding the sampler skeins for my dye trials.  (She wound 400 of them in a weekend – big applause for fast turnaround!)  And the table loom I had loaned out to a friend should be coming back to me mid next week.  This is great – it means I should be able to get started with the tapestry samples by next Wednesday.  I have some linen I can use as warp, so I won’t need anything more (except a tapestry beater, and I’m kinda tempted to use a fork instead).

So now it’s time to roll up my sleeves and get to work.  I have four goals for the next two weeks:

• dye a bunch more samples for my dye work (this will probably happen over the next two weekends)
• start work with tapestry
• clean up my studio
• play more with doubleweave drafts and get an understanding of the theory of doubleweave

Since I can’t work on the first two until my sample skeins and tapestry yarn arrive, I’m going to work on doubleweave and studio-cleaning, and maybe reading some of the HUGE backlog of books I acquired recently.