Sometimes I feel quite certain that the only anchors for my sanity are Pyro and my spinning. I think most of my friends, being exceptionally intelligent individuals themselves, will appreciate the value of an activity that allows you to completely suspend your thinking. Spinning allows me to live in the moment, totally focusing on just the spinning, but also gives me the freedom to add in additional stimuli if I want to keep my brain engaged.
My Spindle Club goal this month was to complete some works-in-progress to clear my spindles prior to the upcoming Tour de Fleece starting at the end of June. I had three Spindle Club targets, and one week into May I find myself sadly distracted from working on them. I find myself using as an excuse that I will be taking one or more of the projects with me to the Scottish Pagan Federation Conference on Saturday and thus can afford to slack off a bit now. I dislike that sort of lacksidasical attitude in myself. So I decided to take weekly photos to document my progress, more as a guilt-trigger than anything else.
My three targets are a silk hankie project pack from Colorimetry, being spun on Iroko
色子. Beaujolais from Wooliebullie on etsy, being spun on Darcy and the walnut russian. And some natural grey massam being spun on the latest, a blackwood and spalted beech midi turk. All featured spindles are from Enid Ashcroft.
At the PF Conference on Saturday I'm planning on taking along my current stock of jewellery, along with the handspun skeins I've completed over the last six months. At least, that's the plan. I still have no idea how I'm going to price the handspun. The problem with such offerings is that charging according to time spent would cause the price to be astronomical. Charging according to the cost of the fibre would be far too little. If you price per metre, then what factor do you use to differentiate between lace and aran? I've been thinking about it for quite some time and still don't have much of an answer. I may well end up putting an "offers" label on the basket!
