In my life outside my creative life, today I began a new job. I am uprooted, thrown into the deep end of the pool, swimming with all the skill and strength I have, and shouting, “WOOHOO!” as I shred (as my surfing friends say) down the other side of the waves.
As with so many things in life, the shedding of one skin has set free a thousand un-needed scales, and I have the chance to begin anew, in many ways.
Meanwhile in my creative life, I am working on many, many ideas, and just a few projects. One spinning project that I started just before getting the initial phone call about the new job, is a colorway called “Closer to Home”, that originated from a dye-er halfway across the world. This fiber has been calling to me since I pulled it out of the mailer bag in March, and at the very end of April I finally gave in to the siren call. Appropriate timing on all accounts, as it now seems. From where I’m sitting, the dye-er of this fiber appears to have a serious talent for packing karma into his work. The location of my new job will cut an entire hour’s driving time, and 40 miles, out of my commute – every day. Closer to home, indeed! I’ve got the first half of this batch spun into singles, and it will be yarn before the month is out (she says…).
I have also plied up, on one of my brand new MD S&W Bosworth spindles, a tiny bit of angora singles I spun over the winter – which I photographed on top of a mystery knit sweater I want to reverse engineer, ‘someday’.
And then there’s the cowl I started during the Maryland Sheep and Wool festival. It’s coming along slowly, with all the recent excitement, but surely. And I’m knitting it with my brand new, happy-new-job-to-me knitting needles! As I told my friend the night of the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, as we were sitting in her living room, surrounded by looms and fleece and yarn, each of us drinking wine and knitting one of these wonderful cowls (Iodine, by Ann Weaver), “I am so excited about everything that is going on in my hands right now!”.
