Spinning!

I'm all excited, as a project for a museum is coming to be realised - and it involves spinning. A lot of spinning.

Handing in a project pitch always means waiting afterwards, and it is by far not sure that the project will actually get done. So you do the research work beforehand, and all the planning, and all the calculations, and then you hand it in... and hope. Sometimes it is accepted quickly, and sometimes it takes a few weeks or months, and sometimes it never comes through, which means it is a gamble each time to invest a lot of energy and resources (time among that, of course) into the planning and pitching - but then, you have to do that, otherwise there's no chance at all of anything getting realised.

Which means that pinch of extra "hooray" when it does, and this is a project that is really exciting for me, as it involves replicating medieval fabrics. Hand-woven, from hand-spun yarn, in three, actually even four different types that are all made from wool but all very, very different in character.

All together, it will be more than ten kilometres of yarn... which is exciting, and a little daunting, and makes me incredibly happy at the moment.

So, obviously, spinning is what I will be doing this afternoon - I'm packing my things together right now, as there is (by convenient chance) a spinning get-together right this afternoon, which I had planned to attend anyway, doing some private for-fun spinning. I'll just be swapping out the "private" now... and give the shiny little e-spinner something to do. Yay!