Vectoring in on a solution

These days, any progress I make in my daily life seems to be in vectors rather than direct line. I start out with one goal and half a dozen small associated and unassociated tasks later, I return to the original goal which then may or may not get accomplished.

Today was a good example.

One of my ongoing thoughts for the year has been to somehow make a stab at getting my fiber stash/ fiber closet, organized. Among some of the other things I hope to accomplish, along with training for a long distance charity ride, finally getting down to my target weight are completing a couple of both long term ongoing and new projects including a tapestry piece using rounded forms and a non geometric pattern for a guild project. I also want to continue my study and samples of the Coal Mine technique in Navajo Weaving.

I have to admit that I have looked into my fiber stash closet a couple of times, contemplated some organization and storage ideas, haphazardly moved a few boxes around and then given up and found something else to do that would allow me to procrastinate a little longer.

The problem is that when you spend three to four hours a day either in the gym or out on the road bike, and another hour or so walking the dog along with time spent in general housekeeping, meals etc. there's not a whole lot of leisure time left over. The end result is that it takes me several days to accomplish anything coherent no matter how seemingly inconsequential. I have spent the last week or so working out a design for the tapestry piece.

Having finally completed the design, today I sat down to select colors and pull yarn. Three hours later, after having emptied the loose yarn out of the closet, rebuilt two yarn storage areas, pulled a shopping bag full of oddments of yarn for donation, sorted the weaving yarn out by size and color,and put it back into the closet, repacked 4 fiber storage bins, labeled a couple of dozen odd skeins of yarn by size, weight and content and found storage space off the floor for them, plus reorganized the entire closet enough so that I can actually walk into it and turn around, I remembered that I had started out to pull yarn and colors for a small tapestry. It went ever so much more easily since I had all of the colors and sizes sorted and ended up being the easiest part of the day.

Like I said, progress by vectoring in on it.

Now to start weaving.