{"id":4856,"date":"2013-10-20T18:49:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2013-10-20T18:49:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T23:49:22","slug":"best-laid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/10\/best-laid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Laid Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surely you learned about the poet Robert Burns in school.  Those plans &#8216;gang aft agley.&#8217;  Once again, my plans went awry.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing that last post I went first to my notes and computer, writing down how many threads of each color I needed to measure in what order for that first baby wrap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/baby-wrap-Meghan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/baby-wrap-Meghan.jpg\" alt=\"weaving draft for Meghan&#039;s baby wrap\" title=\"weaving-draft-Meghans-baby-wrap\" width=\"726\" height=\"248\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/baby-wrap-Meghan.jpg 726w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/baby-wrap-Meghan-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/baby-wrap-Meghan-150x51.jpg 150w, https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/baby-wrap-Meghan-400x136.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNow to that big box of <a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/10\/handwoven-baby-wraps\/\">luscious-colored yarn<\/a> to pull out the four colors I needed.  Here&#8217;s the dark mauve, the pale mauve, and the dark pink, but where&#8217;s the fuchsia?  Go through the box again.  Check out the invoice.  Go back to my order.  Take out all the cones of yarn and put them in the order they&#8217;re in on the invoice.  Count the cones on the invoice and the cones on the order. <\/p>\n<p>POOP!!  There&#8217;s a mistake and I&#8217;m missing the 3 cones of fuchsia!  I ordered it, was invoiced for it, but didn&#8217;t receive it.  A phone call to the friendly customer service rep confirmed that they&#8217;d made an order and would send me out the missing yarn, but that meant I had to wait.  <\/p>\n<p>Despite what everyone who sees me weaving in a demo at a show says, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m a patient person.  I&#8217;m definitely bad at waiting.<\/p>\n<p>No control, no choice.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that after pouting a bit and notifying my first few customers that this would delay orders by a week, I found something good to do with my time.  I started writing the narrative for a grant application that&#8217;s due in 2 weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>Remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/07\/community-weaving-day\/\">community weaving project<\/a>?  I&#8217;m planning a modification of it, working with my local library and elementary school.  I have no idea if I&#8217;ll get funded, but I surely won&#8217;t if I don&#8217;t get it written and submitted!  I made a good start on it that day, and I&#8217;ll work on it more tomorrow, hopefully getting it finished in the next few days so that once that yarn arrives the application will already by submitted.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the plan, at least. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surely you learned about the poet Robert Burns in school. 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