cooler weather

the weather has been very cool after the heat wave we had. unusually cool! today i walked into soho to meet the mother of morgana's ballet teacher. her younger daughter is getting married and she has commissioned me to make a shawl for her to wear to the wedding to match a beautiful grey/silver dress she has. we found the perfect yarn at purl soho: alchemy's haiku in silver. i only have four weeks to do this. yes, i'm quite worried. i can only do this if i knit non-stop, and i have never done that before . . but then of course i've never been commissioned to make a shawl before. i need a lot of persistence and will. i'm rolling my eyes here, and shaking my head . . i think i just won't accept the money until it's done . . or maybe i should accept the money and that would help me knit more productively . .