The bittersweet feeling of finishing a piece of spinning

I don't know if other spinners find this but projects seem to have a definite cycle to them.  First off you have the excitement of a new project, all those plans and possibilities.  Then you get down to the spinning proper.... and suddenly realise just how long the singles are going to take!  Fairly quickly though you settle into that, just enjoying the slow and steady progress.  Then comes the excitement of finishing the singles and knowing you just have the plying to go, followed rapidly by the realisation (again) that winding the plying ball and plying isn't half as quick as your head thinks it should be.  Then you get to the end of the plying.  That is the oddest one for me.  I've been planning for ages what I'll make with this yarn but somehow finishing the spinning is still bittersweet.  I'm one step closer to that FO but have closed one part of the project.  A lesson in impermanence if ever there was one!

Anyway the spinning that provoked this thought :)  Firstly a shot of the almost finished singles:

Then the, now well travelled, cops ready for winding into a plying ball:

The plying ball itself:

Plying:

And the final very full spindle:

Washed and finished yarn shots to follow :)