a 3 hour tour

My pushed back deadline means that I was able to spend the day goofing off.  I did a fabulous job.  I can not think of a single productive thing I did all day.  Oh sure, I ferried kids here and there, but that was about it.  Clean house?  Nope.  Laundry?  Nope.  Writing?  Nope.  Bills, taxes, international studies paperwork...?  Nope.

Today I played with Bob.  I spun 4 ounces of fiber and turned it into a 3 play yarn.  This endeavor, undertaken with a nice drop spindle, would take me 2 ½ weeks.  Bob did it in about 3 hours!!!  Pictures?  Nope.  Right now the yarn is drying under severe tension.  I have never before subjected a finished yarn to this kind of torture.  But this yarn is SO over spun, tension is the only way it has a chance.  The spinning was OK, tension wise, the plying totally screwed any hope of a calm yarn.  Truth be told, I planned to take a pic of the drying yarn, but the camera is not on my desk and I do not want to wake up to household to retrieve it.

I’ll leave you with that tease, to tune in Sunday for actually pictures of the first plyed yarn.