Well, sometimes… Monday comes at most unexpected times. Like 6:00 PM on a Wednesday.

Two days of experiments totally failed, so I was stuck here in lab until 10:00 PM instead of going to knit night and/or spinning, relaxing, and um… eating dinner. It was one of those days, two detours on the way home, it started raining as I walked out to the car, I dropped glass pipettes, dumped the very last of my tea down my front, stuff like that. Oh right, and my lovely downstairs neighbors who can’t park for garbage have decided that the stairs to our apartments are apparently they’re personal storage place. Great evening. Then of course I couldn’t sleep. WHee!

One little thing I did get done (because even though I try to go to bed at 10:00 I had to wind down some, and while waiting for gels and thigns to re-run), was my 2oz spindle cop.

Well that was nice. 2oz (57g) on my Bossie mini, which is only 25g. I learned some about spinning finer yarns on heavier spindles too, which was a good lesson. I also achieved my orginal goal with this cop, which was to have a cop that was larger than the whorl. Only by a little, mind you, but still a goal is a goal. So, here’s a 2oz cop of cormo/alpaca/angora. Half the fiber. Now to figure out how to get it off. I think the straw method might lead to collapse on the upper end.

I’d say this qualifies as sucking less, since this is only my second large cop.

Hopefully more fiber out tomorrow. Drying is slow in this weather. And the late packages are getting shipped today, sorry for the delay.

~The Gnome