Loose Plying

November 2nd, 2006

I’ve been using the Andean plying method to ply together my green yarn (help on that courtesy of ICanSpin.com), and I thought I’d finish the rest of it today. I’m running out of already plied yarn for the hat I’m making, so I’ll need some more soon.

I realized while plying this last of it that the earlier bits I plied were done way too loosely. I just wasn’t putting enough spin into the two strands of yarn, and the stuff I did today looks a lot cooler plied up. I love the barber-pole effect I get sometimes when two contrasting greens meet.

Another realization I had today was of a better way to ply sections of yarn with one really thick and one really thin strand. I found that allowing the twist to enter the two strands more slowly wraps the thinner one better around the thicker one. I’m sure that if I were to read a spinning book more carefully, or took a class, I’d have already known this. However, sometimes learning from experience imprints the lesson on your mind more effectively.

Can you tell the difference between the previously and recenty plied yarn?

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