Plying yarn

Ready to ply your handspun yarn? This post will teach you how to take two (or three) single bobbins and ply them into a beautiful, well balanced yarn.

After spinning yarn on a drop spindle, it is time to ply and finish the % yarn. I will show you how I ply my yarn and get it ready for a project.

Eager for a preview of what your yarn will look like when plied? Sampling and creating a self-ply is a great way to determine your yarn’s size.

The number one question people ask when I’m using a handspindle: “how do you go about plying singles yarns from the spindles?”

Choosing the right yarn for any project is essential as little things like yarn ply and yarn weight can affect your work.

Chain plying is a way of using the hand spun yarn on a single bobbin to create a finished 3-ply yarn. You are plying this singles yarn on itself similar to how you make a crochet chain. It is a fun...

Way back when, at least on the internet time-scale, I wrote a tutorial about how to chain-ply commercial yarn to manipulate color which you can read here . The variegated yarn I used flashed and pooled no matter how I knit with it, and chain-plying it created a beautiful marled yarn. Then I used

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Plying is magic. You can combine 2 or more strands or even just one and turn them into something beautiful and balanced. So, why would you ever want to un-ply yarn? Well, plying doesn’t always turn out the way you think it will. Maybe after plying 2 singles together, you realize that they would look

I love chain-plied yarn. I love how plump it is compared to 2-ply yarn. I love how it keeps the clear distinct color of the single and fiber. I love how I can take one single from one bobbin and ply it into something that looks like it came off of three. What I don’t love is stopping in t