Ask CRAFT: Plying Yarn
Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by admin
When I posted about the amazing yarn I customized at Yarnia in Portland, OR, I got a lot of questions about plying yarn. At Yarnia the yarn is wound together from many “singles,” or individual strands of yarn to make up one unit, but the strands remain individual, making it a little more difficult to work with than plied yarn. I asked one of my professors, fibers artist Jerry Bleem, if he could teach my class how to ply yarn, or twist the singles together into a single strand, and in this video he does just that. Plied yarn is also much easier to work with on a knitting machine than non-plied yarn because there’s less of a chance of one of the individual fibers catching where it’s not supposed to. If you have a crafty question, send it on over to me at becky@craftzine.com for use in a future installment of Ask CRAFT!
For more info go to: http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2009/03/ask_craft_plying_yarn.html
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I have to say, I disagree with him about the Louett. I love my Ashford wheel and find it much easier to use than a Louett. Just my personal preference, but I don’t think he should have made it sound like the Ashford was hard to use. It’s not.
It probably would have been a lot more practical to just show them how to ply with the drop spindle. That would have been more accessible to the students. I doubt they have wheels if they need to take this class.
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