(ed. note: the picture is some of my "crazy yarn", spun in 2006-2007!)
You can use this hot water technique to figure out what the right twist was for plying yarn -- freshly spun singles can show you what the right amount of plying-twist is, but once they've sat, even for a few hours, the twist begins to set in them. So, I take a sample when it's fresh, let it twist on itself, and stick it to my sample card. Then I let the bobbins (or, spindles) sit for a weekend (or a week! sigh!) so the twist is a bit set and the singles are less lively, and ply on this semi-set stuff to the same twist that the live sample showed me. If you forgot to sample before letting it sit, take a length of singles, drop it in hot water, and eureka! like magic, it will twist on itself and show you how it should be plied.
(posted by me on spindlers, 12/12/2001)
1 comment:
I actually put a little more twist in my plied yarn than the sample would indicate. If find that this gives me a perfectly balanced yarn. If I put the same amount of twist as in the sample, the yarn is not balanced and, after it is washed, etc., it just looks like it's too loose.
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