Ask CRAFT: Plying Yarn

Craft & Design


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!

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From the pages of CRAFT, Vol. 08:

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Travel Crafty: Portland including Yarnia, pgs. 98-99. by Diane Gilleland. Purchase the back issue in the Maker Shed.

2 thoughts on “Ask CRAFT: Plying Yarn

  1. Anonymous says:

    ASU fiber majors are tight knit!
    i <3 Ann, Shana, Renai & Heather
    i love that my favorite craft blog has an asu connection, its very exciting =]
    love,
    Kristen

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Becky Stern is a Content Creator at Autodesk/Instructables, and part time faculty at New York’s School of Visual Arts Products of Design grad program. Making and sharing are her two biggest passions, and she's created hundreds of free online DIY tutorials and videos, mostly about technology and its intersection with crafts. Find her @bekathwia on YouTube/Twitter/Instagram.

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