Ply Of Yarn

Hi, I'm Craig Olson. Today we're gonna talk about ply and weight of your yarn. So, when you're talking about ply, that's just talking about how many pieces of spun yarn are gonna be in your finished yarn. So, here I have two single ply pieces, we're gonna make a double ply out of that. Uh, that'll give us some strength as well as, uh, increase the thickness a little bit of the weight of our yarn. Um, when you're determining what you wanna do, uh, it kinda depends on what your project is and what you're looking for for the finished product. If you want ad K weight, uh, yarn or do you want something that's like a chunky weight yarn or anything in between? Um, when you're spinning, how much will you let through at a time is gonna partly determine your weight as well as you can also then add weight by plying at the end, which just means how many of your single plies are you gonna put together? So, uh, my standard is kind of, uh, a two ply but you can do a 34 ply yarn where you're spending three or four single plies together to add and build weight to your yarn. So if you're, you know, your single ply is more like a worsted, but you're trying to get to a bulky, you may wanna spin three ply to give you that thickness and that weight. Um Or, you know, depending on how thin or thick your single ply is, we will determine how much you needed to use to get to the weight that you're looking for. Um So I can show you a little bit today with uh the double ply that we used here. So I'll just spin it together here. We're gonna just tie this onto here our lead and then what we're gonna do is we're gonna spend these single plies together, give them twist and uh then that'll ultimately for this piece be our final yarn that we'll use uh as a two ply and based on these will be probably uh worsted or maybe a little bit better weight on that. So I've tied them on here and we're gonna start spinning them together in this process. You can uh do much faster than you do when you're doing. Uh just your, your regular spinning because you wanted to get enough twist on this. So they stay together, but that it is not binding up on each other. So here, we're just kinda same process where you're just gonna be feeding it through, but it goes a little quicker because you're not having to stretch out the fibers, you just let them run together, get their twist and then that'll be your final piece. So there's a little bit about how to apply your yarn. I hope that helps you understand a little bit more about weight and ply. And uh, thanks for watching.