![]() ![]() Imagine she had a sister or two by her side. When knit into fabric she stands alone against the stretching and rubbing of the world. Imagine a single-ply yarn, she’s lithe and beautiful, but lonely. Plied yarns are more durable, less susceptible to pilling. You can change how your knitting looks just by changing the number of plies in your yarn.Īs a knitter choosing a yarn to use for a project, my big three are durability, weight and stitch definition. It can transform color (hello, marl), texture, durability, weight, and-cue the choir-stitch definition. Ply does deep-down delectable things to your knitting. ![]() I talk about it a lot when I teach spinning, and have even converted a knitter or two to spinning based solely on the power of ply. I get a little giddy over ply, the twisting together of two or more strands of yarn.
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