cosmicpluto posted a photo:. andean plying. Steph helping andrea with andean plying.

So I’ve seen some diagrams before on Andean plying. You wrap the yarn around your hand in some fashion or other and then ply from that. I never much understood the appeal of this method, and the diagrams looked confusing at a glance. ...

For that, I'm a huge fan of Abby Franquemont's true Andean plying method: wind the two spindle-fulls into a two-strand ball, and ply from that. It takes a little practice to get even tension through the ball, but the plying is so smooth ...

I was looking at a tutorial the other day and the person had this cool wooden thing she was making her andean plying bracelet on. And then she left the bracelet on the “thing” and plyed from it instead of her wrist. ...

I take the fuller bobbin and wind it into an Andean plying bracelet there-and-then. This can be a bigger bracelet, or not if you were lucky, so the Andean plying paperback may be called for to protect your middle finger from ...

What does the Andean Plying technique do? Well, it is a method of winding yarn singles off of a single spindle - and onto your hand - in such a way as to produce a centre-pull "bracelet" of yarn, from which you can pull both ends of ...

I simply spun until the spindle was getting a little unwieldy for me to handle and then plied using the Andean plying method. Andean plying is genius - it allows you to wind the singles in such a way (on your hand no less - very low ...

edited to add: Elly is of course right, I'm referring to Andean Plying. Got that muddled up somehow. Really have no clue (lets hope yet) how the navajo plying might work. Need to learn how to spin evenly before attempting any fancy ...

The beginning spinner started winding the single around her hand to create the yarn bracelet used in andean plying. Shortly after starting, the single snapped. The beginning spinner decided this was ok (after swearing a bit), ...

this weekend, with the help of a google search and some how-tos, i picked up a new skill: andean plying. for those who don't spin, andean plying is a neat way to turn a single skein of handspun into a single skein of two-ply handspun, ...