Hey, Shop! Especially those of us #spinning! I'm so excited - I just learned how to do "chain plying", that is, creating a 3-ply from a single strand (for the non-spinning amongst you...). Squee!!!!
Of course, the silly thing about this is that I've also *just* gotten around to adding new functionality to my #spinningwheel, to be able to ply more than 2 strands at a time. But my fevered brain starts to suggest even better things...
Fevered ideas like - could I use 4 strands, hold them neatly long enough to chain-ply into a 12?
I think I better lie down, before I hurt my brain...
@rottenmeier That's the question, isn't it?
I might tame myself to try it with "just" two singles. The method of #ChainPlying depends on holding open a loop but since it all remains under tension, I think it should work out okay.
It might be awhile before I try it, though because I dug out the rest of a lovely variegated roving from #Malabrigo - because the superior effect of chain-plying is to better preserve the color runs.
@OldBrushNewPaper i think you'll lose the better preserve of the color runs, if you split the roving in (lets say) 2 even parts, spin 2 strands and then chainply those together, because the color runs of the 2 singles wont allign.
...unless you split veeeeeeery evenly _and_ spin those 2 strands also veeeeeeeeeeeeeery evenly. i once did a 3ply (not chainplay) and well... i tried but there was not much alignment of the colors of the single strands.
OldBrushNewPaper
alienne rottenmeier