Article Info

Article Title
How Low Can You Go? Testing bias in singles yarns
Author
Meagan Condon
Issue date
Spring 2026
Issue number
52
Issue topic
Experimental
Description
When we ply our yarns before use, typically the goal is to balance out the twist we’ve added in the singles by plying those singles in the opposite direction. But when we leave the yarn as a singles yarn, once the yarn is knit up, it often tends to slant in one direction. Both the individual stitches as well as the whole textile can exhibit this skewing or biasing. This article examines how much twist a singles yarn can hold before it starts to show bias.
Article topic list
experimenting, Icelandic, Jacob, Merino, combs, knitting, TPI, twist angle, bias, swatches