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Description: This article troubleshoots some common plying problems and how to fix them. The problems include the following: I want to make a balanced yarn but don’t know how much twist to put in my yarn when plying. As I ply, my yarn doesn’t come off my bobbins smoothly. My singles yarn is all twisty and hard to ply. One of my singles breaks while I’m plying. My freshly plied yarn is twisting back on itself when I take it off the wheel. Even after finishing my yarn, my skein is twisting back on itself several times. I didn’t put enough plying twist in my yarn. My plying is uneven; some parts have too much twist and some have too little. My plies don’t twist together; one strand wraps around the other. My plies have little pigtails that stick out of the yarn