Holly reminds me of something. I use my biggest spindle to proof if a yarn plied at the wheel is balanced, and if not give it a little turn to get it balanced. Before I got an umbrella swift I used to wind the plied yarn from my spindle around my elbow, causing some inches of yarn untwisting at the turning points in the palm of my hand and below the elbow. Just while leading the thread around my arm..... So this might be similar to your experience.
As for aid: Run your yarn once from the bobbin through the counter to get the yardage. Then give it another turn on the wheel to get the ply balanced again. If you just didn't need the exact yardage, you can simply count the turns of the swift while windig the yarn on, fasten it and measure the length of the skein. That'll give you an idea of the "about"-yardage, +-one or two meters. That's how I do this, but I don't sell my yarn, so I don't need to have exact yardage. Hth, Ilona Holly wrote:
June writes: <<I went to rehank it and measure yardage. I put it on the swift, passed it through the homemade yardage counter (thanks again Cj! You rock!),>> I know nothing of yardage counters, but a thought comes to mind.... if the yarn is run through the counter and is sort of pinched slightly in order to get an accurate count, is it possible that pinching is causing the yarn to twist? If the yarn is more dense and/or more tightly spun/plied, seems like this would be more likely than if soft. It also seems like if the twist is affected, it would be inclined to untwist what's dominant--the plying twist--rather than twist it more. But it's all I can think of, if you've ruled out any form of adding twist in the process of running it from bobbin to skein winder, etc. Holly
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