In my quest to not have extra yarn on one bobbin while plying (so annoying) I've been trying out different plying methods. I tried N-plying and it definitely has it's uses, like if the yarn has big chunks of color... but for every day plying I'm not a huge fan. It leaves little bumps in the yarn and kind of hurts my back because you have to do a lot of moving (which is why I switched from a drop spindle to a wheel). My friend Jack told me to check out Andean plying and I found this youtube video!
I basically adopted it for a wheel, instead of turning the bracelet into a center pulled ball (I HATE those! they always make a mess) I wrapped it back onto one of my kromski bobbins and than plyed on my wheel. The only things that are annoying are because of how I hold yarn while plying (I separate the two strands between my fingers, so they don't start getting twisty until after my hand) it kind of knotted up behind my fingers a little and I had to stop separating the strands and just pull the yarn through my fingers tightly to keep it from bunching up. Also you don't get a huge bobbin of yarn like you do going from two full 4oz bobbins. Overall I liked it way better than the two bobbin method for my own yarn but if I'm selling it I'll stick with two bobbins because people tend to like bigger skeins.
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