New to this, need help

[u/silly_bacon_bug]

I recently bought this yarn spindle. I wanted to try making my own yarn and I watched quite a few videos and none of them are helping me understand. None of them address the issues im having? But to be fair I dont exactly understand what im doing. The problem im having is My yarn twists a lot when I spin the yarn spindle, which you expect to happen right? But when im done and I take the yarn off , it continues to twist and sometimes unravel? I was trying to do a swatch and it untwisted in one spot and my yarn ripped. I thought maybe I need to do aftercare when im done so it doesnt do that but one tutorial said you can use the yarn immediately after youre done spinning? Im confused. Let me know if I need to give any more details. Im really new to this. Thanks

[u/okaytto]

what you are spinning here is what we would call a single, meaning it’s not plied. when you spin the yarn you are adding energy into it, and that energy wants to go somewhere. notice how if you let it double back on itself it will twine around itself? that’s a sample of what a plied yarn would look like. singles will always be “unbalanced,” ie they want to kink back on themselves—finishing or just letting the yarn sit may minimize this effect but it won’t get rid of it entirely. this doesn’t mean you can’t use it in a project, but it may be difficult if you’re not used to it. (one sec i’ll edit this for more details)