Quick Tip: Joining Yarn With over Hand Knot
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There are times where we might want to join many pieces of yarn together; maybe we are making a self-striping ball of yarn, or possibly using up yarn scraps of the same color from different skeins. This is a fabulous way to use up bits of leftover yarn, but it can be time consuming if we need to weave in all of those yarn ends! In this video, Mary Beth Temple demonstrates how to use overhand knots to secure pieces of yarn together, which allows you to trim away the yarn tails!
Check out this video to learn another method of joining yarn together!
Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And while generally, I am not a fan of knots in my knitting or my crocheting, there's a time for everything and sometimes if you wanna just get a whole bunch of scrap yarn together and move on with your project. This little overhand knot trick is the way to go. So here are my two colors of yarn. I'm going to take one color tie an overhand, not over the other color.
I'm going to tighten it up but not super tight. I just want it to not come undone. Now on this side, I'm going to do the same thing. I'm going to take my dark color and tie an overhand knot over my light color. Now I'm gonna pull the two of them till they get closer together.
Pull this one super tight, pull this one super tight and now pull them together super tight. This yarn will break before this knot comes undone. I don't understand how it works but it does. Now you have two choices when you're working on your scrap yarn project. You can either leave the tails as a decorative element, maybe comb them out and make them a fringe or you can trim really pretty close and not worry about it.
And then as you're knitting or crocheting along with your scrap beyond project, you'll just work right over the knot when you come to it.
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