Joining New Yarn - Or "I've Run Out of Yarn. Now What?"

No need to rip it apart ... there are many project which require more than a skein of yarn and joining is easy.

The pros tell you that you do this: At the end of a row (if possible, you have to weave in ends and don't want to mess up the middle of a big project), simply hold the old strand plus new strand together, knit/ purl a stitch with the two held together, then drop the old, take up the new and keep going. Voila!

The reality is that I'm a bit paranoid, so even though I know I should trust The Wise Ones of Knitting and just weave those ends in a leave it, I just can't. So I tie the ends together loosely (ignore that and you might have trouble a row or two later on ... ) and then at the end of the project, tie just the teeensiest knot (ACK! That word makes real knitters cringe!) and then weave the ends in with a needle. Happy Knitting!