Quick Tip: Clasped Weft Yarn Join

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. Have you ever been knitting a big piece of stock in it? And maybe your yarn has a little texture and you are so tired of just joining new skeins of yarn and weaving it ends. I'm gonna show you a little join. So maybe you don't have to do it as much.

Now, you can do this using two strands, an old skein and a new skein of the same color, but I'm gonna use two different colors just so you can see what's up. So here I am. I'm cruising along. I'm at the end of my skein. So I'm going to fold this in half and make this loop and I'm going to knit a stitch using both strands.

In fact, I'm gonna knit two stitches using both strands. Now, I'm gonna take my new strand of yarn. I'm gonna put the cut edge through the loop and bring it back till it's about the same size as the one I started with. Now I'm gonna leave that little tail down here, deal with it another time. I'm gonna continue my knitting.

You will end up with a few stitches that are slightly bulkier than the stitches surrounding them. Once I've gotten a few more stitches done with my new skein, I'm gonna let the cut end go. But especially if you have yarn, that's a relatively loose gauge or if you have yarn that has a little bit of uh detail to it. If it's not just a smooth solid, acrylic, bulky like I'm working with right here. If it has a little texture, has a little color depth or maybe if you're working with a fingering or a lace weight that the double stitch is not gonna bother you so much.

I'm gonna go ahead. Just keep going with one strand. This is what it looks like on the right side again, just a few stitches that are a little bit thicker but nothing too obnoxious and on the wrong side, all I have to do is clip those ends. I don't have to weave them in any further. So if you want to save time by joining extra yarn in the middle of the row that is called the Clasped Weft yarn join.

I'm Mary Beth Temple. Thanks for hanging out.