Mary Beth Temple

Quick Tip: Joining Yarn with Overhand Knot

Mary Beth Temple
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While I am generally not a fan of knots in my knitting, on some scrap yarn projects doing this double overhand knot trick is definitely a timesaver. Line up your two strands of yarn parallel to each other, take strand one and tie an overhand knot over strand two, then take strand two and tie an overhand knot over strand one, tighten everything and trim the ends. Check out this video on how to Join a New Ball of Yarn to a Project for some different ways to join skeins together.

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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 going to 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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