Quick Tip: Joining Yarn with Overhand Knot
Mary Beth TempleWhile 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.
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.
I cannot seem to do it exactly your way and curious, are you left handed? Because I am right and it is really awkward for me to do it your way which comes out better but I have some kind of block. If in fact you ARE lefties that would explain it. Please let me know.
I never thought twice about what is an over hand knot of course I’ve made knots on my life, but you seem to do it differently. I wish you would’ve shown what it exactly is because it came out so perfect now I will go to YouTube to try and find it becauseI just do it. No matter of fact, I don’t really know specifically what I do but I do know it’s different than yours so I’m on the search now for precisely what it is when I watched it in slow motion. I could barely figure plot out duh