Five Ways to Attach a New Ball of Yarn

Let’s talk about a technique that we use in almost every project we make. Whether it is a colourful cardigan or a simple scarf, at some point, we need to attach a new ball of yarn. To avoid creating a mess within a row, it is usually best to join the yarn at the beginning of a row. There are five most common ways to do it.

The methods explained in this tutorial work great both for attaching a new ball of yarn of the same colour when we ran out of yarn and for attaching yarn in a different colour to work in a colourwork pattern.

As you see, there are plenty of ways to attach a new yarn to a project – with a knot (ways #2 and 3), with a bit of an added bulk (ways #4 and 5), or without any of that (way #1).

If you have selvedge stitches at the sides of your project, attach the new yarn after you work the selvedges. This way, the pattern at the side edges will not get interrupted.

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