How to Splice Yarn

Many knitting projects require more than one skein of yarn. As you reach the end of one skein and begin on the next, you have a few options for joining the two skeins together. You can tie the old and new yarns together loosely, going back later to weave the loose ends into the knitted fabric, but this leaves a noticeable bulge. You can also thread one strand of yarn through a needle and pierce it back and forth through the other strand several times. This also leaves a noticeable bulge. Splicing the skeins of yarn together, effectively joining them end-to-end into a single piece of yarn, gives an almost undetectable join with no tell-tale bulge. Splicing your yarn also eliminates the need to weave in an extra pair of yarn ends.