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Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Lesley Silvester on October 27, 2013, 02:23:38 pm

Title: Russian join in knitting
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 27, 2013, 02:23:38 pm

Has anyone tried this? It looks so simple but effective.


http://www.knittinghelp.com/video/play/russian-join (http://www.knittinghelp.com/video/play/russian-join)

Title: Re: Russian join in knitting
Post by: Louise Gaunt on October 27, 2013, 02:37:22 pm

I haven't tried it yet, but I will have to give it a go. No more ends to darn in at the end of a multicoloured project!

Title: Re: Russian join in knitting
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 27, 2013, 09:51:11 pm

And no ends coming back out again.

Title: Re: Russian join in knitting
Post by: Lesley Silvester on October 29, 2013, 10:17:12 pm

I've just tried it and it worked a treat. I hardly even noticed I was knitting the joined yarn when I got to it. It was only that there was a tiny piece I hadn't trimmed that gave the game away.

Title: Re: Russian join in knitting
Post by: Mariask on November 02, 2013, 08:23:48 pm

Yes, I've used the Russian join in some of my jumpers - it works brilliantly, especially on nice woolly 'grabby' yarn. And it's dead easy to do.
 :sunshine:

Title: Re: Russian join in knitting
Post by: Bionic on November 03, 2013, 10:27:00 am

I've never seen this before but it looks good and seems to be easy to do. I will definitely try when I next need to join in yarn.
Thanks for sharing Lesley  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Russian join in knitting
Post by: Lesley Silvester on November 03, 2013, 10:23:38 pm

 :thumbsup:  It's good to share.