How to join new yarn - Linen Stitch

#1

I am knitting a linen stitch cuff or bracelet using 2.25 mm dpns. My question is: how do I join yarn as my yarn is running out and I quite a bit yet to knit. The yarn is knit very tight and I can’t hide it at the side because it will be seen. When I join yarns usually just carry two yarns for about 6 stitches, but that will show with the tightness of the “weave-like” texture of this stitch.
Hoping someone will know what to do!

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#2

What type of yarn are you using?
If it’s wool you can spit splice or splice using drops of water.

You could also try a Russian join which will work with acrylics and cotton as well as wool.

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#3

I am using Fingering weight and very small 2.25 mm dpns for a cuff. What bothers me is that 1 stitch is slipped and one stitch is either knit or purled each row, so where is is done?

#4

Thank you so much.

#5

I think if you use the Russian join the join doesn’t show, so it won’t matter what stitch or slip comes next. It needs to be wool for this join to work.

I’ve never used the Russian join. I have woven tails behind lace work though where it would be undesirable to knit double yarn for any number of stitches and where the open lace work means weaving in as you go can be tricky due to the stitch pattern- perhaps similar to your situation - and what I’ve done it just start the new yarn ball (with a knit or purl stitch), no join, then snug it up a bit as it will loosen, after a row I tie a bow with the 2 yarn tails which just keeps them in place whilst knitting.
After finishing (or sooner if it’s slippery yarn and the bow undoes) I weave in those 2 tails on the wrong side using duplicate stitch or something as close to duplicate stitch as it possible based on the fabric.
The first weave in needs to cross the 2 yarns to finish up that single stitch (each tail needs to go into the WS loop the other tail comes out of, one loop), but after that you can take the yarn in any direction where you have some stitches available to weave into. It means the tail weave or duplicate stitch can go up and down the columns rather than across a single row and just gives more option of where to weave.
This is also a stretchy weave and should move with the fabric.

#6

You can make either join in the yarn without planning where the join will fall. Either one is essentially invisible. Or you can plan where the join occurs by measuring the amount of yarn needed for a couple of stitches before the join. It’s like this video for a color change. Changing on a knit stitch or a slip stitch will work.

I would also think that changing yarn on a knit or purl stitch (whichever is a right side (RS) stitch would work. Just overlap the yarns for one stitch. I do this all the time and one stitch is all that’s needed before weaving in the yarn tails.