New to knitting…
I’m making a baby blanket, using double strands of yarn, and every few rows I have to stop and untwist the strands - are there any solutions to this?
How to prevent yarn twisting when knitting double strands?
I’ve always just knit them as they come. 
I saw your question earlier today and was gonna say the same thing, but I did wonder if somebody knew something I didn’t. 
So, I’ve done two projects recently with two strands and just let them twist, wondering if that was the right thing to do (Ingrid is laughing out loud at me, now.) If I got a knot or snag I hollered for help from my husband who is a second generation untwister … i.e., learned doing it for his mother and now assists me. Another set of hands is great if you get toooooo twisted and need an unwind.
I like to roll the 2 skeins together into one double-stranded ball. Works like a charm!
I did wonder how that would work … but did I try? No, I didn’t try and … I waited and let Molly ask if there was a better way. Thank you, Molly, for asking.
KellyK, do you just roll them up together like they were one? So they kinda twist together as you roll up the ball? I worried they wouldn’t do that ( see what I get for not trying) and that the two strands wouldn’t stay together.
I wondered this too… I also am doing a baby blanket. What if you have 2 different colors? Like if you were trying to do a reversable pattern or something?
[color=blueviolet]I agree with Kelly. I’ve rolled 3 doubled-stranded balls with my winder and it works perfectly. But I would never attempt to do it by hand. I think it would be a big mess and I could never get the same tension.[/color]
Ive used my ball winder to do it, and before I had one, just a regular hand-wound ball. You just hold the two strands together as if they were one. I dont think its necessary that they TWIST together, but they will BE together… :??
No way, Jose!!! Ingrid doesn’t laught AT anybody!!
Since Kelly’s done all her clogs this way, she’s the expert here! 
I am certainly no expert—but, I just throw one skein on the floor to my left and one on the floor to my right and that at least keeps them untangled. I would have no clue how to keep them from getting twisted when you knit them though unless you hold individual strands and throw them around one at a time in the same order- sounds like way too much work to me though!
my husband who is a second generation untwister …
My DH has this mysterious talent as well Perhaps he is a long lost relative? If there’s nothing else he has patience for, it’s untwisting my necklaces and now yarns. One of the many reasons I 
him!
P.S. I just hold the two yarns together (from the center of the skein) and knit them as the come like Ingrid does. They “overlap” and sort of twist, but it really isn’t noticeable to me at all in the finished look of the fabric.
Thanks, everyone! I’m glad to see this is a common problem, and not just me doing something wrong.
Meanwhile, my husband invented a cool solution to the twisting problem - it’s kind of hard to describe, but it involves keeping the yarn (in individual ziplock bags) on a lazy susan, and spinning it clockwise a bunch of times when the twisting gets annoying. It works great!
Ahh, husbands and their inventions! Sounds like a great idea, though!
This is only tangentially related to the original question, but I actually LOVE to knit two strands together in different colors. I don’t make any effort to avoid the natural twisting and alternating of the yarns, and it makes a very interesting, randomly variegated fabric pattern.