section of yarn in a skein is very thin

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Hi
My name is Susan. I have a skein of wool that has a small section that is very very thin (basically it looks like a single strand) compared to the rest of the wool. I am working with Icelandic wool (fjallalopi). Wondering the best way to proceed. I’m thinking of cutting the piece of thin wool and joining the remaining strands of wool. Any ideas?
Thank you!

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I’d cut it out. This is why colorful language came to be, I’m quite sure.

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Hello
I would also remove the section that was inconsistent.
We’re you looking for a way of joining in the new yarn end after taking out the thin piece? Or were you just wondering whether to remove or keep the section?

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I was going to to make a magic knot to combine the two pieces of yard. Do you have a better way of joining the yarn? I’m knitting a child’s sweater.
Thanks

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If that’s your favourite way of joining new yarn then I’m sure it’s fine. I don’t use any sort of knot myself as I find they can wriggle through to the front of the fabric. I leave a tail of around 10 cm on both the old and new yarn to weave in later and just begin withnthe new yarn. The stitches need snugging up a bit when you return on that row but the tails can be used to shut-up and the tails woven in like a duplicate stitch on the wrong side to make the join complete. It’s invisible.

Other people like the spit join, i haven’t used it myself but saw it again on a video the other day and your mention of the thin strand just reminded me of it.

I hope it’s only one piece in your yarn that is like this. Perhaps take a pic of it to just in case the rest of the ball has more, you might want to let the seller know or even ask for a replacement ball.

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Unless your yarn is superwash you don’t really need to do anything other than start using the new end and weave in ends later. I like to work one stitch with both yarns to keep things secure and just continue with the new yarn. IMHO knots are to be resorted to only when other methods are not an option. I’ve had a bunch of loose stitches in a row or accidental yarn overs and worked the excess yarn out by adjusting stitch tension. If the new loop of yarn in long enough I’ll cut it and weave in the ends. On a few occasions I used a knot then wove in the ends because the length I had to work with was so short I wasn’t sure it would be secure.

eta you could probably spit splice the ends together.
Splicing Yarn

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If you’ve used magic knot before that’s fine. I have no confidence that it will hold over time. I prefer to either overlap the old and new yarns for one stitch leaving ~6inch tails to weave in or dropping one yarn and starting the next. The small hole can be eliminated by crossing the tails when you weave them in.

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Thank you. I went with the way you described. I overlapped one stitch with the yarns and then continued with the new yarn. I’ll weave in the tails and the end of the project.

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Thanks again. I decided to just join the new yarn and overlapped the 2 yarns for one stitch. I will weave in the ends when I finish the sweater.

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Thanks for your help. I didn’t use magic knot. Decided to go with the way you described. I’m hoping this was just in one skein of yarn, but I did take a picture to send to the seller if it happens again.
I’m going to check out videos on splicing the yarn together. It might work well with this yarn.

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