Tail Free Knitting/Crochet: Part 1 - Russian Join

The part of knitting I dread most is having to sew in ends. It can be very time consuming especially if you've worked through many balls of yarn or had many colour changes. There are ways to avoid this and in this post I'll show you one of them, it is known as The Russian Join.

If only I'd known about this technique when doing the Ephraim blanket, boy were there a lot of ends to sew in there.

Step 1: Thread the yarn through the needle

Step 2: Work the needle through the wound plies for 1-2".

Step 3: Pull the needle through, leaving a small loop.

Step 4: Thread another yarn through the needle and thread it through the loop of the first yarn.

Step 5: Thread this needle through wound plies of the second yarn as with the first one and pull to tighten.

Step 6: Tighten the first yarn.

Both have now been joined with no ends to sew in.

Stay tuned for the other technique you can use.