| Do you know this new knitting technique for | | | | Lucy Neatby, genius originator of this knitting |
| three strands of yarn? Before, if you didn't have | | | | technique, says these little links don't show much |
| three skeins, you'd make three balls with a scale, | | | | at all. Therefore there's no need to pull out a loop |
| calculator or guesswork. Or use two ends of one | | | | from here to eternity. You may make each loop |
| skein. While you knit, balls would roll, strands tangle | | | | an arm's length or whatever you (and your |
| and an intrigued cat added more trouble. Try | | | | curious cat) deem most enjoyable. |
| Navajo knitting. | | | | Is This Series of Loops Like a Crochet Chain--on |
| Wait, Don't You Mean a Spinning Technique Called | | | | Drugs? |
| Navajo Plying? | | | | Exactly. A crochet chain is a series of loops, each |
| Yes and no. People who spin yarn do Navajo | | | | one pulled through a previous loop. The size of |
| plying as they spin, which turns a single ply into | | | | each loop is determined by the size of your |
| triple-ply yarn without using three bobbins or for | | | | crochet hook. |
| saturated color repeats. Navajo knitting uses the | | | | In this case, there's no crochet hook, just your |
| same technique, except you create tripled yarn | | | | fingers. If you want super-sized loops, have |
| while knitting. | | | | someone hold your knitting while you run down |
| How Does It Work? | | | | the hallway as you make each new loop. It could |
| | | | be good exercise. |
| 1. Make a slip knot in your yarn and leave a loop | | | | What Are The Pitfalls? |
| big enough to put your fingers through. | | | | - You might knock over the cat or blacken the |
| 2. Reach into the loop, grab your strand of yarn | | | | eye of someone sitting too close as you pull out a |
| and pull out a nice long loop. | | | | loop. |
| 3. If you hold your two loops of yarn like you're | | | | - You might experience dangerous stash |
| stretching out a rubber band, you'll see three | | | | enhancement. How's that possible? |
| strands all along the way between your hands, | | | | Do you have a cone of yarn you stashed away? |
| with a little link connecting two of them. | | | | Maybe it's some fine-strand silk so gorgeous you |
| 4. Knit a few stitches with this tripled yarn. | | | | couldn't resist buying it, but can't face winding it |
| 5. When you come to the last little bit of the loop, | | | | into multiple balls for knitting? |
| reach through it and pull out another long loop. | | | | Well, now you can use that yarn or any other |
| 6. Continue knitting and making new loops as | | | | nice, affordable knitting machine yarn for any |
| needed. Make your loops as short or long as you | | | | number of delicious projects. Oops, do you |
| like, but making fewer links may be preferable. | | | | suddenly have more projects than you could knit |
| Do Those Links Show in My Knitting? | | | | in a lifetime? |