Tip for Crocheting with 2 Strands of Yarn
I just finished a rug that I made holding 2 strands of yarn and using a large hook.
This gives the rug more stiffens and allows for better wear.
This is probably only a handful of projects that I have ever done using 2 strands. My first couple of projects I carefully rolled my yarn into 2 balls and began to crochet. Problem with that is I always ran out of yarn on one ball and didn't have a free end on the left over ball to finish the rug.
UGH! Highly
irritating.
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Now however I look for yarn that has what I fondly call a belly-button. Really it is yarn that has a center end free so that you can unravel it from the inside-out.
Then I take that yarn and the outside yarn and crochet with them!
I never run out on one ball with just
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a few more rows until completion!
Last photo shows me crocheting with the 2 ends of the same skein.
Hope this works for you!
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