{"id":8611,"date":"2020-05-08T02:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T09:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2020-05-10T04:34:54","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T11:34:54","slug":"how-to-knit-the-russian-join","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/how-to-knit-the-russian-join\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Join"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian join is a method for joining two pieces of yarn and can be used to join a new color or simply to add a new ball of the same color. This join is very secure and does not leave any ends to weave in.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video Tutorial<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to Knit the Russian Join\" width=\"1020\" height=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8xsfWvSsDJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Technique Instructions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<ul style=\"list-style:none;\"><li><strong>STEP 1<\/strong> &ndash; Take tail of yarn and thread it through the eye of your tapestry needle.<\/li><li><strong>STEP 2<\/strong> &ndash; On the same strand of yarn (your working yarn) move your fingers down a few inches and untwist it a little bit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>STEP 3<\/strong> &ndash; Insert needle into the untwisted portion of our strand making sure to insert into the very center of the strand, pull tail of yarn all the way through making a little loop at the end of the strand.<\/li>\n<li><strong>STEP 4<\/strong> &ndash; Take your second strand of yarn and insert it through the eye of the needle.<\/li>\n<li><strong>STEP 5<\/strong> &ndash; Pull needle and second piece of yarn through the loop created on the first strand of yarn.<\/li>\n<li><strong>STEP 6<\/strong> &ndash; Slip needle through the center of the working strand similar to step 3.<\/li>\n<li><strong>STEP 7<\/strong> &ndash; Pull needle and tail of yarn through.<\/li>\n<li><strong>STEP 8<\/strong> &ndash; Pull tight so the holes at the ends are very small and cut off any excess ends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\">\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nsad-russian-join.jpg\" alt=\"Example of the Russian Join\" class=\"wp-image-8617\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nsad-russian-join.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nsad-russian-join-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/nsad-russian-join.jpg\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian join is a method for joining two pieces of yarn and can be used to join a new color or simply to add a new ball of the same color. This join is very secure and does not leave any ends to weave in. Video Tutorial Technique Instructions STEP 1 &ndash; Take tail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"stitch-attributes":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"stitch-attributes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stitch-attributes?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}