Working with tape yarn for the first time
Rowan bamboo tape
I am trying to have a good think about what I can make with some Rowan Bamboo Tape yarn. I have a full skein weighing 50g, plus a few remnants which weigh just over 50g when combined, so the equivalent of two full skeins.
I have never worked with a tape or ribbon yarn before, so I am eager to find out how it behaves on the needles – how easy it is to find a comfortable passage into the stitches with the right needle, and whether the yarn should be kept flat at all costs or allowed to twist as I knit it. I have absolutely no idea what I might make with the yarn as yet, but I am eager to get experimenting. First, though, I wanted to join the remnant lengths together to form a single length of yarn, so I never had a web of ends to weave in after the fact, which I am worried would wriggle free like oiled tagliatelli after the fact, anyway.
I thought about sewing them together, but settled on making a join that is something like a russian join, in that it requires threading one yarn into the other using a needle to give a continuous length of yarn, but it works a little differently. I have uploaded a brief video below.
joining tubular construction woven yarns, such as Rowan bamboo tape
