hi I'm raka Alexa Tish I'm a knitting instructor with craftsy.com now I'm gonna teach you how to splice your local yarn if you run out and you need to attach a new ball of yarn in the middle of your project and by doing this you won't it will have less ends to weave in at the end I'm working on the sleeve of a sweater here I'm using local light and I'm almost out of yarn knit a couple of more stitches and then I'm gonna bring in another ball yarn and splice these and together so I won't have to weave them in at the end of my project so the first thing I need to do is to untwist the yarn a little bit let's just slightly twist it it's not hard to do this and separate the two strands that make up the yarn there they are and I'm just gonna untwist a few inches of this and make one of the ants shorter than the other and I just want to pull the yarn apart to make the ants kind of go thinner towards the ends like this and then I'll take the new yarn that I'm gonna be attaching to the old yarn I do the same thing here I understand you inches and if you have to pull it apart it's better to keep your hands wider apart it's easier to pull the strands apart like that because the fibers are very long and loopy so I pull this out and make sure that the other end is a little bit longer make it a little thinner too and now I've done the same thing with both of my ends so one short and one long so what I'm doing now is making the long end of one meet the short end of the other I just lay them together - and she was three inches maybe and then I licked my fingers and rub so all the fibers cling to one another and I want to do the same with the other half of the yarn so long and over short and little spit and then distract so now I have rolled both the strands together and now I just want to make them cling to one another by rolling the whole thing together like this just a little bit don't need much there and then I continue knitting as if nothing happened and I just nipped gently across the place where the two ends meet and when I am past that area you won't even see where I did my splicing if you'd like to learn more knitting techniques check out my online class the top-down icelandic sweater on craftsy.com + bliss you