i recently bought a cheap needle which was pointy at the end and suspected that it caused my yarn to always split, cause i’ve never had that problem before. thank you for this, very informative:)
If you are a right handed, cotton yarn will split regardless of any supposed "hints or tricks" you might try. It's because of the S twist when the yarn is made. However if you are a left handed crocheter, you will not have a problem. So the very best tip or trick you can learn is to crochet left handed instead. It will be perfect every time. Good luck, because you will need that too. A lifetime of being a 'Righty' makes it very hard to become a 'Lefty', even if it just for crochet!
I hope someone can help… I just finished an all wool afghan using different kinds of wool of the same weight to make two-tone flowers. However, the fancy background, sort of a lacy background, I chose a gorgeous black merino wool yarn called Karabella Aurora 8. The yarn is just beautiful, feels magnificent, and makes the many colored flowers really pop. But as I’m tying off and weaving in my hundreds of tails, I’m finding that the merino is splitting at the ends!!! I figured out a way to double knot the ends, although I’m not happy dbl-knotting anything crocheted, I just had to or I’d never have a day of peace that the afghan will survive unraveling!! I’m pretty creative in burying the ends. But when you’re using a fine, black, merino yarn as a lacy background to hundreds of bright colors, you can only bury the black yarn into the black yarn. That was tough enough to overcome, (hiding ends into thin crocheted lacy background) but now I’m seeing that the ends of this yarn are fraying and will keep fraying. With not much place to weave the ends, I’m still concerned about how slippery this yarn is and it coming out over the years. Any advice other than, never use merino like this in an afghan? I wish I could attach a pic of it to give you an idea of what I’m taking about but it’s really the fraying that has me concerned over the life of this afghan. The middle yarn in this video is exactly how much my ends are fraying! 😱 I don’t think it will fray beyond the double knots, but still…. Constant fraying that has to be re-hidden or clipped? Yikes! I suppose if anyone wants to see what I’m really taking about they can look at the Arnie and Carlos afghan (I think) called posies. That’s the afghan I made. It’s not the Arnie and Carlos afghan with long petals. I made that one last year. It’s the one with the same color but different tone flowers, with black background. Thank you to any of you that would take the time to offer any help. Happy crocheting.
I'm not sure if you still need help. But what I find helpful when crocheting is to weave in the ends as you go instead of waiting until the end, when there is a bunch of fraying ends like this: ua-cam.com/video/R6tyFrsIT2M/v-deo.html
Wish I could have seen a close up view of those hook heads and yarn plies. So hard to see the comparison from this distance. Otherwise, good, useful video. Thanks! Subscribed!
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i recently bought a cheap needle which was pointy at the end and suspected that it caused my yarn to always split, cause i’ve never had that problem before. thank you for this, very informative:)
If you are a right handed, cotton yarn will split regardless of any supposed "hints or tricks" you might try. It's because of the S twist when the yarn is made.
However if you are a left handed crocheter, you will not have a problem.
So the very best tip or trick you can learn is to crochet left handed instead. It will be perfect every time.
Good luck, because you will need that too. A lifetime of being a 'Righty' makes it very hard to become a 'Lefty', even if it just for crochet!
I hope someone can help… I just finished an all wool afghan using different kinds of wool of the same weight to make two-tone flowers. However, the fancy background, sort of a lacy background, I chose a gorgeous black merino wool yarn called Karabella Aurora 8. The yarn is just beautiful, feels magnificent, and makes the many colored flowers really pop.
But as I’m tying off and weaving in my hundreds of tails, I’m finding that the merino is splitting at the ends!!! I figured out a way to double knot the ends, although I’m not happy dbl-knotting anything crocheted, I just had to or I’d never have a day of peace that the afghan will survive unraveling!!
I’m pretty creative in burying the ends. But when you’re using a fine, black, merino yarn as a lacy background to hundreds of bright colors, you can only bury the black yarn into the black yarn. That was tough enough to overcome, (hiding ends into thin crocheted lacy background) but now I’m seeing that the ends of this yarn are fraying and will keep fraying.
With not much place to weave the ends, I’m still concerned about how slippery this yarn is and it coming out over the years. Any advice other than, never use merino like this in an afghan?
I wish I could attach a pic of it to give you an idea of what I’m taking about but it’s really the fraying that has me concerned over the life of this afghan. The middle yarn in this video is exactly how much my ends are fraying! 😱
I don’t think it will fray beyond the double knots, but still…. Constant fraying that has to be re-hidden or clipped? Yikes!
I suppose if anyone wants to see what I’m really taking about they can look at the Arnie and Carlos afghan (I think) called posies. That’s the afghan I made. It’s not the Arnie and Carlos afghan with long petals. I made that one last year. It’s the one with the same color but different tone flowers, with black background.
Thank you to any of you that would take the time to offer any help.
Happy crocheting.
I'm not sure if you still need help. But what I find helpful when crocheting is to weave in the ends as you go instead of waiting until the end, when there is a bunch of fraying ends like this: ua-cam.com/video/R6tyFrsIT2M/v-deo.html
Wish I could have seen a close up view of those hook heads and yarn plies. So hard to see the comparison from this distance. Otherwise, good, useful video. Thanks! Subscribed!
I got one of those learn to crochet kits and gave up on the first loop cause the hook just would not stop splitting the plies apart.
I tried both types of hooks, Susan Bates and Boye and there was the same splitting for both.
I have that problem how do I start it!
Thank You
I was hoping to figure out how to make my fringe look less split. My stitches themselves don’t usually split. Any tips for just the ends?
This did not help in figuring out how to prevent splitting when using a multi fiber yarn.
Bruh I just trying stop the splitting on my water bottle made bracelet yarn