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Spit Splicing

So, the other day, I decided to try this "spit splicing" thing I had heard so much about. I'm currently working on a sweater I'm sample knitting for Donna Druchunas, over at Sheep to Shawl. By the way, her patterns are lovely, and I highly recommend them. They're super easy to follow, and I have never gotten as many compliments on my knitting as I have while working on this sweater. It's a lovely blue and cream, and one of my favorite work-horse yarns: Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Worsted.

The yarn seemed like it would felt well, and so when I got to the end of my first skein of the blue, I teased out a few inches at the end of the skein and a few at the beginning of the next skein, and rolled and rubbed them in my fingers until they felted together (all of about 30 seconds, and not much spit was needed!). Then, I tried tugging on it, trying to get it to fall apart. I was a little skeptical about this technique, but it proved to be very strong. Once I put the yarn down for a second, I couldn't actually tell where the splice was! I was definitely impressed. I think I will definitely keep this in mind from now on whenever I'm using feltable yarn of any kind!