{"id":3682,"date":"2026-04-12T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2026-04-12T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T21:38:10","slug":"chain-ply-or-plain-triple-strand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/chain-ply-or-plain-triple-strand\/","title":{"rendered":"Chain-ply or Plain Triple Strand?"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Phydlbitz Sock<\/strong> yarn comes on cones, from which I pull 4-ounce hanks.\u00a0 I can get 8 hanks from each cone, which leaves barely an ounce of yarn remaining.\u00a0 Technically, I\u00a0 could just tie on a new strand and keep building hanks, but I really, Really, REALLY do not like knots in yarn.<\/p>\n

I know knots happen, and I know that the “industry standard” is to allow up to 8 knots in a pound of yarn (or 2 knots per skein).\u00a0 But I still resist including knots in the yarns I send out.\u00a0 Knots are more easily dealt with when knitting with a solid color yarn, but most of my yarns are decidedly not solids, most of the time.<\/p>\n

So, I have all these tiny bits of sock yarn base — an overflowing box of cones.<\/p>\n

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I don’t want to pitch them into the trash, so I’m trying to figure what to do with them.\u00a0 My biggest decision is whether to knit (or crochet) with three strands at a time, joining new yarn when one strand runs out as I pull from 3 separate cones, or chain-ply as I work from a single cone at a time.<\/p>\n

Another but lesser question is what to create.\u00a0 The actual cones weigh about an ounce or ounce-and-a-half, not counting the yarn still on the cone.\u00a0 I think the absolute easiest would be to work up a giant granny square, totally mindless handwork.<\/p>\n

One thing I will not do is try to sell these remainder cones, nor will I tie the yarns together into knotty hanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Phydlbitz Sock yarn comes on cones, from which I pull 4-ounce hanks.\u00a0 I can get 8 hanks from each cone, which leaves barely an ounce of yarn remaining.\u00a0 Technically, I\u00a0 could just tie on a new strand and keep building hanks, but I really, Really, REALLY do not like knots in yarn. I know … Continue reading Chain-ply or Plain Triple Strand?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-working-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3686,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3682\/revisions\/3686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knitivity.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}