Do you know this new technique of weaving three threads? Before, if you didn’t have three skins, you made three balls with a scale, calculator or riddles. Or use two ends of one skin. As you knitted, the balls rolled, the threads tangled, and an intrigued cat added to the trouble. Try Navajo weaving.

Wait, you don’t mean a spinning technique called navajo? Folding?

Yes and no. Yarn spinners navajo while spinning, turning a single ply into three-ply yarn without using three spools or saturated color repeats. Navajo weaving uses the same technique, except that you create triple thread as you weave.

How does it work?

1. Tie a slipknot in your thread, leaving a loop big enough to pass your fingers through.
2. Reach into the loop, take your strand of yarn, and pull out a nice long loop.
3. If you hold the two loops of thread like you’re stretching a rubber band, you’ll see three threads between your hands, with a small link connecting two of them.
4. Knit a few stitches with this thread tripled.
5. When you get to the last piece of the loop, go through it and pull out another long loop.
6. Continue knitting and making new loops as needed.

Make your loops as short or long as you like, but it may be preferable to make fewer loops.

Do those links show up in my fabric?

Lucy Neatby, genius creator of this weaving technique, says these little links don’t show much. So there’s no need to pull a loop from here to eternity. You can make each loop an arm’s length or whatever you (and your curious cat) find most enjoyable.

Is this series of loops like a crochet chain, under drugs?

Exactly. A hook chain is a series of loops, each pulled through a previous loop. The size of each loop is determined by the size of your hook.

In this case, there is no hook, just your fingers. If you want oversized loops, have someone hold your knitting as you run down the aisle as you make each new loop. It could be a good exercise.

What are the traps?

• You could knock over the cat or give someone sitting too close a black eye while pulling out a lasso.
• You may experience a dangerous stash upgrade.

How is that possible?

Do you have a cone of yarn that you hid? Maybe it’s such a beautiful fine-stranded silk that you couldn’t resist buying it, but just can’t face rolling it into multiple balls to knit?

Well now you can use that yarn or any other nice and affordable knitting machine yarn for any number of delicious projects. Whoops, do you suddenly have more projects than you could weave in your lifetime?