Joining legs of a doll

When knitting across the joining row, to avoid unsightly holes work as shown below:

1. Knit across the stitches of one leg, then take the yarn from the stitches just knitted and hold with the yarn from the first leg, you will be knitting with 2 strands of yarn:

joining legs of doll
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2. Using both strands of yarn knit across two or three stitches:

joining legs of doll
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3. Now drop the shorter length of yarn and continue knitting across the row with the single yarn from Leg 2:

joining legs of doll
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4. Once the next row (purl) has been completed you will not notice that doubled yarn has been used on 2 or 3 stitches of the previous row:

joining legs of doll
© F H Powell 2017