Attaching a New Skein of Yarn

There are several options when starting a new skein of yarn Here are a few ideas:
**If you are working with wool or animal fiber that felts easily you can felt your ends together with a felting needle. To do this, slightly splay the plies of both ends you are joining. Lay over each other, overlapping an inch or so, and then punch together with the felting needle, turn sideways and felt again so the strand is compact and round.
**Also with wool fiber, you can spit splice the yarn. Tease out approximately, but not perfectly, about equal lengths of 2 plies of yarn. Overlap the ends, again approximately. Lay the overlapped ends across your hand and either spit on it or us water. You get the yarn nice and wet, then you gently rub it back and forth between your hands, generating both friction and heat, until you have a nice, continuous piece of yarn.
**Leave a long tail in your work and then leave an equally long tail for the new strand and simply continue knitting. Weave the ends in later.
**Merge the ends with a darning needle. This works like Chinese thumb cuffs if your yarn has multiple plies and works similarly to a person holding both wrists with the opposite hands, from the inside. For explanation purposes: we want to join yarn A to yarn B. Thread the darning needle with A. Starting about 1.5-2 inches back from the end of B insert the needle lengthwise down the center of B for another inch or so (going towards the work or ball). Go far enough with the needle and A so that the tip of A is hidden within B, remove the needle and adjust if necessary. Then take the little 1.5-2 inch tail of B, thread the needle and, starting at where A went into B, slide B into A going the opposite direction. Go far enough through A to hide this end of B as well. Remove needle and adjust or trim.