It's soooo much faster than dropping and picking up each strand. This was a very nice discovery because I hear of people working up to this, whereas I've somehow learnt it accidentally.

Here's a pic of my twined knitting (Scandanavian technique where you knit alternatively with two strands of yarn and twist them behind each stitch) project using this technique:

• Measure remaining yarn against how much yarn a row uses up (time consuming)
• Rip back about 12 rows to have 8 leaves (lifelines remain luckily, then start edging
• Continue knitting and hope very hard it works out