Knit Tips: Weave in ends as you go
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2014
- This is just a little demo of how I reduce my finishing work when knitting stripes. The loose yarn at the ends of each stripe get woven in as you change colors.
It is a very easy technique and saves so much time if you are working on something with a lot of stripes.
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9 years on and I've just discovered your video. I love this technique...thank you.
Fox paws is a gorgeous pattern. Thank you for sharing this technique.
Great clear demo, thank you. Fox Paws is STUNNING!
Love this technique, I learned it years ago from Philosopher's Wool's booth at Stitches West and I use it all the time. That is a gorgeous pattern, I love it!
Thanks for posting this video. I am a knitting newbie and chose a striped scarf as my first project. This video was invaluable!
Brilliant! You are brilliant. Love my Fox Paws. Knitters everywhere are very impressed.
What a gorgeous blanket.
Thank you! This is exactly what I needed! I'm making a chevron blanket that has blocks of narrow stripes separated by solid color blocks. This will be so much better than weaving them all in! Also that fox paws blanket you made is gorgeous!
Instead of knitting with the green strand double I usually leave that end and then do the same technique of 'over and under' with it on the subsequent knit row. Then you don't get that thick section.
You should post a video of this! I'd love to see your technique.
+TheRebs7 Wow, You and Xandy P. are both brilliant.
FANTASTIC tutorial. I have seen many color changing tutorials and yours is the most professional for those of us that are picky. THANK YOU
Thanks for a great video! I was doing something similar but I was constantly dropping and picking up yarns to achieve the same result. Your way is much more efficient! Thanks for sharing this with us.
I love the Fox Paws pattern, which is how I found my way here. Really worth the couple bucks for the pattern. Got get it!
Thank you!!!! I'm knitting a baby blanket with 5 colours so it was going to be super impractical to carry the yarns up the back or side, but I was reeeally not looking forward to hundreds of tails. You've saved my sanity!!
Will have to try. Not sure I follow, but will re-watch when I have my knitting in hand
You are a lovely genius! Thank you so much for sharing! I will stop avoiding patterns that I know will languish in the finishing basket because I know I won’t weave in the ends in a timely manner. 🙏🏼😍
Thank you for this tutorial - very helpful - will try this in some projects.
This is exactly how I have done things for years... I like this in that I have no weaving and, I can clip things short as I go. Works for me!
Fabulous tutorial. Thanks so much!
That is beautiful and thank you for sharing.
Love it! Great idea for intarsia. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for this awesome tip!
fox paws! wow! so beautiful and intricate
OMG this is FABULOUS!!! Thank you!!!!
Thank you so much!!! I'm making a temperature scarf and there are a lot of color changes. I don't dread them nearly as much now!
Brillant! Thank you.
Thank you for the video. I'm a beginning knitter and trying to knit a scarf for my mother-in-law. This was sooooo helpful! 😃
Great! I'm glad you were able to use this video for your project.
That was very helpful, thanks for sharing 😊
Ty for taking the time to do this tutorial :)
I wish I had seen this video before I made Bounce from TinCanKnits. I had so many ends to weave in, that as much as I loved the finished blanket, I wasn't sure if I'd knit another one. I think I'll give it another go and do this with the ends.
Good job! You are my hero of the day. :-) I have yarn ends hanging everywhere. I'm going to use your brilliant method asap. Thank you for sharing.
~Megan
I learned the technique of knitting a new one in and an old one out years ago at Stitches. Worth learning.
Very clear explaination
This works very well for yarns that have some "grab" to them like wool or wool blends, even some cottons, but not for slippery yarns! I have used this technique for many years after I started using a knitting frame. On a knitting machine or frame, you wind the yarn over and under the needles to work the yarn in as you go, so I started doing the same for hand knitting. If you are a continental knitter, like me, there are some extra steps, but it can be done.
Elizabeth Greggain you're right. I don't use yarns like that very often for colorwork because even sewif in is difficult.
Thanks, very helpful info. 🌼🌺🌸
Fox Paws is absolutely beautiful! I wish I could knit something like that. I just learned to knit a couple of years ago and can't see myself ever being able to make something as complicated as that.
you can do it Lori!! I started knitting when I was 13 and couldn't make a stockinette stitch bookmark that wasn't weirdly loose and tight in all the wrong places. This year, I finished my FIRST sweater for a friend's baby. You could never have told me when I started that I'd be doing the stuff I'm doing now. Just keep picking projects that are one step above where you are now in difficulty, and soon you'll get to a place where you'll be running out of ways to challenge yourself :) I believe in you!!!!
Thank you.
perfect thanks so much
I know you posted this years ago but thank you for the great idea! Noticed your Fox Paw Shawl immediately-gorgeous color choices! I was wondering what yarn you used-still haven’t chosen a yarn because I can’t commit to my color pallet yet!
Cool! Thank you for the excellent demo. So glad I found your channel (via ‘Watch Barbara Knit’). Definitely going to try out some of your other videos. :)
Hi Judith, I was just making something like that. I think this would work for you, but you could carry just the A color along the side to save time and bulk.
So, I make stuff
thank you :)
Its sort of like catching floats in fair isle. SMART!
Good to know
This is so helpful! Thank you so much :D
how does it look like on the back? And if only knitting 1 row each color is it noticeable?
I tried this on a pair of socks a long time ago, then had to rip them out because the heel was in the wrong place. It was very difficult finding the ends & then the yarn was too short to use as before. I don’t weave in ends as I go anymore, lol!
This makes so much sense, it would have saved the mess I already have in my current project, hah! Would this still work when you have to slip the first stitch of every row?
If you are slipping the first st, join in the new wool on the last st. of the previous row
thank you So much for This viDeo!@+@
Amazing, I’ve never seen this before!
Thanks, most helpful. Exactly the instruction I was looking for. I am knitting a cowl in a K and P pattern with this STRIPE SEQUENCE
Work *(2 rows with A, 2 rows with C, 2 rows with A, 2 rows with D, 2 rows with A, 2 rows with E) twice, (2 rows with A, 2 rows with F, 2 rows with A, 2 rows with G) twice, (2 rows with A, 2 rows with H, 2 rows with A, 2 rows with I, 2 rows with A, 2 rows with J) twice; rep from * twice more for a total of 192 rows. The pattern says nothing about carrying or not carrying the yarn up the side.
I think trying to carry the yarn up the side would look terrible, so I think I am going to use your method. What do you think?
Hi, I didn't quite see how you picked up and carried the red yarn, if you did... could you explain it to me, would be really grateful. Thanks!
Is this technique the same as carrying floats?
well done !! thx for sharing . ques. you knit the green 2 strands for a few st. so on the way back you have to remember to knit the dble st right ? or you will have too many st. ya ? is it easy to see where the yarn is dbled ?
oops sorry i read other posts and got my ans. thx God bless you
I am not a knitter who uses many notes or counters, but if you are working on a project where you may forget that you doubled the stitches, you can always use a bulb pin to leave a note for yourself.
May i say you have beautiful hands.
Thanks, very interesting! Now how to adjust this for continental style? :)
Katja Berden since you hold you main yarn in the left hand, just hols the weaving end in the right.
It might be easier if you've done 2 handed fairisle.
After you complete this technique do you just snip the excess or do you still have to weave in the snipits of tails left?
Carlyn Johnson yes
This or that? Yes. Sigh.
If you knit the new colour in as a double strand, do you not end up with more stitches on your needle than you should have?
You you would just have to knit those double stitches together (k2tog) to get back to correct stitch count.
Hey ! I have a question how would one do this while ribbing ?
Thank you :)
pinkcontacts99 for ribbing, you would simply purl the stitches as normal, but the knit stitches you would use this technique so they would still be wrapped every other stitch
If you haven't done so, I recommend you view the Two Handed Knitting video on Philosopherswool.com. You are using her "3rd" stitch to weave in your old end. She uses it for her fair-isle technique, and you now use the same method to weave in your end. Pretty cool!
I’ve used this technique for a sweater but I noticed my stripes on the edge where I’ve woven in the ends are on the right side of work aren’t even looking stripes. Like they have some slack. How can I fix this? Thanks
Hmmmm, I think you may need to unweave them and sew them in by hand on the wrong side.
This is the same technique as for Fair Isle knitting by catching floats, so it’s nothing new but thank you for the concise video.
How does this work if one knits continental?
Even using this technique, it looks as if you still have yarn ends dangling on the backside. Do you just clip them off close to the knitting or is there still some weaving to be done?
Clip them, I left them long to show that they're there. once they're clipped, you can hardly see them.
How do you make all those double-strand stiches you made disappear and turn into single strand stiches?
Hi,
The front side of the stripe swatch in the picture/video shows the side where the first 4 stitches are double, they really don't look that different from the other stitches. If you are using cotton yarn or a type of yarn that shows the double stitches a lot, just knit the first stitch as in the video and then hold the 2 short ends in the back of your work together to weave them in. That way you won't have double stitches anywhere.
Love it! Thanks.😁
I already figured that out last year.
I need the ends not to show at all, and it seems to me this just joins or locks the new color iin. I so needed you to turn the piece over! NONE of the videos I've seen deal with those ends and making them invisible in the finished piece. It stops at the point I need. I was sitting there chanting, turn it over turn it over turn it over!!
ferociousgumby Xandy is using a bulky joining method, using both ends for a few stitches with the over-under wrapping method of weaving in as you go. You don’t have to use the double strands to join the yarns if you want less bulk.
Most of the time I finish my ends by weaving them in by doing a duplicate stitches and moving down rows as I go. If I need it more secure, like with the tip of socks, after a few stitches I will slide the darning needle down a few right or left side of a vertical line of stitches. None of this can be seen from either side side.
I like to wash the garment before snipping off the ends so they can settle in during the wash.
Because I live in a warm climate I often knit with slippier yarns that won’t crap the fabric of the garment well. Even superwash doesn’t grab well. I very nearly sew down the end after weaving it in with small tidy stitches that can’t be seen. Who ever made the “don’t sew” rule wasn’t working with these more modern yarns or cotton. Just find thread that’s as near an exact match to your yarn as you can find.
My woven in ends are pretty much invisible. I was taught that the inside of my knitted and sewn garment as well as my needlepoint should be equally pretty on both sides. I once had a needlepoint shop owner get rude with me for doing this!
@@BonJourBonJour123 I do that technique now, i may have to post a new video.
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Il suffit de regarder entre 2.30 et 2.50
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Should be *Sew I make stuff* 🤣
This is the same technique used for weaving in non-active yarn in stranded knitting (fair isle). It was shown on the DVD about color knitting by Ann and Eugene Burgeouis. Also compare this: czcams.com/video/b-dyDqzFqHc/video.html
cant you do a faster video? This took forever to see how you did it
It was just right for me.
Pretty sure you didn't invent.this as you stated. There are older videos showing yhis and I've been also doing this for a lot of years. It's the best way unless it's very fine knitting and/or fair isle
This video isn't really learning/ new knitter friendly. I would definitely need to see a close up of the stitch being done. I can't tell what your doing going under on the left side. And no idea what you're doing when u say over under as u go way way too fast to see.. Why are u holding red string if not using it after 1st few sts or is it being knitted because I can't tell??repeating it a few times slowly is best for teaching new things. if u have close up vid please link
i didn't see at all what she did at all and i must have watched it 10x! this was VERY unclear and defiitely the WORST video EVER!!!
Thanks, very helpful info. 🌼🌺🌸