![]() You weave in on the wrong side only, however. In garter stitch, it works much the same as in stockinette. Weaving in ends diagonally Weave in Ends in Garter Stitch When you’re stretching the fabric – as you do with socks and hats and the like – the yarn can slip out of the last stitch it was pulled under and then hang loose on the back of the work. It works, but I don’t like it quite as much as the duplicate stitch method. You can also weave in the ends in a diagonal line (same link, more scrolling) on the wrong side. This is especially useful for double knitting where you don’t have a wrong side but can neatly hide the yarn ends in between the two layers of fabric. You pull the ends under the bars in the middle of the stitch. If you go back and forth like this for two or three rows that should secure your ends well enough to stay in place.Īnother way to weave in ends is to do it vertically on the front (same link, you will have to scroll). All you do is weave in up through frowns and down through smiles for a few stitches, and then you move up or down to the next row and go back the way you came. On the back of the work, the purl stitches form lots of frowns and smiles. You can also weave them in horizontally (there are a lot of ways to weave in explained here, you will have to scroll down some) – which is what I’ve done for most of my knitting life. And it would only work in stockinette anyway. I struggle with the idea of weaving in on the front. It is also possible to do this on the front of the work, but I can’t bring myself to do it. It distorts the fabric even less than my standard method until recently – weaving them in horizontally – would and has now become my favorite way to do this. The method I’ve been trying out recently is to weave in ends using duplicate stitch on the wrong side of the work. Weaving in ends with duplicate stitch – my new favorite method Weave in Ends in Stockinette That’s why it’s only half of the method I’ve learned when I was young. But what I find much more troublesome is that often the ends will still wriggle through to the front after a while. And you can try and place them where they won’t stand out. The double thick stitches can be visible – however, I find that I often can’t make them out. So, it’s not precisely weaving in ends you work them in as you knit. When you want to join a new ball of yarn, you simply work with both strands for a few stitches and then snip the tails short. And it’s half of what I learned to do as a child and how I still often do it. This is possibly the simplest way to secure ends into your knitting. However, at least in knitting knots have a way of popping through to the front and the knot is visible. As the name suggests, you make a knot (actually two) in your yarn ends and secure them that way. You could also use the Magic Knot method but I personally dislike it. But Spit and Russian Join will only work if you are only using one color. If you don’t like to weave in ends at all, look at Spit Join, Russian Join or working in ends as you knit. I also don’t need to do quite as much to secure the yarn, slipping it through a few stitches is usually enough. Seams aren’t as flexible as the rest of the fabric and the ends can never push through to the front if you weave them in on the inside ridge of a seam. I prefer to tug my ends into seams whenever possible. Whenever possible try to join a new ball of yarn close to an edge that will be sewn together later. If you’ve cut your ends too short before you washed your project, the ends may not fit quite right anymore and wriggle through to the front or at the very least slip out a bit. The knitted fabric often changes a bit after washing – which is why you are supposed to measure a gauge swatch after washing it. Wash the knitted piece before cutting the ends too short. ![]() Take lace for example, or work with slippery yarn like cotton or silk. And those might require a different way to weave in. But different projects create different fabrics with other circumstances. And as long as you can’t make out well where you’ve woven them in or have ends poking through to the front, you don’t really have to change the way you are doing it. There isn’t just one way to weave in ends. ![]()
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