Welcome to this Arnall-Culliford Knitwear tutorial on knitting in your ends in your projects. This
tutorial is part of our Boost Your Knitting series, 12 projects to teach you 12 new techniques
from the world's best knitting designers. If you'd like to find out more about Boost Your Knitting
or purchase kits or the yarns to go with any of the projects in the book, then do click the link
up here which will take you over to our website. This is Tori Seierstad's beautiful Marangoni
Hat which is one of the projects in Boost Your Knitting. We're going to use this lovely hat
design to show you how to join in yarns when you're working fair isle. These techniques can
also be used with all sorts of other knitting projects, whether you're just finishing a ball
of yarn and joining in a new one of the same color or whether you're changing colors as you
might do in a fair isle project. Today's tutorial is going to show you how to knit in your ends, and
this just saves you from weaving them in at the end of the project. And it's always good to cast
off and be able to go straight away with a new project, isn't it? That's my favourite part. I'm
going to show you how to knit in the ends of a new ball of yarn. You can use this when you're
changing from one color to a new color but you can also use it when you've finished a ball of
yarn and you're continuing with the new color so as to make a nice subtle change from one ball to
the next. This is a great technique because it saves you from having far too many ends
to weave in at the end of a project, and I don't know about you but that's definitely not one of
my favourite parts of knitting. So I'm knitting with the green yarn, and I've got eight stitches
remaining before the end of the round, and at the end of the rounds I'm going to be changing
to use this blue-coloured yarn. And I'd normally leave probably six ish in a Shetland yarn like
this one. It's quite sticky, it will felt together quite quickly, and it won't be easy for the ends
to work themselves free. I'm doing a little bit more than that here just to show you clearly
what's going on. If you're using a slippery yarn then definitely knit, knit the end in for a few
more stitches to make sure it's totally secure. So all we have to do is hold the new yarn over
the old yarn. We're ready to work the next stitch. I always leave a good bit of tail here because
it gives you some options if you need to weave it back in the other direction because your yarn is
slippery, then you've got some to do that with. If you're happy that it's secure you can just
trim it shorter when you're finished with the product, project. So hold the new yarn over the
old one and knit the stitch and what we're looking for is for the new yarn to be caught
behind the yarn you're currently using so that's anchored in there, then we're
ready to knit the next stitch and we're going to take the tail attached to the
ball and we're going to bring it up back over the needle. We knit the next stitch,
and you can see that, again, that's been caught behind the working yarn. We're now
ready to work the next stitch, so we bring the new
yarn back down over the working yarn. And we keep alternating like that, up
and down, and up and down, and up. And it doesn't matter whether you end with an up or a down, but
if you look at the rear of the work, it's a bit of a mess. Because it's colourwork there's lots of
strands of yarn going on, but that new yarn has gone and snaked its way up and down behind the
stitches we've just worked. If you have a look at it on the front, you can't see where the new
yarn has been joined in. If you do find that you've got a little bit of the yarn peeping
through between the stitches, if you give it a tug on the back to even it out to make it
straight you should find that the yarn pulls to the back, and you can't see it anymore. So that's
how I've joined in the new yarn, and what I'm now going to do is I'm going to switch to using that
new yarn, and I'm going to show you how to weave in the end of the old yarn. So it's literally the
same process. You can use it to join in the new one and weave in the old one, which means when
you come to the end all we'll have to do is snip the ends. I always leave a little bit so that it
doesn't pop through to the right side, but you haven't got to get out a tapestry needle.
So we're now going to work with the new yarn, which is the blue. I work the first stitch and
now here's the old one, I'm going to bring it up, and then I knit the next stitch, and
I'm going to bring it down. And then I'm going to bring it up before the next one,
and I keep moving it up and down until I've knitted it in for about, well, let's
just do six stitches here. It's a Shetland wool, it's definitely going to stick, it's
not going to slip out or do anything like that. And now I can just break my yarn and
continue on working with the new colour.
So here you go from the right side of the fabric, you can't see where the yarns been
knitted in and on the wrong side here, you can see that green yarn weaving up and down like
a snake behind the new yarn stitches and that just keeps it all nice and secure and joined in,
and no need for a tapestry needle at the end of the project. Thank you for watching this
tutorial on knitting in your ends. I hope that that will help you out next time you're working
on a project and have to change colors or when you're joining in a new ball in a project. It's
always good to avoid one of those finishing steps at the end of the project I find. If you'd like
to find out more about Boost Your Knitting or purchase kits or yarns for any of the projects
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