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- Welcome to GoodKnitKisses techniques and tutorials.
Hi, I'm Kristen.
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All right, let's begin.
All right, let's talk about weaving in these ends here
where we've attached the yarn.
Now I had loosely just tied a little bit of a...
Not a knot, but just loosely tie that there
to just keep my tension nice and even as I was working.
But when I undo it,
you can see that this stitch is not complete.
Next to it you can see that there's this little smile here.
It goes underneath here and if I skip over here,
there's a smile over here,
so you can see that this yarn needs to go stretch around.
That's really what we're gonna be doing to start this off.
So we're going to take our needle here and insert...
Get our tapestry needle ready with one of these ends,
it doesn't matter which side.
I usually just put this one over,
the one I'm not working with,
and take my yarn and go up through this hole here.
Go up through this bump,
and obviously I'm moving the other one down
so it's not in the way.
When I pull that in like this,
it now looks more like the rest of this line.
See how that's more hidden?
And we can just pull on it to make the tension the same.
So now what I want is to make sure
the rest of these fall into place.
I can go around this little smile and this umbrella,
so this little upside down smile here.
We're going to go mirror, go around, to lock them in.
What I can do is now I'm near this one,
I can go up through here,
go up through this little area here,
and then we're gonna go mirror over this side here.
So see how it does this little leapfrog
from this little bump over here and down,
and then I can actually go downward
into this ridge down here as well.
So if I go down, I want to go in an area where,
when I come out, I can kind of leap over this way as well.
So let's just go down this way and pull it.
Make sure that I'm not pulling it too tight.
And then I'm gonna go up again,
so I go around here, follow it around, and then go up,
and I'm gonna go back through that same bump
that I went through here.
See how it's disappearing?
That yarn is...
You're not really able to see it.
If I take this off here...
Let me show you with a contrasting yarn what it does.
So let's take this one, and it's the same principle,
and I'm just gonna pick any spot, let's move over here.
Let's say I want to go around here,
so I'm going up through this little spot here,
and I'm going to mirror and go around here,
and then I want to go down,
and if you've ever seen that sort of Christmas candy that...
It's like an old-fashioned candy that zig-zags around
like a serpent shape, that's exactly what I'm doing,
you'll see this kind of form up here.
So I'm gonna go around this spot here
and then go back up to where I just came from,
you see that?
Pull it up...
And then go around again, follow that,
and then go down where I just came out of there,
and even the tension, and just keep going around.
And so what happens is you're creating this sort of,
I was talking about a Christmas candy sort of look.
This kind of makes it fun to weave in the ends.
Weaving in ends aren't really fun
but if you think of it that way it's easier,
especially on a garter stitch.
So this is a really great way to
make your garter stitch work for you.
Just continue with that, and over here,
and whenever you get to the point
of needing to finish this one off and clip it,
you want to work in a few inches
and you can go back over some of your stitches
to really lock that in, so here we go.
I'm gonna go here, and then I can even go backward.
Go back over one of these other stitches
and come through one more time.
Pull that on through,
and even that out with my needle.
And when I know that I'm ready,
I can go ahead and just clip that off.
And then the other one as well, so I would just...
Now that I've already got that done,
I can just work my way on this side
and I know that I have got it all locked in.
So you want to do that on all of your stitches
where you've had to join up the yarn.
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