Knitting How To

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• 1 Mommiedearest // Feb 26, 2010 at 6:01 pm

  I have always tried to make sure that I connect the balls of yarn at one end or another side of the article. You may loose a bit of yarn by doing this but if the "tie" is at the end you can cover it up when you weave the sides together. If you don’t do it this way you will get a "lump" in the middle ot the work.
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• 2 nummer006 // Feb 26, 2010 at 6:18 pm

  Leave the end of the first ball as it is, you can take care of it later, or knit it together with the new thread. For the new thread, make a loop just like you do for the first stitch and use that loop when you otherwise would yarn over.
  You get the best result when you do this at the beginning (or the end) of a needle, so the ends of the threads can also be used for seams.

  Good luck and have fun!
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• 3 thejanith // Feb 26, 2010 at 7:01 pm

  Myself, I tie the new skein onto the end of the old one with a square knot. Leave tails of at least 3", and pull it tight so your knot shrinks. When you’re done knitting the piece, take a yarn-sewing needle and use it to tuck the ends of the tails. Weave them into the knit of your work. The knot never shows or comes undone. I have been doing it this way for years.
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• 4 hairbender // Feb 26, 2010 at 7:17 pm

  This is a very common situation and this is something that every knitter must know if you are ever going to complete a project.

  You would never ever tie a knit in your knitting!! It will always work its way to the surface, and will always appear right over your left boob, even if you were knitting socks! (I was told this many long years ago by an older knitter, and have never forgotten it!)

  There are many different ways to join yarn as there are knitters. I simply weave them in as I go (in the style of FairIsle) because I don’t like to have to go back and darn in the ends. I’m lazy.

  Normally, you would join in a new ball of yarn at the beginning of a row. You can make a small tie with the old yarn, but I never bother with that. Why make more work? At the end, if you are going to seam it together, the tails are perfect to use in the seam.

  You can also do the Russian join. That is pretty slick and with some precious yarn, where I need every single inch, I would do that. And if it is wool, you can do the spit join. Not pretty to do in public, but the smartest way to make a join and it is invisible. Sometimes I have simply overlapped two yarns as one, and knit for about an inch or so (5 stitches is enough). Never comes apart. You may come up with one of your own eventually.
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• 5 Kara K // Feb 26, 2010 at 7:37 pm

  I have recently discovered the russian join, and that’s what I’ve been doing. You do the work up front to join the yarn, so there’s no weaving in ends when you’re done. That’s my favorite part. But it’s also nice that it’s invisible. The website below has a video of the russian join and several other methods.
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  http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/knitting-tips

• 6 Mystique // Feb 26, 2010 at 8:14 pm

  Just start a new ball at the beginning or end of a row. You will later have to weave in the ends but it can be done in such a way that it is not visible. I also hang a clothes pin on the two ends together so that fist stitch is not loose. Also, after I am finished with my project, I usually tie the two ends with one knot that also is not visible when done right and then weave in the ends of the yearn. Just make sure that you don’t run out of yarn before the end of the row because then you could easily loose stitches of the machine and either have to start anew or fiddle with getting the stitches back on the needles.
  I prefer not to put knots in the yarn because that oftentimes causes trouble with the carriage insofar that the yarn gets stuck.
  Hope this helps.
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• 7 Kristin // Feb 26, 2010 at 8:36 pm

  Avoid tying a knit into it.

  http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?board=353.0
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