This method isn’t meant to replace traditional weaving in or the more secure finishing techniques many of us know and love. It’s simply another option for certain projects where ease, speed, and reducing finishing time are the priority. Trapping the yarn as you knit can work really well for items like cowls and hats where the wrong side is hidden, and knits that won’t see heavy wear. As always, use what works best for you and your project — there’s no one right way to knit.
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In a previous video, I showed you how to lock in some new yarn
so you don't have to worry
about it coming unraveled.
In this video, I'm going to show you how to work in these tails
while you're knitting so that you don't have to weave them in later.
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Let's get started. So if you haven't checked out how
to lock those stitches in and
that'll make more sense why you see kind of double stitches here,
be sure to check out that video
now. But we have tails that we, you know, who likes weaving in ends?
Nobody. So I'm going to show you how you can use a one-handed method.
To get them done as you're working your stitches.
This obviously will not work for every stitch
pattern, so be sure to kind of dry it and see if it works.
If not, you'll have to do that whole
weaving in. This is best, you know,
if you have a wrong side to your project, not necessarily if
both sides are going to be visible.
Okay, so to begin this, you're going to kind of separate your
tails because you need
those where you can move them around since you're going to be stitching
stitching along.
I already kind of started the process.
I'm going to put them over here so it makes more sense.
I'm going to enter into my next stitch.
I'm going to take my tails and I'm going to bring it
over my working yarn. And then I'm going to knit my next stitch.
My yarn has effectively been
trapped, my tails. So to get it to get trapped again,
we're going to bring it back over the
working yarn and do our next stitch again.
And you don't necessarily have to wait to enter your
After your stitch, you can go back and forth.
So again, back over your working yarn,
do your next stitch, bring it back over again on the next
stitch, and you're going to do this for as long as you like.
So I'll do this for another stitch
and then we'll look at the back side.
So when we turn our work around,
you can pull on that and get it nice and snug and tight.
Do one at a time there, and it's going around your stitches.
So this is why it's best to do on a
wrong side row because you do have kind of some sticking out.
You can keep on tugging on that to
get it as tight as you can so it's not as visible, but it does show.
But it is a great way that if
you have wrong side rows that are not going to be visible,
you can just knit that in there
And cut it off and you don't have
to worry about weaving in at the end, which is
everyone's dreaded thing, right?
I don't know anyone that enjoys weaving in.
So that is how you're going to lock in those stitches.
Super simple, very,
Very, you know, easy to do.
I am Deja with Knit and Crochet Ever After, and thank you for watching.
