How to Fasten Off and Weave in Ends Tutorial

Hi everyone, it's Deja from crocheteverafter.com and today's tutorial is going to go over something that you hear in every single pattern that you do, but you may never have actually been shown how to do it. And that's fastening off and weaving in your ends. So I'm going to show you the way that I do it. Of course there's tons of different ways that you can actually do it, but this is kind of just the most basic way. A fastening off, and then the way that I like to weave an end so that I make sure that they'll never pop out again. So let me grab some yarn, and I'll show you how to do that right now. I've come to my last stitch for my project, and I'm ready to fasten off. The way that I do it, usually they'll tell you to kind of pull out your loop, and then cut your tail and pull your tail through. Well, I have kind of a fast way to do that. Um, that I just used my hook for it. So all I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna make a chain and then pull my loop out. So pretty much the same exact thing except I don't have to fumble with my yarn trying to get it through the hole that I make from pulling out my loop. So I just cut that really long chain that I just made and pull the extra tail out. So now I just essentially fastened off. Now it's time to weave in my ends. Okay, now I'm going to weave in my end. So I have my yarn needle, nice big eye that I can easily thread in case it's a little small. You can always put your yarn over the needle and pinch it and pull off your needle and then push your thread through that eye. Now some people will tell you, you know, it's okay to just kind of go back and forth along the line and weave straight through. I don't like going in straight lines in my project because it's way too easy for it to pull out, especially if it's something that's going to be moved around a lot, like a blanket or a sweater. So what I do is first I just do one really short one that I can bring my fasten in down. You can go either way and then I start to zigzag. So I'll go one way for a little bit I'm making sure to stay in my stitches and not go across these big open spaces because then I'll have weird lines everywhere and as I go I pull on my stitches because I want my ends, I can pull it really tight but then you see what happens, you don't want that. So pull on your stitches as you're making them and then you kind of go back and forth in a zigzagging motion and that's going to kind of lock the stitches in. And it's going to make it less likely for your stitches to pull out. So if you want to get away from your edges, you can go straight for a little bit to get more in the center of your work. If you have a front side and a wrong side, you can concentrate on working all of these stitches on the wrong side of your work. If it's a blanket, try to get them in the middle of your stitches. You'll see that you have loops, so you can get in the middle of them so they're almost invisible. Remember, pull as you go in lots of different directions, and that'll pull your yarn out and make it slack so that you don't get that bunched up look. So you can double back, and that's really going to lock it in. You can go between plies and yarns, so how your yarn is twisted, you can go between those, and that'll help lock it in also because those are even tighter than the loops that you made with your hook. So it's good to go a good four to six inches and I encourage you to do that whenever you're making something that you're going to be using a lot or sticking in the washer and dryer. So that you'll have lots of room, because pretty much you're going to have an end poke out every once in a while. After you've used it, you might get a little end that pops out. So you want lots and lots of extra yarn weaved in in here so that you can cut that end off and hide it inside of your work. So to do that, you need lots and lots of weaving in so that you have, when it pops out, you can cut it off easily. So once you get enough in there... Pull it just slightly so that when you cut it, it's going to kind of ricochet back into your project and hide itself. Then give it a little tug again, make sure it's not going to pop out on you, then look for it, see if it's popped out, if it's popped out, just cut it again. If not, you are all set, and that is going to be how you fasten off and weave in your work. Thanks for watching!