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Weaving Ends as You Go

In this video I demonstrate a technique for weaving in ends as you knit along, especially effective when working stripes. This method leaves the front of the work unchanged, no double- or triple-thick stitches.

The yarn I use for demonstration is Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Bulky.

The needles I’m using are Knitter’s Pride Bamboo Double Pointed Needles. (No real need to use DPNs for this technique, I’m just using them here because they’re short and they work well on camera.)

My nail polish is by Julep, color “Channon”.

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11 comments on “Weaving Ends as You Go”

  1. What is that beautiful yarn in the picture??? What are you making? Looks like a tube of some sort.

  3. Thanks for the idea. It looks great in the garter stitch you did. Do you find it works as well in a smooth stockinette? I once tried to carry yarns in back much like in fair isle, but it showed in stockinette. Maybe it just depends on the yarn?

  5. Good Morning from BC

    Oh my word love your new technique in the ends as you go especially when knitting stripes.

    My only regret is that I didn’ see this fabulous technique sooner. Ah well now I must stop knitting and
    try to weave in the ends. It won’t be as nice as yours,
    but will use my darning needle or crochet hook to clean
    up what I have previously done.

    As always thank you for the great tips.
    Enjoy the day and Happy Knitting

  6. Good Morning from BC

    Oh my word, love your new technique of weaving in the ends as you go especially when knitting stripes.

    My only regret is, that I didn’ see this fabulous technique sooner. Ah well, now I must stop knitting and
    try to weave in the ends. It won’t be as nice as yours,
    but will use my darning needle or crochet hook to clean
    up what I have previously done.

    As always thank you for the great tips.
    Enjoy the day and Happy Knitting

    • I have a question about this technique: why is the wraped tail ends followed by a stitch that does not include them? Maybe it is in the video, but I must have missed it.
      I will be using this method for certain, as I can not figure out how to get the end to weave in neatly!!

  7. Monica – the second knit stitch (with no wrapping) secures the ends the other direction. I encourage you to give it a try, you’ll see what I mean.
    S t a c i

  8. Another timely tutorial! This looks like a great idea for weaving in the ends. Almost makes me want to take on a striped project!

    Does it work the same for purl stitches too?

  10. Thank you for this. I just used it on the EZ BSJ, of all ironies. I didn’t plan stripes well and wanted the two 5-stitch bind-offs for the neck to both have the same color on the exposed stitches. The only way was to bind off one, then use this to carry the contrasting color in from the edge on the second.
    Worked perfectly! All other alternatives one side with one color, the other the contrasting color, or worse, just one row of the contrasting color.

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