Knitting a Sweater: Changing Needles

Video Transcript

"When you've finished your five rows of ribbing, the pattern is going to call for you to switch from smaller needles to larger needles. I'm using an interchangeable needle set so I can just take my needles off and put on the new needles. If you have two different needles you would merely begin with the larger needle and knit onto that needle. So now as this is a striped pattern, I've cut my yarn for the ribbing and I'm going to begin knitting with the contrast yarn which is white. I'm going to leave a little bit of a tail. I'm just going to knit that stitch through and you see how loose it is. The second stitch what I'd like to do is pull all those stitches tight and I take the ribbing yarn and I wrap it inside the new yarn so it kind of weaves it in as you go and, one time only, I knit with the tail and the working yarn of the new color. That kind of locks it in place until I'm ready to weave it at the end. So, for stockinette, now I'm going to knit all the stitches where before I had been doing a ribbing. Now, I'm going to be knitting all the stitches as I go across. This pattern calls for knitting two rows in white or rather two rows in one contrast color and two rows in another contrast color. So, we'll finish. This is our knit row. Then, we'll turn it around and do a purl row before we're ready to change the next color. You would turn it around begin the purl row and work across that way, purling all the stitches."