Knitting a Sweater: Changing Yarn Colors

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Part of the video series: How to Knit a Sweater

Summary: When knitting a sweater, use a transitional stitch pattern when changing colors. Change the yarn for a sweater with the tips in this free video on knitting basics for beginners from an experienced knitter.

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By Pam Grushkin
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Pam Grushkin learned to knit at a young age from her mother. First as a passion and lifeline, knitting is now her chosen career. Grushkin has been teaching knitting to people of all...read more

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"I'm now at the end of my first row and I'm reaching that stitch where I knit the tail and the working yarn together. I'm going to knit that as one stitch. I'm just going to go in and I'm going to purl those together as one. When I finish my row, I've got two rows of white and now I'm going to switch my contrast color, which again I'm going to start by just putting that new yarn over the needle with about a six inch tail, and brining it through. All right, there's that loose bit again. I'm going to pull it tight and I'm going to pull that white yarn tight. This is where you begin to carry the colors up. I need to bring that white yarn with me so that I don't leave any holes or gaps. So, it's inside the working yarn. I'm going to begin with my green stripe now. I'm going to work across in the green and because it's the knit row, it won't show any contrast but you can see on the purl row you get, kind of like, you see all the little bumps where the red changed to the white and the white changes to the green. I'll just knit across now in my new color."