Knitting a Sweater: Stitching Loose Ends

Video Transcript

"At some point while you're working on your garment you're going to have to weave in all your loose ends. Some people like to do them as they go along because then they don't have as much finishing later on. We're going to do it in between. So you're going to take each tail, thread it through a tapestry needle, and run it through on the wrong side of your garment. And if I run it through just part of the stitches here, it won't show. I like to go about an inch and a half in one direction, see that won't show on the other side, and then I'm going to thread my needle back, and pull it a little bit so it doesn't tighten it, and then I'm going to go back the way I came. And when I'm done with that I can snip that edge, give a little pull, and that's gone now. We can move up to where we were along the neck line, where we had these loose stitches, give them a little bit of a tug to make sure that I close any loose holes, thread my tapestry needle, and now I've got it easy. I can just go in to the back of the stitch here because that for sure won't show, and I'll run that through the back of the seam. And again, I like to go one and a half, two inches down, and then I feel like it locks it in if I go back the way I came. I don't like to make knots, knots to me are a false sense of security, they can come out, and they're also bumpy. Another way you can weave in ends is to go in to the pearl bumps on the back of your garment. So here, if I go in to these pearl bumps, that won't show either. And I'll just go back that inch and a half or so, then I'll go back the way I came, in this direction. Give a little pull so it doesn't get, pucker the fabric. And now that's how you'd weave in your ends, and you'll just have to go through the whole garment doing that."