Knitting Patterns: Weave in the Ends

Video Transcript

"So when you're ready to weave in your ends, you can use either a tapestry needle, or a crochet hook, or both. And what you're going to do, is on these longer strands, you're going to thread your needle, (I did a lot better this time) and you're going to go into the back of the stitches; okay, this is our right side, or public side, this is our wrong side, or private side. And you're going to go into these pearl bumps in the back of the stitch, and you're not going through to the other side, see I'm not affecting the other side at all, I'm just going into the tops of the stitches that rest on the back. And you're going to go- personally I like to go maybe an inch, to an inch in a half in one direction, and then you want to just give it a little pull to make sure that you're not affecting the tension of your garment. And then I like to go back the other way, because I feel as if that that secures the stitch, alright. And then give it another pull to make sure it's even. And then you're going to snip that stitch, that thread, and that end is woven. Sometimes you'll have a piece of yarn that's too thin to use your tapestry needle, so you can use a crochet hook as a tool, it's not crocheting. So what you would do is, insert your hook under the back of the stitch where you want to go, lets see, that one's loose, I'm going to go in here, and you'd wrap the yarn over the hook, and you'd bring it through, and that's going to act as weaving it. And so here I am, still going into the pearl bumps in the back, or trying to, and then pull it through. So the same thing as before, you'd go about an inch or so out, and pull it through. And then you can go back the other way, and snip that end. And those are two ways that you can weave your garment together, weaving your wrong ends."