[iShirl]

when changing colors. I've been watching videos and it looks really easy and I do understand how to do it. Weaving in tails is mentioned a lot as a pain in the.....!

Anyway, my question is this: If anyone has experience with knitting in the tails (about 6 stitches along), then tug it a little and snip off the tails. My gut feeling is that this will not hold up with use or with washing.

This method would really speed up my afghan work but I want my afghans to take a beating in the hospital washer! I'm going to try it if/when I get some experienced advice. Thanks...

 

[Slidell411]

I weave in tails as I knit. I've done it with yarn and crochet thread when I do doilies and table cloths. Haven't had any problems.

 

[jadancey]

That's the way I was taught to do it and never noticed any coming loose.

 

[Cyber Granny]

All ways knit in tails as I go, hate sewing them in later, time wasting

 

[kareb]

Does this mean you knit in the tail along with the working yarn, having a double strand?

 

[Catarry]

If this poster is talking about crocheting in the tails, one technique is to stretch the tail along tops of the stitches in the previous row. Then when you hook through the stitches, you pull the working yarn over the tail and thereby secure it into the new stitch. You don't double it into the working yarn, so the stitches aren't bulkier.

Obviously it doesn't work with every pattern, but it's useful in many situations.

 

[Carol J.]

i sew the ends in by catching the loops on the wrong side, make a U turn and catch the loops on the row below. They never come out. Anything worthwhile takes time and I would rather not sew them away the second time or have a hole in my work.

Carol J.

 

[LindaRodriguez]

If this poster is talking about crocheting in the tails, one technique is to stretch the tail along tops of the stitches in the previous row. Then when you hook through the stitches, you pull the working yarn over the tail and thereby secure it into the new stitch. You don't double it into the working yarn, so the stitches aren't bulkier.

Obviously it doesn't work with every pattern, but it's useful in many situations.

:thumbup: :thumbup:

 

[Aunt Nay]

I just saw a video where the knitter split the yarn of the tail, and used a darning needle to work each split tail in separately.

 

[disgo]

All depends on the fibers and the yarn that was created from them. I always do my swatch with that in mind and treat it in the same condition I would the finished product when washing in a machine.

If they are fibers that need hand washing then why take the extra steps of securing fiber ends when you aren't going to put it through such rigorous actions.

Some more smoother fibers will require much different techniques than just burying the tails as you go even though they maybe machine washable.

 

[sockit2me]

Knots are Nazis! They want to take over and unravel your world...fight them at all times!!!

 

[bigKate]

If this poster is talking about crocheting in the tails, one technique is to stretch the tail along tops of the stitches in the previous row. Then when you hook through the stitches, you pull the working yarn over the tail and thereby secure it into the new stitch. You don't double it into the working yarn, so the stitches aren't bulkier.

This is the way I've been doing it for 50 years. Never had a problem (and I do wash my afghans)

 

[disgo]

Knots are Nazis! They want to take over and unravel your world...fight them at all times!!!

And totally unacceptable in couture work :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

 

[craftyone51]

Never, never, never knot and cut them out if you come across one in the skein.