Weaving in ends is a chance to improve the whole knitting project

Every knitting project, no matter how small, will have at least 2 yarn ends that need to be dealt with upon finishing. Don't just cut them off! This could cause your whole project to unravel. In this post, I will show you some ways you can use these ends to tidy up a sweater and really make it look professional.

Tools needed:

• Tapestry needle

• Pair of scissors

• A commitment to finishing strong!

  
  

I'll admit this one took me a while and I got a little tired of it before I was done. A lunch break in the middle was helpful.

https://youtu.be/KXnrJeTN38Y

Utilize your seams

The garment I'm demonstrating on is the Duotone V Tee, designed by my friend Rachel Costello. This was a fun knit, but left me with a lot of ends since it has the decorative edgings, and I opted to do intarsia i-cords on the center front and back, rather than holding 2 strands together the whole time.

All these seams and edgings served as the perfect place to hide these ends, though! When you weave ends into hidden selvedges, you don't have to worry about making the fabric look weird from the outside. You just have to get it secure so that there's no risk of unraveling when you trim it.

Use the ends to fill in gaps

On my center-front intarsia i-cord, I didn't love how it looked where the neck edging met up with it, so I used the end of the green yarn from that i-cord to do a little duplicate stitch to make it look how I wanted.

Now I like it much better.

Use the ends to fix holes

Sometimes where multiple pieces join together, you can end up with little holes. These can be caused by a loose edge stitch or just an awkward join. It's also common on the underarm area on raglan sweaters where sleeve stitches are picked up.

If you're lucky enough to have a dangling yarn end near such a hole, it's an easy fix! You can simply draw the yarn through the path of the offending stretched-out stitch and pull until the hole closes. Then proceed with weaving in and trimming as usual.

See this hole where 2 pieces were joined and then stitches were picked up on the edge?

Stitching around the hole to fix it

Voila! No more hole.

In conclusion, get creative! I hope this inspires you to finish a project that you've been avoiding. And if you have yarn ends in the middle of fabric from when you started a new skein, I trust you'll be able to handle that too.