Weaving in your Ends

When it comes to new techniques, or even techniques that I don’t feel I have quite mastered, I often ask myself “Am I doing this right”.

Take for instance, weaving in your ends, a lot of knitters I know dread this task, and I am no different. I am not sure why this task is so difficult to embark upon, especially since it is a sign that you are close to a finished object. I would think having an FO so close it would be very motivational to take the plunge to finish it off. But nonetheless, lots knitters find it hard to bring themselves to complete this task.

I have often heard of UFOs sitting idle for days, weeks, and even sometimes months before this final step has been completed. And I admit I too have prolonged the life of UFOs for the simple fact that I couldn’t bring myself to weave in the ends.

So why is it we dread it so much? For me, it is the fact that I don’t always like how it looks once the ends have been weaved through the fabric. I guess I always think if I let the project sit long enough miraculously a new method for weaving in ends will be invented that will make the thread completely disappear amongst the other stitches. So far that hasn’t happened.

Here are just a few articles on the subject that I found interesting and made me less confused about the whole thing

anniemodesitt              Knitty.com                 Knit Picks

In other new, I have continued work on the Fetching, but haven’t gotten too far. Yesterday, I spent a fair amount of time reading the Ravelry Groups. So many things to do so little time.

Is there a wrong way

When it comes to knitting, everyone has their own unique way to do things. The question still remains is there really a wrong way to knit? In my opinion, the bottom line is that as long as the knitter likes what they are producing then that is all that matters.

I have often times heard knitters tell other knitters they are doing something wrong, I sometimes catch myself doing the same thing. Then I think, it isn’t necessarily wrong it is just different. Sure many knitters do things differently but if they are creating something they like does it really matter how they come about it. It is only wrong if the knitter doesn’t like the outcome.

Just watching other knitters in our knitting circle I can see that just about everyone has their own style of knitting. Some knit English style or throw their yarn, others knit Continental or pick the yarn, some are left handed some knit right handed. Even among the different groups, whether English or Continental there are still differences among the different knitters. How they hold or wrap their yarn, whether they knit in the front or back loop, how close the stitches are to the tip of the needle and how much tension is placed on each stitch.

Even though every knitter has their own way of knitting, in most cases two knitters can certainly get the same result. So how can we even say that one method of knitting is more right over another.

I guess we can’t.

So call me finicky!

So I have totally abandoned the two socks on two circular needles. Not because it is hard or because I don’t like it, but because I like the magic loop method SO MUCH BETTER. After learning this method last week I transferred the current socks I am working on to separate circular needles and took up doing them using the magic loop. If you haven’t tried this technique I highly encourage you to give it a go. You can watch a short video on how this works at knittinghelp.com. I know once you try it you will love it. I still think there will be a time when I want to use DPN’s or the two circulars method, but right now I am all about Magic Loop.