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For years I was taught to tie my yarn together in a knot when I had to join one skein to another while I was knitting. I looked in an old knitting magazine, and there, plain as day, is that pesky knot in a photograph! Of course, now we know that tying that knot can make a bulky bump in your knitting, even if you do weave the ends in, so tying a knot is a big no-no in most knitting projects!

Instead, you want to secure the new yarn by knitting several stitches with it, pulling it tight, and then weaving in both the cut ends after you’ve finished your project. Just make sure to leave enough yarn (both the old and the new strands) so that you have enough to thread into a large-eyed tapestry needle and then gently thread through your work on the wrong side. Be sure to weave your ends in at least a couple of inches, and then snip the end of the yarn off close to the work. Gently stretch the work to make sure the ends don’t come out, and you’re done weaving in those pesky ends!

If you’re weaving in the ends on a lace project, you need to be careful that the ends don’t show on the right side of the work, so try to weave them inside the stitches, and don’t weave them through the openwork holes in the project.

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