See what you can learn on the go with the new Howcast App for iPhone and iPad: http://bit.ly/11ZmFOu Watch more Circular Knitting Tutorials videos: http://www.howcast.com/guides/1169-Circular-Knitting-Tutorials Subscribe to Howcast's YouTube Channel - http://bit.ly/uLaHRS Learn how to join yarn while knitting in the round from circular knitting expert Jessica Kaufman in this Howcast video. Howcast uploads the highest quality how-to videos daily! Be sure to check out our playlists for guides that interest you: http://bit.ly/ytmainplaylists Subscribe to Howcast's other YouTube Channels: Howcast Dance & Entertainment Channel - http://bit.ly/vmB86i Howcast Family Channel - http://bit.ly/16dz9oH Howcast Food & Drink Channel - http://bit.ly/umBoJX Howcast Personal Care & Style Channel - http://bit.ly/vbbNt3 Howcast Sports & Fitness Channel - http://bit.ly/vKjUjm Howcast Tech Channel - http://bit.ly/rx9FwR Howcast Video Games Channel - http://bit.ly/tYKKrk Howcast empowers people with engaging, useful how-to information wherever, whenever they need to know how. Emphasizing high-quality instructional videos, Howcast brings you experts who provide accurate information in easy-to-follow tutorials on everything from makeup, hairstyling, nail art design, and soccer to parkour, skateboarding, dancing, kissing, and much, much more. So I'm going to show you how to join a new ball of yarn while you're knitting in the round. There's a couple different methods for doing this. Everyone's got their own ways that they prefer, but I'll show you the way that I always use that yields me great results. So I'm going to show you on this double-pointed needle example where I'm knitting around and around in knit two pearl two ribbing. I have just finished a needle, so I have an empty needle and I'm ready to turn my work one needle turn and work across the next needle. Now I've noticed that this yarn, the end of my ball is coming up. It's gotten really short. I can keep knitting for a while because I want to leave a tail, just long enough for me to weave in with a tapestry needle. But it's better to air on the side of a little too long of a tail because you can always trim it, then to knit down until you've got just a little bit, which is going to be really difficult to weave in later. If that ever accidentally happens to you, it's okay. You can use a crochet hook to kind of help you weave in those ends, but I like to leave a tail that's at least, you know, four inches long, maybe about six, which will be a lot easier to use a tapestry needle. So, I'm going to pick up my empty needle, and what I like to do is I don't like to have old balls end or new balls join in between the needles. It just gives you sort of added instability that you don't need when you're already dealing with potential ladders or stitches falling off. You don't want to get any accidental yarn-overs when you're switching between knits and pearls. So I'm going to knit until I'm in the middle of this row, and then join my new ball of yarn. So here we go. I've got knit two pearl to knit two, and I think I'll end one ball there and join the new ball there. So, I'm going to be ignoring the two back needles, they're just there as placeholders, or stitch holders as it were. I'm going to knit two, move the yarn, pearl two on this little cuff, move the yarn. I'm going to knit one, and even though I could keep going for a few more stitches, I'm going to stop here, again I can always trim it up if it's in my way or when I'm ready to weave it in, and so, what I do, this is probably the simplest method of changing, joining a new ball of yarn, I just stop knitting with this one, I pick up the end of the new ball of yarn, and I start knitting with this one. There's a little more to it than that, so I'll show you some of the, the close-ups. In order to join the new ball of yarn, it's important that I insert my right stitch, my right needle tip into the stitch to hold it there, and then I'm going to drape the new yarn around the needle, almost as if I was wrapping the new stitch. So this is what's going to anchor it. You'll notice the little tail is hanging down behind my fingers, in the back of my work. I'm pinching it there to hold it tight. If I don't, there's no way I can wrap it around because nothing's anchoring it. So I'm going to anchor that new yarn, drape it over the needle just like I would if I were continuing to knit with my old yarn, pull up a new loop from the new yarn, pop the old stitch off. So now, I've got my first knit stitch here, where I ended the old ball, and my second knit stitch here where I added the new ball, and in the back of my work, I've got two tails hanging down. So let's see what happens when we get back around to them. I'm going to go

• published: 01 Nov 2013
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