? about knitting--"carrying the yarns up the work"

How-to Questions
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Hi, I’m new, and I’m sure it shows, heh heh. :oops:

I want to make this blanket: http://honeypotyarns.com/page5.html --the Easy Throw.

And I don’t understand this part:
[b]Note: This knit by carrying the yarns up the work, without cutting and tying each change of yarns.

Directions: With B, Cast on 55 stitches and knit 1 row. Switch to A and work 4 rows in stockinet stitch…[/b]

So my question is, uh… How do I do this? I promise I’m not completely lame, I have made pants and a sweater… :eyebrow: I can’t find directions anywhere to help me out with this.

Can someone here help? TIA!

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Welcome!

When you get to the end of the row with the color that’s in use, bring it under the strand of the other color that’s hanging. It will kind of hold it close to the side of the work as you go along, without leaving a big loop.

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The stripes are narrow so it makes more sense to leave the yarn attached rather than cutting at every colour change. It would make for a lot of loose ends to be woven in later. So when it says to ‘carry yarn up’, when you come to the colour change you will just bring the colour that’s been hanging there up under the old colour and start knitting with the second colour. It will gently twist the two colours together and they’ll be carried up the edge every time you switch.

4

Thanks. =)

So when I do my original cast on, do I just hold both kinds of yarn together to start?

I’m so confused. Ergh.

5

Oh, and is there a term for this that I could google? thanks again!

6

No, right at the start it says to cast on with colour B only, then work one row before switching to colour A.

7

:oops:
I told you I was new…

Okay, so I knit one row with the first yarn, then when I turn to go back, I just pick up my new yarn–like do I just tie it to the first yarn?

You guys are so kind to help a newbie… :heart:

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The first time you add the second colour, tie it onto the first colour with a sort of slip knot so that you can undo it later and weave the ends in properly. Other than that, unless you have to start a new ball of yarn, you’ll just be carrying the colours up the sides.