Changing yarns when knitting?

How-to Questions
1

I do know how to change yarns when knitting.

However, it just seemed to me to be so … tedious! :oo:

When you’re knitting a pattern and there’s lots of colour change (ie: splotches on a giraffe, stripes in a scarf), and you’re constantly changing yarns, leaving tails… when I do it, it just doesn’t seem right!

Is there a different way that I have no clue about?
Surely if you’re using a different colour for say, two stitches, it’d be incredibly annoying to need to cut the original yarn, knit in the new yarn (for two stitches!), then cut that yarn, leaving a tail so you could weave it in later… :zombie:

I think I’m missing something! :think:

Thanks for your time! :cheering:

2

Check out intarsia knitting technique. You’ll find a video about it in the section under ‘advanced techniques’. That is what I would use if I was making spots on a giraffe (at least a biggish one) :slight_smile: if I was knitting flat. Carrying yarns for standed colorwork might be what you need in some cases too. There is a video on that too.

3

You knit 3/4 stitches with the tail end the new yarn together. What you have left over from the old yarn cut. But remeber when you come to those stitches knit them together. You should end up with 1 stitch.

I hope that sounded sense to you.

4

You would only need to cut the yarn if you have more than 2 rows between color changes in stripes, or several inches when working across a row. You carry the unused color loosely to where you’ll need it next, lightly twisting it around the other color.