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d finishing work on a sweater that involved reworking shoulder seams and setting in sleeves. That was all fine, but there were a few danger points around the garment that made me worry, and I think it's important to mention them for when you're working on your own garments. The danger points involved knots. My rule of thumb has always been this: never, never tie knots in your work (and that goes for crochet just as much as it does for knitting). When you make a yarn join from a spent skein to a new skein, carry both yarns and work them together in 2-3 stitches. Let the yarn tails hang on the wrong side and go back afterwards and hide the tails, weaving them in along the path the stitches take in the fabric. DO NOT tie yarn ends together in a knot. Why? Knots will come untied (regardless how skilled you might think you are in tying them), then the tails will start moving and your fabric will unravel. In the process of today's seaming work, several of these knots in the garment worked themselves undone, and of course the ends of the knots had been trimmed short, necessitating some quick reinformement to secure these precarious areas. Can you imagine what knots can do in the regular course of wearing? Avoid knots. Weave in ends -- not only for a more professional look, but also for security.
d finishing work on a sweater that involved reworking shoulder seams and setting in sleeves. That was all fine, but there were a few danger points around the garment that made me worry, and I think it's important to mention them for when you're working on your own garments. The danger points involved knots. My rule of thumb has always been this: never, never tie knots in your work (and that goes for crochet just as much as it does for knitting). When you make a yarn join from a spent skein to a new skein, carry both yarns and work them together in 2-3 stitches. Let the yarn tails hang on the wrong side and go back afterwards and hide the tails, weaving them in along the path the stitches take in the fabric. DO NOT tie yarn ends together in a knot. Why? Knots will come untied (regardless how skilled you might think you are in tying them), then the tails will start moving and your fabric will unravel. In the process of today's seaming work, several of these knots in the garment worked themselves undone, and of course the ends of the knots had been trimmed short, necessitating some quick reinformement to secure these precarious areas. Can you imagine what knots can do in the regular course of wearing? Avoid knots. Weave in ends -- not only for a more professional look, but also for security.
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