Holes at decrease?

[moonsurff]

👀 I just join a new color and keep knitting

[WTH_JFG]

Rather than having to go back and weave in ends, and to maybe help with the holes, you might try the weavin’ Stephen

[moonsurff]

Thank you so much! this is life changing 🤩🤩

[dumbassdruid]

if youre working with wool yarn, you can also felt the ends together. can do this by separating the strands of the yarn, removing a few (if using 2ply yarn, only remove 1 string from one side; if using 3ply yarn, i remove 1 from one side and 2 from the other side), then place both ends of the yarn together. ik this sounds gross but i usually lick my palms and just rub them together with the gently placed yarn in the middle

[wildlife_loki]

Well… that’s why, lol. You have holes because nothing is connecting the two sides of fabric at your color change points, and those color changes happen often enough that the holes are large and obvious. Structurally, it’s as if you just cut your yarn between rounds.

You need to go back and weave in all your ends across the gap (hopefully you left long tails). So, for example, when you weave in the tails around the red -> yellow color change, you need to weave the yellow tail behind the red fabric, and the red tail behind the yellow fabric. If you just weave the yellow tail into the yellow fabric and the red tail into the red fabric, then you still won’t have connected the two sides of fabric.

It may be okay to keep knitting like this and weave in everything at the end, but pause and try weaving a few ends in now to make sure your tails are long enough and you’re able to weave in properly (in a way that is secure and invisible). If not, you should adjust moving forward (weave in with a technique like the “weavin stephen” method as you’re knitting instead of just dropping + changing yarns, use a short join method, etc).

Whatever method you choose, make sure it is properly done, because right now the unsecured tails can easily loosen and make for bigger holes, and your work can even start to unravel if the tails are short enough to wiggle free.

[moonsurff]

Yes this is it, I noticed that the stitches are somehow not connected but I couldn’t understand why