Everyone has a dirty little secret...

I have a dirty little secret.

While I have been knitting since I was a kid, but lets be real for a second. I have been knitting past garter stitch scarves for the past 5 years, I have never really questioned how I join my ends. I mean when you are continuously knitting with the same yarn, not a color change, but just one continuous color, I have never learned past looping over my old and new yarn and just weaving in the ends later.

The thought came to me while I was knitting my Seafoam Shawl that I never learned another way. All my past projects I have just waited until I got to a edge and changed skeins there or in the case of my first sweater that I am still working on, I was just planning to work the ends in later. Similar to this tutorial.

But it made me think the other day, in the case of the Big Boxy Sweater I am making that it might warp the fabric or be really obvious.  So I just searched for a way to join in ends.

For the rest of my sweater I am going to try the Russian Join. This tutorial was really helpful because I think that will be helpful with the fabric of the sweater. For my Seafoam Shawl I used a spit splice and despite it being a light fingering weight it had blended in pretty well.

Overall when I was searching for different techniques I came across this tutorial which is amazing. It has difference advice from yarn weights to fiber types and what might work best.

So its good to know that I am not wrong, but I always like to have a couple different ways to do anything.