Carry Yarn up the Sides

Sometimes you may be knitting in stripes of repeat colours, and if you were to break the yarn each time and join the next, you would have two ends to sew in for each colour change.

If you 'carry' the yarn up the sides of the work, you can carry the yarn for up to 6 or 8 rows as long as you leave the yarn slack enough. Then when you change colour there are no ends of yarn to sew in - Happy days.

If I carry the yarn, I tend to say 'change to' in the pattern. If you need to cut the yarn and add something new because you can't carry the yarn I tend to say 'break and join'.


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