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How to Make Clean Color Changes in Knitting

September 6, by Sarah White. 1 Comment

how to eliminate purl dashes when knitting stripesKnitting stripes is an easy way to change the look of a knitting project, but sometimes when you change colors it can make your knitting look weird.

That’s because when you purl on a right-side row where you’re changing colors, the loop of the previous color becomes part of the new stitch, so it makes a kind of dashed line in your knitting.

This isn’t wrong, exactly, but it does look messy.

Studio Knit has a video and written tutorials about how to eliminate the purl dash in your knitting projects, and it’s actually really easy.

I don’t always do it, though; sometimes I like that dashy look.

What do you think? Do you fix the purl lines (or will you now?) or let them go?

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  1. dianelaces says

    September 7, 2018 at 8:49 am

    I always fix the dash lines!

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