How to Make Clean Color Changes in Knitting

Knitting 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?