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[TIP] Knit those End Needles

January 2020

 
 
End Needle Selection on Brother Machines
When knitting in Fairisle, have you ever found long floats across the work from edge to edge? The culprit is the end needle selection. Learn what this is and what you can do to prevent the floats.

The concept of canceling end needle selection applies to other stitch pattern techniques as well.  For example, for nice even edges, you don't want to tuck the end needles.  

This week's tip focuses on Brother machines, but applies to all machines.
  If you missed it ...
We discuss end-needle selection in the Susanna's Tuck Blanket Video at the 4:22 mark.

Manual or automatic patterning, remember that for neat edges, we don't want to tuck on the end needles.