Circular Grafting Video

Knitting cowls in the round is a great way to exhibit colourwork patterns and textures. Circular knitting means there is no wrong side and you can get double the cushy fabric to keep you cozy. Sometimes I like seaming the ends of the tube together, but grafting can be better when you want a completely invisible join. My Under the Canopy Cowl uses this technique and it’s the project I’m using to show it in this video.

This tutorial shows how to close a knitted tube like a cowl with circular grafting.

Before beginning, weave in all your ends but your working yarn. Do this using duplicate stitch on the wrong side of the fabric. (Here’s a video showing how to do that.) Then remove the waste yarn from your provisional cast-on (here’s a tutorial for that) and place those stitches on a circular needle so that you have live stitches at both ends of your tube.

Then follow the tutorial above to join the ends of the tube.