sewing in ends??

[mummyox]

Hi - I'm quite new to knitting and having probs with those pesky ends! I tend to sew in quite a lot weaving in and out of the seams which then tend to get quite fat and was wondering if there was an easier way.
Does anyone have any advice or perhaps a link to some sort of instruction such as how much (in length) needs to be sewn in??
I am always I think overly paranoid of things unravelling!
TIA

I think you might find this article helpful - you don't want to be bulking out seams too much (although I know what you mean about the unravelling paranoia!).

thank you! will try this way when I get to the end of the current jumper.

That's the method I use too. Your ends will be virtually invisible and not at all bulky :)

How do you do your seams? Some methods can be bulky, I use mattress stitch

Knitty.com is brilliant for instruction and free patterns.

Thank you - I also use mattress stitch for seems. It just seems to take so long finishing things though and a few times I've jus started on another project instead - now have 4 jumpers in the final stages but none of them finished!

mummy - it does. Finishing sucks, tis a fact of knitting. However, two marvellous things that can help:

• a Finishing Techniques workshop - I linked to this one at random from the Rowan calendar; I attended one of their workshop at my local yarn shop recently and it was amazing
• seamless knitting - all the rage these days to cut down on sewing up and in recognition of what circular needles can do, even if used to knit flat. So something like this can be done on a single circular. (NB this design might not be to your taste, it was to give you a flavour of the fact you can do an adult-sized garment!)