Nyssa wrote in message ...
Aud wrote:

that the yarn must not float more than three stitches.
Then you have to "wind it around"/"cross around" the thread
you are knitting with.
This makes a even backside.
But if one color is much darker than the other, you should be aware of
the "right side".
If you wind the yarns at same place several rows after eachother,
you will get a "row" of darker/lighter vertical shade.
Therefor you should shift a bit between the different rows.
It is a bit difficult to explain in English, but I hope you
understand!
AUD ;-))

Thanks Aud. I understand you quite well. No translation problems
at all. LOL!

I'm doing the wrap thing only on the rows where the float is
more than 3 stitches. My problems are more in the line of the
way I'm wrapping the float; it keeps getting looped around the
working yarn, so I have to stick the left needle under it and
pull it around and back.

The other problem I'm having is twists in the balls of working
yarn. I have to stop halfway through the row and untangle/untwist
the trailing yarns. It would be great if I were making cording,
but it's really annoying to have to stop and untwist constantly.

Any more tips?

Nyssa, untwisting and wrapping

Nysa, I knit the continental way,
with the yarn over left hands fingers:
OVER forefinger, UNDER next, OVER ringfinger and UNDER the little
finger.

If I have TWO colores, the second yarn starts OVER THE TWO first
fingers,
and is woven under and over the "rest" of the fingers.

This way
*the yarns (after a little practice :-)keeps their individual tension.
* The yarns lies parallell ower the fingers all the time, and If you
have to wrap/ weave /cross it often, you can vary if you cross "over"
or under".That makes less fuss,(but NEVER prevent it!LOL!)

If I work with THREE colores,
prefer to find a way similar to this,
but many prefer to have the third one in right hand side,
and knit that color the american way!

I do THAT if I have a FOURTH color!!!

If you knit like I have told you,
you have to put attention to the yarn tension,
but that comes with practice.

Earlier we always made our yarn balls ourselves, and they were balls,
rolling along, accross and made a lot of trouble,
a lot more than with ready made balls :-)
We had many different "more or less good" solutins:
Put the different yarns in its own "bowl", and it will be where you
place it.
OR put them in one "plastc bag(?)" and you tie it almost together so
the ball will not fall out, but the yarn comes easily out.
After a round or so, you "UN-BREAD" it.
I just place them in different direction,
and enough separated from eachother, so they do NOT roll around
eachother.
I do NOT think there are any good solutions that prevent all fuss.Then
have to adopt solutions from weaving/knitting factories.
Just now I am WEAVING "hundreds" of loose ends
(small stripe pattern with many colores),
because I did not take the job to do it as I worked!
This is the charme of hand knitting, I think.
AND a lesson ; "How can I do this better nect time."

Good luck!
AUD ;-))