Weaving in ends on wool/merino so they don’t unravel after washing?

Hi,
do you have any tips for me on how to “weave in ends properly” in wool? (This has never happened to me with my cotton/acrylic gradient yarns, not even after machine washing.)
Two of my knitted pieces have already “come undone” while washing 😩.
Is there a trick to this?

I’ve read something about glue or fray-stop—has anyone tried this yet?
Or does that leave “stiff, glued spots” after drying? 🤔

Hi Susanne,

luckily I’ve never had any serious problems with that.
When I work with “slippery” yarns like microfiber or merino, I sew with a fairly long thread across many stitches, going back and forth and crisscrossing (all “invisible,” of course). I also make sure to pierce through the sewing thread every now and then.

Best regards—Nina 

Luckily, that hasn’t happened to me yet either, but I always sew with a pretty long thread, going back and forth, and I make sure to reinsert the needle into that same thread—that holds like a champ.

Hi,
I’ll have to try that “piercing the yarn” method—maybe my yarn ends really are too short; I just hate weaving in the ends. That’s why I usually work with BW/PA gradient bobbles (one starting thread, one ending thread—all set 😁), but I got a taste for merino during last year’s swap package, and unfortunately that means I have to weave in ends more often 😩

Does anyone know about this fringe glue???

No, I haven’t heard of that.

I wouldn’t use the glue with merino. Simply because you can feel it—it just “changes” the yarn.
Personally, I weave in the ends as I knit. Kind of like when I knit Fair Isle—I bring the beginning of the new skein onto the needle a few stitches beforehand, and then I switch the yarns. I knit with the new one and weave in the old one....
  So far, I’ve never had anything come undone.
Or you can use the Frankfurt knot without cutting the yarn ends short, and then weave in the ends as well. It’s a very secure method. I like to do this for kids’ sweaters.... 

Thanks Steffi,
I quite like using that knot for crocheting or with cotton (I just cut it off close!), but it didn’t work with merino or knitting. But with additional weaving in, it should work.
Man, sometimes you really can’t see what’s right in front of you, or you’ve got a knot in your brain 🙄
With doubled yarn, I’m always afraid it will show and then all the work will have been for nothing (although, better than a hole 🤔)
I’ll try it that way, thank you so much 😘