Sewing in the Ends

When making any crocheting project there is usually always a "tail" to be sewn into the project. This happens often with graphgans because of the colour change. They are really easy to sew in and once you cut away the extra bits of yarn you can not even notice where you sewed in the tails. Sewing in tails helps make the project more professional looking than just tying a knot and it secures the end. This makes sure your project will not unravel.

This is a picture of a graphgan I made. As you can see with each colour change, I left a long tail to sew in.

Sewing in the tails is an easy process, you have to threat a needle with the ends. (Most people like a tapestry needle for this but anyone you're comfortable with will do.) Next to want to sew them through two or three stitches in your project.

You want to make sure you go side to side a total of three times. This "locks" it in place, because your work can not go in both directions at the same time. 

You may notice holes in your work where the colour change happened, sometimes this happens because the yarn isn't the same, sometimes this happens because the tails weren't pulled tight. If you find the holes are two big you can always sew the parts together while hiding the tails. This will cause the project to become tighter. 

Once all the ends are sewn in, you can cut away any excess, you should have a clean and crisp looking final project. It is important to make sure you are sewing the ends into the making colour. (In the example above, the yellow got sewn into the yellow stitches and the blue into the blue stitches.) 

This video is a good visual aid to help out with sewing in the ends.