Q&A for How to Change Yarn

The same way you would with flat knitting. It's best to change between two needles, or best of all, at the end of a round. Make sure the end is on the outside, so you can easily find it later when you have to sew it in.

Sewing the edges together with a ladder stitch is one method. Use a crochet hook to make a chain stitch pattern through both pieces and make it part of the design. Overlap the edges and crochet the edges together. You can make it close together of loose and lacy. Knit a joining strip by picking up and knitting through a stitch from each piece.

There are several different methods for casting on. The easiest is probably the backwards loop cast on, but the cable cast on is also a commonly used option. For more information, I suggest reading through wikiHow's article about casting on.

For rows 11, 12, 13 and 14, you look at the pattern in row 9 and 10 and repeat those two rows twice. In the end, your rows 9,11 and 13 are the same, as are rows 10, 12 and 14.

There should not be a "large end stitch" at the end of the row. Try a different method next time that won't leave you with one.

Try going to ravelry.com. They have a wide variety of knitting patterns and many of them are free! You can probably find different choices for knitting a cat there or on other knitting websites.

When you start with the new color, you should leave a longer end of both the old and new colors. Theoretically, the best way to get rid of these ends (once your work is finished) is to sew them into the finished work using a tapestry or sewing needle. Some people like to tie the ends together before they do this, but the knot may be visible from the side. If you don't care about being able to see the knot, you can definitely do this, but I still strongly recommend that you sew in the loose ends to prevent your work from unraveling.

You can do a stranded knit. That is, carry the white along the back of the red when working the cable, and the red behind the white. This will leave a distinct back to your project and not reversible at all. See How to Hold Yarn when Stranded Knitting for an idea on how this is done. You can also do intarsia where you keep the different colors on bobbins as you work the pattern. See How to Knit Intarsia for some ideas on this.