Colour Change Tutorials (right-handed)
Colour change after a single crochet stitch
Note: In the photographs, A = white, B = grey)
Crochet with colour A until you come to the last stitch in colour A:
To make the last stitch of A, insert hook into next stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop:
Holding the end of yarn B behind your work, yarn over with B, and draw through both loops on hook:
Make the next stitch as normal, using yarn B.
Colour change after a single crochet decrease
Insert hook into stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop. Insert hook into next stitch, yarn over and draw up a loop:
Yarn over with the new colour, and draw through all three loops on hook:
Make the next stitch as normal, using the new colour.
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Brittany Said,
December 12, 2008 @ 12:33 pm
wow! now it all makes sense! thanks so much!!
Katja Majori Said,
June 26, 2009 @ 4:59 pm
OMG thanks I never knew how to do a clean color change. I kinda just improvised and it looked decent but damn… this it a lot better then my way! thanks much!
Bookworm Said,
August 5, 2009 @ 6:02 am
This is helpful. I wanted to make something for a friend who’s beagle just died but wasn’t sure how to do this. Using your instructions, so far so good. I will say though, maybe the pictures would be slightly easier to follow if the color difference between the two yarns was more distinct, maybe a white and a blue? It was a little hard for me, sometimes the gray looked like the white and then things didn’t completely make sense to me.
Lisa Said,
January 13, 2010 @ 4:35 am
I have been using this method to change colours in for example, this pattern: http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/80975AD.html
However, I find if I do use this method when working in a round, colour A interrupts colour B when I do change to it, and the whole colour A and B change is kind of abrupt. To remedy this, would I have to join, then chain one to start another round of the colour?
June Said,
January 17, 2010 @ 2:04 pm
Lisa: yes, that’s right. The only way to make stripes without a ‘jog’ at the end of the rounds where you change colour is to join at the end of each round and then ch 1, instead of crocheting in a continuous spiral.