How to change colors in crochet?
Incorporating hues into your crochet endeavors can significantly enhance their visual appeal. Whether you intend to introduce subtle stripes or craft intricate patterns, mastering the art of color transition in crochet is imperative. Within these instructional guides, we shall elucidate the techniques for seamlessly changing colors in crochet, along with offering valuable insights to attain a flawless aesthetic.
If you aim to mitigate the contrast during the transition between the two distinct colors, employ a slip stitch as the initial stitch in the alternative color, as opposed to a single crochet stitch, as exemplified in the provided video.
CHANGING COLORS IN THE ROUND (STEP-BY-STEP WITH PHOTOS)
1. When approaching the stitch before the pattern instructs to change colors, crochet it conventionally until just before completing the final yarn over. In this instance, the stitch preceding the color transition is a single crochet (sc), so pause when you have two loops of color A on the hook.
2. Select color B and position it over the crochet hook, ensuring a minimum of a 6-inch yarn tail. The yarn tail should be on the side of the hook closer to you.
3. Securely grasp the yarn with your left hand to provide adequate tension, enabling you to draw color B through the loops on the crochet hook.
If this made the last loop of color A too big, pull on color A’s working yarn.
4. A singular loop of color B should remain on the crochet hook.
5. Insert the crochet hook beneath the top loops of the following stitch, incorporating both the working yarn of color A and the tail of color B.
6. Execute the stitch specified in the pattern as usual, utilizing the working yarn of color B. Whenever required to yarn over and pull the yarn through a stitch for loop formation, ensure to guide the working yarn under any unused yarn before drawing it through the stitch.
7. Each instance where you need to yarn over and pull the yarn through loops on the hook, ensure to perform this action above the unused yarn.
8. The appearance of completing the wire change
9. For the subsequent minimum of 10 stitches, continue crocheting, incorporating both the working yarn of color A and the tail of color B.
10. If you intend to use color A in the same or subsequent round, continue crocheting over it. Otherwise, trim it as closely to the piece as feasible.
11. When transitioning back to color A, crochet the stitch immediately preceding the designated color switch in the pattern, and pause just before completing the final yarn over.
12. Perform a yarn over with color A. Draw color A through the loops on the hook, leaving you with a singular loop of color B.
13. Proceed with the pattern, crocheting with color A and working over color B as indicated.
To reduce the likelihood of the unused color being visible, position the working yarn of the unused color on the interior side of the piece.
