Adding a New Color to Your Project
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When working on a crochet project, the time often comes to change your ball of yarn. Whether you are working in one color and simply need more yarn, or you’re adding in a new, fun color, the process of adding the new ball of yarn is the same. In this video, avid crocheter Mister Domestic demonstrates how to change to a new color in your crochet project.
For the demonstration, Mister Domestic is using a super bulky yarn and is working in single crochet stitches. The process of changing to a new ball of yarn is the same for any weight of yarn and just about any stitch pattern. He changes to a new ball of yarn at the end of the row. This way, the ends will be woven in near the edge of the fabric, making for a clean and tidy piece of fabric.
Mister Domestic works the single crochet stitches up to the final stitch in the row with the old ball of yarn. He begins to work the last single crochet stitch, stopping before the final yarn over, pull through two loops step of the single crochet. He drops the old color and picks up the new color. Leaving a six-inch tail to weave in later, he uses the new color to complete the final yarn over and pulls through two loops.
Once the stitch is complete, he ties a loose knot using the tail of the old yarn and the tail of the new yarn. This is just to help keep everything secure while he continues to work the project; this knot will be undone at the end of the project and the ends will be woven into the fabric in the usual manner. He starts working the next row of single crochet, noting that a clean, crisp transition has been made between the colors.
Hey, everyone, Matthew of Mister Domestic. In this lesson, I'm going to show you all how to change colors mid-project. More often than not, you're going to use solid colors, which if you go up a row, you might want to turn it into a different color that adds some stripes, some variation, and allows you to control what colors go into a project. So I've created a sample where I'm gonna show you how I move up. So from here, I'm going to finish this row. I've already chained one, continue this as normal. I'm using a super bulky yarn, so hopefully you can see it clearly. So one, right here, one stitch, and now we're going to do the final one. So right here, this is where I am going to stop. I'm going to trim the excess. I'm not going to pull it through, but I am going to be ready to add that next color. Let me get this purple, because light blue and purple look really cute together. And so what I do is I will take this with about a six inch tail and pull this through, like so, just to get the next row started, and then I'll flip it over to the back and loosely tie this. I'm not gonna tie a double knot, because whenever I go to weave in the ends, I will untie it. This is just going to keep the yarn taut so I can move up to the next level. So from here, I'm going to chain one, and then now I've turned it over, and now I'm going to continue with this one. And this ensures that the entire row is that one color. Otherwise it would be disjointed on the ends, and we don't want that, we want a crisp, crisp, clean transition. We are good to go. We are going to enjoy this row, and now you are ready to move on to other colors if you choose to do so. So now here are the rows, and as we add more color to it, it's just gonna be crisp, add like a little zipper situation right there, that's super cute, and you can add as many colors as the ends that you want to weave in to make your crochet project your own. So hopefully this helped you understand how I change colors without a knot, you can weave in the ends, and no one is going to know that you didn't do some magic to add the next color in your blanket or project. So I can't wait to see you until the next lesson. I hope you enjoyed this. Keep it positive, everyone. Mister Domestic out.
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