Crocheting Over Ends

I think the more you learn about crochet the more fun and the easier it gets. And I'm all about ways to make my crocheting easier. Hi, I'm Corrina Ferguson, and in this video, I'm gonna teach you how to crochet over ends. So I want to teach you an easy way to hide your ends when you're changing colors in your crochet work. And what I have here is I have a bunch of double crochet, just a few rows of each, and I went from my turquoise color, my teal color, to my purple. And what I've done is I've crocheted over those ends to hide them. And obviously, you know, the stitches that were changing includes some of both colors, but the ends hide very nicely in there and I'm gonna show you how to do that. So I'm switching back to the turquoise teal color. So what I'm gonna do is I'm just going to insert my hook into the last stitch that I had in my purple color, and then I'm going to loop my teal and pull through one loop. And I count that as my first chain, I always chain three when I'm doing double crochet, some people will do different, but one and then two and then three to turn that row. And then I like to cinch up the purple and the turquoise from where I first started. So we're ready to crochet over the ends. And what I do is I take the ends, I'm gonna hide both of them in here, and I'm gonna double crochet right over both of them. So I'm going to yarn over in my turquoise and then I'm gonna take my yarns that I'm hiding and I'm gonna lay them across the top of the row of stitches that I'm working into. I'm gonna go into the first stitch that I'm working, and you'll see my turquoise working yarn is kind of hanging out over top of those that I'm trying to hide, and then I'm gonna loop and pull that through. And then I've got my three strands from my double crochet. So I do my pull through once, I do my pull through twice, and it's kind of tucked those two yarns into that stitch, and it gets easier as you go down the row. So I'm gonna yarn over from my double crochet, insert into the stitch. My working yarn over my finger is actually over those two strands I'm hiding, pull through my loop, finish up my double crochet. And this row will be a little bulkier than the other rows, but not horribly so. This is a bulkier yarn so it even feels a little thicker than yarns will if you're working with something finer. So let's do that again, yarn over to start our double crochet, go into the next stitch, working yarn is lying over the ones we're hiding. So we're just gonna crochet over the ends all the way across the row. Now what I like to do when I finish a color change where I've crocheted over the ends, is I like to take those ends separately and use a tapestry needle and just weave them back a little bit into their respective colors, that kind of secures that and make sure it doesn't go anywhere. But this is a nice way to cover up those ends and make a seamless color change. Thank you so much for joining me to learn how to crochet over your ends. Check out our website for more great videos.