In this tutorial I want to show you how you can change colours in your crochet
for your information I'm using a 4 millimeter crochet hook I'm using
Stylecraft special DK in the colour mushroom and I will also be using
vintage peach don't forget you can get your supplies at bellacocostore.com
okay so I've just done a small sample piece here and I'm just coming to the
end I have used UK double crochet in the US that is known a single crochet but
this message goes for any stitch that you're using and I'll explain how you
can adapt it in just a moment so first of all I'm going to show you how you can
change colours at the end of a row and then later on in the tutorial I'm going
to show you how you can change colours in the middle of a row so what you want to
do is you want to work your way to the end of the row just as normal and then
once you get your very last stitch which is this one just here
you're not going to fully complete the stitch so because this is double crochet
you're going to just insert your hook and pull through and you'll already have
two loops on the hook if you're doing a treble crochet for example which is
double crochet in the US you will continue this stitch until you only have two loops left
on the hook and that goes for every single stitch so at this point what you
want to do is you want to drop your work and then you're going to grab your new
colour we're going to loop the new colour over leaving a good sort of three or
four inches of a tail so we're going to loop it over like this we're going to
grab the work and we're going to pull that loop through those two stitches
once you have done that you can go ahead grab a pair of scissors and snip off
your original colour leaving a good three or four-inch tail and then you can come
back to your work so at this point you can see that the stitches are fairly
loose so what you want to do is pull down on your original colour and you
see that just pull that nice and tight and then you're also going to pull down
on your new colour so you're going to do a bit of both with this just to pull
those stitches down as close to the work as possible so what you want to do at
this point is chain one because that's what you would do normally I'm again
going to pull down on my stitches and from here what I'm going to do is grab
these tails and then pull them in between the hook and the working yarn
and I just find this pulls them in and makes this stitch nice and neat I'm
going to chain one again and turn my work so that I can work my way back
across the other way so I'm going to lay my threads down here my loose
ends so that I can work them into the work as we're going along and that saves
in sewing in your ends and you're going to do your first stitch as normal so you
would insert your hook into this stitch you see that you're catching the stitch
and you're also catching those loose ends and then you're going to work your
stitch as normal and then again you're going to move into the next stitch and
you're going to keep doing this all the way along now I would catch those loose
ends into your work for a good one or two inches or however far you feel
comfortable and then once you feel comfortable that you've and caught them
within the work you can snip off your yarn so if I carry on working here you
can see that those loose ends are crocheted into your work so this is a
fairly small sample piece so I'm just going to finish crocheting them in
at this point so you can just drop them behind your work
and just continue on with your stitches for the rest of your row
so I'm at the end of my row I'm going to chain one and turn and I'm going to
continue with this colour for a few more rows so that is your basic technique of
how you can change colours from one to another at the beginning of your row
obviously now we can see these loose threads here so I can just drop my work
and snip them off and then just give the work a little bit of a pull and it just
pulls that into the work so go ahead and work your rows as you please I'm going
to go ahead and build a few more rows so that I can show you how to change colour
in the middle of a row okay so now I'm going to show you how you can change
colours in the middle of a row sometimes you might have to do this if you're
doing a detailed pattern you're working a particular pattern into a piece of
work or the pattern calls for it so it's important to remember that we always
change the colour on the on the stitch before we actually need the change of
colour so for example if we need the fifth stitch along to be a different
colour we actually start the change on the fourth stitch so if we just ignore
this first chain one here and we go one two three and four if you remember the
the rule before that we always leave two stitches our last two loops remaining on
the hook when we change colour so it's exactly the same principle as before
we're going to drop this yarn and then we're going to grab our new colour you're
going to form a loop with a three to four inch tail grab hold of your work
again and then pull that loop through so we might need to pull on both of our
pieces of yarn just here now sometimes you will need to keep this colour
attached so make sure you read the instructions
of whatever your doing I'm going to leave this because I'm going to change
colours again just to show you how you would do that again but that is
finishing off that fourth stitch we then lay all the threads down and continue
picking up our new colour to do the next stitch so that would be the fifth stitch
and I'm going to do that for a few more stitches so say we need to do five
stitches here that's one two three four
and five if we need to change colours on the next stitch what we would simply do
is drop this colour pick up the old colour or the original colour and then yarn over
and pull through those stitches pull on that work again or pull on those threads
again and you would just continue on with your double crochet for the rest of
the stitches making sure that your laying those stitches down and working them
in to the work
so there you have your change of colour within a row so I really hope you've
enjoyed this tutorial I hope it explains a little bit about how to change colours
at the beginning of the row and within a row if you liked it make sure you give
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you so much for watching and I shall see you again next time bye