Changing Crochet Colours
This is my eighth and final tutorial in my ‘Back to basics’ series.
Changing colours can add a lot of variety and dynamics to your Amigurumi. Similarly, changing size can change the appearance of the final piece. Go check out the previous post on increasing and decreasing stitches if you have not seen it.
Once you know how to change the colours, it’s pretty much the same technique throughout. It’s also essentially the same technique to use when changing colours in bobble stitches.
We are starting off with a light blue colour yarn. Note that the change in colour here will only occur in the next stitch (just after the insertion in step 1). Pull through light blue yarn.
Position the 2nd colour (in this case, dark blue) with the free end facing closest to yourself. Then yarn over the ball end of the new coloured yarn. Pull it through such that the only loop on the hook is in the new colour.
You have not changed colour yet but you are about ready to! Just continue a single crochet as you would but now with the new colour on the hook.
After inserting hook and yarn over in steps 5-6, you should have 2 dark blue loops on the hook. End off with pulling yarn through last 2 loops on hook to make a new sc in the new colour!
Ta-da! You have changed the colour in the round!
Most of my patterns have the colours stated in (brackets), for example if it says: sc1 (red), sc1 (yellow), sc1 (red) – basically it means single crochet in red then change to single crochet in yellow and then back to red again.
I do like to make a lot of colour changes, sometimes one ami alone can have up to 9 colours or more!
My free ebook has all the basic crochet tutorials laid out in the last few blog posts, in PDF form. I have even included some special crochet techniques which will be particularly useful when making miniature Amigurumi.
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