Hi, my name is Deborah Arch.
Today, I'm going to demonstrate
my new technique called The Concealed
Color Change. This technique
will improve the appearance of color changes in
a project that's crocheted continuously
in the round. I have two
small samples in front of me to show you the
difference between the traditional
yarn color change method and my
concealed color change technique.
The color changes on the sample on the
left were made using a traditional
color change method. Here you can
see where the color,
that once a stripe has been started,
seems to jump up vertically one
stitch to the right from where the color
is started to where it ends.
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On the right, is my sample
that I made using my concealed
color change technique.
As you can see the stripes of the colors
appear to begin and end on
the same round making the
area where you changed the color much
less obvious.
Let me show you how to work my
concealed color change technique.
I've already
worked this small sample
almost up to the point of
where we will try to show you
the concealed color change technique
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I'll finish the last stitch
of that stripe.
Now traditionally this would be where you
would make the color change, but we're not
going to make it on that last stitch. We're going to
go and make the color change technique on
the first stitch of that color
round. We will do that my making
a long single crochet.
To do that you insert the hook in the very
same space where that first single crochet
was made, yarn over and pull up a
loop, snug it up a little bit
take your scissors
and cut away the yarn
tail.
Then you bring in your new color,
yarn over the hook, pull it through both loops
that were on the hook and you've changed
your color. I like to next snug up these
yarn tails, wrap them counter
clockwise around the new working yarn
color. And now we're ready to make
the next stitch of the new stripe
color.
We're going to work three or four more
stitches over these yarn tails just to kind of
secure them. You've already wrapped it counter
clockwise around that working yarn so
it's really secure. So you really don't have to go
a long way with that. Go ahead and cut those
yarn tails.
Now we'll continue,
I'm going to work around once more so you can
watch me do this again.
I'll work over to the last stitch
of the color stripe.
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OK,
we've made the last stitch of the green
stripe. Now
we're going to make our
color change over that first stitch of that
same round using the same color, the old color
which will be considered the old color.
Cut yourself a yarn tail,
drop that color, bring up the new
color. Let's do a different
color so it might be more obvious.
Yarn over the hook, pull it
through both loops that are on the hook, grab those
two yarn tails and snug them up.
The better you make that
snugging up the better that yarn change color
of the yarn change is going to look. So you wrap those
tails counter clock wise around the new working
yarn, and we're ready to make the first stitch of
this sapphire color.
Work over the yarn tails
for three or four more stitches,
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go ahead and cut them away.
And you'll continue on
making your rows and that's how you make
the concealed color change
technique. As you can see there's hardly
any obvious appearance of where the yarns
were colored were changes, they look very like they
were begin and ended in the same row.
And that's how you do the concealed color change technique.