Changing Yarn in Single Crochet

To join a new color (or a new ball of the same color), you can fasten off the old yarn and attach the new color with a slip stitch on the top of the last stitch made. However, if you would like to have a neater join, the simplest way is to pull the new yarn through the last loop of the stitch prior to the change, as shown below:

If you are crocheting single crochet stitches, your work looks like that:

Changing Yarn in Single Crochet - step by step instruction by Pingo - The Pink Penguin

1. In order to change the color, you should start making a normal single crochet stitch - insert the hook in the next stitch.

Changing Yarn in Single Crochet - step by step instruction by Pingo - The Pink Penguin

2. Yarn over and pull a loop.

Changing Yarn in Single Crochet - step by step instruction by Pingo - The Pink Penguin

3. Before you work the final yarn over, drop the old yarn and pick up the new one with your hook, yarn over.

Changing Yarn in Single Crochet - step by step instruction by Pingo - The Pink Penguin

4. Draw loop of the new color through the 2 loops on the hook to finish the single crochet stitch.

Changing Yarn in Single Crochet - step by step instruction by Pingo - The Pink Penguin

Leave a few cm/inches tails at the end of both yarns - the old and the new one. Probably the stitch where you've changed the color easily looses its shape. To avoid this, you should secure the end of the old yarn right after changing the color. Depending on the pattern you are crocheting, you can just make a small knot with both yarn tails. Tiny knots are acceptable if they lie in on the back of your work.
Continue crocheting with the new color yarn.

Changing Yarn in Single Crochet - step by step instruction by Pingo - The Pink Penguin




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