How to Change Color Without Knots RH

In this tutorial, we’re going to show how to change colors without actually making knots.
This example here, the blue has actually been cut and redone on top of it, but you actually
can’t see where I’ve done that. Maybe a professional copy could figure it out, the actually
color change -- strand change was done right here. So what I’m going to show is how to
change the color without any knot hanging out of your work. And remember, crochet is
all about knot making, so why not use which already have instead of creating another
knot that will stick out of your work and be very noticeable at the end.

My name is Michael Sellick and I’m the creator of Mikeyssmails. I’m here with my
friends at AllFreeCrochet.com, who have asked me to produce a video on how to change
color without knots.

So we’re going to finish going up this line here and I’m just doing a double crochet in
this example. You can use this method for any other types of stitches as well. So we want
to go your very last stitch here, so we make sure you get it. And we’re going to pull
through. We’re going to pull-through two, and now we’re using normally pull-through
and another two to finish this line. But this is where you’re going to grab your secondary
color and you could see there no knots, it’s just like so. And we’re just going to slip that
over our hook, just like so and pull it through those two just like that.

So now what we can do is now we can trim and this about two inches long. You can be a
little bit more liberal and then put it longer if you like. Let’s pull this through a little more
tighter and trim that about the same length as the paint that we were just working on. So
now, we have the two colors. And if one is longer than the other, no big deal. We can fix
it out later. So turning our work, let’s chain up three, like we normally would double
crochet. And we’re only using the pink at this time but you can tell that the pink is not
being secured in yet. So one, two, and three.

So let’s now begin the double crochet as normal, so grabbing your string. But this time,
what we need to do is just push these strings on top of the line, just right on top of slips.
So when we go to push in our hook into the stitch, it’s actually underneath, just like so.
So it’s underneath, we’re going to lay the stragglers on top that it’s over the hook. So
when we go to pull up material in, it’s actually going to grab on to it just right there. So
let’s pull-through two, and two. And we want to continue to do that throughout the line.
So going to the next one, and after you do the first one, you’re going to see that it’s
naturally this thing on top of the line. So just go into the stitch, continue hold those down
on top and then just double crochet as normal. So just continue to go, so just laying it on
top of the line.

So by having it laying on top of line, if this material is stretched in at any point, it’s not
going to follow because it’s actually being worked in like a sandwich in between the two
color changes. Also, because these colors kind of compliment each other, you’re actually
not going to be able to see the color changes in between. You turn around, you maybe
able to see the string, is maybe just coming down a little bit, but again, not very
noticeable. So if I want to stop here and I don’t want anymore stragglers to be buried or
loose ends to be buried, I’m just going to continue as normal, and you can let to this just
hang out right where they are right now. And what you want to do is just stretch it just
like so, and using your scissors, you can just trim it at that point.

Okay, so make sure you stretch it before you trim because you want to make sure that if it
gets stretched any other time, it will not fall out.

So to review, we’re going to finish off the last stitch just like so. Going in, pulling it
through, pull-through two, and then hold. You want to keep on there. Grabbing the blue
and let’s loop up a little one to the hook, so you didn’t do any knots. And now, using the
blue, what we’re going to is chain up three. So at this particular point, you can trim this at
two to three-inch mark if you want to or you can start just chaining up three, one, two,
and three, and now we could just double crochet our way across and we want to make
sure that the pink and the blue are all on top. So we want to make sure that first stitch is
established. We’re going to lay our blue and the pink on the top of the line and what
we’re going to just do is crochet in the position. So going to the next stitch, laying it on
top, just like so.

Okay, so then what you can do is to go about two inches on that if you have that
opportunity and again, you can just trim this at the point that you think you’re done.