Colourful crochet projects are one of the great joys in life, but there’s a downside – the more you change colour, the more ends you have to weave in! Luckily, there are a few simple ways to reduce this somewhat tedious task, and I’ll be sharing one of them with you here.
Being able to carry different colours of yarn up the side of your fabric is great if you like stripy patterns and inset mosaic crochet as much as I do. Instead of fastening off and cutting the yarn every two rows or so, you can weave the unused yarn colour into the stitches at the edge of the fabric while you work.
It’s easiest to start using this method with double crochet stitches, when you’re using two colours to work stripes of two rows each. Once you’ve learned the technique, though, you can use it with longer stitches, more rows and potentially more yarn colours.
When carrying different colours of yarn up the side of fabric, it’s not unusual for short strands of contrasting yarn colours to be visible. If you dislike the finished look, try to keep your yarn weaving on the wrong side of the fabric. Or, you can add a border to the fabric and work the stitches over the colour changes to hide them. Let’s hook…