How to Carry the Color in Crochet in the Row
If you cut and knot the yarn at the edges when crocheting stripes, you are left with tails on the sides of your work. Weaving in tails with a darning needle can be time-consuming, especially if your stripes are narrow. Weaving them into granny squares is similarly tedious. Other crochet patterns, such as those that require color changes in the middle of the row, require carrying the new working yarn along the row so you can use it for two or three stitches. Solve this problem by carrying colors as you go.
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Work to the end of the last row of the current color. If making wide stripes or granny squares, break the yarn.
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Pull the new color through the last stitch on the hook. Make your turning chain with the new color and turn your work.
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Give the tail and the new working yarn a tug at the edge to tighten them.
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Bring both tails -- the one from the new color and the one from the old -- and lay them horizontally along the top edge of the stitches you are about to crochet. If you want to keep the first yarn on the skein without breaking it, move the skein to the outside of your right hand and place it over the new working yarn.
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Make the first crochet stitch in the new row with the new color. Insert the hook into the stitch and under the two tails of the first working yarn.
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Work the crochet stitch as usual, trapping the tails of the first yarn inside the stitch.
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Continue trapping the yarn with every stitch all the way across. In the case of tails, it will take you approximately three to five stitches to trap them completely. You should not be able to see the first color running through the new color.
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