Starting a New Color in a Rib Stitch Crochet

Video Transcript

"What I have here are eight completed rows, which is what I use for this pattern. This is eventually going to be a scarf. But this is eight rows high for each of these pieces on a different color. What I'm going to show you how to do now is to add a different color to your rib crochet. Now, just like any other crochet piece, whenever you finish, you have chains sitting on top, which makes it so easy to change your colors because you got all these little marks right there. And, of course, you could try to add it to the side, but this is all crazy and stuff. So, it makes it so easy to have these nice chains. Now, to start a new color, just take your yarn and wrap it around your finger till we get that little pretzel-shaped thing. Use your yarn to hook it right there and pull it. And we've got our first loop. Now, with your loop on your needle, you're going to want to go to the edge. And it's kind of hard to find because, of course, the edge is curled up. But you just want to go at least one to the outside of the chain that's sitting on top of your double crochet. Like, this chain is sitting right here on top, and you want to go to the one before it. And, you see, I've got that chain and my loop, and I'm going to pull my yarn around. And then, since I got these two white loops on there, I'm going to pull one more through, and tighten everything down. And now, my new color is connected. Now, I've got one loop on my needle. Going to chain one and chain two, because I'm going to keep my same pattern, like I've been using on this. All I was doing was adding a new color. So, I'm going to keep the double crochet going across, and I'm going to show you how to make sure that you keep up with your pattern when you add your double crochets all the way around, to keep this pattern going."