Cast on your preferred number of stitches in the first color.

How to change colors when knitting in the middle of a row. Make a little loop hook with your fresh yarn to start. It can be used to color change a row of a knitting pattern, a border, or just to change colors in a complicated pattern. Cross the old tail over the new.

Insert your right knitting needle into the next stitch on the left needle purlwise. Another very handy method to change colors is weaving in ends as. When you pull through both colors will be loose.

You can tighten them by pulling the tail, as you knit the next stitches. Pull the new color through the stitch. Give the new tail a good tug to pull down the loop around your knitting needle and create a stitch.

Place the tail of the new color in between where the two knitting needles cross. This is a useful technique for s. If you plan to continue knitting in this new color of yarn for more than two rows before picking the old color back up, you may cut the tail of the old color to avoid.

See how to change colors in the middle of the row when knitting, with this easy, up close demonstration by judy graham, knitter to the stars. To add a new color of yarn in the middle of a row, simply drop the yarn you were working with, and begin working with the new color as you would if you were changing colors. Loop your right needle with your loop.

To change colors in crochet, you need to have yarn that is in a. When the old pattern is complete, and you’re ready to add a different color, start knitting with new yarn. Learn how to change colors in the middle of a row while knitting technique.you can view more instructional videos at: