Crochet Tidy Away Ends & Colour Changes

This is a tutorial on how to tidy away ends at the start and when you change colours.

Bonus material - how to avoid a hole at the start of the row and how to work in the back ridge.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Crochet
• Tidy
• Away
• Ends
• Tutorial
• /
• HowTo
• change
• colour
• color
• avoid
• hole
• tail
• tails
• back
• ridge

[deadstar1999]

Thank you so much for showing us how to change colors. I am having difficulty with my latest project: a baby blanket with a cartoon character. I can do the color change you showed in the beginning and the end of each row but in the middle part where I have to change up to 3 or 4 different colors after two to five single crochets on some rows, I am left with so many tails to weave after I'm done with this project. Help, Megan!

[MeganEMills]

@deadstar1999 However many colours there are, mulitply that by two and that is the minimum number of ends you'll have to sew/work in. It is more if you have to finish off a colour in one area and start it again somewhere else because it is too far to carry it along (or up) as you work. You need to analyse the pattern to see where you can carry the colour to other areas of the same colour - ideally keeping it 'hidden' as go by using the methods shown in my video. (Think like a cross-stitcher.)

[grammissy]

Megan, I have tried to go to the web sight you listed and my computer says that there is no web sight. Do you have another link?

[MeganEMills]

@grammissy I'm not sure which site you're referring to...  my main one is meganDOTcc (where the DOT is a '.') but I also have meganDOTkiwiDOTgenDOTnz Does that help? Regs... Megs

[grammissy]

Megan, do you have any more videos?

[MeganEMills]

@grammissy Just a few, most are under my name but one or two appear under my husband's (Clark Mills) dating back to way before I had my own account on youtube.

[Louisebc]

thank you so much for posting this great video it has improved my crochet and such a relief to have tidier work

[jflidsla56]

Great techniques. Thank you so much for sharing.

[deadstar1999]

@deadstar1999 You are the best, Megan. Thanks for a fast reply. I'll do my best with what I've learned from you.

[Chiefers530]

I am so thrilled Megan, with your tips and skills. It is truely amazing. If you have any other's please share. These tips make all the difference. Thanks again!...Patty

[jfager100]

So Brilliant, Megan!! Thank you for being so kind and generous in sharing these techniques. I'm self taught and have taught others to crochet for years. I could never answer their concerns about the ends of rows. I can't tell you how wonderful this is.

I agree with you about the starting chain. I like to crochet into the ridge always, unless there's a specific reason not to.

Again, thank you, thank you. Love, Light and Many Blessings! :0)

Jeannie jeannieshandsatwork.blogspot.c­om

[DeerlyMusical2]

Megan, you are a genius! Thank you.