Color Work Changes wiith Tunisian Crochet Part 1

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Shortly after teaching myself to crochet, I decided to make a Super Mario granny square blanket for my brother. After seeing my progress, my husband requested one for himself. However, I could not let my husband have the same blanket I made my brother....oh no, my friends. His had to be so much....MORE. I woke up in the middle of the night and had the beginnings of the blanket in my head. I scribbled out a rough draft of a map and was so giddy, I had a hard time falling asleep. I had never used Tunisian crochet before, so I had to practice.

After a few wonky attempts and botching my way through a few panels, I finally figured out how to change colors correctly using Tunisian Crochet. After seeing my Super Mario Obsession Blanket on my blog or on various websites world-wide, I received many questions/comments of, "Huh??? How did you do that???"

This video demonstrates how. You'll see the original map of my design as well as 2 pictures of the sprites I used (and the little maps I drew to help me along) to crochet 2 of the panels of my blanket. Then I'll show you how to change color within a row using just 2 colors and then using multiple yarns for more difficult colorwork.

I hope you enjoy this video!

The entire story and pictures of all the individual panels can be found on my blog here: http://gegecrochet.blogspot.com/2009/03/mario-party-part-1.html

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[JohnnyElsewhereTV]

That's all great, but how are you suppose to do the second pass?

[GegeCrochet]

@JohnnyElsewhereTV Ummm.....you watch part 2. ;)

[SillyGlowstick]

im off to make my mario grow shroom beanie thanks you miss.

[GegeCrochet]

@SillyGlowstick Sweet! would love to see the finished object. :)

[xxgadixiegirlxx]

not a million thanks, A BILLION THANKS! love ur videos. theres a few other videos ive seen that does teach the color changing the same way but ur much clearer and we can actually see what ur doing. i wasnt sure if i was doing it right but with how clear u were with changing the colors, now im really sure im doing it right. thank u so very much again! appreciate u. stay blessed.

[GegeCrochet]

@xxgadixiegirlxx You are welcome a TRILLION times! :) I'm very glad my video helped you!

[tegenmcmahon]

If you really want to skip 90% of the chit chat skip to about 8:00. only the last 0:52 is actually anything help full.

Sorry Gegecrochet I didn't go looking for 8 min's of chatting when I just want to see how to do something.

[susara16]

how to you stitch the squares together?

[LittleTitaCrafts]

Hi there, I really like how your blanket came out. I thinking about making a Super Mario Bros blanket myself. I already doing this my own way though. Write now im getting the graphs together for the first 6 panels im going to do.

[monkichirmon]

i did a few 8-bit blocks myself but somehow they don't look proportionate. ended up looking 'taller' than they are wide. did you block you work before putting it together? if i stretch them out to look even like this i guess i can pass it off as super awesome. kind'a disappointing honestly(i used simple/basic stitch).

[Jetsetgirl13]

too much chit chat... u made this annoying to watch!

[montrealstars60]

where do you get those graphs? Thanks for you tutorials...

[JohnnyElsewhereTV]

@GegeCrochet Whoop. I apologize. Bad eyesight. ^_^;; Sorry about that.