Striping

When you reach the end of a row, let the first yarn fall flat and cut it about two inches below the working stitch. Use the new color to loop around the needle. Stitch away! Once you’ve finished the first stitch with your new color, you may want to make it a little tighter than usual. This can help make your color change nearly invisible to the eye.

When you’ve finished your project, go back and weave the two loose ends into the fabric using a crochet hook. This makes your project look cleaner. If you want your stripes to run vertically on a project like a scarf, just think of your scarf as wide rather than long. Cast on the number of stitches the scarf is meant to be long and then knit as many rows high as the scarf meant to be wide. So, if your original pattern had you cast on 30 and knit 250 rows, you need to case on 250 and knit 30 rows.

That’s all there is to it! If you want to learn about some of the more complex ways to add color, check out the sections about Fair Isle and Intarsia knitting later in the book.




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