How to Crochet The Perfect Stripes || Amigurumi Tutorial 

I love it but am very slow in absorbing the steps, is there a way you can show the sequencing in slow motion?

The half colour change just completely blew my mind. Absolutely genius! I'm in awe

THIS IS GENIUS. I'M SO GLAD RU-vid RECOMMENDED THIS TO ME. I always hated making stripes. Now it can look beautiful.

“After watching this, I concluded that I don’t care about the unevenness as much as I thought.” -wise woman on RU-vid

I started making amigurumi last December after a friend sent me a pinterest link of a little Eeyore she wanted for Christmas 😂 This is a nifty little trick! This was a "issue" that I didn't know had a solution to it! 👏

Thank you so much for this technique, my jaw was dropping when I saw the result

The 1/2 stitch ( bottoms one color and tops second color) is a really amazing technique. Thank you for showing it 😊

Dude, this is just a message of appreciation! I love to see young blood and guys in our crafting community, so you are double whammy. Im so happy! Keep being stellar, love from Finland :)

owww thanks. this thecnique its so perfect. From Brazil 🇧🇷

I wish I found this vid yesterday lol but this is really helpful, I'll try it out and see how it turns out. Thank You!

Hi! I understand the tutorials in full, and in practice, when you do it I end up with a large stripe. When doing the first round (with only the upper top being green and letting the bellow "half-of-the"sc purple = complete sc) you are adding an "half"-sc in purple and the top in green - that results in the bottom always being higher. I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying. When doing the comparison..imagine you have 3 rows of one color, and 3 rows of another.... making this method in changing color, you will be adding another row to the first color, since changing will give a little of the first color (bottom part of the sc) and then a little bit of the last color.

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this video helped me alot on my striped bee i was recently making for a friend

Geez how did you come up with this technique???????!!!!!!! I commend all the people like you for sharing your informative tips…..you are so creative! I am not….😂. But ty for posting this…..I am working on Amigurumi dolls and Animals and this technique will definitely come in handy…………

thanks for this tips ! it help me a lot for my projects now

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Wow this is a god send!

Thank you! This is beautifully explained.

Game Changer!! ❤❤❤

Thank you im just learning this !

Thank you! Very helpful!

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thank you for the video

I have a pattern that changes colour half way ( rounds 1-15 blue, 16-30 yellow). Noticed when I finished my last round of blue and then did the half colour change for round 16 that I had too much blue. So if you’re trying to make as close to exact halves as you can, do the half colour change on the last round of your first colour ( for me that would be 15, not 16)

You just blew my mind.

so helpful!!!! thank u so much 😭

This was the first videos of yours I have watched. I liked it

Thank you, you taught me a new trick!

Is the half colour change row counted as the 1st row in the new colour?

I love the hook you are using. Where can I get one ?

Brilliant thanks❤

Oops! Added 2 stitches somehow. Time to rip out & start over!

Hello from Brazil! I really LOVE your tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us!! Happy New Year!!

I’m pretty sure left handed people also hold the hook with their right hand. It’s just that they crochet in the other direction (right to left or left to right)

This is awesome - thank you so much.

Can i ask pls? When i have a row with 18 sc and then change color.. i need to do all 18 sc and then cut the yarn and do all u do.. or do 17 sc and the 18sc be done with needle?

Hi, question, in the first part how do you make de end of the row? Making a sl st o just beginning the second row? Thank you

thank you thank you thank you so much!!!

I’m having trouble to continue after the half colour change because it’s very tight. Am I doing something wrong?

if im working on a project that is very specific with the amount of stitches how do i prevent an increase when you're single crocheting into the slip stitch?

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Thanks ☺️ great job 🙏

the animal crossing music sold me on subscribing

Beautiful 😍👏👏👏👏

Why did you cut the yarn if you needed to bring it back to finish the round of half color change during the cut method at 7:00? Wouldn't it make more sense to wait until it was finished to cut?

My color change stitches always get too tight 😒😔 guess I need to practice more

Loved it! 😁

2:02 i don't think i quite understand, are we meant to rotate the yarn in the same direction every time we switch a color? that's how i'm understanding it but it's not going very well for me and the yarn bunches together making it very hard to work with.

So I’m using this method for a project, and it requires me to do half color changes while increasing. However, when I pull my bottom color through the increase, half of the stitch comes unraveled. How do I fix this?

I will use this to make B E E

Does the round with the half color counts as a row? Or is to be considered as a in between base line of the new color? I tried the technique, love it for it’s results but if I count it as an in between the stripes get bigger then in the old fashioned way.

This help thanks 😄

Большое спасибо!

Cool 😎

I'm sure I'm doing something wrong. I keep getting a ridge on the inside and it looks like the original color only has half of its stitches. How do I fix this? I'm doing the exact same thing but getting a different result. Not sure how...

Hello. How to do this with increase?

QUESTION: The half color switch counts as a round or no? I have a pattern I am following and it says to "SC around (the main color) then switch to the next color and SC around again" does that mean I use the the half color switch around and that counts as a the "SC" or do I have go back around after the half color switch and do the "SC" as the pattern says. I hope this made sense. If anyone can help me that would be great! BTW if anyone was curious I am doing a Corsola pattern I found on Etsy super adorable but I am just a beginner and am still learning.

I hope someone can answer this! So, for example, if round 17 and 18 are my color change, do I start the half color change in round 16 - and do it again in 19?

When I do the half color changes, my yarn gets tangled up. Is this normal?

I'm pretty sure I'm doing it right, and yet I'm still coming out with a weird number of stitches than when I started. I use a stick marker because I can't keep track of what number I'm on by counting. I lose track easily and can't count stitches very confidently yet. I don't understand why I'm getting more stitches than when I start. Can I have some tips or an explanation please?

I followed the link to get the PDF for this tutorial, created an account, but when I click on the button to download the pdf, it takes me to a different page and doesn't have an option to download the pdf. would like some help resolving the issue, please.

When doing the first technique how do you make sure your tension is even my stitches either get to tight or too loose

1:43 : half colour change 3:01 : no-cut join 5:46 : invisible join just for convenience, feel free to use it too! :)

I was crocheting a little bee and I had to change the color of my yarn after I changed the yarn my stripes weren't like it was supposed to look like. I wish I found this video sooner! But this definitely helped, thank you club crochet!

Thank you! I'm a 11 year old new crocheter and I'm planning to make a bee and this video really helped me! Hehe

Thank you for this tutorial.it’s quite irritating to look at that imperfection. 😅😅😅

I’ve never considered a technique like the half color change. Wow!

Oh gosh..this was horribly confusing especially with the yarn twisting.

Is the half color change row an extra row or does it count as the first row with the new color on the pattern?

I wish you could’ve shown more stitches then just a couple.

I’ve been trying to do half colour change in the round whilst increasing and it’s quite tricky, the twist I’ve learnt is vital. It will take more practice but I love the straight line finish! Perfect for the zebra I’m making

Thank you for this!! I learned that when changing colors, if you hold one color to the back of the work every time and the other color to the front every time, it doesn’t twist like that! It helped me a lot.

hi im new to crochet! when you do the no cut join, does the slip stitch and chain count as 2 separate stitches from the normal sc count? for instance if I had 18 stitches would it be a slipstitch, chain, and then 16 stitches? or would the 18 stitches start after the color change?

Why does the no cut join make you want to create extra stitches (it happened to me too) - you kind of have to jump what looks like two stitches to bring it all back together. Trying to understand the mechanics of it.

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The difference is incredible with the half color change thank you so much! Is it an official technique taught "in books" I never read or is it you who came up with it? In any case the explanations are crystal clear even if it remains hard anyway haha

Just like another commenter, I TOO was crocheting a chubby bee as a baby shower gift and I wish I saw this video because it came out looking weird on its belly where the seam was. Then after I gifted the bee, the pre-existing toddler older brother found the bee and claimed it as his own. 🤣 He sleeps with it and everything, its adorable. So NOW I am crocheting a SECOND, slightly smaller bee for the baby. I'm done with all of the color changes already, but due to my laziness I kind of discovered the no yarn change method. But it still looks a little janky because I've never before heard of half color changes. I work in a school and the bee is VERY POPULAR. So it seems as if I have quite a few requests for more bees 😂 I'm so happy to have found this video because it will improve all of my future bees! THANKS! Btw I made an account on crochet pals but I still cant download the pdf.

Hi, i subscribed just for this reason. I always jog my colour's , but not any more thank you very much..Kim

I know it can be done because I see you doing it, but it is so hard to learn. Will keep trying😊

Thank you very much. I think I'll be using your first technique from now on, I don't mind the tiny inconsistency, it's still heaps better than the usual method, and your second technique makes me itch, I loathe yarn ends.

thank you for the tutorials but can you make a video of showing how to make the cube because i want to make it please🥺🥺🥺🥺📌✂️ and love your content😱🥰😳

This is absolutely perfect. Thank you so much for helping make my crochet Pokeballs seamless. 😁

WAIT! You didn’t show us how to deal with the “hole” in the first method! My thought is that one would take the same color yarn as the yarn surrounding the hole and stitch into the hole with it to “hide” the hole. Not a great explanation, I know. I do that with my work when the stitches are loose, as well, disguising the holes with yarn woven into the spaces between the stitches. By the way, while I, too, am “lazy”, I prefer the second method and will likely use that one for amigurumi color changes. Great video! Thanks.

Thanks so much, you can't imagine how helpful this was!

Hi, thank you for this video, it's really helpful! I do have a question though. I'm sorry if it's been asked before! I'm currently working on a project that requires a colour change at every row to create stripes. But when I used your no cut join technique, I ended up with wider stripes which made the project misshapen (I did an extra row after the half and half row, with the new colour). Is there a way to avoid this please?

Thank tou so much! I love this technique and the effect is very neat, but I have a question.. After finishing my first round with the new colour I always find myself with two more stitches compared to the previous round, is it normal or am I doing something wrong? If I need to work in circle without making increases it’s a problem if I have 2 or 3 more stitches that are not supposed to be there. I’m very new to crochet and amigurumi so I’m sure that I’m not understanding something right, and I’d be very glad if you could help me. Thank you…

Thank you so much for sharing this technique!! A game changer for me as I've been looking everywhere for the best jogless colour changing technique! Just one question... this techniques means you get an extra half row of the "old" colour and a half a row less of the "new" colour right??... so do you count the first half row (i.e. the half colour change) as your first row of the new colour? Thanks again!! :)

You taught me the best techniques I know! Amazing video, it's so clear for us to understand, thank you so much!!

Yes no cut join more simple. But i already forget all after watch haha 😂

Am I correct in thinking that for the half colour change, the slip stitch at the start adds one stitch to the round, but the slip stitch at the end of the round takes that away again, resulting in a round with the same number as the previous round? I'm new to crochet and I'd like to try this out but want to plan ahead with my numbers of stitches. xD

Why don't they teach stuff like this at school... instead of leaving people like me frustrated by ugly color changes ;D Thanks for a very easy-to-follow tutorial, I'm definitely going to give this a try.

hii, I have a question. When I do a slip stitch and a chain it adds more stitches to my row. How do you deal with that? (I hope I made myself understood, English is not my first language 😅)

For the no-cut method, when you join together the beginning and end of the new color and chain 1, does that count as one of the stitches? My new color was SC1, Inc 1 all around for a total of 15 in the round, then SC1 the next round (15 stitches), but now my new round has extra stitches

Trying to translate into "my brain"... Around 3:40, when you say the top of the stitch is the new color, you mean that when you're partway through the single crochet stitch, with 3 loops on the hook, the old color is in the middle between 2 of the new color. I think?

Thank you!!! I really appreciate the no cut technique. I am hoping to make a character from an anime, danganronpa. monokuma, a teddy bear which is half white and white black, split right in the middle!

I really appreciate your video, but I was wondering if I have to twist the threads every time or if I could twist only for increase... What is the reason for making the twist?

The thing I do not understand is if I use the one where the top of the stitch is the new color and the bottom is the one, dose that count at a stitch? For example if the pattern says to change color and do 3 rounds of color B does that could as one of the three rounds?

Chain stitches! Why does it seem so obvious in hindsight? Chain to go up instead of keeping the spiral. The half color change is also brilliant.

🤯 Aaa ahora si. Mi cabeza: La vuelta para cambiar de color; en cada punto ir cambiardo de color. Y despues si tejer con el color nuevo. Mis mamos: 🤔? Como era? Jajja

The half color change is life changing! I can change colors so much nicer now!