Change yarn colors when crocheting in the round

in this video I’m gonna show you how to change colors in amigurumi so let’s pretend that this stitch marker represents the first stitch of the previouse round which means you have one stitch left in this round this one and the pattern says that you need to switch to yellow yarn in the upcoming round so what we’ll do is a normal single crochet as you normally would so you insert the hook under the stitch pull the yarn through and then now instead of guarding over and pulling that yarn through again take the new color yarn put it on your hook where the tail is in front of the hook and the working yarn is in the back or I guess the tail is on the bottom and the working yarn is on the top of book pull that through at this point if you’re like me sometimes this loop from the old yarn is a little bit big so I pull on that a little bit so it’s a little tighter now you get back into position take the stitch marker out and we’re gonna do a slip stitch instead of a single crochet stitch for the very first stitch but you’ll treat it as though it is the first single crochet stitch in this round so turnover and pull it through both loops and by doing this instead of a single crochet stitch the transition between colors will be a little bit smoother so when you are doing the rest of the single crochets in this round you want to crochet over both yarn tails of both the old yarn and the new yarn so that it stays secure so for example we’re gonna do a single crochet stitch insert the hook yarn over pull it through two loops on the hook yarn over pull it through both loops and before we get too far I’m gonna put this stitch marker back in to mark the first stitch of new round get back into place and I happen to have already cut this old yarn already but normally I’d like to wait to cut it until I have crocheted basically a full round where I have secured that yarn tail by crocheting over it because then I just feel more secure like the yarn won’t accidentally come off and notice the other thing I’m doing if you don’t want the yarn to show through the stitches you want to position these yarn tails a bit towards the inside of your amigurumi piece or no one will be looking anyway so I’m just gonna quickly complete this round so you can see what we do when we get back to the very first stitch of the round okay so we are now at the last stitch of this round and a new color I’m going to single crochet like I normally would and yet again also going to single crochet in the first stitch of this round as I would normally would as well since I have told you before that that first stitch is being treated as though it were a single crochet in that rep and so let me just crochet a few more stitches so you can see how the color change looks like in the end all right so there you have it [Music]