Calling all Crocheters or Knitters!

Jennifer Vincent:

@Rebecca Entwisle this is beautiful! WOW! Do you have tips and tricks for color changes when knitting?

Thanks! The colour changes on this were pretty easy, because it is made with just two yarns. One was the solid dark charcoal, and all the other colours are a single variegated yarn with a long colour repeat. I swapped yarn at one edge, and carried the yarn I wasn't using up the side between stripes, wrapping the working yarn around the non-used yarn to avoid long floats.

Heather MacKenzie‍, my grandmother taught me long ago, but when I picked it up again after, ahem, decades of not knitting, I used Debbie Stoller's Stitch n b**** book. She also has The Happy Hooker for wanna be crocheters out there. That works great if you are a reader like me. If you are a more visual learner, try YouTube. I'm currently building my crochet skills, and often find a video on YouTube to teach myself the more intricate stitches.