Crochet Tutorial 101

With these gift-worthy projects, you will learn just two of many ways to feature intentional color placement using variegated yarn. Stay on gauge by keeping track of the correct stitches per color, not per inch. Read the accompanying article for more information!

Remember the color pooling trend from a few years ago? Those argyle pattern designs made from variegated yarn were amazing. (If you don’t know what I am talking about, search online for “crochet argyle.”) Every possible way to learn this skill popped up, from in-person classes, to videos, online tutorials and magazine articles. Many excellent teachers explained the concept of color repeats and how colors stack or shift. Yet, while many of us understood in theory, it continued to be tricky for some of us to put the vision into practice.