Color Change Decreases: When you get to the decrease rounds of a piece that that has color changes in the middle of the work (e.g. a penguin), you might need to decrease when you get to one stitch before the color change:   You can just move the decrease somewhere else but this may be troublesome if you need to increase evenly or do shaping. You can also decrease the next two stitches using the current color and then switch colors afterwards but that might look weird depending on the design. I like to change the color in the middle of the decrease. Pick up the first loop with your current color and then pick up the next loop in with your new color: I do these decreases through both loops:     If you do invisible decreases, it doesn’t look as neat because the next stitch’s loop will peak through:     Balanced Increase/Decrease Color Changes Rounds: When doing decrease (or increase) rounds with color changes, you can also do the instructions about halfway through the round and then mirror it for the rest of the stitches to make it more balanced: *Sc2tog, sc 3* x3, *sc 3, sc2tog* x3. You can’t line up the color changes 100% when working in spirals since the stitches shift over but doing this will help the decrease rounds look better. Crocheting Over Yarn Ends: Instead of cutting the yarn and tying knots or carrying over long floats of the colors, just crochet over the ends! It can be more convenient when you’re doing a lot of color changes.   Also, if you don’t cut the yarn of the old color when crocheting over the ends and your next color change is that color, you’ll have it ready to go:   Here the 4th black stitch is being worked and the next color change is beige. The black yarn is dropped and the beige yarn that was crocheted over gets hooked to complete the stitch.      Front:   Back:   I hope this helps! I’m also working on a jogless stripes tutorial post.  
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Color Change Decreases:

When you get to the decrease rounds of a piece that that has color changes in the middle of the work (e.g. a penguin), you might need to decrease when you get to one stitch before the color change:

 

You can just move the decrease somewhere else but this may be troublesome if you need to increase evenly or do shaping. You can also decrease the next two stitches using the current color and then switch colors afterwards but that might look weird depending on the design.

I like to change the color in the middle of the decrease. Pick up the first loop with your current color and then pick up the next loop in with your new color:

I do these decreases through both loops:
 
 
If you do invisible decreases, it doesn’t look as neat because the next stitch’s loop will peak through:
 
 
Balanced Increase/Decrease Color Changes Rounds:

When doing decrease (or increase) rounds with color changes, you can also do the instructions about halfway through the round and then mirror it for the rest of the stitches to make it more balanced:

*Sc2tog, sc 3* x3, *sc 3, sc2tog* x3.


You can’t line up the color changes 100% when working in spirals since the stitches shift over but doing this will help the decrease rounds look better.


Crocheting Over Yarn Ends:

Instead of cutting the yarn and tying knots or carrying over long floats of the colors, just crochet over the ends! It can be more convenient when you’re doing a lot of color changes.

 

Also, if you don’t cut the yarn of the old color when crocheting over the ends and your next color change is that color, you’ll have it ready to go:

 
Here the 4th black stitch is being worked and the next color change is beige. The black yarn is dropped and the beige yarn that was crocheted over gets hooked to complete the stitch. 
 
 
Front:
 
Back:
 
I hope this helps! I’m also working on a jogless stripes tutorial post.
 
I got to be a Swap Angel for MalonB in the Spring 2013 Amigurumi Swap! I received a cute octopus amigurumi, handmade pincushions, crochet & knitted accessories, mini sand bottle souvenir, and 2 yarns! Here is what I put together: I made a wolf amigurumi and fairy stitch markers. I also sent 2 yarns, little notepad, crochet hook, safety eyes, and some felt. There were no sign ups for the 2 previous swap sign ups so I’ve decided to just keep it open until there’s enough. More information will be posted at a later time. I really want to keep the group active so that there’s at least one swap every 2 months. If you’re interested, please join the group! :)
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I got to be a Swap Angel for MalonB in the Spring 2013 Amigurumi Swap!

I received a cute octopus amigurumi, handmade pincushions, crochet & knitted accessories, mini sand bottle souvenir, and 2 yarns!

Here is what I put together:

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I made a wolf amigurumi and fairy stitch markers. I also sent 2 yarns, little notepad, crochet hook, safety eyes, and some felt.

There were no sign ups for the 2 previous swap sign ups so I’ve decided to just keep it open until there’s enough. More information will be posted at a later time.

I really want to keep the group active so that there’s at least one swap every 2 months. If you’re interested, please join the group! :)

I made this for MalonB in the Amigurumi Swap. It’s about  8” tall standing and about 5” at the widest. The tail is about 4.5” long and 2.5” wide. I couldn’t decide on how I wanted to position the legs so I made them jointed! Now it can sit or stand! :D I made another wolf because I don’t make jointed amigurumi often enough!! It’s fun. I made the arms, legs, and tail jointed. Mr. Baby already claimed it by spitting up all over it though. I remember getting requests from deviantART users to make a wolf version of the Sleepy Fox and I’ll still do that. I may make it soon while I still have some gray yarn left.
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I made this for MalonB in the Amigurumi Swap. It’s about  8” tall standing and about 5” at the widest. The tail is about 4.5” long and 2.5” wide. I couldn’t decide on how I wanted to position the legs so I made them jointed! Now it can sit or stand! :D

I made another wolf because I don’t make jointed amigurumi often enough!! It’s fun. I made the arms, legs, and tail jointed. Mr. Baby already claimed it by spitting up all over it though.
I remember getting requests from deviantART users to make a wolf version of the Sleepy Fox and I’ll still do that. I may make it soon while I still have some gray yarn left.

I made some mini cuttlefish amigurumi for Squittle! They’re about 4” (10cm) tall. I’m going to make a few more in other colors soon! :3

So many ideas for Squittle and just not enough time and yarn/money! I’m hoping to finally get around to making little bags. I made a squid shoulder bag a couple of years ago and before that I was working on an octopus bag. I’ve also tried making other designs (owl, camera, elephant, etc) but I never got around to finishing them. You can see some of those as WIP/Hibernating/Frogged in my Ravelry projects!

I’ve been wanting to make the Rainbow Unicorn Amigurumi in other colors and designs but it’s difficult to find time to make things for fun in between baby time (which is like 98% of the time), writing up patterns, working on orders, etc. So I stayed up a little late and got up early to make a yellow and pink Pegasus! :D

I embroidered on details instead of using felt, made the mane/tail thicker and longer for a french braid, and I used small yarn & 1.30mm hook to make the flowers.

The next Unicorn project is probably going to be a pink and blue pony. (And I’ll probably do MLP project later. I’m just not sure which one to make first. Any requests?)

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