Crochet with multiple strands of yarn

Hello everyone! It's been a while since I added a new video to the How to Crochet for Absolute Beginners on my YouTube Channel, but it finally happened this week.

In this episode 16 I offer three tips to successfully crochet with multiple strands. 

 

The idea for this video actually started when I opened this box I brought from my mother's house: 

There's a lot of cotton crochet yarn there, but most of it is thin, so I decided to double it up for the first project I'm making with it: a set of crochet dishcloths. 

Each dishcloth will be a combination of white and another solid colored yarn (so far I've completed the pink one and I'm working on the blue) and each will have a unique design (patterns to be posted here soon). 

And so I've created a video with my three top tips to successfully crochet with multiple yarns. 

While I don't advise using a lot of strands at the same time, using two or three strands can get you some amazing results and very original projects. You can use multiple strands when you want to get rid of a series of yarn scraps like I'm dong , when you want to have the look of variegate yarn but only have solid colored yarn on your stash, or just to have fun!

And here are my tips: 

1. Hold the strands together as if they were a single strand. Don't separate them with your fingers or the hook while you are crocheting

2. Choose a hook size appropriate for the set of yarn strands. Don't follow the instructions of each separate yarn, but make sure your hook works with all the yarns together (this sometimes involves a bit of trial and error)

3. Make sure you are pulling all the strands together with each stitch. If you miss any of the strands in a given stitch, not only will your work look wonky but it will also be at risk of unravelling.

If you follow the tips above you can easily crochet very original projects with multiple strands just as if you were working with a single yarn strand.

Thank you for stopping by and happy Thursday!

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