Trends come and go, especially in the crochet pumpkin world lately. Adding colour with self-striping yarns like Red Heart Super Saver Bitty Stripes is a fun way to break the ADHD in a lot of us and finish a project. Use this Free Pumpkin Pattern and improvise with the colouring. Have fun!
With self-striping yarns, there can be a problem with the colouring not aligning properly. In the provided tutorial, I have changed a few instructions to fix the colour not syncing across sections. Where there's a will, there's a way.
In This Project
Try A Different Pumpkin
Yarn Changes and Mikey Specific Advice
- Mikey used 1 ball of Red Heart Super Saver Bitty Stripes in the colour called Unicorn Mane.
- Using 4.5 mm / US 7 Crochet Hook
- He ignored the slip stitching at the ends of the rows to make it a continuous spiral, so you cannot tell visually where the rounds start and stop.
- Use a stitch marker to indicate the rounds and count as you go.
Watch How This is Made
Learn the tips and tricks. This was originally filmed as is back over 10 years ago; the new filming is a continuous round with the latest updated colours. Both tutorial sets are listed below. The pattern remains the same.
Part 1 of 2
Part 2 of 2
Not Continuous Rounds Version
Getting Rid of the Colour Jog
It can be very obvious for the slip stitching that a colour isn't following around exactly properly, especially at the start of each round. Fact is, it drives me nuts!
To eliminate this problem, we switch to a concept called Continuous Rounds.
Instead of slip stitching, add extra chains to begin a new round. Just use a stitch marker to mark the last stitch of the round, then begin a new round immediately. It will change the pattern to have a spiral look, and with hats and more, it's glorious.
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