Two-color texture: Stitch Pattern Generator

Give each yarn a structural role

This striped panel alternates navy single-crochet rows with coral half-double-crochet rows. The colors therefore identify different row heights as well as a visual stripe. Eighteen stitches across ten rows produce five complete two-row cycles. The design goal is a small decorative fabric study for comparing stripe depth and color transition clarity. It is not a carried-yarn tapestry chart and does not require an inactive strand to run inside every stitch.

Prepare matching materials

Use two colors of the same smooth DK cotton with comparable thickness and care requirements. Begin with a four-millimeter hook as a trial size, then evaluate the actual fabric. Keep scissors, a tapestry needle, two edge markers and a ruler nearby. Set structure Two-color sc/hdc rows, width eighteen and height ten. Color one is navy #243BCE; color two is coral #C44833. Additional palette slots are not used by this structure. Record the real yarn names separately from their screen approximations.

Start and change color at the correct moment

With navy, chain nineteen. Work single crochet in the second chain from the hook and across all eighteen available chains. On the final stitch, stop before its final pull-through and use coral to complete it. Cut navy leaving an end long enough to weave securely. The next turning chain is worked in coral. This example cuts at each transition to make the join sequence explicit; its yarn budget must include those repeated ends.

Generated chart and working rows

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1. In color 1 (#243BCE), ch 19. Starting in chain 2 from hook, work 18 sc. Complete the final pull-through with color 2; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
2. Ch 2, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 2 (#C44833), work 18 hdc, one in each old stitch. Complete the final pull-through with color 1; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
3. Ch 1, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 1 (#243BCE), work 18 sc, one in each old stitch. Complete the final pull-through with color 2; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
4. Ch 2, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 2 (#C44833), work 18 hdc, one in each old stitch. Complete the final pull-through with color 1; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
5. Ch 1, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 1 (#243BCE), work 18 sc, one in each old stitch. Complete the final pull-through with color 2; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
6. Ch 2, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 2 (#C44833), work 18 hdc, one in each old stitch. Complete the final pull-through with color 1; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
7. Ch 1, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 1 (#243BCE), work 18 sc, one in each old stitch. Complete the final pull-through with color 2; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
8. Ch 2, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 2 (#C44833), work 18 hdc, one in each old stitch. Complete the final pull-through with color 1; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
9. Ch 1, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 1 (#243BCE), work 18 sc, one in each old stitch. Complete the final pull-through with color 2; cut the old color leaving a weaving tail. Work the next turning chain in the new color. Count 18.
10. Ch 2, turn (turning chain does not count). In color 2 (#C44833), work 18 hdc, one in each old stitch. Count 18.

Work the second height without an increase

Chain two in coral, turn and work eighteen half double crochets, one into each old stitch. Turning chains never count as a fabric stitch. Complete the final half double crochet's pull-through with navy, cut coral leaving a weaving tail, then chain one for the next single-crochet row. Repeat the two heights and color assignments through row ten. The last row does not request another color change because the panel is finished.

Read the yarn schedule independently of color vision

The chart's row labels include C1 and C2, so the yarn identity remains readable in monochrome or on a grayscale printout. The cross indicates single crochet and the plain tall T indicates half double crochet. Odd-numbered rows use C1; even-numbered rows use C2. Read the working arrows alternately from right and left as the fabric turns. Screen colors are planning references and cannot guarantee the appearance of a particular dyed yarn.

Verify quantities before estimating yarn

Five navy rows contain ninety single crochets. Five coral rows contain ninety half double crochets, making 180 fabric stitches altogether. There are nineteen initial chains, four later one-chain turns and five two-chain turns: fourteen later turning chains in total. Nine row-to-row color transitions occur. Equal stitch totals do not imply equal yarn consumption because the two stitch heights differ and each color also supplies its own turning chains and tails.

Finish and diagnose the transition

Weave each end through several appropriate stitches without cinching the edge, then wash and measure the relaxed panel. The verified size is eighteen stitches by ten rows; no centimeter dimensions or meter quantity are invented. If a stripe begins with the old color at its upper edge, inspect whether the previous stitch's final pull-through used the new yarn. If the panel widens, check that a turning chain was not worked as an extra base. Can you replace cutting with carrying at the side? That is a separate finishing choice requiring a sample. Use the Yarn Calculator with measured per-color consumption when planning a larger piece.