hello again! 
(if you saw me delete the first post i made with this topic no you didn’t, i published that one before i was ready 
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i want to make stitchingwithsab’s mini frog pattern, but i realised i haven’t really done mid-round colour changes outside of one tapestry project i did.
in my attempts at doing this frog pattern, i remembered the enemy i encountered (and did not defeat) during my tapestry project: colour changes in the middle of a round that don’t stack evenly and leave little bits of yarn showing in places i’d rather it not show.
when i talk about colour changes not stacking evenly, this is what i mean:
and as for yarn showing up where i don’t want it to, this is what i mean:
(this is in the tapestry project i did in ch1 and turn rows so it may present a bit differently, but the same kind of thing happens in rounds)
i’ve tried this technique in one of my attempts for the frog, but it doesn’t seem to be working out entirely. it’s the closest i’ve found to achieving what i’m looking for, but it still has that off-centered look in terms of how the stitches stack. (it does take care of the jagged colour change edges which i appreciate.) either i’m doing some aspect of it wrong, it doesn’t work as well with non-joined rounds, or it only works for a triangular shape like the one shown in this video.
this all being said, are there any tricks to make these aspects of colour changes neater? or have i made a mistake and the technique in the video i linked above should work just fine?
i have learned the power of half colour changes, and alternatively, back loop only colour changes, which neatens up the tops of the stitches in the first round of colour changes, so at least i’m partially there in my journey of neater colour changes 
edit: i am doing single crochets by yarning under then over! the same way the person in the slanted colour change video does :)
i want to mention – i mean absolutely no hate to the creator of the frog pattern. they’ve done nothing wrong. this is the classic colour change method and there is nothing wrong with it. i’m just super duper picky and am always looking for little tricks to neaten up the parts of crochet projects i personally don’t find favourable.
This would save my life!
as for the snake, are you working in joined rounds, or a continuous spiral? if it’s spiral rounds and you’re changing every other round, i could totally see it ending up looking like a candy cane. in my experience, doing stripes without joining the rounds in some fashion just never turns out 
they always look like the example on the left in this picture:
