Three colours, stocking stitch, single row

This uses stocking stitch and three colours.

If you are aiming for single rows in different colours, you need an odd number of rows, so 3 colours is the least possible. The reason for this is that after doing two rows in different colours, the first colour is at the wrong end of the row to carry on knitting!

I have not done a left-handed version of this. If you are left-handed, imagine the pictures as after you have turned the knitting round, to start the next row.

Here is how to introduce each ball of wool. As it is stocking stitch, each alternate row is knit, or purl (regardless of which colour is used).

Colour in knitting

Make sure that you don't get the wool of the different colours muddled up! They are rather apt to get twisted round each other if you aren't careful.

The front shows the smooth side, with neat rows. The back is knobbly, but the different colours still show distinctly, and fairly neatly.