Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Crochet Basics: Decrease

Decreases are stitches used to decrease the amount of stitches in one row. There are different kinds of decreases, but the most basic is a single crochet decrease. They are usually abbreviated to "dec" in a pattern (note that "dc" is a different stitch and is not a decrease). This stitch is the next step up from learning single crochet stitches.

Video Tutorial:

Diagram:
The highlighted green are the parts involving the decrease stitch. The rest of the stitches shown here are single crochet stitches.

Example:
Decrease stitches are just hard if not harder than spotting increase stitches. It'll probably take a while for you to be able to spot them.

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