How to increase and decrease in crochet

Hey everybody! In today’s Crochet 101 lesson, I’m going to teach you how to increase…

Now that you know how to use Stacked Single Crochet to start your rows, learn how to increase and decrease with this technique.

Learning how to increase and decrease simple crochet stitches is a huge part of growing as a crocheter. While some people rarely use these skills, others will need them for many projects. When you double crochet increase, you will be adding one more stitch to your row or round, and you will decrease by one stitch when you double crochet decrease. If you know how to double crochet already, then these skills should be easy for you to learn and incorporate into your stitching.

Any time you need to make your amigurumi bigger, you'll use single crochet increase. It's super easy! You just stitch twice in one stitch. Here's how. Sometimes you'll see this written in instructions as "inc" and you decide where to put the increases, but our patterns usually spell it out. If we want you to

A comprehensive easy-to-follow guide on how to crochet Animals Amigurumi; from supplies, basic stitches, common techniques, how to read a crochet pattern, & more.

HedgehogNoSew1 - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This crochet pattern provides instructions to make a hedgehog toy without sewing. The body is made in white yarn starting with a magic ring and increasing stitches in early rows before decreasing in later rows. Ears and nose are made separately and attached. Purple yarn is used to make spines by attaching picot stitches to front loops only along the body. Eyes, nose, and details are added at the end…

If you're finding a bunch of gaps in your stitches when you make amigurumi, here's an easy way to close them up! Check out how to do invisible increases and decreases on cbfiberworks.com!

In my patterns the most common tool I use to create my shapes is “increasing” and “decreasing”. This is a basic stitch that nearly every crochet pattern uses, so it is important to learn early on. This blog is intended to give simple step by step instructions on how to do each. You can use increasing and decreasing with any kind of stitch, but for this tutorial I will only be using Single Crochet because that is the stitch I typically use in my patterns. Decreasing becomes a little trickier…

Watch this video tutorial that will show you step by step how to crochet an invisible decrease for Amigurumi. Visit my blog for more free Amigurumi patterns and tutorials you will love!

There are two different methods for single crochet decrease, but for amigurumi the invisible decrease is my absolute favourite. Read more.