Crochet increase and decrease

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

f you've ever tried your hand at crafting cute amigurumi creatures, you know how important it is to make them look as seamless as possible. That's where the magic of invisible increases and decreases comes in!

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

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

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…

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.

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.

I'm a bit of a craft perfectionist. Well - I'm a perfectionist in a lot of aspects of my life... but it really comes out in crafting! I want everything to be even and straight and measured! When I started crocheting in the round, I noticed something that bugged that perfectionist inside me. The shape

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