In lesson 3 on ‘How to Crochet’ I showed you how to do slip, chain and single crochet stitches. Today I am going to show you how to decrease and increase stitches.
How to increase stitches
Increasing crochet stitches is actually really easy. All you have to do is work more than one stitch in the same position. Easy, right! Let me show you in a video
So in a nutshell, if a pattern says to increase (or you somehow don’t have enough stitches and you need to fudge) you simply work more than one single crochet, double crochet or whatever stitch the pattern calls for in the same stitch. You can work anywhere from 2 to 20 stitches in the same position, all depends on the design.
How to decrease stitches
Unfortunately decreasing stitches is not quite as straight forward as increasing stitches. To decrease a stitch means that…
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