Beginner Crochet - How to Decrease a stitch

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Here in decrease a stitch this is making your work smaller. Again Crocheting for dummies with written and visual directions at http://www.dummies.com/crafts/crocheting/stitches/how-to-decrease-single-crochet/

Using single crochet for demonstration: however, you can us a double or treble stitch to decrease same as you do if you want to increase the project you are working on.

Note from the site:  You can decrease a stitch (abbreviated dec), which is really just subtracting a stitch, in a single crochet row. You decrease stitches in single crochet in the same places that you increase stitches — at the ends of the row or somewhere in the middle.

Written:

Insert your hook into the next stitch.

If you’re decreasing at the beginning of the row, insert your hook in the first stitch.

Yarn over (yo) and draw the yarn through the stitch.

You should have 2 loops remaining on your hook.

Insert your hook into the next stitch.

You’re continuing to work single crochets normally.

Yarn over (yo) and draw the yarn through the stitch.

You should have 3 loops on your hook.

Yarn over and draw the yarn through all 3 loops on your hook.

You’ve completed one single crochet stitch decrease.

Take a look at these symbols for single crochet stitch decrease.

Again stitch diagrams use symbols to give you a pictorial description of the pattern design; may or may not include written directions. These are the symbols for a single crochet decrease in crochet stitch diagrams.

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Beginner Crocheting - Increasing a stitch

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This is how to increase a stitch; however, this makes your work larger.  You can also use with double or single or treble stitch as well.  I use double crochet a lot in my hats. This is also written and visual from Crocheting for dummies at http://www.dummies.com/crafts/crocheting/stitches/increase-double-crochet-in-the-middle-or-end-of-a-row/

Note from website about increasing: You can increase (abbreviated inc) double-crochet by adding a stitch at the middle or end of the row. When increasing double crochet, always count your stitches to make sure you have the correct number on your work. If you’re working from a pattern, it’ll tell you where to place your extra stitches, so no guesswork is needed.

Written:

Work across your row until you get to the designated increase stitch or the last stitch of the row.

Crochet the stitches that your pattern calls for. (When increasing stitches, always count your stitches to ensure you have the correct number on your work.)

Work 2 stitches into the designated stitch from the previous row.

By working 2 stitches into 1 from the previous row, you are increasing your current row by 1 stitch. If you want to increase your current row by 2 stitches at once, then work 3 stitches into 1 from the previous row.

Take a look at the symbol for a double crochet increase in the visual section of this blog.

Visual:

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