Increase and decrease in crochet

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!

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!

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…

This is a guide for amigurumi beginners. Learn the basic stitches and techniques you need to know to start your first amigurumi project.

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

Here is a beginner's guide to increasing and decreasing in crochet - an essential skill for working in the round to create hats, doilies, bags, amigurumi,

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.

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

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