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Single Crochet Decrease Tutorial

May 27, 2021 / No Comments

Howdy!

It’s Learn a New Thing Thursday! Is that a thing? Can I make it one? I’m going to. 🙂

Today I want to show you how to crochet the single crochet decrease, aka in pattern speak as sc2tog.

Decrease stitches are a way to eliminate stitches in your work and to give it shape. The word “decrease” typically refers to working two stitches together, but it is possible to work more than 2 stitches together using the same methodology. Today, I’ll be showing you how to work two stitches together using single crochet. I promise it isn’t as hard as it sounds, and once you get practiced, you’ll use it for creating all kinds of shapes, whether working flat as in my swatch here or in the round.

Following the photo tutorial is a video tutorial, just in case you need to see it in action.

Photo Tutorial

  • "Step 1: Insert your hook into the first indicated stitch, yarn over, and pull up a loop." Image shows a hook inserted under the top V of the first stitch from the previous row.
  • "Step 1 Completed; 2 Loops on Your Hook" Image shows two loops on the hook, one the original working loop, the second the loop just pulled up through the first stitch of the previous row.
  • "Step 2: Insert you hook into the second indicated stitch, yarn over, pull up another loop." Image shows a hook with the previously mentioned two loops on it inserted into the second stitch from the previous row.
  • "Step 2 Completed; 3 Loops on Your Hook" Image shows three loops on the hook, one the original working loop, the second the loop pulled up through the first stitch of the previous row and the last the loop just pulled up through the second stitch from the previous row..
  • "Step 3: Yarn over and pull through all three loops on your hook." Image is a split image. The first image on left shows three loops on the hook and the working yarn wrapped around the hook. The second image on the right shows the hook pulling the working yarn through all three loops.
  • "Step 3 Completed; Completed Single Crochet Decrease (sc2tog)" Image shows a completed single crochet decrease worked over the first two stitches from the previous row.
  • The swatch shows a single crochet decrease worked in both the first two and last two stitches from the previous row, with arrows pointing to the top of the decrease stitches. Text reads, "I continued my row with single crochet until I reached the last two stitches, where I worked another sc2tog over the last two stitches."

Video Tutorial

If you want to see this stitch in action, I’ve recorded a video tutorial for you as well!

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial! If there’s a stitch you’d like to see me make a tutorial for, let me know in the comments below!

Until next time!

Pinterest Image: Single Crochet Decrease Photo and Video Tutorial; www.hooksbookswanderlust.com

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