How To Crochet - Invisible Decrease

Welcome to another crochet tutorial with CozyRosyUK. Today we're talking all about the invisible

decrease. So just like the double crochet two together, the invisible decrease reduces

two stitches into one. So on my right hand here you can see that I've used the standard

double crochet two together and on my left hand here we have the invisible decrease

Not only is the shape a little bit better on the invisible decrease but there are literally no lumps

and bumps like there are in the double crochet two together. So let's have a look at how we do the

the double crochet two together so that we can compare it to the invisible decrease

So here I have just, I'm just in the middle of starting a simple circle

so I going to crochet into the next three stitches along Double crochet there

And then I'm going to do a double crochet two together. So we insert the hook into the next stitch, bring a loop up

Insert the hook into the next stitch. Then we're bringing two together

So we've got all three loops on our hook. And we would yarn over and pull through all three, which gives us a bit of bulk there

So I'm going to undo that for a moment and actually show you how to do the invisible decrease because this way we don't get any lumps or bumps in our amigurami work

So it is important to note that you must be working on the right side of your work and we're only going to work into the front two loops

So every stitch has got a front loop and a back loop and we're only going to work into these front two loops

So what we do is we insert our hook under the first front loop in that first stitch

and then we insert our hook under the second front loop. So we look like we have three loops on our hook

We yarn over and bring our loop through those front two loops to leave two loops on the hook and then we yarn over and pull through both those loops and it a lot less bulky So we going to do the next three

double, the next three stitches we've got three double crochets into them just like that one two

three. We're going to do another invisible decrease so we go under that first front loop then under

the next front loop of the next stitch we yarn over, just bring our hook back through those

front two loops, yarn over and pull through both. I'm going to move along to do the next decrease

We'll do another one together. So insert your hook under the front loop of the next stitch

and then under the next front loop, it's just that front loop you want

You're going to yarn over, bring your hook through those front two loops

and yarn over again to pull through the last two remaining loops

Under that front loop, under the next front loop, yarn over to pull through those two loops

and yarn over to pull through both those loops. You can keep doing that all the way round and whenever your pattern asks you to double crochet two stitches together and you're in an amigurami style pattern, you're working on the right side of your crochet

As you can see all these lovely stitches, you're able to replace that double crochet two together with the invisible decrease

and there you are you can't see any decreases that i've made along this round at all

it's so neat and tidy so that's why i always recommend doing the invisible decrease

in your amigurami patterns as well