How To Do A Decrease Stitch In Crochet. Yarn over and pull through. Decrease of v-st round.
If the author wants you to join together three four or more stitches he she uses the phrase name of stitch x tog for example. There are various techniques to do this. Joining two single crochet stitches together at the top to make it become one stitch is the way that you decrease in single crochet.
2 Yarn over yo and draw the yarn through the stitch.
If youre decreasing at the beginning of the row insert your hook in the first stitch. There are various techniques to do this. Then practise making decreases at various points on the row to see the shaping effects. Of course you might also see the instruction to sc2tog when your design has a two-stitch single crochet cluster as a texture feature but this is uncommon and in either case the way that you work it is the same as if you are decreasing in crochet.