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Single Crochet Increase
How to Increase and Decrease
Shaping is done by increasing, which adds stitches to make the crocheted piece wider, or decreasing, which subtracts stitches to make the piece narrower.
Note: Make a practice sample by chaining 15 stitches loosely and working four rows of single crochet with 14 stitches in each row. Do not fasten off at the end of the last row. Use this sample swatch to practice the following method of increasing stitches.
Increasing To increase one stitch in single, half double, double or treble crochet, simply work two stitches in one stitch. For example, if you are working in single crochet and you need to increase one stitch, you would work one single crochet in the next stitch; then you would work another single crochet in the same stitch.
For practice: On sample swatch, turn work and chain one. Single crochet in first two stitches; increase in next stitch by working two single crochets in the stitch (see illustration 1a). |
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