ALL ABOUT… SHAPING

Open up your crocheting to a whole new world of possibilities open to you with shaping stitches. Becky Skuse gives us the low-down on the benefits of increasing and decreasing…

The world of crochet would be a very different one without increases and decreases – all we’d be able to make would be flat, straight fabrics, such as squares and scarves. By learning simple shaping stitches, you can create all sorts of shapes, including garments. So what are increasing and decreasing stitches? And how do they change the shape of your crochet fabric? By now, you will have made a few squares or rectangles, working the same number of stitches on every row to keep the sides straight. If you work decrease stitches, you will reduce the number of stitches in a row and so narrow the width of the crochet fabric. Working increase stitches will add more stitches to a row and widen the fabric. Decreasing and increasing will create sloped…

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Beginners´ Guide to Crochet (Digital) - 1 Issue, Beginner's Guide to Crochet 2019

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