TREBLE DECREASE

Here’s how to decrease one treble crochet stitch

Decreasing in treble crochet is just as easy as in double crochet. There are two main methods of decreasing that you’ll see used in patterns. Some patterns use a quick decrease method, where you’ll be instructed to ‘skip a stitch’ – this means you need to leave the next stitch unworked, and work into the following stitch. The quick method works well, but it will leave a small hole in the fabric – if that’s the effect you want, that’s fine. If you want a solid fabric, you’ll need to work a decrease that’s usually called tr2tog in patterns (shown below). Skipping one stitch or working tr2tog (the abbreviation for ‘treble 2 together’) once in a row will reduce your stitch count by one. You can decrease at any point along a row,…

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