{"id":9215,"date":"2013-01-30T07:41:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T12:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=9215"},"modified":"2026-06-29T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T19:57:51","slug":"perfect-your-invisible-decreases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/perfect-your-invisible-decreases\/","title":{"rendered":"Perfect your invisible decreases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The invisible decrease (invdec) is one of the two absolutely essential techniques for making beautifully neat amigurumi (the other being, of course, the <a href=\"\/magicring\">magic ring<\/a>). But invdec is a little tricky to get the hang of, and there are 2 points during the decrease where you can accidentally lengthen your stitch so it isn\u2019t neat and tight, and the resulting decrease will be far more obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Today I&#8217;d like to demonstrate these invdec problem points, so you know where the pitfalls are, and how to avoid them. You&#8217;ll find this tutorial useful if:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;re new to the invisible decrease technique <em>(watch <a href=\"\/invdec\">my video tutorial<\/a> before you continue reading this!)<\/em><\/li>\n<li>You&#8217;ve tried invdec but been disappointed by your results<\/li>\n<li>Your invdecs look inconsistent, gappy, or too prominent<\/li>\n<li>You want your amigurumi to look as good as possible!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/amigurumi-help\/how-to-crochet-an-invisible-decrease\/#tips\">Continue to the Invisible Decrease Tips tutorial >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The invisible decrease (invdec) is one of the two absolutely essential techniques for making beautifully neat amigurumi (the other being, of course, the magic ring). But invdec is a little tricky to get the hang of, and there are 2 points during the decrease where you can accidentally lengthen your stitch so it isn\u2019t neat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crochet","category-tutorials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27483,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9215\/revisions\/27483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}