{"id":938,"date":"2009-02-13T08:46:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T13:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/?p=938"},"modified":"2009-02-13T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T13:46:19","slug":"how-to-invisible-decrease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/how-to-invisible-decrease\/","title":{"rendered":"how to: invisible decrease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember in the &#8216;early days&#8217; of making amigurumi, when we didn&#8217;t know about the <a href=\"\/blog\/tutorials\/magic-ring-right-handed\/\">Magic Ring<\/a>? Remember what an <em>aha!<\/em> moment it was when you figured out how to do it, and how we&#8217;ve never looked back since?<\/p>\n<p>Today I have what I think will be the next <em>aha!<\/em> moment for amigurumi makers: the <strong>invisible decrease<\/strong>. I&#8217;m showing it here because nobody I have spoken to knows how to do it (or even that it exists!), and it really does make a difference to the finish of your pieces.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s briefly look at other options for decreasing in single crochet: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>skipping stitches:<\/strong> leaves gaps in your work where the stuffing can show through<\/li>\n<li><strong>sc2tog (sc decrease):<\/strong> leaves a slight bump and a longer bar visible in the stitch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/id_decrease_probs.jpg\" alt=\"amigurumi decrease problems\" \/><br \/>\n<em>L: skipped stitches (arrow marks hole);<br \/>\nR: sc2tog (arrow marks obtrusive &#8216;line&#8217; made by bar of stitch)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The invisible decrease (invdec) method is different; as good as its name, it&#8217;s practically invisible, even if you know what you&#8217;re looking for! The reason for this is that it groups the previous stitches together at its base, so the stitch itself looks identical to a regular single crochet. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/id_invdec.jpg\" alt=\"amigurumi invisible decrease\" \/><br \/>\n<em>L: the invdec (marked with arrow) looks just like the other stitches in the row;<br \/>\nR: the result is smooth and even<\/em><\/p>\n<p>See? It&#8217;s like magic! <a href=\"\/blog\/amigurumi-help\/invisible-decrease\/\">Now click through to the Invisible Decrease tutorial&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember in the &#8216;early days&#8217; of making amigurumi, when we didn&#8217;t know about the Magic Ring? Remember what an aha! moment it was when you figured out how to do it, and how we&#8217;ve never looked back since? Today I have what I think will be the next aha! moment for amigurumi makers: the invisible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-938","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\/938","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}