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Adding more stitches to your work or how to increase in crochet.
When you learn how to crochet you sometimes need to add one or more stitches. This is really easy so are you ready to learn how to increase in crochet? Let’s take a look!
No matter what stitch you are crocheting when you need to make your work bigger.
You need to work an increase or increasing stitches is the way. By adding 1 or more stitches into the same stitch you can make your work bigger in that spot.
This is what you see when crochet Amigrumi but you also see it in regular patterns.
Besides increasing your pattern, you can also decrease your pattern as well. This to shorten the rows you are working on.
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How To Use The Increase In Crochet?
When you’ve learned the 7 basic crochet stitches, the next thing you need to learn is to crochet increase and crochet decrease techniques.
You can use the increase in crochet for things like:
- Amigurumi
- Puff flowers
- Spirals
- Circles
- Bag
The increase add stitches to a row to make that row longere rows longer.
Learning Time To Increase
5 minutes – when you mastered a single crochet, a half double crochet, a double crochet etc it is easy to learn how to increase the number of stitches.
Stitch Level = Beginner/Intermediate
Tools
A crochet hook H/5mm
Material
1 skein of yarn
Stitches Used Increase Single Crochet
We are using the single crochet to show you how to increase. The same applies to the half double crochet, double crochet and treble crochet as well.
| Slip Knot | Use the crochet hook to draw the yarn through the loop and pull the loop until tight |
| Chain(CH) | Wrap the yarn over the hook from back to front. Pull the hook with the yarn, through the loop that is on your hook |
| Single Crochet (SC) | Start with one loop on your hook Slide the hook in the chain stitch. Wrap the yarn over the hook and pull the yarn through the chain stitch. You now have 2 loops on the hook. Wrap the yarn over the hook and draw it through both loops on the hook |
| Increase Single Crochet (INC SC) | crochet additional single crochet in 1 stitch |
| X inc SC | crochet additional single crochet for x-times. X can be any number defined in the pattern |
How to Increase The Single Crochet
To increase this stitch you need to make an additional single crochet stitch in the loop you already made this stitch.
In a crochet pattern you can read different types of increases e.g:
Starting Row: Start with a slip knot and chain the number of stitches you need for your pattern
Rows: Crochet the number of single crochet as needed in your pattern
3 SC in 1 – this means you have to make 3 single crochet stitches into 1 stitch
3 SC inc – means that you need to add a single crochet stitch in the loop you already made one and repeat this for 3 stitches. So you start with 3 single crochet stitches and after the increase, you have 6 single crochet stitches
The pattern tells you when to perform an increase for a stitch:
- At the start of the row
- In the middle
- At an interval or
- At the end of a row
- In the final stitch
Abbreviation Increase Single Crochet
In a pattern, the abbreviation used to describe an increase = INC. It describes the number of times you need to increase.
So when the pattern says 1 inc it means add 1 additional stitch in the same stitch.
When it says 3 inc it means that you need to increase 1 additional stitch in the next 3 stitches.
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Yield: increases
Summary Increase In Crochet
Prep Time: 2 minutes
Active Time: 2 minutes
Total Time: 4 minutes
Difficulty: Beginner
When you learn how to crochet you sometimes need to add one or more stitches. This is really easy. Follow the pattern and do what is asked. Add 1 or more stitches in one stitch or increase with 1 stitch for a specific number of times.
Materials
- 1 skein of yarn
Tools
- Crochet hook 7/4.5mm
Instructions
- 3 SC in 1 - this means you have to make 3 single crochet stitches into 1 stitch
- 3 SC inc - means that you need to add a single crochet stitch in the loop you already made one and repeat this for 3 stitches. So you start with 3 single crochet stitches and after the increase you have 6 single crochet stitches
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