March 5th, 2010 
mio Today’s crochet experiment involves decreases. “Big deal!” you say? The experiment here was in doing decreases (sc2tog) without actually losing any stitches!
How? Well, the basic concept is that you insert your hook into a stitch, pull up a loop, insert your hook into the next stitch, pull a loop up, yarn over, and pull through all three loops. For the next stitch, insert your hook into the last stitch you just worked into and pull up a loop, and pull up a loop in the next stitch, and finish the sc2tog, and continue like this.
I tried this working in rows first:
And while it’s ok, it really doesn’t give the full feel of the stitches.
So, here it is again, but in the round (a tube) :
It creates a fabric that is sort of bumpy on one side, and quite smooth on the other, with an even grid of holes between the stitches.
Here it is again in the round, but with a lighter, variegated yarn:
I love the way the stitches look… like rows and rows of tiny balls of yarn. ^_^
The question now is, what do we do with this stitch? I think it might make a good coffeecup cozy fabric, but other than that, I’m stumped! Ideas?
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I’m always amazed by what you come up with but this blows my mind! I’m going to give this a try and see what I come up with!