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A common complaint when making amigurumi is that decreases are far too noticeable. The usual sc2tog tends to leave a hole, and adds unwanted texture to the item. A good workaround is the invisible decrease.

Here we have a sc tube and are ready to do a decrease:

(I’m using a different colour for the decrease; you would normally just keep going with the same yarn. ^_^)

Start by inserting your hook into the front loop of the next stitch:

Do not yarn over! Instead, insert your hook into the front loop of the next stitch:

Technically, you’ll have three loops on your hook at this point: the loop you started with, and the front loops of the next two stitches.

Now yarn over:

And pull through two loops:

Then finish the sc as you normally would by yarning over:

And pulling through two loops:

Now we’re at the part of the tutorial where I show you what the finished technique looks like… which is a bit of a problem with something with the word “invisible” in its name. So, here is the invisible decrease along with the regular decrease.

The hook is pointing at the invisible decrease:

Now it’s pointing at the regular one:

Hmm… ok, here’s the back, then.

The invisible decrease leaves the “back loops” visible on the back, so look for those when trying to spot it:

The regular decrease doesn’t have such obvious markers (figures…)

Perhaps it’ll be easier to spot the differences if I stack them over several rows…

Ah, yes. There we go. The invisible decreases are on the right (the hook is pointing at where I think they are), and the regular decreases are on the left (roughly on a line with the tail sticking out of the bottom). What the picture doesn’t truly convey, is that the regular decreases form a bit of a ridge, whereas the invisible decreases don’t. Which, I suppose makes them invisible to the blind, as well. :P