The Spruce / Kathryn Vercillo. A crochet decrease makes the current row or round that you are working on shorter than the one previous to it. So, for example, if you worked twenty stitches into the previous row when you decrease you may only work thirteen stitches.

How do you decrease a single crochet stitch?

Insert the hook into the next stitch and yarn over. Pull a loop through so that there are now 3 loops on the hook. …and pull the loop through all 3 loops on the hook. And that's all there is to the single crochet decrease!

What does sc3 mean crochet?

sc 3). For some patterns '2 sc' means 'make 1 single crochet into the next 2 stitches', but for others it means 'make 2 single crochet stitches into the next stitch'. ... The pattern is indicating how many MORE times you need to repeat the sequence of stitches after already crocheting the sequence once.