Single Crochet 2 Together Decrease (Sc2tog)
Decreases create shaping and curves in your crochet projects. Learn how to decrease from 2 stitches to 1, with a single crochet 2 together stitch. This stitch is abbreviated as sc2tog.

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Parts of a Single Crochet
Let’s start by breaking down how a normal single crochet works. It has 2 main steps to it. First, you insert your hook into whatever stitch or space you are working into, and you pull up a loop.

Then, with 2 loops on your hook, you finish the stitch by doing a yarn over and pulling it through both loops.
Single Crochet 2 Together Decrease (sc2tog)
For this decrease, we want to start with 2 stitches and end up with 1. So we start 2 separate single crochet stitches, and then finish them together as though they were one.
First Step
Start by doing the first step only, of both single crochets. Insert your hook into the first stitch, and pull up a loop. You now have 2 loops on your hook just like you did for a normal single crochet.
Now before moving on to step 2, do the first step of the next single crochet as well. Insert your hook into the next stitch, and pull up a loop. You should now have 3 loops on your hook.

Step 2
We started 2 separate stitches, by doing the first step of each. Now let’s turn those 2 stitches into one, by finishing them together. The second step of a normal single crochet is to yarn over and pull through both the loops on our hook. In this case we have 3 loops, so yarn over and pull through all 3.

The sc2tog decrease is complete, and our 2 stitches have become one!
Other applications
You can work an sc2tog anywhere you can work a normal single crochet. It does not have to be in adjacent stitches. For example, you could work the first half, then skip a bunch of stitches and work the 2nd half in the next stitch. This creates a pinched/folded opening out of the skipped stitches.

This can be useful for things like amigurumi features, pleats, or other similar shaping needs.
You can also work an sc2tog into spaces instead of stitches, or into any combination of spaces or stitches. You can even do it between stitches! All you really need is 2 different locations of some kind to work into.
Single Crochet 2 Together Decrease (sc2tog) Video Tutorial
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