This video crochet tutorial will help you learn how to crochet the front post double crochet two together decrease. This is a method for decreasing the number of stitches in your work. This decrease is particularly useful when working a fabric using double crochets or front post double crochets.
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Pattern Instructions
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Skill: Intermediate
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Step 1
Yarn over
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Step 2
Insert hook behind the post of the double crochet in row before and back through to front
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Step 3
Yarn over and draw through the post
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Step 4
Yarn over and draw through the first two stitches on hook
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Step 5
Insert hook into next post and back through to the front
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Step 6
yarn over and draw through again
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Step 7
yarn over and draw through the first two stitches on hook
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Step 7
yarn over and draw through the last two stitches on hook
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when you do the second stitch of the decrease why do you not do a yarn over before going around the post?
It would give you too many loops to work. The stitch would not be the proper height.
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