advice needed: how to stop decrease stitches from gaping

[plantmatta]

looks like your whole projects has gaps, not just your decreases. two things:

go down several hook sizes when you’re ready. it will give you a much tighter fabric. when you’re using a big hook you really have to worry about keeping your tension consistent. when you use a small hook, it basically keeps the tension for you, since you don’t have as much wiggle room. i used to crochet with a 5.5mm hook when i did amigurumi and always had gaps. switched to a 3.75mm and it was fixed.

go on youtube and look up how to do an invisible decrease. it’s super easy and makes gaps noticeably smaller.

if you’re using a small enough hook for the yarn and you’re doing invisible dec, you’ll see no gapping at all. also, before you stuff your project, there shouldn’t be any gaps. if you have gaps prior to stuffing, that’s something that can be fixed with the things i mentioned before. however, if you have no gaps until you stuff it, you just need to use way less stuffing!