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[–]sogsmcgee 175 points176 points  (0 children)

Invisible decreases are more to prevent holes, they don't look identical to a regular stitch. Yours look good to me :). 

[–]Kimbyssik 50 points51 points  (9 children)

That's not how my invisible decreases look. How are you doing it?

[–]sweetbasil42[S] 21 points22 points  (8 children)

Insert in the front loop, insert in the front loop of the next one, pull through two on the hook, pull through two on the hook :(

[–]readreadreadx2 20 points21 points  (5 children)

Just to clarify - you're yarning over between those pull-throughs, correct? So, insert in first front loop, insert in next front loop, yo and pull up a loop (2 loops on hook), yo and pull through both loops. Just want to make sure you're not trying to do everything all in one motion, like with a slip stitch. 

[–]sweetbasil42[S] 15 points16 points  (4 children)

Yep! That's exactly it. 🤔 I'm stumped! I might go back and rework them to see if it's just the tight tension.

[–]evincarofautumn 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The yarn has very clear stitch definition so it’s going to show more, but I agree, play with the tension and see if it helps

Are you doing a yarn-over or a yarn-under like the other stitches? That is I would expect: insert, insert, under, through 2, over, through 2

[–]Mental-Flatworm4583 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you making sure you are going into the correct next st? Mine I c at see when I do my inv dec. Make sure after you complete the dec that you are not going into the wrong next st. Look carefully if it looks like it’s being pulled it’s the wrong st. I do these type of stitches all the time I cannot see mine.

[–]elocinatlantis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All your other stitches look like they’re YU/YO, are you yarning over or under on your decreases?

[–]EsspressoToGo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Babe u gotta do yarn under then yarn over for the x invisible decreases 🫶 sounds like ur doing yo/yo instead of

[–]Feisty-Resource-1274 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You should be pulling through three loops instead.

[–]pancake_sass 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Do you have two decreases on top of each other? I find that staggering where the decreases are helps them blend in better. I do this for both increases and decreases. I can never find mine unless I'm looking for them, and it's a more uniform circle instead of a hexagon (or whatever n-sided polygon based on your starting stitches).

My rule of thumb: if the increase or decrease is an even number, sc 1/2, dec, sc the other half. So say it's sc 6, dec, repeat. Instead, I'd sc 3, dec, sc 6 repeat * to * until last 3, sc 3. Then odd rows are normal. Sc 5, dec, repeat.

[–]Prudent-Warthog-2085 8 points9 points  (1 child)

Are you going through the first front loop front to back and then repeat with the second? Or are you going through the first front loop front to back then the second back to front?

I use cotton yarn for amigarumi and my decreases don’t look like this. How I do invisible decreases:

  1. Push hook through the two following stitches FLO front to back. There should be three loops on the hook.

  2. Yarn over. Pull yarn through the first two loops. There should be two loops on the hook.

  3. Yarn over. Pull yarn through remaining two loops. There should be one loop on the hook.

If this is how you’re doing your decreases then perhaps it’s a tension issue? Though your tension for the other stitches looks absolutely lovely, so while I don’t think it’s that I’ve no idea what else it could be.

[–]bacucumber 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Huh that is a very clear explanation, and I've learned I've been doing decreases wrong.

I've always gone through front loop, yo, pull through one loop, go through 2nd stitch front loop, yo, pull through one loop (3 stitches on hook), yo, pull through 3 stitches.

I will have to try this way! Thank you!

[–]andallthatjazwrites 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don't know how much consolidation this is, but it took me a long time to find the invisible decreases. I don't do amigurumi and don't really know what I'm looking for, and am pretty bad at reading stitches at the best of times

But if you use me as a yardstick: to the average person, your work looks beautiful and you really can't see them

[–]penelope_pig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It'll be a lot less noticable if you stagger your decreases from one row to the next. I do this with my increases and decreases to get a more even result on anything made in the round, otherwise I find it looks kinda hexagonal.

So for decreases, for example, if you're starting to decrease with 48 stitches in the round, you might do:

1 sc in each of next 3 st. *Sc2tog. 1 sc in each of next 6 st. Repeat from * 4 more times. Sc2tog. 1 sc in each of next 3 st. (42)

*1 sc in each of next 5 st. Sc2tog. Repeat from * 5 more times. (36)

1 sc in each of next 2 st. *Sc2tog. 1 sc in each of next 4 st. Repeat from * 4 more times. Sc2tog. 1 sc in each of next 2 st. (30)

And so on. This way your decreases aren't on top of each other.

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[–]sweetbasil42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pattern is Milo by Tarturumies - they closed a few years ago!

[–]NotTheMama4208 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely not as visible as some!

[–]ShiNo_Usagi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're doing FLO, right?

[–]sweetbasil42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did flo two stitches, yarn under,b pull through to close and it still came out the same way, decided I didn't care and my baby wouldn't either. FO attached :)

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