6dec

[Kat319]

How do you do a 6dec for an amigurumi project please help

[bgs]

You might find this helpful.

[Granny Square]

That's a good guide Bgs linked to.  The thing is, '6 decreases' is ambiguous, it could mean to space them evenly around the round but then it's negligent of the designer to not have said that. 

What makes more sense, but could still have used more of an explanation by the designer, is if you are closing the bottom of a foot for example, and there are 6 stitches left - normally you'd gather up the last few stitches all at once, by making a partial stitch into the 6 stitches, then gather them up together in the last yarn over and pull thru.  

You know how to decrease 2 stitches into 1, right? It's the same idea, you make 1 stitch into the first stitch except the last yo and pull thru, then do the same for the next 5 stitches - you will be gathering loops on your hook, you should have 7 loops if you have done this for 6 stitches.  Then, to close them all up, yo and pull thru all the loops and secure the end.

This is just a guess on my part that the second option is the right one, and only makes sense if you know you should be finishing off the piece you are making at this point.

[Kat319]

48 minutes ago, Granny Square said:

That's a good guide Bgs linked to.  The thing is, '6 decreases' is ambiguous, it could mean to space them evenly around the round but then it's negligent of the designer to not have said that. 

What makes more sense, but could still have used more of an explanation by the designer, is if you are closing the bottom of a foot for example, and there are 6 stitches left - normally you'd gather up the last few stitches all at once, by making a partial stitch into the 6 stitches, then gather them up together in the last yarn over and pull thru.  

You know how to decrease 2 stitches into 1, right? It's the same idea, you make 1 stitch into the first stitch except the last yo and pull thru, then do the same for the next 5 stitches - you will be gathering loops on your hook, you should have 7 loops if you have done this for 6 stitches.  Then, to close them all up, yo and pull thru all the loops and secure the end.

This is just a guess on my part that the second option is the right one, and only makes sense if you know you should be finishing off the piece you are making at this poin

Hi thanks so much for your help.

 

[Kat319]

Just now, Kat319 said:

Hi thanks so much for your help.

 

Now can you put 6 decrease s in one stitch. This is probably a stupid question but 

[bgs]

32 minutes ago, Kat319 said:

Now can you put 6 decrease s in one stitch. This is probably a stupid question but 

No its a decrease which means you are working into 2 or more stitches of previous row combining them into 1 stitch on row you are currently working on.

https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/how-to-decrease-in-crochet-4002866

[Granny Square]

^ What she said. 

A decrease is transforming more than 1 stitch into 1 stitch, so it USES many stitches (at least 2), and gathers them up so they create 1 stitch top to work into for the next row.

An increase is shoving 2 or more stitches into 1 stitch, creating many stitch tops out of what was 1.  You can easily cram 6 into 1 stitch however, which would be an increase of 5.

[Granny Square]

I just looked at this again - is there a possibility that there was a typo, and it meant to say '6 dc' (meaning, 1 dc into each of the next 6 sts)?  Can you see the spot where you are on the pattern photo, does that shed any light?