RE: Close Only Counts in Horseshoes: More Amigurumi Design Experiments
Hello @danmaruschak
I think your crochet figure is coming along well. I like the solid colour - it reminds me a bit of the Aardman Morph character. I'd be interested to see how the leg length and leg angle could affect the stability too.
I was also particularly interested in your mention of the single crochet decreases.
Normally I follow this sort of method :
I always thought this was the only way of making decreases, but in my latest crochet post where I made a little bird for a wind spinner, I actually used a-new-to-me method described by the youtuber which I felt was very neat. You just need to insert your crochet hook into the front half of the single crochet stitch (or stitches) that you want to decrease rather than inserting it into the whole stitch. The video below is for clarification of what I mean from 26:47 :
Yes, this different type of decrease is exactly what I'm experimenting with on my next experiment. From the terminology I've heard the first type is "single crochet two together" since you're doing a single crochet stitch to join two stitches together, and the second type is the "invisible decrease" stitch. I know I've used invisible decreases sometimes in the past but I forget why I gravitated back to using single-crochet-two-together (in the past I've let long stretches of time pass where I wasn't actively engaged in the craft so I end up forgetting some things), it might just have been because the invisible decrease is a trickier stitch to do since you need to get single loops.
I've mostly been doing that to just keep things simple while I'm experimenting with the structure, but I agree it does give the completed figure an interesting look.
Thank you for the reply @danmaruschak. I didn't know the proper names for those two types of decreases.