Double Crochet Decrease

Below is a step by step photo tutorial for double crochet decrease stitch (also called double crochet 2 stitches together, dc2tog). For a row with double crochet stitches, your work will look like this:

1. Yarn over.

2. Insert the hook in the next stitch from the working row, yarn over and draw up a loop. You will have 3 loops on the hook.

3. Yarn over and draw through 2 loops on the hook, 2 loops will remain on the hook.

4. Yarn over.

5. Insert the hook in the next stitch from the working row, yarn over and draw up a loop. You will have 4 loops on the hook.

6. Yarn over and draw through 2 loops on the hook. You will have 3 loops on the hook.

7. Yarn over and draw through the 3 remaining loops on the hook.

Continue crocheting according to your pattern instructions.

This is how the finished row and the double crochet decrease stitch will look like: