How to increase (inc) single crochet stitches in the round

so in this video I’m gonna teach you how to do an increase stitch and an increase stitch is simply two stitches in the same stitch of of the previous round and that differs from for example a single crochet stitch because for a single crochet stitch you only put one stitch in a stitch of the previous round normally when people say increase stitch it also refers to a single crochet increase stitch and that really tells you what type of stitch to put twice in one stitch there are such things as like double crocheting increases and whatnot but patterns will usually explicitly point that out if they want you to do that instead so to get your I trained let’s first look at how an increase stitch looks different from a single crochet stitch when you’re done with it so here we have a single crochet stitch and I can tell because I can see that there’s only one stitch in this hole over here these two vertical lines represent where the stitch grabbed onto the previous round so if I go one stitch back I can see that there’s actually two stitches in here there’s actually two V’s next to each other going into one hole see over here that’s the increased stitch and from this angle you can see those two horizontal bees representing two stitches alright so I’ve got a single crochet stitch here I’m gonna do an increase stitch in this next stitch so to do that again to position I’m gonna do a single crochet stitch as I normally would so put the hook through both top loops yarn over remember the are needs to go over the top of the hook pull it through now you have two loops on your hook yarn over pull it through again and remember an increase stitch is simply two of these in the same stitch so you’re gonna do exactly the same motions the question is only where do you put the hook so for the stitch I just made I just put it in this stitch and I can tell that for a number of reasons one again following this piece of yarn and where it hooked under I can see that it’s hooked under into this hole and also when you’re working with different types of yarn it could be harder to see so some thing I used to do in the beginning was literally pull on the stitch not just an aid to see where and the piece it was attached to and so you can see it’s moving this hole so that holds the one where you just put your hook into so that’s gonna be the same hole that you put your hook into now to do the second stitch of the increase stitch and there you have it so they’re in amigurumi there is the concept of an invisible increased stitch because you want the outside of your work to always look really smooth and not have these holes as you can see putting your hook repetitively into the same exact hole might create a gap in your final product like this so the only difference between an invisible increase stitch and a regular one is where you put your hook into that very first time so if you want to do an invisible increase stitch you put your hook under only the front loop of the next stitch for that very first half of the increased stitch then for the second half you put your hook under both top loops under your single crochet stitch and see how the gap that’s created by these two stitches is a much smaller than the gap created by the previous two stitches which was the regular increased stitch alright so in a quiz you now we’ve just completed to increase stitches and let’s say I say we want to make another increase stitch where would you put the hook yeah it’s over here so let’s just do a regular increase stitch again I’ve done the first single crochet and let’s quiz you again where would you put your hook in to make the second half of this increase stitch yep over here and let’s take a look back on all the work we just did to confirm that we indeed have made increase stitches you can see that there’s two V’s vertical V’s going under this stitch you can confirm this by pulling on them to see where they are lashed on to so that’s one increased stitch and then we’ve got another two in this hole that’s the second increase stitch and then we’ve got another two in this hole that’s a third increase stitch and then this this one’s different this is a single crochet stitch there’s only one B in this hole and this is the stitch I was showing you in the very beginning so the other thing I want to mention is let’s say you were crocheting with a stitch marker and you knew that this round needed to be about but increased it just even though there’s three increased stitches in here the way you count the number of stitches and around is by seeing that right now there’s actually six stitches in this round assuming that the stitch marker marks the first stitch of every round and again that goes back to the fact that an increase stitch equals two stitches in one stitch of the previous round so you would count it as one two three four five six stitches so far in this round