Slip Stitch Crochet Instructions

Make slip stitches in crochet to advance your work.

A basic crochet stitch that crocheters use often in crochet projects, the slip stitch provides a useful method of moving your crocheting progress along a row without creating actual stitches. Because a slip stitch works more as a placeholder than an actual stitch, crocheters often use this stitch to work along rows, edgings or to join together stitches. When you master the slip stitch, you will use this versatile stitch in a variety of ways while you crochet.

Things You'll Need

• Yarn (weight indicated by instructions)
• Crochet hook (size indicated by instructions)

Instructions

1. Insert your crochet hook into the nearest stitch along the row from front to back.

2. Bring the yarn over the crochet hook one time.

3. Pull the crochet hook back to hook the yarn-over loop through the other loops on your hook. This will leave one loop remaining on your crochet hook. This makes one slip stitch.

4. Repeat the steps in the next stitch to make another slip stitch, if you desire.

References

• Woolcrafting: Crochet Slip Stitch