These 2 terms can be very confusing when you are a beginner and can cause your project to turn out looking quite distorted. My first experience with decreasing is now pretty funny, I just skipped the stitches, which of course made it look very holey!!!! I spent many hours counting and recounting, ripping out etc. before I finally realized how to do a nice looking decrease. The pictures are showing a dc in the “same space” decrease. You follow your pattern and when it says to decrease you would: yo, insert hook into next stitch, yo pull through (3 loops on hook), yo pull through 2 loops (2 loops now on hook) **you will not finish the dc yet** yo, insert hook into next stitch, yo pull through (4 loops on hook) yo pull through 2 loops. You should now have 3 loops on hook, yo pull through all 3 loops, decrease made. This creates 1 stitch out of 2. A tr decrease would be as follows: yo twice, insert hook into next stitch, yo pull through (4 loops on hook), yo pull through 2 loops twice (2 loops now on hook) **you will not finish the tr yet** yo twice, insert hook into next stitch, yo pull through (4 loops on hook) yo pull through 2 loops twice. You should now have 3 loops on hook, yo pull through all 3 loops, decrease made. Same space is actually exactly that. If the pattern says 2 dc, cluster, 2 dc in same space that means in the next stitch you would crochet 2 dc, cluster, 2 dc all in one (next) stitch. Or lets pretend the pattern says: dc in next 4 dc, popcorn in next stitch, in same space 2 dc: means dc in next 4 dc, popcorn in next stitch, in the same stitch as the popcorn do 2 dc. If there is a picture available of your pattern, look at it closely to make sure yours resembles the picture. Most patterns will have a stitch count at the end of the row so make sure you count before going on to the next row.

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