Dropping Stitches

Dropping Crochetting stitches is the exact oppisite of adding them (obviously). To drop a crochet stitch, you don't want to just skip it because it will leave a hole in your work, and not even a pretty hole at that. In order to do this without leaving a hole in your wake, do the following:

For Single Crochet:

You shouldn't be using Single crochets in most of your work, they take too long. If you are using a pattern, switch to one round of Half-Double Crochet or Double Crochet to drop stitches.

For Half-Double Crochet:

Do the first part of the HDC crochet as normal, so you have drawn up 3 loops on the hook. Instead of yarning over and pulling through all three, first insert hook in next stitch, and draw a fourth loop through it. Now yarn over and pull through all 4 loops, and you will drop 1 stitch.

For Double Crochet:

Do the first half of a DC, so that you have drawn up 3 loops on the hook. Yarn over and draw through 2 loops, so you have 2 remaining loops on hook. Now Yarn Over again, and insert hook in top of next stitch, drawing up a 4th loop. Yarn Over and pull through 2 loops. Yarn Over and pull through remaining 3, and you have dropped one stitch.

The Above method can be used in patterns to make a split Front/Back Post Double Crochet