Mee-ow, it is I, Mimi.

Today I’m going to teach you a wonderful thing you can do with a tiny little stitch called slip stitch, sl st for short.

Sometimes when we crochet we want to start the next line in a different place to where we finished it.

If we want to make it longer we can simply add more chain at the end of the previous row like this (no slip stitches required)

If you want to finish in a longer place and start again further in you can finish off and start again, but that is too messy when there is a much  more suitable solution that looks is easier and looks better like this.

So how do you do it? You start a new row adding a sl st to the top of each stitch you don’t want to increase, like this.

I did this example in a separate color so you can see what I’m doing, but usually it would look like this – a seamless edge.

Once you reach the start of the next row you do your turning ch and continue on happily with your project.