3dctog decrease in American?

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I’m currently translating a pattern from European to American vernacular and I’ve realized I don’t know the American equivalent of a 3dctog stitch - essentially a decrease stitch that combines three stitches into one instead of two.

Does anyone know the American abbreviation for this stitch? Google isn’t being particularly helpful lol

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I’m not sure, that would be pulling up a loop from three stitches and pulling them together right?

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… tbh, idk if there is one. Maybe just write dec 3 together? Idk how to do that tho, so…

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What Axo said, but probably explain how to do the stitch as well. People might get confused.

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I think it’s just dc3tog (for DC) sc3tog (for sc) ect

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If I were you I would say 3dec and explain it beforehand.

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Oh yeah, but it would be sc3tog, not dc3tog right?

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Yeah, I realized that too late lol

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Yup, that’s right. :blush:

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I think you’re likely right, and as others have suggested I should probably explain the stitch in a note to avoid confusion.

Thanks, all! :heavy_heart_exclamation:

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As an aside, when I’m writing a pattern in long-hand, or picking up an old printed pattern I’m constantly forgetting which ‘language’ I’m meant to be using.

@Ribblr is an absolute godsend in that regard - I’m seriously considering entering all my patterns and just not publishing them so I don’t have to second guess the translation lol

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It translates it for you right?

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It does!

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Then i’m confused, you said you weren’t going to publish them since you didn’t want to translate them.

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I usually write 3tog but i dunno what it is officially

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Ah, no - I meant I wasn’t going to publish them because they’re not my patterns. They’re patterns I’ve purchased elsewhere.

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Oh okay I misunderstood.

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I just did a pattern with this in it. They explained at the top of the pattern and it was put as sc3tog.

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Personally I use 3-dec and explain in the notes that it is a triple decrease. It isn’t used a lot so I don’t know if there is an official other than sc3tog

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Its the same thing, just SC vs DC since American/US terminology is sc for UK DC. 3SCTOG is the most commonly used that I have seen or if the entire pattern is SC a simple 3TOG would suffice. This is coming from my personal experience of over 15 years crochet experience :wink:

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