Here's a step-by-step of my best fave decrease. It pulls both sides towards a central raised stitch, which looks super neat-o. It's featured heavily in the squid pattern (this'll be in the stitch dictionary when I finally put it all together), but here it is for all. I knit "british," so that's the way the tuturial goes.
Step one: slip two stitches together as if to knit:
step 2: enter next stitch after the 2 you just slipped ...
... and knit it.
step 3: With the left-hand needle, pick up the two slipped stitches and pass them together over the stitch just knit.
The result:
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Centered Double Decrease (sl 2, k1, p2sso) Tutorial
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4 comments:
Thank you for the pictures. I could not quite understand the other explanations I had been reading. I am grateful.
thanks for this explanation I was soo confused and the picture of the end result was really helpful too ta.
Thank you for taking the time to write the tutorial. It was great.
So grateful for the generosity of sharing your knowledge online! Thanks! Newbies like me need generous teachers like you.
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