Single Decreases

Mastering 6 Essential Knitting Techniques for Single Decreases in a Row or Round

Slip slip knit

SSK
Slant: left
Worked: Knitwise

Detailed steps

  1. Hold yarn in back, insert the right-hand needle knitwise into the next stitch and slip it onto the right-hand needle.
  2. Repeat with the second stitch.
  3. Insert the left-hand needle into the front of both slipped stitches from left to right.
  4. Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the right-hand needle.
  5. Pull the new stitch through all three stitches.
  6. Drop the three stitches off the left-hand needle.

Slip Knit Pass Over

SKP
Slant: left
Worked: Knitwise

Detailed steps

  1. Hold yarn in back, insert the right-hand needle knitwise into the next stitch and slip it onto the right-hand needle.
  2. Insert the right-hand needle knitwise into the next stitch.
  3. Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the right-hand needle.
  4. Pull the new stitch through and drop the knitted stitch off the left-hand needle.
  5. Insert the left-hand needle into the front of the slipped stitch.
  6. Pass the slipped stitch over the knitted stitch and off the right-hand needle.
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Knit Two Stitches Together

K2tog
Slant: right
Worked: Knitwise

Detailed steps

  1. Hold yarn in back, insert the right-hand needle knitwise into the first two stitches on the left-hand needle.
  2. Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the right-hand needle.
  3. Pull the new stitch through both stitches.
  4. Drop both stitches off the left-hand needle.
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Knit Two Stitches Together Through Back Loops

K2tog
tbl
Slant: left
Worked: Knitwise

Detailed steps

  1. Hold yarn in back. Insert the right-hand needle through the back loops of the first two stitches on the left-hand needle from right to left.
  2. Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the right-hand needle.
  3. Pull the new stitch through both stitches.
  4. Drop both stitches off the left-hand needle.

Slip Slip Purl

SSP
Slant: left
Worked: Purlwise

Detailed steps

  1. Hold yarn in front. Insert the right-hand needle knitwise into the next stitch and slip it onto the right-hand needle.
  2. Repeat with the second stitch.
  3. Insert the left-hand needle through the front of both slipped stitches from left to right, then slip them back to the left-hand needle.
  4. Insert the right-hand needle through the back of both stitches on the left-hand needle from right to left.
  5. Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the right-hand needle.
  6. Pull the new stitch through both stitches.
  7. Drop both stitches off the left-hand needle.

Purl Two Stitches Together

P2tog
Slant: Right
Worked: Purlwise

Detailed steps

  1. Hold yarn in front. Insert the right-hand needle purlwise into the first two stitches on the left-hand needle.
  2. Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the right-hand needle.
  3. Pull the new stitch through both stitches.
  4. Drop both stitches off the left-hand needle.