SSSP | Slip Slip Slip Purl - Clear Steps and Visuals

Technique Info

Abbreviation	SSSP
Type	Double Decrease
Lean	Left
Worked	Purlwise
Facing stitch	P3tog
Right Side stitch	Sssk
Related Stitches	Ssp, Ssssp

Step-by-step Instructions

Learn the Slip Slip Slip Purl — a wrong-side double decrease. Clear steps help you follow along easily.

Step 1

Hold the yarn in front, insert the right-hand needle knitwise into the next stitch on the left-hand needle, then slip it onto the right-hand needle.

Step 2

Repeat the same step with the second stitch.

Step 3

Repeat the same step with the third stitch.

Step 4

Insert the left-hand needle through three stitches on the right-hand needle from left to right, then slip them back to the left-hand needle.

Step 5

Insert the right-hand needle through the back of three slipped stitches on the left-hand needle from left to right.

Step 6

Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the right-hand needle.

Step 7

Pull the yarn through three stitches.

Step 8

Drop these stitches off the left-hand needle.

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