Knitting tutorial: Decreases

Here's a method for creating knitting decreases (k2tog and SSK) without a staircase effect around a stitch marker. They are shown here on stockinette stitch. Decrease 2 stitches together will make the knit lean to the left, while decrease SSK will make it lean to the right.

• To be used in the Méli mélo hat

Decrease row instructions:

Knit to 3 sts before M, k2tog, k1, SM, k1, SSK, knit to end of rw

SSK: Slip the first stitch knitwise, slip the second stitch purlwise then knit by inserting the left needle, from left to right, into the two slipped stitches, by their front strand. Knit them together

Abbreviations:

rw: row

st(s): stitche(s)

M: marker

SM: slide marker

k: knit

k2tog: knit 2 together

SSK: Slip, Slip, Knit