Step by Step Guide
SSK - Slip slip knit
This creates a left leaning decrease.
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Slip the next stitch from left to right needle, by inserting the right needle into the loop from left to right (as if you wanted to knit it).
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Again, slip the next stitch from left to right needle, by inserting the right needle into the loop from left to right (as if you wanted to knit it).
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Insert the left needle into the front loops of the two slipped stitches from right to left.
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Wrap your yarn around the right needle and pull it through the two loops.
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Let the loops fall off the left needle.
K2togtbl - Knit 2 together through the back loop
This creates a very similar left leaning decrease to the ssk, but the front loop will have the twisted look.
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Insert the right needle into the back loops of the next two stitches on the left needle from right to left.
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Wrap the yarn around the needle and pull through both loops.
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Let the loops fall off the left needle.
K2tog - Knit 2 together
This creates a right leaning decrease.
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Insert the right needle into the front loops of the next two stitches on the left needle from left to right.
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Wrap the yarn around the needle and pull through both loops.
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Let the loops fall off the left needle.