KNITTING
101 with Lisa and Danielle
Increasing and Ruffled Cuffs
IX. Decreasing
Increasing
and decreasing in knitting play a major role in how your garment will turn out.
These two techniques help in shaping your project.
For
a basic decrease (k2tog or knit two together) you simply knit or purl two
stitches together.
This will decrease your stitch count by one.
Most patterns will tell you when to decrease leaving out any guesswork on
your part. There
are several different kinds of decreases depending on what you are making.
Here is a link to the most basic decrease:
Then
we have SSK (Slip Slip Knit)
This
is a left slanting decrease and is used quite often in soaker patterns.
This is the exact mirror image of k2tog.
Here is a link to a video and instruction for this stitch.
There
are more decrease stitches that slant either to the right or the left.
I am including a link to a few of them for reference.
In knitting soakers and longies, the above-mentioned decreases are the
most commonly used.