[Nfb-krafters-korner] How to Make SSK Knitting Stitches

[Eileen Scrivani]

Dixie:

Essentially once the 2 sts get slipped back onto your left needle you are 
going to work a single decrease by knitting 2 sts together, but in an SSK 
you knit 2 together through the back loop.  To me, this is just like 
inserting my right needle as if to purl, but you insert on the back/far side 
of the work and then work the k2-tog-tbl

HTH.

Eileen


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From: "Dixie" <blueherons at sbcglobal.net>
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 7:03 PM
To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] How to Make SSK Knitting Stitches

> I like these directions!  I just want to confirm one thing.  When you say
> knit off the back of the loop, do you mean to insert the right needle into
> the loops  on the away side of the loops on  the left needle?
>
> Dixie
>
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> Scrivani
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> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] How to Make SSK Knitting Stitches
>
> Susan,
>
> When I work an SSK I slip both stitches, one at a time knitwise so they 
> get
> twisted onto the right needle.  Then I don't knit them off the right 
> needle,
>
> but then slip both of them purlwise so they don't untwist back onto the 
> left
>
> needle.  Once they are both back on the left needle, I then K2tog through
> the back of the loops.  I've been told by my guild members this is 
> technical
>
> correct and looks just as an SSK that has been knitted off the right 
> needle
> .
>
> HTH.
>
> Eileen
>
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