[Nfb-krafters-korner] FW: SSK Knit Stitch

[Powers, Terry (NIH/NCI) [E]]

What stitch is being described, here.  Only the letters are used, no words.  I might understand if I knew the real name.  I have no idea what is susposed to take place in this stitch.
I am cleaning up and desiding what to keep.

Terry P.



-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Roe [mailto:dogwoodfarm at verizon.net] 
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 11:55 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] SSK Knit Stitch

Hi Annette,

This is how I do the SSK.  I slip the two stitches as if to knit, one at a time, from the left needle to the right needle.  Then instead of inserting the left needle along side the right needle and knitting them together with the left needle, I slip the stitches off of the right needle back onto the left needle and then knit them together with the right needle.  The main purpose of this stitch combination is to put a twist in each stitch to the right, knitting them together and off the needles with a right twist and decreasing a stitch in the process.  I believe this also gives the finished stitch a tilt or slant to the right .  Whether you knit together and off your needle with the left or right needle doesn't matter because they both give you the same twist/slant.  I think sliding them back on the left is easier for me.  Also, if I'm not mistaken, if you do it the way they suggest, you are pulling your working yarn loop through with the left needle, dropping the two slipped stitches off the right needle, which then leaves your new stitch on the left needle and you still have to then slip it back onto the right needle.  Too much back and forth for me.

Susan
dogwoodfarm at verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Annette Carr" <amcarr1 at verizon.net>
To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2013 10:37 AM
Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] SSK Knit Stitch


> Hi All,
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> I am looking for tips on how to perform the SSK stitch in a more efficient
> manner.  I get how to slip each stitch individually and then insert the 
> left
> needle in front of the right needle to knit the stitches together.  I feel
> like I am wasting too much time fussing over getting the 2 stitches 
> together
> to perform the knit part.  Any and all tips welcome.
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> Thanks,
>
> Annette
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>
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