SSK Decrease for Beginners - Easy Beginner Knitter Decrease

Learn to knit the SSK (slip, slip, knit) decrease for beginners. I show you the modified decrease version that is just as easy and creates a much neater and better looking decrease than the original SSK.
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[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

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[@abgates56]

This is the clearest explanation and demonstration I've found. Thank you!

[@TeresaNTaylor]

I like this version. Thank you for posting. I found out a few months ago that I was doing the SSK wrong. I was slipping each stitch as if to purl then knitting them together. Once I did it the “correct” way, I really didn’t see much of a difference. I’ll try this way the next project and compare to others I’ve worked.

[@attuneu]

Just did this, have watched a number of other videos that just weren't clear to me, this works perfectly, so concise and love the fact of no distracting music. Thank you.

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Thank you! I’m so glad you found it helpful!

[@melinakazandjian]

This is so much better then the SSK I was doing before!

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

:)

[@lesleyad]

Thanks I have been struggling with this. now the SSP

[@kerrym5424]

Thank you! I love that you explain it calmly without rushing through as I’ve seen on other channels. ❤

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Thank you so much! ❤️

[@gails.7815]

Thank you. This makes it so much better!

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Happy to hear it was helpful

[@nancyanderson9482]

Your video was so simple to follow and it worked for me first try!

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Great to hear that, thank you!

[@rachelmitchell2144]

Whew! This saved my bacon! Thank you!! So simple and calm! 💚🧶

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

I’m so glad it was helpful! Thank you ❤️❤️

[@Sunnydazeknits]

Never heard from doing it this way. Interesting

[@cazchappy]

Thank you for your excellent tutorial. After a long break from knitting I couldn't remember what a ssk decrease was. I was never taught the way you're showing and I now wish I had been.

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Thank you :)

[@karenlynnhunterhunter4430]

Thank you so much for a straightforward tutorial

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

You're welcome! So glad you found it helpful, thank you!

[@debbieandrews1260]

Thank you very much!!

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Thank you :)

[@stephaniestange662]

Thank you!

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

:) Thanks!

[@cica.s]

This is great, thank you!

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Thank you!

[@dravenzachariah8454]

InstaBlaster...

[@eileenwile7285]

Love ie thank you

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Thank you :)

[@shannonoliver5414]

So if i see an "SSK" in a pattern, do i always slip one stitch knitwise and the other stitch purlwise like you did in this video?

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

That's how I like to do them, yes. It produces the same decrease as a normal SSK, I just think it looks neater. So you can definitely swap this in for a normal SSK anytime.

[@shannonoliver5414]

Thank you, Emily, for that quick response. I am learning to knit and your knit technique videos are helping me so much. Thanks again.

[@merryglover2619]

This is really confusing. I needed a refresher so I clicked your video. So you are saying slipping the first as if to knit and second as if to purl results in the same as it slipping both as if to knit. There is no difference in the slant of the end stitch?

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

@@merryglover2619 The decrease will still slant the same was as a normal SSK (where you slip both as if to knit). The only difference is the stitch in front looks a little neater, but it still slants the same direction as a normal SSK.

[@JohannesJunkJournalLife]

How about if we just knit both of them the the back without transferring stitches back and forth?

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

It creates the same type of left leaning decrease, but there will be a twisted knit stitch showing on the front. This version prevents the twist and keeps the front showing stitch untwisted. Hope that answers your question.

[@chowdhurytonnytoruneemabil244]

I'm new to knitting... Could you please share why we would do SSK decrease? What does it result into?

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

You would work an SSK if you wanted to end up with less stitches than you started, and using an SSK in particular if you needed the decreases that leans to the left. Hope that helps :)

[@ollymounara605]

Just watched another video after yours in the feed that also had this stich and explains how to do an ssk properly without streching the loops. This is not called an ssk but skp or s1kp. She has another way, the one before the ssk was created which was to slip one knit the next and pull the loop over from the slipped stich.

[@Dorie6947]

Everyone does this differently

[@tessiemae8569]

This is not how other videos show SSK. The first and also the second stitches are going in as knits.

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Yep, this is a modified version that results in a neater looking decrease 👍🏻

[@jodiekingsley5181]

Munch better thank you

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Glad you found it helpful!

[@ollymounara605]

It is confusing to call this a ssk while others slip both stiches knitwise. I was looking at this as I was in doubt if I was doing it the right way and got confused. Felt I had been doing it the wrong way. I think you should change the title as i am a beginner knitter and did find other video's first. The one that belongs to the pattern i am making myself actually as well. Just call it alternative to a regular ssk or something like that. I'm actually wondering if it might throw off a pattern. Technically you create a twisted knit stich by not slipping the second stich knitwise. If you want to have a knit two together to look the same way you would have to twist the first stich and slip it back on the needle before knitting.

[@TheBlueMouseKnits]

Hi, this is still an SSK even if the first stitch is slipped a different way. It creates a decrease that is slanting the direction as a normal SSK (left leaning), but just creates a slightly cleaner version of it. Hope that clears it up

[@jackiebull2866]

Still confused with what you said