#k2tog

[stemch]

k2togs feel so intimate

[knitboyknit]

Hey! I was trying out that weighted blanket pattern you posted, and I'm struggling with the decrease. Should I do a purl row of 20 stitches then decrease? I've never decreased at all before so any help would be appreciated

Hey, I'd absolutely love to see how it's going so far and also see it when it's done!! There's no decreases on any purl rows, and I did one k2tog (knit 2 together) at each end of the knit rows, until the stitches on my needles matched the number of stitches I started with (off the top of my head it was ten I think). Here is a link to a tutorial on how to k2tog (x). Let me know if the link doesn't work though, as I'm on mobile.

Would it help if I wrote out the pattern instead of presenting it visually as a chart? I hope this answer helped but if not then please feel free to ask more questions and I can rewrite the pattern/send you step by step photos if that would make things easier :)

[wob-knits]

A new method for left-leaning decreases: SYTK (slip, yank, twist, knit)--part 3 of the series "right and left decreases"

includes 10 illustrations Here is a new method for left-leaning decreases, a method I call SYTK. SYTK stands for "slip, yank, twist, kn...

One thing I love about being on the internet is that I can learn new techniques without having to try and interpret from a book. If I only had the books my mother owns, or through access in the library, it’d be much much more difficult and slower to actually learn new approaches to things. I was doing a shawl with k2tog and ssk mirrors, and was just having so much trouble getting the ssk going smoothly, so what do I do? Hop on the net to see if there are any alternatives to the stitch. Not only are there ones that are identical (slip, knit, pass slipped stitch over), there are improvements (SYTK as above, or even the ‘Hungry Stitch’ which I found far too complicated to work into the pattern), and step by step pictures, and Youtube videos. Instead of having to wait to get access to books, it’s all there for the learning.

[frontlawnfood]

*cackles in yarnwitch*

I have hacked the k2tog. (That's "knit two stitches together" in knitterspeak, a decrease stitch that has a visual lean toward the knitter's right hand once complete.) The method I was taught for k2tog hurts my wrist and this pattern is loaded with them, so after two days of struggling with an aching wrist and loose, loopy decreases, I had to figure out a physically easier way to do it. Here's what I came up with, hope it helps others. Joint-Issues-Friendly K2Tog 1. Beginning on the front of your current row with the stitch pair to be k2tog'd (Pic1) 2. Slip the 2 stitches onto the right hand needle (Pic 2) 3 Flip the work around so the needle with your working thread and the pair of slipped stitches is in your left hand, and you're looking at the back of your row (row, not necessarily the "wrong" side of the piece, Pic3) 4. Purl those 2 stitches together, so that the completed stitch ends up on the needle in your right hand. (Pics 4 & 5) 5. Flip the work again so the decrease stitch (now just one loop) is on the needle in your left hand, and you are looking at the front of your row. (Pic6, and again, that's row, not necessarily the "right" side of the piece.) 6. Slip the finished k2tog back onto your right hand needle. (Pic 7) Pic 8 shows how the k2tog stitch looks when I do it the way it's shown in my nan's books & on youtube (bottom), vs the method above (top). As you can see, I am able to get a much smoother, cleaner decrease stitch this way, and it still "leans" to the right as k2tog should do. :)

[ub-sessed]

This ball pattern calls for alternating between K2togs and SSKs (I don't know why). I've never done SSKs before, so I'm enjoying learning the differences between the two. But for some reason both my SSKs and my K2togs are coming out super loose no matter what I do. I've never had this problem with K2togs before, so I'm confused.

[oversleepersintl]

schapen sok 🐑 (singular)

[oversleepersintl]

tagged by @transgenderdunes

favorite color: this specific shade of magenta

currently reading: I just finished the dissapearing spoon by Sam Kean. I'm also(technicaly, kindoff) reading Persepolis but i havent touched it in a while becase of some shenanigans that prevent me from checking it out(<= very very good memoir btw). I'm was also reading Dune and House of Leaves but im shelving those for now and will pick them up when i feel more ready for them.

I probably going to read a Brief History of Nearly Everything next but i want to give Kafka on the Shore another shot too. I put it down after a couple chapters because the author was being weird about describing women which is a problem that i run into with most of the fiction books i pick up.

last song i listened to: About Damn Time by Lizzo

Last series i watched: HMMM im watching the Boys and and Avatar the Last Arender. The Boys is one of those shows that I could not in good conscience recommend to anyone unless they get very comfortable with its doesthedogdie page but my god do i love The Boys. Avatar is also a beatiful show i understand why its so special to so many people. I watch the first 18 EPs yesterday which my be a record for me.

last movie i watched: Inception (I did not get it)

craving: Peperoni pizza

Currently working on: sheep socks. the first pic was my gauge swatch (its actually a swatch of). the second pic

is that actual sock. Their turning out very well but ive been working on them nonstop for 5 days straight and im getting a little bit sick a them.

I shall tag @santijpg and @satelliteduster to continue the chain!

[oversleepersintl]

pouring one out for this sock today. was the first sock i made. Started it yesterday and frogged it today. I was initially worried that i didn’t have enough yarn so I stuck to the pattern and started the heel even though i prefer longer socks. Came to realize that i definitely do have enough yarn so it’s gone now, back to its primordial form of a ball of yarn. i’m going to do toe up, two at a time this time.