What is the difference between ssk and k2tog

Log in No account? Create an account. Remember me. Previous Share Flag Next. The pattern is not particularly complicated, but it had two terminology features that threw me: One, it said yfwd where I am used to seeing yo, but that I worked out pretty quickly. Two, where another pattern would use ssk for a left-leaning single decrease, this pattern advocates k2tog tbl knit two together through the back loop.

I found, over the course of this project, that I rather prefer k2tog tbl to ssk, and I've been using it quite happily in my current project Eunny Jang's Print o' the Wave , again in Hand Maiden Sea Silk, this time in Nova Scotia. It's a lot faster, and I'm much less likely to drop either stitch. My question to the assembled knitters' wisdom, then, is this: Is there any real difference between these two in making an effective left-leaning single decrease? On a related note, what about k3tog tbl vs [skp, k2tog, psso] slip one purlwise, knit two together, pass slipped stitch over for a left-leaning double decrease?

Again, it goes a lot faster and seems to produce the same result. Thanks for any thoughts! I talk about it in my pattern writing class. If you say the wrong thing in class I will stop the class to talk about it.

I actually threatened to my publisher to withdraw my permission to publish a book over it. SSK: Slip, slip, knit. Or, equally, if someone uses that phrase as the name of stitch, saying it out loud. Follow those instructions. Just try it. If you spell out the words, you get an instruction. If you spell out the words in the usual abbreviations, e.

No-one has yet convinced me that this provides any value, but I remain open to being convinced on this point. On SSK. These are my two favourite definitions.