You are so welcome

That's so nice to hear! I hope you join me in one of our video sweater classes! www.ravelry.com/bundles/sweater-class

Glad you like it!

Glad you like it

You are so welcome!!

So glad!

How exciting!!!

Gimpinalong Yay! Definitely going to give this a try!

Thanks!

So glad you liked it.!

I'm finding it to be an awkward maneuver. Maybe I'll watch a few more times. Practice!

Yippee. I'm so glad it helped.

glad it helped!

I think you'll like it. There are many more tricks in my video sweater classes. Hope you'll join us: www.ravelry.com/bundles/sweater-class

You are so welcome.

Aw, thanks!

yea!!

Aw!!

You get so used to it, that it won't feel awkward at ALL. We used this on the Tortola video sweater class and Corcoran video sweater class. Made the decrease look lovely and smooth!

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I have a video about Combination Knitting here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b5OlnJiiqte3cnU.html I have a full class where you can learn all about different styles and methods of knitting (by the way, the fact that you hold your yarn in your left hand has nothing to do with the formation of the stitch - common misunderstanding) here: pattylyons.com/product/improve-your-knitting/

@@PattyLyonsKnitting I actually hold the yarn in my right hand, and knit right side rows towards the right. The mirror image of a Right handed Continental knitter, except my stitches are mounted with the leading leg behind the needle. My Nana was an Irish Immigrant who knit Eastern European style. She taught me to knit when I was 5, 30 years ago, by sitting across from me. I’ve actually gotten really good at Right handed Combination knitting, holding the working yarn in my Left hand and working Right side rows towards the Left, by watching Russian knitting tutorials! Knitting is in my blood, and I could never live without it! Thank you for covering so many amazing topics and advanced techniques! I’ve been binge watching your tutorials all morning 😆

Make sure you follow me on Instagram - instagram.com/pattyjlyons/ I just filmed a reel on that. I'm doing a lot of short form videos over on Instagram.

I prefer a Sk2p. If you have my book, I have a great tip for that - pattylyons.com/product/patty-lyons-knitting-bag-of-tricks/

@@PattyLyonsKnitting Thank you Patty! I do have your book and found your suggestion on p.102. I knew you would have a solution.

sort of. Something I teach in my DVD Knitting Bag of Tricks. Prep in the row before by working an Eastern knit, then on your ssp row, just purl two together through the back loop. You can email me info@pattylyons.com if you'd like to get that class.

Tinking this ssk is no different than tinking a standard SSK with one small difference. With a traditional ssk, when you tink it, you then have to reverse both stitch mounts. Here after you insert your needle back to front into both stitches to tink them, you only have to reverse the first stitch mount. To REALLY understand how to tink increases and decreases (as well as tons of other fixes) check out this class - pattylyons.com/product/advanced-fixes-in-knitting-23/

@@PattyLyonsKnitting That is SO nice of you to get back to me so swiftly, thank you VERY much! And I’ll definitely check out your class.

Your gran was onto a part of it, but I'm afraid it's not quite the whole picture. Also, it's not quite quicker, and it won't really give you the same results. Your Gran did twist the bottom stitch, but she added a few extra moves in there that you don't need, and it's skipping the most important step which is stretching out the bottom loop to take slack out of the first loop. When you slip a stitch from on needle to the other purlwise, you are moving a stitch from one needle to the other for not reason. So instead of slipping one stitch, slipping another stitch, then inserting your needle into them both and knitting them together, I just put my needle into both stitches and knit them together AND fix the slack. Have you tried what I'm teaching in the video yet? Give it a try. In my upcoming book I show a picture side by side from the old slip one as if to knit, slip one as if to purl vs the one move SSK and you'll see the huge difference.

@@PattyLyonsKnitting Well, Auntie Robin respectfully owns her disagree! I did grab my needles and yarn and tried the way you suggest as well as my own to have a good look at them both. I find Granny B's way less awkward (the stitches are slipped so that one doesn't have to fish around the back and try to get the needle in that tighter stitch) and therefore ultimately quicker, and the most important thing -- as you say, and I agree, to stretch out the second loop to take slack out of the first -- is accomplished automatically Granny's way when the left needle is inserted through the front loops at a 45-degree angle. This difference aside, this is a very good opportunity, now I'm typing, to thank you for all your videos, Patty. I think they're wonderful. Your illustration of tension issues arising from the way many KZfaq knitting teachers demonstrate Continental alone was absolutely brilliant and worth its weight in gold.

I don't think that's possible with this technique, but you could go through the front loop of one stitch and the back loops of the next two.

The k2tog is not an issue. When you watch the SSK video, you'll see it's all about MATCHING the already one move, already clean leaning k2tog.

Garter is knitting every row. If you purl a stitch you will interrupt the pattern.

That will twist the top stitch.

No. They are totally different structures. A left leaning decrease needs stitch #1 to sit on top of stitch #2. Whatever stitch your needle first enters ends up on top. A right leaning decrease is stitch #2 sitting on top of stitch #1. You have to work into the leading leg to work these stitches not twisted, so that means for the Western knitter, reseating the left slanting dec and for the Eastern knitter, reseating the right slanting dec. You can learn more about it here: pattylyons.com/product/improve-your-knitting/

You can prep them the row before by knitting eastern, then you'll be able to work into both stitches through the back loop in one move.