I learnt no. 4 as a child and find it easy enough and very tidy.

Maryna, I think that's the best exploration of SSKs. Very clear and concise. Thank you. I look forward to more of videos.

I really like the clarity of your tutorials and different techniques demonstrated. Thank you. I need to try these

Thank you for your videos! This one "learning to SSK 5 ways" will be one I view over & over again. Please keep sharing, it makes me a better knitter! 👍

What a great tutorial, thank you!! I could see using all of these SSK stitches depending on the look I wish to achieve. Such great options! Thank you so much!!

I loved this! I am using #1 on the project I am currently working on, because I didn't know there were so many other ways to do this until I watched your video. I really want to try the one that looks like a tulip and may move to #2 for future projects. Thank you!

Thank you maryna for this tutorial the best i've ever watched and i choose the forth ssk-like way it'is a perfect looking version of ssk

Best video I’ve seen to tackle the left leaning decrease. Thank you.

My favorite is #4 as an edging for my Selbu mittens. Thank you!

Excellent. Maryna, I really enjoy your teaching, and videos. Your comparison videos are just stellar. SO FANTASTIC. What a treat to have these done for us so we can look and compare. Great lighting, wonderful close ups, and easy to understand. Thank you so much.

I just started knitting a few days ago and I love all your explanations. They are super clear which is a huge advantage for beginners. Thank you for creating helpful videos for us! ❤️

I recently discovered your channel and find it to be excellent. Concise, clear and to the point. You deserve many more subscribers . BTW, you have lovely hands.

Thanks for this. I've used the #2, almost ssk, but couldn't remember how to replicate it. Love your concise demonstrations.

Great video! I liked the SKPO because it's very neat but #2 is so simple! brilliant!

I usually use #1 but I will definitely be trying out option #2. Thank you!

Thank you so much for your very clear instructions and comments.

I've never seen #2 before, but I think I'd like to try that. I've used #4 before so I think those would be my favorites. How about this one: I've used it a lot. Slip the 1st stitch knitwise, slip the 2nd stitch purl wise then knit both together through the back. The stitch lays nice and flat. This looks a lot like #2. Love your videos! Thanks! I'm a subscriber!

You are the best teacher! Thank you!

Love your tutorials!! thank you so much for making this easy to understand : )

Must try this it looks so neat

Informative video. It's like you're doing all the trials for me so I won't have to. I wondered why my ssk is crooked, which made it kind of messy looking. Now I can pick one of these decreases based on how I want it to look. Thanks!

I love your ACCURATE EXPLANATIONS!!! You seem to be the only person on KZfaq who describes the "K" part of SSK by saying "Knit through the back loop". Every other video I've watched just say "then knit both stitches" ... but beginners need hear/know to KnitTBL. AND ... then you also give us four IMPROVED ways of achieving the left-slanting decrease! THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! PS: When I was 13 (59 years ago) a left-slanting decrease was done like your #4 SKPO and like #2 in some patterns, never like #1 (in Australia). I still like #2 and #4 best - though I have been confused, up till today, about why my current SSKs look untidy - I've been using #1 Thanks so much for your wonderful videos.

The BEST video about this argument on KZfaq ! Thanks a million 😍😍😍 I've found that so helpful being a beginner.

I usually use the knit the 2 in the back. It's easy and makes a nice look. I've not seen the last 2. I may try them. Thanks

I liked # 2 the best ... Thank you for sharing all of them to see

you are a great teacher and make great video lessons, thank you

So uniformly neat to view. Thanks!!!

As a matter of rehabilitation of my hands as I found out what was causing severe arthritis in my hands, correcting my diet and avoiding all dairy, I still needed to work the joints gently to restore function. I had avoided knitting and crocheting especially due to pain. When my hands were recovering, I did get relief by knitting but my fingers were too sore to knit in one style only. This is when I picked up Continental knitting. But I did also find that when doing Entrelac I began knitting backwards. I found that there were stitches when worked as though a left-handed knitter would knit them, completely solved the SSK problem of not forming the neater decreases that we get doing a K2TOG. As I know Continental Combined and had worked a pattern of a Twin-Leaf scarf where I had to P2TOG thru the backloop, I found easier to execute from the front, by using this stitch while working backwards, instead of doing the SSK in the forward pass, I just knit these by knit them wrapped the opposite way, both the first and second stitch to be decreased together and found I could do a K2TOG which looks perfect to the K2TOG on the lefthand side for working a standard Raglan decrease. There is something to be learned from left handed knitters because they face the same issue when they do full-fashioned decreases. So if you knit backward like they knit forwards just for a few stitches, then the right and left leaning columns of stitches match precisely. I learned this in order to put the opposite stresses on my fingers so that both sides on all the muscles of my fingers would again be balanced and I'd then be out of pain. This worked for me. But as the added bonus, it gave me a few more options to try to be able to solve certain problems I just thought had to be lived with. Unless a person really has forward knitting down pat, it can become confusing. But I also speed read and read forwards and backwards and the a words assemble correctly as I had dyslexia as a child. It never went away, I just stopped telling anyone and did it my way which got me from point A to B. There is something to be said for every ability and what we consider as "disability". For the person who naturally reads forwards and backwards, to me it is no problem. Sometimes I watch myself in the mirror and not my hands when I knit and learned what I was doing to solve these knitting problems. We consider things "forwards" and "backwards" do to society's conventions. But if something has to look right and it bothers one enough, there is a solution, just one we may not like. It is good to solve the problem and may not be for every one. But considering your skill, thought you might find it interesting. I found a lady who calls herself "Cyberseams" who teaches left-handed knitting in case you are interested.

Wonderful tutorial! Hopefully I will learn a lot here! Just subscribed

Everything old is new again! Learned to do the s1,k1, psso, which you have as skpo. Didn't know SSK, it's in all the recent patterns, and it's not as good as the old way, as you prove!!! Nice video and concise explanation!

I love your videos and number 2 is my favourite.

Thanks for this video. I hate doing a normal SSK, or anything with a knit through the back look type stitch. It is great to have some other options in my projects.

Number five is the one I was taught when I first learned to knit. The old Patons (Beehive) pattern books all call for this type of decrease. I’ve been doing ssk for a while now and I don’t like it. So, thanks for the reminder, I’m going back to to my grandmother’s way!

Very easy and clear. I love the last one because its different. Not sure which i like best gor regular stuff. Would have loved so have seen them all side by side pinned down at the end for easy comparison Keep up the great work on the videos.

Thanks for the tutorial,that’s was really helpful 🙏🌷👍

Thanks again for this reminder. You are a champ! 🥰

I like the "one-move SSK" by Patty Lyons, mainly because there is a point when executing it that I can tighten the slack that occurs in the top stitch of the SSK that creates the left lean. But I love your comparison techniques. They are making me a more thoughtful knitter.

The 3rd one is a common one in lace knitting, sl1 k1psso, usually done after a yarn over to make that hole lean. Good video. You should do one on edges, that is keeping your knitted edges looking nice, like when you make a scarf of plain shawl.

Thank you! Wonderful explanation. ❤️

Thank you SO much for showing the different versions of SSK. My current pattern called for SSK, but in the abbreviations key, the description of the stitch did not match what most videos say is an SSK. It was so confusing for me as a fairly new knitter. Thanks again!!

I use the SKPO, #4 in your tutorial. It’s much easier for me to do than the SSK.

This is so helpful, thank you!!

Really helpful, thank you.

Great video and I love seeing the differences in the techniques. If one wanted to do the more "decorative" version, like versions 3 and 5, what technique would you use to make the right leaning increase get the same effect, for matched decreases? For instance, number 5 has an almost braided look--how could you get that effect with the right leaning decreases? Thanks for the clear and informative videos!

I usually end up doing SSK as slip one, knit one, pass the slip stitch over. While it's the more "traditional" one, I find it's the one I tend to go to. I'll have to try some of these other ones.

Thank you so much for your brilliant tutorials, always the best! Do you have a pattern for the sweater you are wearing? I would like to make one like it. It looks amazing on you! can you tell me what yarn did you use for knitting it?

I am so glad that I found your videos. Excellent tutorials...very clear! Everything is perfect about your tutorials, right down to the background color, which makes your demonstrations clearly visible and easy to follow. This is by far the best demonstration of SSK options that I've ever seen. My favourite SSK to use is knit two stitches through the back loop (#3). However, #5 is the prettiest. I haven't used #5 before, and will give it a try in my next project. Thank you!

You are the best!

This is fantastic thank, you!

Thankyou so much..I liked 4:)

Fantastic explanation! Thank you. I have always used #2, also, as I find it the easiest, but may use #4 and #5 in future projects as well. I can’t wait to see what you think about other choices between techniques for different situations, and learn new stitches to try from you. 👏👏👏🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸🌷🌸

Thank you, Marina! Such a great tutorial! My favourite is No 5 - never seen such before and will most definitely try it in one of my projects. Quick question though-is there an equivalent to SPPO for the right leaning decrease?🤔

I love number 5. I see decorative increases and decreases on raglan sweaters people post pictures of on Knitting Paradise and Ravelry, but I cant figure out how to make the left and right sides match.

Hello Maryna! For the #5 SPPO do you have a video to make it look the same for a leaning left decrease? Thank you!

Parabéns tricota bem lindo 🥰💯👏👏

Excellent video. I really like no. 2. I wonder if it has a name? I'm really looking for an alternative to SSP. The purl through the back loop is getting me down.

Please can you show how you decrease on both side of of the garment such as raglan sweqter. Thank you.

Great!

Can you make a video on how to fix decreases? while making the almost ssk I was slipping purlwise instead of knit caught it after three rows and can definitely tell so i'm wondering if i'll go back and fix it but not really sure how and might just make a mess.

Hi Maryna! I prefer number 2 as well! I just heard about it last year. I think it produces a very neat result. Some people actually slip the 2nd stitch purlwise which is not necessary. Have you ever seen an SSK done where the two stitches are slipped purlwise?

Hi :) I had a question do you have any suggestion for decorative Right leaning Decreases please. Like the opposite of the skpo ? I love your videos thank you for sharing you knowledge 🙏 best wishes , Mireille

Hi Maryna, I think you mentioned a knitting book that you like recently, and I've been trying to find the tutorial where you mention it, without any luck. Do you remember mentioning a knitting book that you really liked?

Which one matches a K2tog best? Do you have any alternatives to K2tog?

Could you please tell us how to set up the swatches that you are using on here?

check out the new and improoed ssk very simple

If you ues thicker yarn for the needle around 10 or 11. We can see the stitch better

Does decrease number 5 have a mirrored equivalent?

is there an explanation why we need to slip knitwise and then return?

Your hand was blocking the act of knitting each stitch, & you went rather quickly. I have done lots of knitting, but this stitch never comes out correctly. Have restarted a project many times & am determined to get this mastered. Both ssk & psso. Hope you can help. I was watching on my phone. Should probably switch to the computer for clarity.

Cannot see because of the text.

No 4 is the original way. I’ve always done if this way.

What's wrong with the sound???