{"id":724,"date":"2012-01-04T00:53:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T08:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.craftysmallbusiness.com\/?p=724"},"modified":"2019-10-26T07:10:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:10:59","slug":"slip-slip-slip-knit-double-decrease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/slip-slip-slip-knit-double-decrease\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Knit the Slip Slip Slip Knit Double Decrease (SSSK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-my8cxljrv-865d7c1ea3a69d425378833\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\">\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 510 \/ 287\">\n<span class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.274510%\"><\/span><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-my8cxljrv-865d7c1ea3a69d425378833\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mY8CXLJRv-8?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/mY8CXLJRv-8?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/newstitchaday.com\\\/slip-slip-slip-knit-double-decrease\\\/#arve-youtube-my8cxljrv-865d7c1ea3a69d425378833\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/mY8CXLJRv-8?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p style=\"font-size: 80%\"><em>music in video is from demo 2008 by (<a rel=\"cc:attributionURL noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/freemusicarchive.org\/music\/Latch_Swing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Latch\\xe9 Swing<\/a>) \/ <a rel=\"license noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\">CC BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>This video will help you learn how to knit the slip slip slip knit (sssk) decrease. This technique is used to remove two stitches from your knitting at one time and help shape your work. You will need to know how to decrease in order to knit hats, sweaters, and some mittens and gloves. This particular decrease technique has a left leaning slant and is used with the knit three together (k3tog), which slants right, to keep your decrease balanced when doing shaping on a garment.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Skill:<\/strong> Intermediate<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abbreviation:<\/strong> sssk<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Step 1: Work your pattern until you reach two stitches before the stitch you want to decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Slip the first stitch off the main needle onto your working needle.<\/p>\n<p>Step 3: Slip the next stitch off the main needle onto your working needle.<\/p>\n<p>Step 4: Slip the next stitch off the main needle onto your working needle.<\/p>\n<p>Step 5: Insert your main needle knitwise into the three stitches that were slipped onto your working needle.<\/p>\n<p>Step 6: Wrap your working yarn over your working needle (the needle on the bottom) and pull the yarn toward you through all the stitches with your working needle.<\/p>\n<p>Step 7: Slip all the stitches off the main needle.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-725\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NSAD-SSSK.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NSAD-SSSK.jpg\" alt=\"Example of the Slip Slip Slip Knit Double Decrease\" title=\"NSAD-SSSK\" width=\"620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NSAD-SSSK.jpg 640w, https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NSAD-SSSK-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NSAD-SSSK-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/NSAD-SSSK.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of the Slip Slip Slip Knit Double Decrease<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/newstitchaday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/youtube-subscribe-button.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"New Stitch A Day on You Tube\" width=\"330\" height=\"102\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/youtube-subscribe-button.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/new-stitch-a-day\/id417065366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/itunes_audio-e1320875360465.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"New Stitch A Day Podcast on iTunes\" width=\"300\" height=\"102\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/itunes_audio-e1320875360465.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n[sidebar alias=&rdquo;after-post&rdquo; ]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video will help you learn how to knit the slip slip slip knit (sssk) decrease. This technique is used to remove two stitches from your knitting at one time and help shape your work. You will need to know how to decrease in order to knit hats, sweaters, and some mittens and gloves. This particular decrease technique has a left leaning slant and is used with the knit three together (k3tog), which slants right, to keep your decrease balanced when doing shaping on a garment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"stitch-attributes":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"stitch-attributes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stitch-attributes?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}