Baby Surprise Jacket: Decreases

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I’m currently teaching a Zoom class on Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Baby Surprise Jacket. The jacket requires decreases, and this video shows, specifically, how to perform a sl2tog k1 psso decrease.

Here are the written instructions followed by a video demonstration.

Note: In the video I mistakenly referred to the marked stitch as 136 when it is in fact 36. Please disregard the blunder. Thanks!

Decreases

Slip 2 tog knitwise, k1, p2sso.

  1. Work to 2 stitches before marker

  2. Insert right needle into the two stitches on the left needle as if to knit and slip them to the right needle.

  3. Remove marker

  4. Knit 1

  5. On the right needle, lift the two slipped stitches over the knit stitch

  6. Replace marker

Next row will be all knits (no decreases).

To have a prominent knit stitch show on the right side, purl the decreased stitch on the wrong side. The stitch to be purled is the one right after the marker.


Umaro Blanket: Step-by-Step Lace and Cables

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This post offers a series of 5 videos for the students in the Umaro class at Hillsborough Yarn Shop in Hillsborough, NC. The Umaro Blanket pattern by Jared Flood contains lace and cables. The following videos show:

Row 1 of the chart, working increases and decreases

Row 2 of the chart, working a wrong-side row

Row 3 of the chart, working increases and decreases and moving markers

Row 7 of the chart, working the cable

Running a lifeline.

Row 1 of the chart, working increases and decreases

Row 2 of the chart, working a wrong-side row

Row 3 of the chart, working increases and decreases and moving markers

Row 7 of the chart, working the cable

Running a lifeline

Hitofude Cardigan: Techknitting SYTK Left-Leaning Decrease (video)

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Here's a video showing how to execute the TechKnitter's left-leaning decrease that she calls SYKT. Details can be found in her article here: http://techknitting.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-method-for-left-leaning-decreases.html

Slip – slip first stitch as if to knit on to RN

Yank – yank second stitch to stretch

Twist – super-twist second stitch by inserting RN around the back loop and move to RN

Knit – insert LN into front of stitches on RN and knit