decrease methods

Like this person, I also decided to do a decrease swatch, to match the increase one I did a few days ago.

 

 

Some are nice than others. Starting from the bottom:-

The dark pink pin is your normal old k2tog (img 54). The transition is almost flawless.

 

The pale pink, is k2tog tbl (img 56). Same thing, just done through the back of the stitches. Its fiddlier to do and doesn’t look as neat.

 

Purple is SKP (slip, knit, pass), also known as sl1, k1, psso (img 58)

 

The apricot pin is something called a ’stitch over’. Messy and fiddly. I won’t be using this any time soon.

 

Finally, the green pin is SSK (slip, slip, knit). It is similar to k2tog.

 

I’m not sure if the messiness of the stitches is because I did them in stocking stitch or not. I guess if I want to find out I can always do two more swatches in garter to have a look see.

~ by perigrine on November 4, 2009.