Knitting Two Stitches Together (k2tog)
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Once you’ve learned to knit and purl, you’ll want to add a few more stitches to your skill set in order to make all sorts of knitting projects. Knitting two stitches together (k2tog) is a simple decrease stitch that you’ll find in many patterns. You’ll see it in patterns like socks and sweaters, and you’ll commonly find it used to decrease the crown of a hat. In this video, Jen Lucas shows you just how easy this versatile single decrease stitch is to work.
KNIT TWO STITCHES TOGETHER (K2TOG)
This decrease is commonly abbreviated as k2tog in knitting patterns and is often paired with the slip, slip, knit (ssk) decrease since they lean in opposite directions. The k2tog leans to the right, and the ssk leans to the left. You’ll find that these stitches are commonly used on rows where you are working all knit stitches because these decreases are created with knit stitches.
The k2tog decrease begins by having your yarn to the back of the work. Insert the right needle into the next two stitches on the left needle, working into the second stitch and then the first stitch, so that you are inserting the needle into them together. Knit the two stitches together as if they are one. Now you have decreased your knitting by one stitch, as you’ve taken two stitches and turned it into a single stitch.
Hi everyone. It's Jen Lucas for the knitting circle. In this video, I'm going to show you how to knit two stitches together. Once you've learned how to knit and purl you're going to need to learn a few other basic stitches in order to take your knitting projects to the next level. The knit two together is a very easy stitch to work and you're going to see it in a wide variety of projects. You're going to use it to shape some of your knitting projects like sweaters, hats, socks just to name a few, but you're also going to see it used in a variety of stitch patterns. You'll particularly see it used in lay stitches. So let's go ahead and get started on the knit two together. The knit two together stitch is a decrease that you create by literally just knitting two stitches together. It's probably the easiest decrease that you can do. This particular decrease creates a Right-leaning decrease. So you can see here in this swatch, I've done several rows where I just kept adding a knit two together in each row and you can see that the decreases are overall leaning to the right. This is great to use in various things that you need to shape where you might want your decrease to go a certain way. Because here you can see I have done the opposite decrease the slip-slip knit and that creates a left-leaning decrease. So the right leaning decreases the knit two together over here. And that's the one we are going to work on today. So let's go ahead and do the knit two together. I'm just going to start my swatch by just knitting a couple of stitches just to sort of get away from the edge here. And then to knit two together. We're just going to knit two together. I have two stitches here, the next two stitches. I'm going to insert my needle as if to knit through both of them. Wrap my arm around pull a loop through, and take it off the needle. And here I have two stitches and now I've decreased and it's now one stitch. Again, to knit two together. I'm just going to insert my needle as if to knit into the next two stitches, together. Wrap my arm around, pull my loop through and that creates the knit two together decrease. That's it. You can see just how easy it is to knit two together. You're actually just taking two knitting stitches and knitting them together as one stitch. I'm Jen Lucas, for The Knitting Circle. I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to take a look around at other videos on our website and I'll see you back here again soon.
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