Woah. That's COOL.

[linaelyn]

I just found this site with not only a page of definitions, but video tutorials of stitches! It may be utterly below the level of most knitters here, but I'm enough of a beginner to be astounded by some of the visual definitions of things.

(confessions of a newbie: f'rinstance, I've been ignoring it when a pattern says "ssk" and just carrying on as if that instruction wasn't even there. Then, when my pattern gets a little off, I'll k2tog to make the numbers match up again. it works if you're felting it anyway.)

Comments

[beachlass]

My two cents: if you really can't cope with SSK, which is a decrease stitch - you can do a K2Tog instead. Your decrease will slant the wrong way, but will be in the right place.

[kareila]

I've also read that SKP has the same slant as SSK, and it's a little easier for me to remember: slip a stitch, knit a stitch, and pass the slipped stitch over.

[linaelyn]

Thanks! Good idea there. As I said to beachlass above, the tutorial video finally was the thing I needed to understand how to really make SSK work for me.

I might actually be getting good enough at this that I can justify uploading a knitting icon!

[aquaeri]

Yep, those are two different ways to get the same result.

[linaelyn]

Well, I used to be unable to cope with SSK, but with the tutorial video, I was able to figure out how! Yay!