Comments on: Symmetric Decreases: Purl

By: christine

christine — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 23:28:46 +0000

I’m back! And totally out of the loop! I feel like I have been gone a month! There’s so much to catch up on! YOWZA! I will have to read your bloggage tomorrow, I’m exhausted, but wanted to say HI!!!!!

By: deb

deb — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:22:53 +0000

Thanks!

By: meilynne

meilynne — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 17:32:45 +0000

Hi Lucia,

I love your blog, and read it almost daily.

But there is one small mistak in your SSP description. You say to slip 2 sts, 1 at a time “purlwise.” It should be “knitwise” because that’s how sts are twisted. That’s what my Vogue knitting book says too, as well as a few other reference books.

By: lucia

lucia — Mon, 01 Aug 2005 18:02:15 +0000

Thanks Meilynne! You’re right, I wrote that wrong. Slipping purls wise, the slipping back is pointless– it doesn’t change the twist. It’s like doing nothing at all. (blush)

By: Beatriz

Beatriz — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:23:34 +0000

Thank you for sharing your knowledge on decreases. I know it was hard for me to find helpful references as left-handed, combination knitter. I didn’t know whether to use the guidelines on decreases using a Google search for left-handed knitters or for combination knitters. So I just sat one afternoon and did right and left decreases on both knit and purl side until they looked like neat, clean, even braids on both sides.

By: lucia

lucia — Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:30:52 +0000

You’re welcome Beatriz. I think it’s great you are willing to try until you figure something out. It is difficult to learn how to adapt instructions when you are a combination knitter, and left handed at that.

One of the reasons I’m writing “knitting ad nauseum” is to have an excuse to show photo’s of the different ways the stitches seat. The next article is going to be combination knitting, and I’ll be mentioning how things seat and how to translate a few directions knitters find in ‘how to’ texts to combination knitting.

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By: Elsa Horowitz

Elsa Horowitz — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 16:09:30 +0000

Thanks for your very good instructions. Even though I have been knitting for many years and particularly like raglan sleeves, I had never needed to do a p2togtbl.

By: anna

anna — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:58:44 +0000

thank you so much for this explanation - FINALLY it makes sense and i can have nice, matching, neat decreases. I’ve read so many explanations of how to do this and they didn’t seem logical; you explaining the theory rather than just saying ‘do this, do that’ has made me get it!

By: Lori

Lori — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:30:01 +0000

Hi, I just started knitting and was wondering if someone could help me in regards to what this pattern means … K1, K2 together, K6, WF K1, WF K6, K2 together twice, K6, WF K1, WF K6, K2 together, K1. The part that is throwing me off is the WF K1.