How to Make SSK Knitting Stitches

SSK knitting stitches are easier to make than they sound. SSK is an abbreviation for "slip slip knit." It is a way of decreasing the number of stitches on your needles, and is used to make your knitted piece smaller.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Knitting needles
• Yarn

1. Start with at least three stitches on your left needle.

2. Slip one stitch from your left needle to your right needle. Do not knit this stitch. Simply put your right needle through the stitch and slip it off of the left needle and onto the right needle.

3. Repeat Step Two. You now have two slipped stitches on the right needle.

4. Insert the left needle through the two slipped stitches on the right needle.

5. Wrap the yarn around the right needle and knit the two stitches as you would ordinarily knit one stitch.

6. The two slipped stitches have become one stitch. You have decreased one stitch and should have one fewer stitch on your needles at the end of this row than you did in the previous row.