Knitting a Sweater: Decreases in Pattern

Video Transcript

"Now we're ready to begin decreasing for the sleeve, for the top of the sleeve for the cap sleeve. What we need to do is have a left slanting increase and a right slanting increase. To make a left slanting increase, you're going to do what's called SSK or slip slip. Slip the first two stitches knit wise, and take your left hand needle and put it in to the front of the stitches on the right hand needle. Wrap your yarn around and pull it through those two stitches and take the two stitches off the needle. So now you can see that those two stitches are slanted to the left. Don't panic if your needle falls out, put it back in. Then you're going to work to the other end of your sleeve and you're going to do a right slanting decrease which is a knit two together. That's exactly what it sounds like. You insert the needle into two stitches and again we're one stitch in from the end of the sleeve and we'll work the knit two together. While we're doing this, we're still maintaining that stripe pattern of two rows white and two rows green and carrying that yarn along the side. Okay, so here we are we're down to the last three stitches and one stitch in from the end. I'm going to insert the needle into two stitches at once. Wrap the yarn and bring it through. So now I've got one stitch where I had two. Take off the old stitches. So now I have a right hand slanting decrease on this and a left slanting decrease on the other side."