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In knitting, SSK is the abbreviation for Slip, Slip, Knit, and is one of the most common ways of decreasing on a left slanting decrease.TO SSK (For right-handed knitting):Slip one stitch from left-hand needle to right-hand needle as if to knit. (Also said slip one knitwise).Slip the next stitch from left-hand needle to right-hand needle as if to knit.Insert the left-hand needle down into the front of the two stitches just slipped, and knit them together.
There are two ways to slip a stitch, knit-wise and purl-wise. When in doubt, generally you should slip purl-wise. Insert the needle into the stitch to be slipped either as if to knit (knit-wise) or as if to purl (purl-wise). Then slide it off the left needle without pulling a new stitch through it. That's all there is to it. Here are some applications: For a tidy selvage edge, slip the first stitch of each row purl-wise. For a decrease that is the mirror image of a K2TOG, do an SSK (Slip, Slip, Knit). Slip one stitch knit-wise. Slip another stitch knit-wise. Slipping knit-wise gives the stitches a half twist. Now slip them both together back onto the left needle, passing them with the needles held tip to tip. Knit them together through the back loops.
Usually the pattern you are working will tell you the preferred method. Typically it is done through knitting into the front and then into the back of a stitch. A regular knit stitch is done like this: Put right-hand needle through the right-most stitch on the left needle, wrap yarn over right-hand needle, pull stitch through, and pull loop off the left-hand needle A knit stitch through the back is done like this: Put right-hand needle through the right-most stitch on the left needle on the back side of the needle (that's from the right side, but catch the back side of the loop) , wrap yarn over right-hand needle, pull stitch through, and pull loop off the left-hand needle To do them in the same stitch: perform a regular knit stitch, but do not pull the loop off the left hand needle (if feels very awkward, but don't panic), then put the needle through the back of the loop and complete the knit. The end result is one more stitch than you had before. http://handmadebyjody.blogspot.com http://handmadebyjody.etsy.com
This most likely refers to a single needle bed knitting the fabric. Fabric knitted on only one needle bed is jersey fabric. If fabric is knitted using all needles on both needle beds, then the fabric is a called a full needle rib knit.
you are basically doing an increase, creating two new stitches from one old one. Start your knit stitch by inserting your needle right to left and out the front of the stitch, wrap your yarn and bring your right needle back out with the new stitch on it, but don't drop the stitch on the left needle yet. now insert the right needle into the back of the stitch from left to right, wrap the yarn and now you may drop the stitch from the left needle.
When you reach the slip knot, knit it just like all of the other stitches, throwing it off at the end just like the other stitches. When you have knit the slip knot, all of the stitches should be on the right needle, and the left needle should be completely free*.*There may be some exceptions to this rule, as in circular knitting, but this will not be addressed until you are an advanced knitter, and you don't have to worry about that right now.
I think you are thinking of crochet, which is somewhat similar to knitting in that it produces fabric that can be formed into garments and afghans. Knitting uses two or more needles. There really isn't a way around that. But crochet uses a single tool that looks like a knitting needle but with a hook on the end.
when you knit, you will notice a bar, or a horizontal line if yarn between the stitch. you want to pick that bar, twist it and put it on your needle.
Something that is a circular knit is knotted on a circular needle and has no seems. Something that is a flat knit is knotted on separate needles and the pieces of the garment have to be sewn together at the end.
C4B means "cable four back" and is a cable worked over four stitches. Assuming you knit from right to left you place two stitches on your cable needle (or another temporary stitch holder), hold it behind your work, knit two stitches and then knit the two stitches you placed on the cable needle.
When you insert the needle into a stitch you can insert it front to back (knit-wise) or back to front (purl-wise).