CAT BORDHI -Slim & Trim SSK's

Learn a sure-fire trick to make your SSK lines look clean and straight - exactly like your K2tog lines - except they will, of course, lean to the left. No more loose and wobbly SSK's, thanks to Hungry Stitch, who pulls the slack out of them, and to the knit-through-the-back trick which takes out the wobble.

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Howto & Style

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• Bordhi
• Cat
• k2tog
• knit
• sock
• socks
• ssk
• technique

[piccanninni]

I accidentally stumbled on this. Im a 40 year old man and wasnt looking for knitting info, and I know absolutely nothing about knitting, apart from what i learned watching my mum when i was a kid. Nonetheless, Ive just realised I have been almost hypnotically drawn in and watched 5 minutes in total fascination. Something frustratingly complicated being explained superbly and interestingly, I ended up watching the whole thing! Good video.

[catbordhi]

@piccanninni Thank you for this most gratifying note. Here's a story for you: I know a man who was a small boy found an unfinished knitting project in his great-aunts's linen closet. Tired of playing with the limited supply of toys in his great aunt's home, he decided to figure out how it was made and reverse-engineered it; thus learning to knit from the ground up. He is now a master knitter.

[grumpyketchup]

Does the hungry stitch method work in patterns that require an ssk in every row instead of every other row? In other words, how important is the knit-thru-back step to the method? I'm trying to work the "Elijah" pattern by Ysolda Teague and she has many sections with sequential SSK rows. Thanks.

[catbordhi]

@grumpyketchup If you are working SSK's every round, then you do not need the knit-through-back round. That round takes the wobble out; but if you work SSSK's every round there is no wobble to take out.

[kmgourley]

Perhaps I'm making this harder than it has to be, but what if the stitch that needs to be hungry is the first stitch of the row when you're knitting flat? Does it work the same way?  Maybe it just seems like it'd be different but it works the same way as in the video.

[catbordhi]

Do give it a try rather than just think about it, but yes, even if HS is the first st of the row in flat knitting, he must remain hungry until all ssk's are finished. You will have to feed him old yarn, no new yarn, purlwise when you travel back on the wrong side.

[redwoodsong]

Ingenious, and much appreciated!!!

Thank you for sharing your time and talent!!

[lissaplus3]

You mention that you will have done 1 1/2 rows. So does that mean that I need to work half my stitches again and make that the BOR? and then I will have casted on and worked 2 rows?

How does that work when I have a pattern that states: CO, K 1row, begin increase rows?

[deezknitz]

What a great tutorial! Cute skit also...

Watching made me hungry tho :)

[nalodailec]

Oh dear!

[sazji]

The ugly jutting ssk decreases on my socks always bugged the heck out of me, so I was really happy to find this video. No more annoying socks! Thanks for sharing this.

[memeep007]

I;ve never been so happily confused in all my knitting life (4 weeks)

[defarge007]

This is an awesome video! I tried this on the Grace Tulip (Tulip Grace?) Hat pattern I purchased on Ravelry, and it worked beautifully! Unfortunately I did the hat in bulky weight and the hat didn't forgive me so I ripped it out -- or I'd post the picture.

One question: Do you do this for SSSK's (double left leaning decreases) as well:

[j8nnyl]

Cat, as always, you are awesome. The result of the HS technique is beautiful. I usually have ripply legs from my 'typical SSK', and i suppose this will prevent that? I have yet to knit up a practice swatch of this, abut i hope to soon.

in any case, i thank you for your video. Very well explained and executed. I appreciated the written, and even the skit helped cement the technique!

[j8nnyl]

Cat, as always, you are awesome. The result of the HS technique is beautiful. I usually have ripply legs from my 'typical SSK', and i suppose this will prevent that? I have yet to knit up a practice swatch of this, as well as the method of reverse-wrapping the to-be-SSK'ed' stitches in the previous round (your other video), but i hope to soon.

in any case, i thank you for your video. Very well explained and executed. I appreciated the written, and even the skit helped cement the technique!