Baby Surprise Jacket: Decreases

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I’m currently teaching a Zoom class on Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Baby Surprise Jacket. The jacket requires decreases, and this video shows, specifically, how to perform a sl2tog k1 psso decrease.

Here are the written instructions followed by a video demonstration.

Note: In the video I mistakenly referred to the marked stitch as 136 when it is in fact 36. Please disregard the blunder. Thanks!

Decreases

Slip 2 tog knitwise, k1, p2sso.

  1. Work to 2 stitches before marker

  2. Insert right needle into the two stitches on the left needle as if to knit and slip them to the right needle.

  3. Remove marker

  4. Knit 1

  5. On the right needle, lift the two slipped stitches over the knit stitch

  6. Replace marker

Next row will be all knits (no decreases).

To have a prominent knit stitch show on the right side, purl the decreased stitch on the wrong side. The stitch to be purled is the one right after the marker.