This video demonstrates how to maintain a knit/purl stitch pattern while also shaping the fabric with increases and decreases.

Learn how to decrease in knitting while keeping the pattern intact. Find tips and techniques to create professional-looking decreases in your knitting projects.

But when you knit a sweater, hat, or other project where you must increase or decrease stitches, you'll run into the term "keeping to pattern". Because you have added or subtracted stitches, …

May 15, 2014 · Does the phrase "continue to work in pattern while increasing or decreasing" make you panic. You're not alone! Follow the examples in this tutorial to tackle shaping in any …

Nov 14, 2018 · You will leave the pattern as soon as you start to decrease, and you will not return to the pattern until 4 stitches, or a multiple of 4 have been decreased away.

Nov 18, 2024 · In this guide, we’ll explore the essential techniques for creating clean, seamless decreases and provide tips to boost your confidence as you knit. Decreases are techniques …

Often we pair decreases like when shaping a sleeve or in some hat patterns. To do this you'll use something like a Knit Two Together (K2TOG) which leans to the right and a Slip Slip Knit …

A complete list of all knitting decreases. From k2tog to SSK, these tutorials will you centered-, right-, and left-leaning alternatives.

Ever wonder how you start knitting a hat at the bottom, but end up with fewer stitches at the top? Or what do to when a pattern says "dec 1 st at each end of the next 5 alt rows"?

Oct 2, 2025 · Discover how to decrease in knitting with this essential beginner’s guide along with tutorial videos and detailed tips on how to decrease without leaving holes, and how to …