Semantic Quibble, or Structural Difference: ssk & k2tog tbl
I recently finished the Rowan Birch pattern in Hand Maiden Sea Silk (Cornflower colorway), and it's just gorgeous. The pattern is not particularly complicated, but it had two terminology features that threw me:
One, it said yfwd where I am used to seeing yo, but that I worked out pretty quickly.
Two, where another pattern would use ssk for a left-leaning single decrease, this pattern advocates k2tog tbl (knit two together through the back loop).
I found, over the course of this project, that I rather prefer k2tog tbl to ssk, and I've been using it quite happily in my current project (Eunny Jang's Print o' the Wave, again in Hand Maiden Sea Silk, this time in Nova Scotia). It's a lot faster, and I'm much less likely to drop either stitch.
My question to the assembled knitters' wisdom, then, is this:
Is there any real difference between these two in making an effective left-leaning single decrease?
On a related note, what about k3tog tbl vs [skp, k2tog, psso] (slip one purlwise, knit two together, pass slipped stitch over) for a left-leaning double decrease? Again, it goes a lot faster and seems to produce the same result.
Thanks for any thoughts!
-- Lorrie
One, it said yfwd where I am used to seeing yo, but that I worked out pretty quickly.
Two, where another pattern would use ssk for a left-leaning single decrease, this pattern advocates k2tog tbl (knit two together through the back loop).
I found, over the course of this project, that I rather prefer k2tog tbl to ssk, and I've been using it quite happily in my current project (Eunny Jang's Print o' the Wave, again in Hand Maiden Sea Silk, this time in Nova Scotia). It's a lot faster, and I'm much less likely to drop either stitch.
My question to the assembled knitters' wisdom, then, is this:
Is there any real difference between these two in making an effective left-leaning single decrease?
On a related note, what about k3tog tbl vs [skp, k2tog, psso] (slip one purlwise, knit two together, pass slipped stitch over) for a left-leaning double decrease? Again, it goes a lot faster and seems to produce the same result.
Thanks for any thoughts!
-- Lorrie