Help on SSK abbreviation

How-to Questions
1

I’m following a sock pattern that states:

“Knit to 3 sts before marker, k2t, k1, (slip marker) K1, Ssk 2tog”

my question is: after slipping the marker, do I just do a regular SSK (which results in a decrease of 1)? Or is it an SSK, plus K2tog, resulting in a decrease of 2 total?

I can’t tell if this was a typo or not. The abbreviations in the pattern mention “SSK” and “K2Tog” but not “SSK 2tog”.

TIA!
Pam

2

i would guess that it is just slip slip knit two together. like the regular SSK :thinking:

3

That would be my guess too, but it’s sure a weird way to write it. Do you have 3 stitches after the marker? If so, then I’d say for sure it’s just K1, SSK after slipping the marker.

4

Thanks. This is the decrease for the toe, so I’m just going around and around until I get to a certain number of stitches.

5

oh yeah. then for sure they just mean an SSK and they have a strange way of writing it.

6

That’s what I was hoping. Thanks all!