Hello all. I just wonder if anyone has any tips for p3tog. I have to do this to do the daisy stitch and its the tightest hardest thing to do. Im ready to give up on my project due to the p3tog element of the daisy stitch. Does anyone have any tips to make this easier. I have tried casting on loser but its still difficult to do. Thanks
What type of needles are you using? It really helps to have needles with sharp points on them for that type of stitch. Inox, the new Addi Lace needles, KP Options, something like that. If you are using needles with blunt tips like regular Addis or bamboo you will find it much harder. Try to loosen your tension as you knit also.
I can relate to the p3tog being a pain. I recently did something in star stitch, which looks the same as daisy, and after a while it just got easier. I used regular Addi Turbos. sorry, I don’t have any helpful “tips” (ha, sorry, pun… Calamintha is spot on with her sharper needle tip advice, I think it would have made a world of difference for me if I had used KP Options). good luck! 
Im using bamboo and I just have those and the needles you get at walmart, the metal ones. I think i will switch to those since they are a little bit sharper and see if that helps. Thanks.
If you’re still having trouble, what if you slip the three stitches onto a thinner needle (or anything thin for that matter than you can knit from, if you don’t have extra needles), and doing the k3tog from that? Unless you’re using like, size US 0 needles, you should be able to find SOMETHING small to put the stitches on.
If that doesn’t work, I give another vote to KP needles! They’re not any more expensive than the Bates needles at Joanns (I don’t know what Walmarts prices are), plus a bit of shipping, and a few days wait. But they are so completely worth it.
You’ll want to be cautious though, since it sounds like you’re a really tight knitter, so you probably do a lot of re-adjusting the stitches/needles by pushing the needle tips down with your fingers right (or am I the only one that does this? lol)? If you do this, then there might be a bit of trouble with sharper needles because they’re, well, really sharp! I got used to it really quickly though, like within a few stitches.
The looser you actually knit (not just cast on), the easier it is to knit the stitches. Try not tugging the yarn as much after each stitch, and see if that helps at all.
Walmart carries Boye needles and they do have sharper tips than Bates, and about the same or less price.
sue
When I first started knitting (a few months ago) I used to push the tips with my fingers and that hurt lol but now I dont do that anymore I just kind of slide it off without using my fingers. I did switch to the walmart needles and Ive found it easier. Ive gotten farther than I had previously with the bamboo. If I run into more difficulties I will try using the smaller needles. Thats a great idea. Thanks.
Can you perhaps change the P3 tog, to:-
(with yarn in front) sl 1, p2tog, pass sl st over.
it looks the same, and may be an easier action?
There is a way to p3 tog without killing yourself or buying new needles.
Slip the first two stitches over to the right needle, purl the 3rd and then pass the first two over the tip of the right needle and over the one you purled.
I did this with p5 tog and it worked great!
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I almost did the psso version thinking I had unvented something but didn’t because I just didn’t want to buck the system. I’m working on the Peplum tank and you have to k3tog P3tog and for the first time I actually marred the tip of my cheepo boyes. My 8’s in the good needles are otherwise occupado so I just grabbed what was free. Even on Boye’s I have yet to wear the paint of the tippy tips or scuff the first inch or so…
But, thanks for the thread, now I will just throw caution to the wind and try something instead of purling more than 2tog in the future.
It got easier but I could see I wasnt going to be able to keep it up in the long run. To much trouble I am just going to avoid it lol.
I would use a crochet hook to go through the three stitches, and then hook the loop over the right needle.