Learn to Knit Three Together Through the Back Loops

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Okay, let's talk more about decrease stitches.

Why?  Because they're interesting.  They're important.  They warrant several tutorial videos on the Leisure Arts YouTube channel.  

And because I discovered that I've been doing some of them wrong, and maybe someone else has too.  I'm not assuming that everyone has as much trouble with written explanations of stitches that I do, but I'm also not self-centered enough to believe I'm the only person who gets in the habit of knitting in ways that are simply wrong.

Or so I fervently hope and pray.

Ahem.

Knitting stitches together through the back loops twists them in a different direction than simply knitting them together.

I did not fully understand this until I watched the video for knitting three stitches through the back loops (K3TOGtbl).



Yes, of course I was knitting all of my decrease stitches through the back loops!  What else would I be doing if not twisting every blasted stitch and forgetting that I can't knit normally to save my life?

I may still be a little bitter about the way the Lace with a Twist pattern from Knit Cowls looked a little off because I knit all of the K3TOG stitches as K3TOGtbl stitches.

It was supposed to look like the cowl on the cover.  It didn't.

Fine, maybe I'm still a lot bitter.

I don't know of a lot of patterns that call for K3TOGtbl decreases, but I'm going to search them out now because this is a decrease I can do properly!  If it's not your favorite, I understand.  But at least now you know, and you'll be ready when a pattern does call for it.

Happy knitting!