Working a Slip, Slip, Purl (ssp) Stitch

Hi, I'm Jen Lucas for the Knitting Circle, and in this video I'm gonna show you how to Slip, Slip Pearl. The Pearl wise decreases are typically known as being a little bit more tricky than those knit wise decreases but I don't want you to be scared of the Slip, Slip Pearl. With a little bit of practice, you'll have it mastered in no time. So let's go ahead and get started. The Slip Slip, Pearl stitch is typically worked on the wrong side of your work. That's not always the case but most often that is where you're going to see this particular stitch is on the wrong side. So I have a swatch here where I have worked a Slip, Slip Pearl on the wrong side rows, and you could see right along here that's where I did those decreases. Where you can really see these decreases though, is if we flip it over to the right side and you can see here, that's my Slip, Slip Pearls which I created on the wrong side of the work. So a Slip, Slip Pearl creates a left leaning decrease when you're looking at the right side of your work. So let's go ahead and get started on how to do that. I'm on the wrong side of my swatch and I have my yarn in front because I am going to be pearling. I'm going to slip the first stitch as if to knit. I'm going to slip the second stitch as if to knit and I'm going to then slip both of those stitches back to the left-hand needle. I now need to pearl those two stitches together through the back loop. This is really the tricky part of the Slip, Slip Pearl. So I'm gonna bring my right hand needle around and through the back loops of those stitches, and I'm gonna pearl those two together. And that creates the Slip, Slip Pearl. I'm gonna go ahead and show that to you again. We're going to slip as if to knit, slip as if to knit, bring both of those stitches back to the left-hand needle. We're then going to pearl those two stitches together through the back loop, by bringing our right needle around and to the back, going through both of those stitches through the back loop, and then pearling those two together. You can see it doesn't really look like much here on the wrong side of our work, which we're currently on, but again, as you can clearly see in our swatch, when we're looking at it from the right side you can see those nice, neat Slip Slip, Pearl decreases. That's it. As you can see, it's really not too hard once you get the hang of it. With a little bit of practice, you'll be using it in a wide variety of knitting projects soon. I'm Jen Lucas for the knitting circle. I hope you enjoyed this video and I'll see you back here again real soon.