The Sweater
Decreasing several stitches
You now have to decrease 8 stitches at right and left for the armhole.
Pick up the orange tool.
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Insert the eyelet of the orange tool
into the needle head at right with a
stitch on it and pull the needle
towards you until the stitch lies
behind the open latch.
Now push the needle back again.
This will only work if you ensure that
the orange tool and the needle of the
machine remain in a straight line.
Lift the eyelet of the decker tool out
of the needle head and insert the
eyelet into the needle head of the
following needle at left.
Tilt the orange tool with the stitch on
it up and back until the stitch slips
into the second needle head.
This is made easier if you pull the
knitting down slightly with your left
hand.
Now pull the needle with the two
stitches on it right to the front and
wind the yarn with which you are
knitting twice round the needle.
Pull the needle right back until the
two stitches have slipped over the
latch and a new stitch has been
formed. This is what we call “ knitting
off the stitches” .
Repeat this procedure 8 times in all, i. e. until the last needle with a stitch on it is needle 41 at right.
Push the empty needles right to the back until they are out of work (NWP) *.
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