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Slip slip knit

A left-leaning decrease, the mirror of k2tog.

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How to work it

Slip two stitches one at a time knitwise onto the right needle, then insert the left needle through their front loops and knit them together from that position. It removes one stitch and leans to the left, mirroring k2tog for tidy paired decreases.

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