patented the slip slip slip slip knit triple decrease English style for this tutorial you will need a pair of knitting needles and a ball of yarn special thanks to our sponsor feel-good yarn company for providing today's yarn today we are using their lana monday yarns Tajik mohair in the color burgundy the slip slip slip slip knit triple decrease is a method of reducing three stitches from our work and it's an uncommon decrease that also results in a left-leaning stitch now to do this will be very similar to the slip slip knit we're just adding two additional stitches when we're slipping our stitches and this is going to turn the stitches around so that your top stitch which is a little bit hard to see but we can see it's right here is actually laying flat in the right direction on top of your work okay so you can see here's an example of the three stitches that we've decreased it and we've got another one a little bit further below down here you're not going to encounter this very often it's going to show up in certain lace patterns where you need to remove a lot of stitches at once so here we go we're going to for step one insert our knitting needle knit wise and slip the first stitch off our needle for step two we'll repeat that with the next stitch step three again repeat by slipping with the knit wise step four we'll slip the fourth stitch now for step five we're going to take our working needle here we're going to slip it back through all four stitches that are on our or we're going to take our main needle slip it through the four stitches that are on our working needle now and we're going to slip this through going the opposite direction through all of the stitches at once okay so we can see here or through all the stitches then we're going to knit them all together as if they're one stitch okay and what this is going to do is it's going to place that first stitch that we slipped on top of all of the other stitches okay so I'm gonna undo this real fast and we will show you it it one more time so I'm just gonna slip these stitches back onto my needle my main needle they're all twisted the opposite direction right now so I need to twist them back okay here we go so again we're going to slip slip slip slip knit wise now even though we have four stitches here we're going to only be decreasing three that's because when we knit these all together we'll end up with one stitch so we'll be replacing four stitches with one stitch so we only lose three stitches all right and that's how we do the slip slip slip slip knit the triple decrease what mortgage today join our VIP email list to get every stitch directly to your inbox sign up today at new Saturday comm slash VIP