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Newbie Help

I’m at the top shaping of the sleeve for Chamomile and the pattern says to decrease at each end of the next 3 rows. So on the RS rows I’m doing K1, SSK, K to last 3 sts, K2Tog, K1 (Decreasing one stitch in from the edge). On the WS rows, I would do the opposite decrease: P1, SSP, P to last 3 sts, P2Tog, P1. But when I try to do SSP, my decrease comes out all messed up for some reason. I couldn’t find any videos or good visual references for how to do it, just what it should look like when it’s done. Even in all my books at home. I slip 2 sts knitwise one at a time, then put them back on the left needle by simply inserting the left needle into the stitches from left to right, then I do a p2tog tbl. I’m getting ugly results. :( Maybe I’m just doing the SSP wrong. Instead, I tried just a P2Tog TBL without slipping the stitches first, instead of SSP and my decrease seemed to look like it should (from the pictures in the books I have).

Will this make my piece non-symmetrical since I’m not slipping the stitches before doing the P2Tog TBL? Could I make it more even by doing K2Tog TBL instead of SSK? Will this affect the end result, since I will be seaming those edges together?

This decrease issue is where Sigma went wrong. It looks sloppy because of the SSPs, so I’m trying to make sure I got it right this time. I want Chamomile to look good. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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