*cackles in yarnwitch*
I have hacked the k2tog. (That's "knit two stitches together" in knitterspeak, a decrease stitch that has a visual lean toward the knitter's right hand once complete.) The method I was taught for k2tog hurts my wrist and this pattern is loaded with them, so after two days of struggling with an aching wrist and loose, loopy decreases, I had to figure out a physically easier way to do it. Here's what I came up with, hope it helps others. Joint-Issues-Friendly K2Tog 1. Beginning on the front of your current row with the stitch pair to be k2tog'd (Pic1) 2. Slip the 2 stitches onto the right hand needle (Pic 2) 3 Flip the work around so the needle with your working thread and the pair of slipped stitches is in your left hand, and you're looking at the back of your row (row, not necessarily the "wrong" side of the piece, Pic3) 4. Purl those 2 stitches together, so that the completed stitch ends up on the needle in your right hand. (Pics 4 & 5) 5. Flip the work again so the decrease stitch (now just one loop) is on the needle in your left hand, and you are looking at the front of your row. (Pic6, and again, that's row, not necessarily the "right" side of the piece.) 6. Slip the finished k2tog back onto your right hand needle. (Pic 7) Pic 8 shows how the k2tog stitch looks when I do it the way it's shown in my nan's books & on youtube (bottom), vs the method above (top). As you can see, I am able to get a much smoother, cleaner decrease stitch this way, and it still "leans" to the right as k2tog should do. :)
