Yep, that's exactly what all the books say too! But I don't have a twist in the yarn at that point so it doesn't do anything. I was mostly worried on the sock that it would be the wrong kind of lumpy, but I think, based on the way my sock pattern was using them, that ssk/k2tog are inverses, such that if you do one at one end of a row, and one at the other, your result will be symmetrical? So I have a very slightly non-symmetrical toe and it's fine. Unfortunately some of the fancier historical patterns in my Folk Socks book actually use the increases/descreases as part of the pattern, so if I want to keep going in the book, I should probably figure it out. If I decide to do it right I may just end up doing a sampler with all the increases/decreases in the book and messing around until I manage to get something that looks right for each one, which is pretty much the only way I learn motor skills anyway.
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Yep, that's exactly what all the books say too! But I don't have a twist in the yarn at that point so it doesn't do anything. I was mostly worried on the sock that it would be the wrong kind of lumpy, but I think, based on the way my sock pattern was using them, that ssk/k2tog are inverses, such that if you do one at one end of a row, and one at the other, your result will be symmetrical? So I have a very slightly non-symmetrical toe and it's fine. Unfortunately some of the fancier historical patterns in my Folk Socks book actually use the increases/descreases as part of the pattern, so if I want to keep going in the book, I should probably figure it out. If I decide to do it right I may just end up doing a sampler with all the increases/decreases in the book and messing around until I manage to get something that looks right for each one, which is pretty much the only way I learn motor skills anyway.