How To Calculate Decreases In Knitting. I love knitting socks, and if you look around my blog you will find a free sock knitting class and many patterns on top of that. In knitting and crochet i often hear people wondering how to go about evenly spacing increases and decreases and wondering if there is a formula.

To make decreases in every 6th stitch, means that you work together every 5th and 6th stitch like this: K6, (k2tog, k12) repeat 3 times, k2tog, k6. I love knitting socks, and if you look around my blog you will find a free sock knitting class and many patterns on top of that.