A left-leaning decrease technique in knitting where the knitter slips the first stitch unworked, knits the next stitch, and then lifts the slipped stitch over the knitted one and off the needle. It reduces the stitch count by one and mirrors a knit two together decrease.
Heard on the job
The lace chart calls for an skpo right after the yarnover to maintain the stitch count.
Also heard as
- SKPO
Do not mix it up with
- SSK: Both are left-leaning decreases, but ssk slips two stitches knitwise before knitting them together, whereas skpo passes a slipped stitch over a knit stitch.
Related terms
Decrease
To reduce the number of active stitches in a row to shape a knitted or crocheted fabric.
SSK
This common knitting maneuver creates a neat, left-leaning decrease by slipping two stitches before knitting them together.
Psso
A knitting instruction to pass a slipped stitch over the stitch just knitted.