Knitting machines do not do the K2TOG, one has to manually shift the stitches. When you have a number of "double ups" to do... The garter bar makes that really easy. The other method commonly used is to remove the entire piece on contrast yarn and rehang it manually over the correct number of stitches. A third and even more time consuming method is to use a transfer tool and keep the work on the machine.
The best explanation I’ve seen for machine knitting a yoke, thank you!
Why use the garter bar for the decreases, can’t you just K2TOG on the machine?
Knitting machines do not do the K2TOG, one has to manually shift the stitches. When you have a number of "double ups" to do... The garter bar makes that really easy. The other method commonly used is to remove the entire piece on contrast yarn and rehang it manually over the correct number of stitches. A third and even more time consuming method is to use a transfer tool and keep the work on the machine.