There are so many ways to increase stitches in knitting — you can knit twice into the same stitch (often notated as KFB — knit into the front and back), you can do a yarn over and treat it as a real stitch on the next row (which leaves a hole in your work — this can sometim...
Learn how to master the knit front back increase (KFB) with this helpful video tutorial. You can seamlessly increase your knitting project with this technique.
Knitting: How to Decrease Stitches As soon as you start to knit anything more complicated than a scarf you are likely to need to know how to increase and decrease the number of stitches you are working with. In this article, we will show you different methods on how to decrease stitches....
Turn your work again and increase in each stitch across the row by knitting into the front and back of each stitch. To knit front and back, knit into the first stitch as you normally would to create a knit stitch but do not drop the stitch off the left needle. Insert the right needle...
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You’ll also want to learn how to work with different stitches in the same row (single crochet, double crochet, across a row, for example.) Plus you’ll want to know how to change colors in a project. Moreover, you’ll want to learn how to increase and decrease rows to create ...
“cast on loosely”—important for things like sock cuffs and turtle necks—many people like to go up a couple of needle sizes. I like to cast on over two needles held together as one, which is equivalent to an increase of several needle sizes. Of course, anything in between would also...
leave a few inches of tail, hold it tight as you would hold the yarn to begin a regular row, and begin knitting. If you find this very awkward, try holding the tail of the other yarn along with the new yarn as you make the first stitch, being careful to only make the loop with ...
M1L & M1R: knitting stitch structure – String Geekery December 17, 2021 @ 6:41 am […] M1 is a good, basic increase, but it leaves a visible hole. There’s a slight modification of the technique that mostly hides this hole. The two versions of this are M1L (make one left) ...
Commonly, stitch and row repeats are indicated by heavy lines (or boxes) in the chart. This is similar to the use of brackets in text knitting instructions. So you would work the edge stitches one time, then work the ‘repeat’ stitches as many times as possible (always reading the set...