Knitting Help - Comparing Increases
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- In this video, I show how different increases look side-by-side, and talk about how to substitute one for the other. A bit more complicated than substituting decreases, some increases "use up" a stitch, while others do not.
The "sister" video comparing decreases can be found here:
• Knitting Help - Compar...
Slow demonstrations of the increases shown:
Yarn-Over: • Knitting Help - Yarn Over
KFB (knit front back): • Knitting Help - Knit F...
Make 1 (M1): • Knitting Help - Make 1...
The bulky yarn I used for demonstration is Knit Picks Wool of the Andes Bulky in Yonder.
The needles I'm using are Knitter's Pride Nova Platinas, from an interchangeable set:
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The bamboo marking pins I use to point with can be found here:
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The nail polish I'm wearing is by Julep, color "Amanda".
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My silver ring is actually a knitting needle gauge, and can be found here:
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i love watching this lady's vids because she is so serious about what she is doing and explains everything so well.
Same here. She’s got skills!
BEST video for doing increases...no hole when you use the "pick up horizontal bar" method!
It was so helpful that you talked about which increase “use” a stitch and which don’t. I’d never thought about this or it’s impact on a pattern before.
This is possibly the most helpful video. I came across a pattern and as a beginner in knitting I was wondering what the differences were and how it looks in comparison. This just cleared everything up. Thank you
I am so gratefull for your kind, clear, and complete explanations. My knitting as a beginner is constantly improved by your advises. Be proud: you make me very happy and relaxed about a thing I used to fear ;}
I design my own patterns, and you answered a question I constantly run up against---how to increase (at the shoulders of a circular item) without making the front or back longer on one side than the other. I've only been knitting about fifty years and I'm still learning. Your tutorials are so clear, concise and probably my favorites to watch.
Great video. Spent half an hour looking for best, most invisible increase. Should've known Staci would have the best info. Thanks!
Increases and video on decreases are absolutely helpful to me, a knitter stuck between advanced beginner and intermediate level. Thank you.
I just shared this with a friend of mine who's starting to branch out her knitting skills, because you show it so more clearly that I could!
Many thanks for publishing a clear concise guide. I don't knit often enough to keep these stitches in my head. Appreciate being able to look them up when I need them!
Great instructions, easy to follow too. I've been knitting for around 10 years, but have only ever been brave enough to make scarves, bags etc & have always been afraid of other more complex stitches & patterns. Not now. Your clear & concise instructions have made it possible for me to make sweaters & other clothes for my grandsons. I will definitely be following you on you tube for all my knitting tips. Many thanks x
You are the very best knitting instructor ever! So helpful and clear, perfectly explained and demonstrated - I love all your Slow Motion videos and all your regular speed videos - whenever I need assistance I only look at yours now for everything! Thank you SO MUCH!! Ann from UK!
Absolutely perfect. So useful to see them on your work, and hear how the stitch count changes depending on choice. Thank you.
Hello Staci, Thank you so much for all the clear and concise videos that you post and the techniques you highlight. Interesting and fun stuff!
This has become my “go to” video for increase stitches because of the excellent comparison of 3 types. My one suggested improvement would be visuals to identify the 3 (just numbers). That would make it easier to scrub through the video to find a specific stitch. That said, this has been very helpful so thank you! 🙏🏻 (And, yes, I have returned here several times because I am not an expert knitter so I am in need of review/refreshers on how-to between projects! 😝) 👍🏼
Thsnks, that was really brilliant to see them side by side. Also, thanks so much for not yelling. Non-Americans can find US CZcamsrs very loud, but this was very relaxing 😊
As expected, a great comparison with clear and concise instructions. Thank you for yet another helpful vid.
You're freaking awsome!! Your videos are like having a best friend teach you. So clear as easy to understand. Thank you so very much!!
Thanks for this video on increases, and for the companion video on decreases. Makes things wonderfully clear and do-able. Increases :-) my stitch toolbox and greatly helps my understanding of patterns. Once again, great instructional videos, helpful indeed. Thanks Staci.
Very useful and comprehensive video, thank you! I'm knitting a pattern from 1942 and it just said increase. This is exactly the info I needed.
Thank you for such a wonderfully clear and concise explanation of increases!
This is exactly what I needed to get into knitting jumpers and cardigans game. Thank you!
So glad I found you! such clear and helpful tutorials! Thank you
Great video! Thank you for a clear and concise explanation of the inc differences!
Thank you for adding the explanation about the difference of kfb using up a stitch. I'm new to knitting and was planning to use kfb with a shawl pattern I found instead of what the pattern calls for (m1), and now I know to account for that! Great video!
love your piece with all 3 methods, that really shows how they look differently.
Thank you for this video. I have learned so many techniques from your videos. VeryPink is my go to site for everything! I did not know why certain patterns had KFB or M1, now I know. Thank you again!
My Gosh! I have been doing the Make one left and right very wrong all this time.. lol.. I would pick up a stitch in between the stitches and always made a gap.. Thank you sooo much for clarifying this for me.. :)
Thanks a lot for this great and helpful video! I actually discussed different increases about a week ago with a knitting friend and am now thankful to show her this as an explanation what left and right increases are.
As a continental knitter I often find it difficult to follow some more complex stitches you demonstrate because I'm not really familiar with the english knitting. So it would be great if you could show a continental version of the more complicated things you demonstrate in the future.
I like that you show the outcomes of each option.
Super helpful once again, Staci! Thanks so much!
And those needles attached to your comparison swatch are gorgeous. :D
Tyler Pittman I am 95% sure those are part of the Knitter's Pride Symphony Dreamz's set. Beautiful laminated birchwood needles. I'm as sure as I think I am because I use them myself and they are fantastic. Not only high quality, but KP cords are just phenomenal for both regular and magic loop knitting, and the needles themselves are this glorious slickness somewhere between average plant-based needles (like bamboo) and slick, treated metal (like Addi's); so not sticky, but not fly-off-the-needles slick either. I am obsessed. And to seal the deal, they're crazy, crazy affordable for an interchangeable set. I feel like I'm *this* close to reaching advanced knitting status, and I still think they're exactly what I want. Definitely check them out.
Thank you so much for this video, as always your videos are so clear and easy to follow! I prefer your videos to all others! I must say that I am mesmerized by your hands, they are so beautiful!! If you ever need a second income, hand modelling is for you…😍
Thanks for showing us the variety of looks.❤
Great video, thank you so much for it. Now I could realise the difference among all these increases.
Excellent video, very clear and straight to the point
Thank you so much for all the tutorials, so helpful!
Thank you so much for this video! This is exactly what I was looking for.
💓Thanks so much!! Love your channel & podcast!
Yarn Over 1:21
KFB 1:50
M1R 2:15
M1L 2:44
IMHO, this video is MUCH better for the Make Ones as your filming was better quality and much closer up. So Just watch here a few times.
I just commented on the need for this and then saw your comment. Thank you!!
Thank you so much for the comparison video! (And also for the decreases)
I agree with all the comments ,also I like her presentation with great lighting so it's clearer to see
This is an amazing video! I immediately subscribed! Thank you so much!
Great video and easy to follow along. Thank you!
I don’t know if you are still on CZcams reading comments because you haven’t posted since early last year, but your videos have helped me so much and I wanted to thank you. I just hope you see this
I post a new video every single week! New video every week, still very active on my channel, checking comments and responding to them multiple times a day.
Super helpful -- and I LOVE your haircut!
Thanks! Very helpful and useful for me because I'm very new to the knitting world...
Thank you. This was exactly what I was looking for.
Always helpful. Love your channel
Good, clear tutorial. Thanks for sharing.
the last 10 views was me...trying to figure out out to make 1 right. I think I have it now...thank you!
I am a beginner knitter, this was so helpful. thank you..
Nicely demonstrated....Thank u so much for such a nice video....💖 from India
I greatly appreciate this video. Thank you!
I do also. She is SO good. May favourite of all.
This is so clear, thank you!
This is a big help! Thank you!
This was very helpful, thank you!
Thank you so much...this was so helpful!
This wa SO helpful! thank you so much!!
Just brilliant. Thank you.
Thank you I learnt a lot
Thank you for this video, Staci. I am trying to wrap my head around the theory of knitting and wonder if the increase you choose (particularly m1r, m1l) depends on the direction you're working (i.e. if a garment is worked top down vs. bottom up)?
You're awesome! Thanks for sharing. :)
Very helpful, thanks!
Thank you so very much!
I've been having some trouble in deciding which increase to use in other kinds of stitches like the seersucker for example. Is there any increase that is better for this?
Very helpful. Thanks
Thank you for the tutorials, they are super helpful to a beginner like me who has taken on a bigger project that I was ready for! (thankfully the sweater is for my dog who doesn't care what it looks like!). I am assuming that lifted increases are similar to kfb in that you need to account for the stitch used in the pattern? The pattern I am using is very simple, just says increase on both ends of the knit rows, so I have been working the increases 1 from the edge... again the puppy isn't too concerned how it looks but is that the best place to add the increase? thanks
Helpful.. Thank you 🌹
Omg i.need this tutirial. Thank you
Thank you for this...I am doing kfb on a raglan sweater and wondered if those bumps were something I was doing wrong..
when increasing a sleeve by one stitch for example,does adding that stitch on the sides or in the middle make a difference?which is best?great channel,i subscribed
I was at the Goodwill Thrift store & I found a package of knitting needles that r of different sizes. They r the 1's that have the part that has the plastic cable that can interchange with each other. I paid $2.99 minus my senior discount. I think that it's everything. It came with the case.
I like so much your videos!! They are great!!! ☺ Is it possible to create those little holes in decreases?
Very helpful thank you!
If I want to only increase say every 2nd or 3rd row, I guess the M1R/M1L version is best? I want a dress to flare a bit and the wool is mottled grey... Do I only increase at the sides or also in the front in back?
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Thank you.
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Have you heard if the twisted yarn-over increase? It ends up looking similar to the Make 1 increase but is a bit more invisible because it doesn't mess with the tension of the surrounding stitches as much. It has both left and right-leaning versions and is worked in a similar way to Make 1 increases, but it takes two rows to complete rather than just one.
Thank you for this very helpful video tutorial. I found this very informative, as was the decrease video you posted last week.
I was wondering if you were planning on producing a video which matched increases and decreases? For instance, if I were making a blanket using M1L and M1R as the increases, which decrease method would you pair with it? Being a new knitter the answer is not obvious to me and I would appreciate the insight of an experienced and talented knitter such as yourself.
Crystal
Crystal Kopec - thanks for the note, and the suggestion. I personally like to keep things simple, and I rarely find a need to use an increase or decrease other than the six (three incs, three decs) I've shown in these two videos. If I was matching up M1 stitches with decreases, I'd use k2tog and ssk. Really, they're the nicest looking, easiest to work, easiest to remember, and good for just about everything.
Do you have any video teaching 2 or 3 stitches decrease or increase on both side? If not, can you make one or show me in the reply? Thanks
Great! Thank you!
I'm left handed so in your swatch using M1L and M1R, would I do M1L k2 M1R or like you do the M1R k2 M1L.... what order would come out right for the increases in a top down neck line?
Being left handed won't make a difference - especially if the only difference is that you hold the working yarn in your left hand, but still knit on to an empty needle in your right hand. (Knitting on to an empty needle in your left hand is called "mirror knitting", and sometimes does change patterns.)
thank you!!
I removed 6” from the bottom of a sweater (including the ribbing) to shorten it. I now want to just add the ribbing, k2p1. Would I increase the first pattern row, on the right side or back, and which increase stitch would be preferred?
It isn't necessary to increase before working sweater ribbing, but if it is necessary for your sweater, just make sure the increases are spaced evenly, and you like the way it looks.
Staci, could you some time give a demonstration of how a M1L and a M1R look when paired on different sides of the fabric? For instance a M1L on the right hand side and an M1R on the left hand side compared to M1L on the left and M1R on the right.
When a pattern says increase each end of next and every following fourth row do you count the increase row as row one then increase in fourth or do u increase then knit four and increase in fourth hope this is clear ty for it help in advance
Count the increase row as 1 and increase again on the 5th row.
My instructions say to do a M1P which is to make one purlwise with “the left needle lift the running strand between stitches from the front to back then pearl into the back loop of the strand” This doesn’t match any video instructions I’ve seen I am so confused. Can you please explain this increase that I’ve been instructed to do? Why is it called an M1P?
Great video, as always! But I'm surprised you didn't include the raised increases. Those are my goto increases when I want truly invisible increases. Maybe you cover them elsewhere?
Hi, please could you show me how to p1, yrn, p1 but without making holes. Thanks
Does it matter if you use knit front back, along with knit back front? (KFB, KBF, if there is even any such thing?)
Meaning do they need to be mirrored to look nice?
I don't think you need to mirror kfb with anything to have it look nice - you get a distinctive purl bump with this increase, but when worked on the two sides of a marker, it looks good.
This is such a useful video! May I ask what kind of increase is best if a pattern says to increase one stitch at the end of each row (for widening jumper/sweater sleeves for example)?
I would use kfb.
Wonderful thank you!
omg, that was a very good question! And thanks for your response! I working on a baby sleeper and that is what is said to do for the sleeves, so i got on you tube to find how to increase...after watching this great video, I was going to use M1R....now i will do KFB
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Is M1A and M1T also an increase and does it look different? This is what a pattern I'm making at the moment.So is M1A the same as M1L? I'm just not sure which one to replace with. Thank you for all you do to help knitters like myself.
I'm not familiar with those increases...designers can sometimes use different abbreviations for stitches. I recommend contacting the pattern designer directly for clarity.
Another interesting increase I've seen (in the round) is a yarn over, but then it is knit through the back loop on the second round. No hole!
A toddler sweater states: inc,k1, slip m ( marker), k1, inc1. I’m not sure what method or what stitch to “ inc”. Could you possibly give me some ideas? Thank you.
You can use any increase you like - keep it simple, by using kfb (knit front/back) increases at both spots, or mirror increases (Make 1 Right on one side of the marker, Make 1 Left on the other side). You can contact the pattern designer if you want more direction specific to your pattern.
What is the best increase stitch when a pattern wants you to increase, say 30 stitches evenly through the row? Because in that instance, I am not sure the direction of an increase matters?
The increase is up to you...if you want the increase to be invisible (like on a field of stockinette) a Make 1 (M1) increase is usually a good choice.
@@verypinkknits Yes stockinette was exactly where I wanted to increase. Thank you so much, I'm so grateful!
How would you work an increase into the basketweave pattern?
+Colleen VanOverbeek - increases would show in the basketweave stitch, you'd have to find a way to include them that is visually even.