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Increasing stitches
To shape and enlarge your knitting you increase stitches. Most increases are done from the right side. These are the various methods of increasing:
1. Knit 2 stitches in 1 stitch:
Put the right needle into the stitch to be knitted, pull yarn through but leave the stitch on the left needle. Now put the right needle through the back loop of the same stitch and pull yarn through. Lift the new stitch off left needle. You now have 2 new stitches on the right needle and have completed the increase.
Put the right needle into the stitch to be knitted, pull yarn through but leave the stitch on the left needle. Now put the right needle through the back loop of the same stitch and pull yarn through. Lift the new stitch off left needle. You now have 2 new stitches on the right needle and have completed the increase.
2. Create a new stitch between 2 stitches:
Pick up the thread between 2 stitches as shown in the illustration and knit this.
Pick up the thread between 2 stitches as shown in the illustration and knit this.
3. Create new stitches by “the yarn over needle” method:
If you need to create several new stitches at the beginning or end of a row, you make the number of yarn over needle required and knit or purl the yo’s as new stitches on next row.
If you need to create several new stitches at the beginning or end of a row, you make the number of yarn over needle required and knit or purl the yo’s as new stitches on next row.
