Hi Roxanne. Great video. I love all these different options and the way you explain the process of thinking through which ones to use. Fascinating. It’s funny. With the make one increases, which I’ve known how to do for quite sometime now, I always have to go back and refresh my memory on how each one is worked. I keep forgetting, lol. Ah the joys of getting older. Thank you for another great tutorial. I’m going to go back and watch the previous video.😊
This is such a usefull video, thanks a lot !!! I want to share a joy, my daughter had her first child so I have become a new grand-ma, I will look back at your videos of child clothes 🥰
Thanks Rox. A very thorough explanation of increases. I really like your visual and your suggestion to do a visual representation of an increase in your pattern when you want to substitute an increase technique.
Thank you so much for explaining these different types of increases and how they are used. I get so confused when a pattern simply says "inc". I need it to tell me which one, but now I think I could make a swatch and decide which increase is better according to the project. I have referred back to your M1 M2 video many times while making projects. I'm sure this video will also be referred to many times. Thanks so much Roxanne!!!!!!!
I LOVE watching your technique videos! You have such a clear and elegant (as in the scientific definition) way of delivering the information. Your goal is always to help us understand, not to merely impress us with your wealth of knowledge (but you do that, as well)! I was wondering if you have done a video on double-knit button bands? If not, would you consider doint so? I have never tried this technique, but am wondering what all the pros and cons might be.
Yikes. Am doing that now (petiteknit lulu slipover junior). It's not that it's difficult, and it is fairly 'elegant,' but I hope my results look like the picture!
Great video. I always substitute make one inc, and usually for lifted increases. 😂 I think we all have our go to methods, but it's good to know all of the advantages and disadvantages.
Instead of kfb, I tend to knit front, then instead of knit the back, I just pass it over. I guess the result is like knitting from a stitch below, maybe? Like does it end up like a lifted increase?
Perfect timing!! I’m going to make a top down raglan w v-neck cardigan. Kinda my own “design”. I now know which inc to use for the v-neck incs (lifted). Incs will occur every 4th row. Since I’ll be adding a button band, I’m not sure whether to make the incs 3 sts from the edge (= K, K, K then a lifted increase)?? I don’t want the incs to interfere with, or abut those button band picked up sts. Am I on the right track?? Thank you for enabling my cardigan journey without an actual “pattern”!! I’ve had the yarn (DK weight) for approx 1 year now… ahem…😊)
It's always worth doing some swatches to figure out which increases you want to use, what spacing from the edge you want, as well as what it all looks like after you pick up sts along the selvedge. Try placement using your idea in one swatch, then see if you might like something a bit different as a comparison.
Oh, yes… I’ve swatched for stitch/row counts, fabric, etc. I will make a swatch for button band in relation to inc placement for sure! I wasn’t sure if there was a “standard” to follow. That said, after your many informative vids, I can do whatever my little heart desires. Guess I need to be a bit more confident w testing new things! After all, I can be stubborn and WILL make the thing work.
Please, is there a tip for reading one's knitting to spot the row with a knit-front-back and to accurately count the rows worked to know when to do the next kfb increase 8 rows later in a garter stitch section? When doing the Sophie Scarf, i loose track of the row count. Similar issue on the decrease section with the skp (slip, knit, psso). Thanks for your consideration in explaining how various stitches work to create beautiful fabric!
@@xbaczewska4197 i easily, and without thinking, turn the fabric and continue knitting. I tried a row counter YEARS ago, but forgot to pause and press the button. Marking a sheet of paper also requires remembering to make the mark... so i need to learn to read the fabric.
Which increase would you use for sleeve increases when the stitch pattern is a moss stitch? I was using a M1 but then read that I would be eliminating the bar next to the selvage needed for mattress stitch seaming. (Unfortunately, I'm already half way up the sleeve!) 😢
The running thread is not eliminated. The m1 is created in the running thread, but that doesn't make the running thread go away. The m1 is attached to the selvedge, just like a regular stitch would be. I use the m1 inc all the time in this sort of situation.
I’m very confused by your math at the end of video. In substitutions- the bottom row has 29 stitches “on the needle” not 25 as row above, and then extra blue ones…. Doesn’t make sense. If you add one stitch, no matter the technique - it’s +1….. ???
The difference is in the frequency in which the increases occur. If you knit 4, then kfb, you are knitting stitch #5 while creating a new stitch. If you knit 4, then m1, you are knitting 4 sts, then creating a new stitch and then knitting stitch 5. With the kfb, you are creating a new stitch as you knit stitch 5, 10, 15, and 20. With m1, you are creating a new stitch after 4, but before 5, so you increase after st 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24. You are increasing more frequently, because you aren't using a stitch while creating a new one. You'd have to increase after stitch 5, 10, 15, and 20.
