How to make 1 knitting increase.
Hi, I'm Kristen and welcome back to my channel, Studio Knit!
Your pattern is telling you to make 1.
So let me show you how to create this invisible increase
into your knitted work with my slow and up-close lesson.
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Oh and I'm switching my working yarn
from the color white to pink.
And that is really helpful so you can see
exactly what we are doing
with our working yarn here in pink.
If it indicates make 1 with M1,
that is the same as make 1 left.
So we are going to start there.
We also will finish up with the make 1 right increase.
So let's take a look at exactly how to make 1
in both directions to power up your knitting skills
and help you continue knitting up that pattern.
The horizontal yarn strand that runs between each stitch,
called the bar between stitches.
So to begin, using your left knitting needle,
you pick up that bar between stitches
from the front to the back.
Now with your right knitting needle
you're going to knit through the back loop.
So that means you place your right needle
through the stitch in the back.
And then with your working yarn
you simply knit it through.
We'll do that two more times
so you can see it really clearly.
With your left knitting needle,
pick up that bar between stitches
from the front into the back.
Now your right knitting needle
is knitting through the back loop.
So you place it into the stitch from the back
and then with your working yarn
wrap it around and knit it on through.
One last time, we're using our left needle,
picking up the bar between stitches
from the front to the back.
And your right needle is knitting through the back loop.
It's called make 1 left because that yarn bar
is slanting to the left after you knit the increase.
Okay, let's make 1 right knitting increase, M1R.
We begin again with our left needle
but this time we're picking up that bar between stitches
from the back to the front.
Now your stitch can be really tight.
So I like to move that left needle
a little bit over to the right
to give myself room for this next step
of taking the right needle
and in the front of your work
you're going to place it to the left side of that stitch
to knit it through.
So our left needle is picking up the bar between stitches
from the back to the front.
Now our right needle is going to knit
from the front but starting on the left side of that stitch,
give ourself a little bit of room there
and knit it on through.
And remember, you are the one in charge of the yarn.
You sort of scooch it and move it around as you need
in order to complete this technique.
It's called the make 1 right
because that yarn bar is slanting to the right
after knitting the increase.
I hope you are inspired to make 1 knitting increase
with confidence in your next knitting project
that calls for this.
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