Let's knit increase stitches with YARN OVERS. Hello! I'm Kristen and welcome back
to STUDIO KNIT. If you have a YO in your pattern and you need to know how to do
this knitting technique well this is an increase yarn over stitch commonly used
to make eyelets in lace patterns here's an example of my lace hearts pattern
that uses yarn overs and multiple yarn overs will create drop stitch patterns
like my sea foam wave pattern beginning with a swatch in pink yarn I am going to
switch my yarn color to white that will help you see the Knitting technique a
lot easier I'm also filming close up showing you the technique slowly and we
are going to be repeating it so I'll do each technique three times
so let's knit it up for our first yarn over we are going to be doing it when
there is a knit stitch and then the instruction is to yarn over and that is
bringing your yarn between those two needles and you'll always want to think
about a counter clockwise direction so then you knit you take that yarn over
wrapping it around as if to knit normally everything is going
counterclockwise you knit right through it and here's your increase so right
there is your yarn over and then your knit stitch here's how it looks on the
back so we are going to be repeating this now we just did a knit stitch so we
are yarning over and that is bringing the yarn between the two needles to the
front of your work and then the next instruction is to knit so you just knit
as you normally would and you take that yarn from the front you're wrapping it
counterclockwise just like you would if you're doing a regular knit stitch
you knit through and here again that's our little yarn over and that is our
knit stitch let's do one more for good measure and we have that knit stitch so
the next thing we do is yarn over bringing our yarn to the front and then
we are knitting one stitch wrapping it around counterclockwise knitting through
and that is a yarn over when you start with a knit stitch you yarn over and you
finish with a knit stitch if your first stitch is a purl stitch now your yarn is
already in the front of your work so you are set up for success so that is
actually your yarn over right there if you first purl you have your yarn in the
front so you can consider that a yarn over because we are going to knit next
and you'll see the yarn is wrapping around and doing that yarn over work
when we're starting from the front so we go around counterclockwise
that's your yarn over and then you just knit through and you'll see when we
began with a purl stitch our little yarn over is right here and then that's the
knit stitch let's do it again I'm going to just do a simple purl stitch
so that's purling now your yarn is already in the front so you are set up
so let's go ahead and we'll do one knit stitch so we just bring our needles into
knitting one stitch and we wrap that yarn around our right needle
counterclockwise we knit through and there we have our yarn over and our knit
stitch right there okay one more time I'm going to first purl a stitch and now
as you know our yarn is in the front so we are ready to do that yarn
over knit all we have to do is put our needle in as if to knit we are wrapping
it around one time counterclockwise knitting through and that is a yarn over
when you begin purling then yarn over and then one knit stood oh and if my
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out and let's take a quick look at knitting our yarn overs on the wrong
side of our work you'll want to pay attention to how your stitches are
placed on your needle and make sure that they're not twisted a little bit which
can happen when you're doing your yarn overs so you can see these are twisted
right here this little crisscross and we want to even those out before we knit
them so I'm just going to take my knitting needle and take that yarn over
get him right into place and you know if you get a little bit confused you can
always look at your pattern see which is your knit stitch your purl stitch your
yarn over stitch and make sure that they are placed on your needle in the order
that they're written in your pattern
so on the wrong side of our work let's just go ahead and I'm going to knit this
first stitch that was just a regular old knit stitch for us on the right side of
our work and now here is our yarn over and you'll see it looks different it's a
lot longer on your needle but you just treat it the same as any other stitch
and continue knitting or purling on the wrong side of your work however the
pattern tells you and let's look one more time here at how it looks a little
bit different it's a longer stitch that yarn over you'll see it's a little bit
looser too but just go ahead and either knit or purl
let's purl this one right here and show you that we treat it exactly as we would
any other stitch on our needle I hope you're inspired to knit yarn overs with
confidence in your next knitting project when you see YO in that knitting
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