Hi. Welcome to knit with Hannah. I'm Hannah. Today we are going to increase on a purl row. (intro)
Hi. Welcome to knit with Hannah. I'm Hannah. I'm here with knitting natter to help you learn to knit
the easy way. Welcome if you're new here, welcome back if you're not new here. We are talking about
increasing today. This is another knitting jargon video. I've got lots of those if you want to subscribe, and
hit the notifications bell. I'm giving you knitting jargon videos all the time, in and out with all
my other videos when I talk about yarn, I talk about selling your knitting, I talk about even
yoga for knitters. Today we are increasing on a purl row and in knitting jargon that may well be m1p -
make one, purl. So let's do that. Let's increase on a purl row. In my knitting jargon playlist we have
making one on a knit row, so this is just filling it up, and that just means that you will know how
to increase in two different ways. If you'd like to know more ways that you can increase wait,
come back at the end of the video and I will talk about how you can do it differently and where I've
already demonstrated that as well. Alright! Let's get to it. Let's m1p. If you've watched me before a
couple of months ago I did make one, and make one is basically all about just picking up a piece of
thread in between two stitches and creating a stitch from it. We're going to do exactly the
same thing but from the purl side this time. Before we do it from the knit side we're now
going to do it from the purl side. So let's pick up this little piece of thread. There it is. It looks like a
ladder. If you look at all of these steps down here all of these are basically yarns that make
up each row. So that little step, that first step at the top there is what we're going to use, and
we're going to put that onto the needle. We're just going to let that needle, from the left hand
side, pick it up by moving in from the back. The yarn is still at the front, and now we're going
to have to pick up this thread here. Now sometimes you can just put your needle straight into it and
it's fine, sometimes you may just have to pick it up and just help it a little bit, but that needle
has to go through there. We're now going to move the yarn round as if it is a stitch, because it
looks like a stitch, it's a piece of thread, and we're going to just move that over to the
right-hand needle. It's a new stitch - we've just created a stitch. Let me knit. Sorry, I mean
purl. heheh, a few stitches and look back at that. Look at that. You don't even notice it is there; it is just another
stitch on the needle. Let me show you that again and I'll just show you exactly what it is that
we're doing a little bit more. So we pick up that little step on the ladder there, and we put it in
from the back. What we're doing is twisting this as we knit it into that front piece. You can see
that little piece of thread is being twisted and, there. You can see it's twisted. It's crossing over
at the front there. So that means that we haven't got this big hole like you might do if you were
creating a hole purposefully in lace. Sometimes without realizing it where you have to make one
in your row, you have to increase in a row, you make a hole without realizing it and you really
don't want that to happen, so it's going to look nice and neat. That new stitch is going to sit there in
between those two stitches that we just picked it up from, and you're not going to notice. It's there, but
does it look like a stitch that isn't supposed to be there? No it doesn't, and does it look like
a stitch that's not supposed to be there there? Not really. Right, that was quite simple wasn't it?
It's just a couple of little things that you have to remember and you're done. So you can make one
purl now and if you find the other video about making on a knit row you can do it two ways. Like
I said before there are other ways that you can increase: you can make one left and you can make
one right. Now, this is ideal if you want it to be a feature of your knitwear. Now you can use
this in so many ways. If you want to really make a feature of it you can make one left and
make one right to make sure the stitches slant in opposite directions. This is ideal if you want
to create featured darts on a jumper or back or on the front. You can also use these techniques
if you're making a neckline and v-neck line you can probably see that if you buy a jumper from
the shop, that you can see the stitches becoming really a feature around the v-neck, and you'll also
use this if you create shaping around the arms of a jumper as well. So there are many ways you
can use this, and I do have demonstration for this - if you want to go and have a look at the
knitting the elbow patch video then you will see how to do that there. I use those two different
techniques when I'm creating the circle of the elbow patch. Right, so there are lots of ways
you can increase. If you're a beginner knitter and all you want to do is increase on a knit
row and increase on a purl row, then it needn't be a hassle. You just need two techniques and that's
that. And to be perfectly honest I very rarely use anything other than make one knit and make
one purl! Thank you so much for joining me this week. Do subscribe if you're not already. Give
me a thumbs up if you like this video. I will see you next Tuesday. Bye for now. Happy knitting.
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