I have to add 6 M1’s in my ribbing for sweater sleave. But it changes the pattern. Can someone tell me the best way to do this. I cast on 48 stitches and need to increase next row to 54. The next row is a cable.
Make 1's in ribbing
Since you’re going to be increasing at the ends of the row, the incs won’t show so much. Work the first st, inc then keep to the ribbing pattern - knit the knits and purl the purls.
Is this the situation: You have done the ribbing and they want you to increase 6 stitches in the last row of ribbing and then move into cables? I think I would use a simple backward loop working the last row of the ribbing stitches just as they come and throwing a backward loop over the right needle in these places. K4, (M1, K8) repeat to last 4 sts, M1, k4. Don’t change the order of the stitches, just work them in pattern as they come. Try this on a little swatch and see if it works for you.
Another idea. Usually they don’t have you do a cable twist on the first row of a cable set up. If that is the case you could do the increases on the first row of the cable set up row, just past the ribbing. The way I suggested, math wise, above would make the increases evenly spaced, but you could put the increases where the cables are going to be as well, only adding the 6 they call for. You could use a lifted increase or a raised increase, or even the backward loop. Personally I don’t like a Kfb much in most cases anymore because it leaves a bar across the front and so is more visible.