Need help with increases in the round

#1

Ok, here’s what the pattern says:

K1 round.
Next round - k to withing 1 st of marker, inc, slip marker, inc rep, k to end of round. Make sure that you do not increase at the marker that begins the round.
Next round - k.

Okay, I fully understand all that, been doing the same exact thing on the neck to get to where I am now. But here’s my dilemma: you know where it says “do not increase at the marker that begins the round”? Does this mean I DON’T increase right before I get to that first marker either? Or does it mean I just don’t increase after I slip that first marker but I DO increase before I slip it? :??

Someone please help!!!

#2

What I get is that you increase before and after the markers, but they’re telling you to remember NOT to increase AGAIN before the marker when you get around to it.

Very often patterns have you start the increases after the first marker and do the last increase before that marker. This one has you doing the first increase in what is technically the last stitches of the previous round.

#3

Ah, thank you, Ingrid. My knitting Yoda! So, to clarify: I do increase right before the first marker but do not increase after it?

#4

It says to increase, k1, slip marker, inc, so increase before and after. You’ll have one stitch between the two increases.

The “make sure you don’t increase before the marker that starts the round” is to remind you not to increase in those stitches again, since you did it for that round already.

#5

Thanks, Ingrid! You rock!

#6

Keelan, if you make sure your increase markers are all the same color (say, green), and make your single beginning marker a different color (say, blue), you’re less likely to “oops” and increase at the beginning marker. And yes, Ingrid does rock!

#7

I just oopsed! I tried to put in an avatar, and boy, does it look screwy!