Paired increase help please!

#1

I bought some bamboo DPNs today and what a difference it makes! The easter egg pattern says she used “paired increases” so I looked it up in the techniques and was using M1A and M1T. As per her instructions:

row 1: knit all stitches.
row 2: knit 1, increase 2 (I use paired lifted increases) knit to end of DPN. repeat on all three needles.

repeat rows 1 and 2 until you have 9 stitches per needle.

I was doing them together, but I find I’m getting little holes. Amy’s example doesn’t have holes. Is it because I was doing them together? Maybe I’m reading the instructions incorrectly. If it’s because they are together I can separate them. I’ve done enough now to realize it probably won’t make any difference.

What do you think?

#2

It could be because they’re next to each other. You could put them one stitch in from the end of each needle, maybe?

#3

Okay, that’s what I was thinking. Just don’t trust myself yet. :roflhard:

Thanks, I’ll give it a try!

#4

So is that what you ended up doing, Jan?

#5

I ended up k1, increase, k to last last stitch, increase, and then k last stitch. Seemed to work fine with no holes. :wink:

#6

I know you’ve already made your egg, Jan, but I just saw this question and wanted to respond. I did the KLL followed by KRL increases, which I had never done before (learned them from Amy’s videos). On Amy’s increase/decrease page, she says that if you have to do two increases in a row (with no other stitches in between), this is the way to go. I emailed Marnie (curlypurly) to ask her if that’s what she meant but I haven’t heard back yet.

That said, I did my most recent egg your way and I think I prefer it! :thumbsup:

#7

I’ll check that out! I just posted more eggs done differently yet again… :roflhard: