I’m knitting the Emery sweater by Woodhouse Knits and I’m wanting ideas for what raglan shaping to use. Its a top down sweater and you make the raglan increases every 2nd row and then every 4th row. I tried using the increases the designer suggests but I ended up with large holes so have had to frog it back. I like the look of yarn over increases but think they would look odd when I start to increase every 4th row. Has anybody got any favourite increases that aren’t too hard?
I am a bit curious of what increase the designer suggested?
It was a lifted increase I think. Picking up the right or left leg of the stitch below. The right leg was fine but I struggled picking up the left leg.
When I first tried lifted increases I also had some small holes, but I got rid of them by adjusting the tension. I make sure I make what will become the parent stitch (the one picked up when doing the increase) extra tight so it is not able to stretch a lot. I do not not know if it helps you, but you could cast on a few stitches of scrap yarn and make a tiny test piece.
If you do not get the lifted increases to look good, you could use the normal M1 increase (M1R & M1L). Those you could also try with a test piece…
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The trouble I was having was I could locate the right leg to pick up but I was struggling to locate the left leg and I think I ended up picking up one that was two below…anyway I ended up with the right side looking as it should but big holes along the left side!
There is a simple solution for that 
. When you create what will become the parent stitch, insert a stitch marker into it. Then later when you want to pick up the left leg, lift it with the marker.
(When doing increase on every second row you put the new marker on the same row as you do the increase. When you increase every fourth row, you put the marker into the stitch two rows before the increase.)
Do you know, I was thinking I should have just used stitch markers! Especially as she said to pick up the left leg from the parent stitch! Can I ask why, when you increase every fourth row, you need to pick up the leg from two rows before and not the same row? Is that so the holes will be placed evenly?
It is the same round.
This is how the left slanted lifted increase can be done with help of markers:
Setup rounds:
Round 1. K until increase point, put marker into stitch
Round 2. Just knit
When doing increase every second round:
Round 3. K until increase point. Put marker into the stitch you just made. Lift up the old marker and place the stitch it is holding on the left needle. Remove old marker and knit into the lifted stitch
Round 4. Just knit
Repeat round 3 and 4
When doing increase every fourth round:
Row 3. K until increase point, lift up the parent stitch with help of the marker, remove the marker and knit into the stitch
Row 4. Just knit
Row 5. K until increase point, put marker into stitch
Row 6. Just knit
Repeat Row 3-6
As you can see in both cases there is a “Just knit” round before the increase round and the marker is placed on the round before the “Just knit” round".
That’s SO helpful! Thanks very much! 
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I am happy if it was to any help! I am sure that after some rounds of increases you will not even need the markers anymore because then you get used to find the left leg you need to lift.
Hopefully