Me again. My sleeve pattern in stocking stitch says
Work 95 rows Inc 1st at each end of 5th and every foll 9th row (68 stitches) (began with 46)
This seems to give increases on both knit and purl rows. I’ve never had that before. Plus as I’ve worked it out the required number of stitches is reached at row 91.
Sleeves, how hard can they be for goodness sake?
Yes, there are going to be increases on both knit and purl rows. It looks like rows 5,14,23,32,41,50,59,68,77,86 and 95. You can work a k2tog and on the purl side a p2tog. If you work a ssk, a p2tog tbl will mirror the increase.
Or you can let the increase on the purl rows slip to the following row. So if the purl rows are the even rows that would be increases on rows 5,15,23,33,41,51,59,69,77,87 and 95
Think there’s a mistake here
These are decreases rather than increases.
Here’s a video on mirrored increases on the purl side if you’re not sure how to do those.
Ah, sorry about that. Yes of course, increases. The row numbers work out but increases like the left lifted increase or right lifted increase or the make ones that Creations posted can be worked from either the knit or the purl side. Or, as I noted, just shift the purl side increases to the following knit row.
Oh, I was right. When I read that earlier, that’s what I thought, that k2tog and ssk were decreases. But I thought maybe I was missing something.
Thank you all, I think I was over thinking yet again.
Mixup I know, but this post is still super useful. I just delved deeper into using increase and decrease stitch types for left/right-leaning and knit/purl-side and this cemented what I’ve learnt so far .
As a newbie I often used (k2tog) for decreasing and (kfb) for increasing on knit sides and totally avoided this on purl stitches, satisfied with having the right stitch count but TOTALLY oblivious to what the work looks like 🥲. I’m learning that the inc/dec used can really stick out or blend in depending on the type used
. I’m just going to list the increase types I’ve found to-date in case anyone is exploring the techy bits too…
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• M1L and M1R: Make-1 Left and Right using strand between
Rox’s video in Creations post is super useful to remember how to mount a [M1L/M1R] from the front perspective using the left and right needle to mount a left or right directly. You just need to remember to TWIST the strand before working your new stitch. She demonstrates it with a purl stitch but the same theory applies to knit stitch.
Norman at NimbleNeedles demonstrates this using the left-needle mount technique on a knit side: https://youtu.be/iVMJbs-pr-w.
I found both these videos helpful as the way I feel like mounting new stitches changes on how tired my hands are.
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He also has some great videos for other increases:
• [KFB and KFSB] Knit Front and Back [KFB] and the less bumpy Knit Front Slip Back [KFSB]: https://youtu.be/oSwTti65Uqc.
This increase “uses up” a stitch, unlike other increases (see VeryPink Knits video at end of my post) which creates a bumpy bar or mini-eyelet that can be incorporated into a design.
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• [KLL or LLI] Knit Left-Leaning Increase and it’s counter part [KRL or RLI] for invisible increases using stitch in previous row, summarised best by PurlSoho: https://youtu.be/W0V359rMUTs
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Other written/diagram increases at https://www.interweave.com/article/knitting-feature/six-essential-knitting-increases/
• Yarn Over [YO] with new yarn for adding eyelets (no orientation) or;
• Combo of YO and BYO (sadly no -B extension) for increasing followed by closing eyelets on following row with twisted stitch (2 rows repeat) and;
• Loop Cast-On Left and Right leaning, which is semi-invisible (little gap under the increase stitch) that I have never come across but looks useful.
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Extras
• VeryPink Knits has two nice videos for comparing increase and decrease stitches if you’re ready to look into the technical bits, link to increase comparison: https://youtu.be/KcCQNOGPmWY