I have some major problems understanding this:
“M1 – Make One (I made a tight backward loop on my left needle and then knit through the back)”
Could someone kind enough explain it to me? Backward loop on my left needle? Knit through the back?
I am trying to figure out a certain design ,and, I wouldn’t want to ruin the project that progressed so well until this problem…
If you do a backward loop (look under Cast ons for the ‘simple’ Cast on) you wouldn’t need to knit it through the back leg. This increase is also on the Increases page as K1A.
Thanks for the link, that’s what we prefer here; it’s against the rules to post an entire pattern in a post.
I am not a knitter myself and this is my wife’s project. I am a bit simple in these things, so I would have few extra questions…
Is K1A the same as M1A? I couldn’t find K1A anywhere. If it is the M1A, then isn’t it different what the designer has intended? I mean that the designer intented the loop on the left needle. I am so confused, sorry…
I’ve never heard of ‘k1A’, and don’t see it in this pattern. A ‘m1’ is an increase, ‘k1’ just means knit 1 st. The new loop should be on the R needle, any of the M1 increases will be fine. Just don’t use Kfb.
Niko, usually when a backward loop increase is done it is made on the right needle and then not worked until the next round, but it is possible to put one on the left needle and work it immediately and that could be what the designer did. It is not real common to do it that way, but people come up with all sorts of things. I don’t think it will make one whit of difference in the outcome if you make it on the right needle and wait until the next round to work the new stitch, or do it as the designer did.
As far as working it through the front or back loop, do whatever it takes to keep the stitch loop working correctly. There are two directions you could wrap the stitch, and a couple of ways you can transfer the loop to the left needle. Any of it can work and on my trials of it one way I did the loop and put it on required me to knit it through the back but the others didn’t. Some ways you try to do it the loop kind of falls into nothing so you have to do it differently. Do whatever works to actually knit a stitch onto the right needle.
Personally I’d probably do it the way I usually do and throw the new stitch onto the right needle and knit it on it next row, but whatever you want.
I don’t think it will make one whit of difference in the outcome if you make it on the right needle and wait until the next round to work the new stitch, or do it as the designer did.