How to make an Inc1 in knitting?
I am knitting a purse (i’m a beginner) and the pattern states:
Inc1= k and p into the same stitch
I am familiar with yarn over (yo) and knit front and back (KFB). Thus I’m not sure how to do the above mentioned increase. I tried knitting and purling the same stitch but it didn’t look right. Perhaps I wasn’t doing it right. I searched for videos for this increase online but couldn’t find one. Can somebody help me with this?
Thanks.
It sounds like you’re probably doing it right. Get some scrap yarn, and do several increases this way, according to the pattern. Sometimes a single increase looks odd when it’s the row on the needle, but it looks all right after several rows.
Sometimes you can go into a local yarn shop (LYS) and ask the people that work in there if you’re doing something right or wrong. Sometimes you can go into a craft shop, as well, but the LYS people are more likely to be skilled knitters, and willing to help.
Everybody, even the most skilled knitter, gets confused sometimes, and even the best knitters have to “frog” their work now and then. It’s called frogging because you have to rip it, rip it (ribbit, ribbit).
Don’t get discouraged. Keep on trying new things.
Increasing Stitches: kfb (Knit in the Front and Back)
