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INCREASE/DECREASE
When you make an actual garment you'll have to know how to decrease and increase. There are many ways to do this, but here are the ways I do it.
Decreasing means to remove stitches, making the work narrower. Most knitting patterns use the following two methods of decreasing because they are the most common and easiest to do. These methods are K2tog (knit two together) and PSSO (K,SL,PSSO). K2tog leans toward the right and PSSO leans toward the left.
The direction that your increase/decrease stitches point is very important in creating a nice finished looking garment.
DECREASING (DEC)
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE ROW
PSSO
TIP: This pulls the stitches toward the left or middle .
1. Knit the first stitch
2. Put the needle in the second stitch as though you were going to knit it, but gently slip it onto the right needle.
3. Knit the next stitch
4. Put the left needle into the front of the slipped stitch on the right needle as though you were going to Purl it.
Pull the right needle back away from you and the left needle toward you. With the front needle pull the stitch on the right needle over eliminating one stitch. (psso-pass the slipped stitch over)
DECREASING (DEC)
AT THE END OF THE ROW
K2TOG
TIP: This pulls the stitches toward the right or middle
1. Knit until there are 3 stitches left on the row.
2. Knit two stitches together (k 2 tog) eliminating one stitch.
3. Knit the last stitch.
INCREASING (INC) video
IIncreasing is adding a stitch (or stitches) to your work. There are 2 common ways to do this. The easiest is to simply go into the yarn below the stitch,pull it up onto the needle and knit it off. This is called M1. (Make 1) The other is to knit into the front of the stitch as normal, don't pull it off the needle, knit into the back of the stitch and pull it off. This is called KFB. (Knit front and back).
You might, by mistake, make extra stitches by looping the yarn over twice as you are knitting. You do not want to do that.
TIP:: You will see a line or bar of yarn under the new stitches you have made, but it will be barely viable.