Lesson 8

Knitting Techniques


Increasing and Decreasing Knit Stitches


Increasing stitches simply means that you need to add an extra stitch or stitches to your knitting. Decreasing stitches means you need to reduce an extra stitch or stitches to your knitting.


Left Hand Increasing Knit Stitch
Right Hand Increasing Knit Stitch

View the videos above and/or click on the + sign below to read and see pictures of how to increase and decrease left handed.


  1. Knit first into the front of the stitch to make one stitch, but do not slip the old stitch off the right needle.



  2. Knit into the back of the same stitch to make another stitch.



  3. Slip the old stitch off the right needle. Now the two stitches are on the left needle.


View the video above and/or click on the + sign below to read and see pictures of how to increase and decrease right handed.


  1. Knit first into the front of the stitch to make one stitch, but do not slip the old stitch off the right needle.

    2.  

  2. Knit into the back of the same stitch to make another stitch.

    3.  

  3. Slip the old stitch off the right needle. Now the two stitches are on the left needle.



Left Hand Decreasing
Right Hand Decreasing



To decrease in knitting, knit two stitches together.