Increase 2, or KFBF

[ADHITI]

i am trying to follow this exact instruction but for some reason instead of ending up with 3 stitches i am ending up with 4!!! What am i doing wrong?

[sarkasmo]

@ADHITI I'm not too sure what could be going wrong. If you're a tight knitter, sometimes the stitches can creep from back to front on the needles, so maybe one of them is doing that and making it look like there are 4 sts.

You should be

1. Knitting 1 st, leaving it on the needle, then

2. knitting through the back of the same st, still leaving everything on the needle, then

3. knitting through the front (again), then slipping the 3 sts off.

I hope this helps!

[Birdarrrow]

Thank you for posting this. I'm a beginning knitter with a poor memory, and this is a VERY intimidating stitch if you're just looking at the written.

[sarkasmo]

@Birdarrrow You're very welcome. I'm glad I can help :)

[Galadriel42]

Thanks! :D

[jlllcarroll]

Thanks! This was great.

[lifelike001]

Thank you for posting this, for some reason I couldn't wrap my brain around it. You have beautiful hands, hand of wisdom and experience!

[sarkasmo]

@lifelike001 I'm glad it was helpful! I just wish I were as wise as my hands make me look ;-)

[somecooldude777]

your hands are quite wrinkly good buddy

[sarkasmo]

@somecooldude777 It was winter and I hadn't been drinking enough water. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[nunquamamittolupus]

I'm working on the Rogue Hoodie pattern, its my first attempt at celtic insets and wasn't sure how to do the turn 1 stitch into 3. This is going to help a lot - thank you!

[sarkasmo]

@nunquamamittolupus I think the Rogue Hoodie was the reason I posted this video to begin with - a friend online was making it. I *still* haven't knit that sweater. I keep meaning to, honest.

[ccrering]

Thank you!

[sarkasmo]

@ccrering You're very welcome. Sorry I'm so late with my response. I didn't realize I had comments on the video.