Cat Bordhi - LA-Link and La-Rink - the Paired Increases
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Thank you Cat. I love your books but here's why this video was MORE helpful (to me): in New Pathways, you give a great explanation of stitch mounts and I imagined that the leg closest to the needle's tip was the front leg.
When I then read the description of LaLinc, I looked closely at my knitting and was confused about knitting through the back leg -- because for all the world, it looked like the front leg was behind the needle (on my knitting). The video cleared it up, thanks!!
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I'm so glad to learn this one. I find yarn-ups (make one left/make one right) so tedious, especially when I'm knitting small and tight. I'm surprised more people making videos haven't mentioned this!
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@catbordhi I agree, it does seem faster. The one book i have that describes this increase does so in such a convoluted fashion that it seemed more of a hassle to remember how to do a left or right leaner! i like the way you explain it much better. so i looked here to find a better instruction. Now i just need to do some Make ones and some lifted increases to see how i like the way each looks in my knitting.
thanks again.
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Thank you! I was just looking at the Skew Socks pattern and scratching my head about the LLincs and RLincs, and this totally cleared it up!
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Thoroughly enjoyed your vid, thanks for posting and inspiring me :)
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Finally, after over 45 years of knitting and still using the beginner's increase (duh me) I UNDERSTAND how to do this and will never forget it. Thank you so much for the great explanation!
Thank you, very nice demo of the lifted increases, just what i needed. The gmother/mother/daughter device will help me very much. Do you find you like this increase better than the make-one left/make-one right increase?
j8nnyl 1 year ago
@j8nnyl
I do prefer this increase to the other one you mention. I also find it faster to work.
catbordhi 1 year ago
Hello. Do you have a version of this if you are increasing on a purl side of a row? This lesson is so incredibly useful, thank you so much for posting it. Your delivery is so fun!
javawebgrrl 3 years ago
It would work the same way - same mother or grandmother - go ahead and try it.
catbordhi 3 years ago
Was it intentional to knit the LLinc stitch through the back loop? There wasn't anything said about it in the video.
flank264 3 years ago
Yes - otherwise it would be twisted when knit. The general rule is to always knit any st so that the "roots" of the legs - where they are rooted to the knitting - are not twisted.
catbordhi 3 years ago