Cat Bordhi - LA-Link and La-Rink - the Paired Increases

Cat Bordhi shows you how to work the most invisible, smoothest paired increases for your socks, as used in her latest book, NEW PATHWAYS FOR SOCK KNITTERS, BOOK ONE.

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Howto & Style

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• Bordhi
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• sock
• DPN's
• 2
• circular
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• LLinc
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• LRinc
• New
• Pathways
• decreases

[j8nnyl]

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?

[catbordhi]

@j8nnyl

I do prefer this increase to the other one you mention. I also find it faster to work.

[javawebgrrl]

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!

[catbordhi]

It would work the same way - same mother or grandmother - go ahead and try it.

[flank264]

Was it intentional to knit the LLinc stitch through the back loop? There wasn't anything said about it in the video.

[catbordhi]

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.

[robynwalton8888]

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!!

[sazji]

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!

[j8nnyl]

@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.

[lovisluchai]

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!

[annahsos]

Thoroughly enjoyed your vid, thanks for posting and inspiring me :)

[ooman56]

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!