How to Increase and Decrease Knitting Stitches For Dummies

Increasing and decreasing stitches enables you to create knitted pieces with edges that taper and expand. This video shows you an increase technique called the bar increase and a decrease technique that knits two stitches together.

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• Dummies
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[sarahbethizationable]

Fabulous!!!

[8musicalice8]

Thanks.. im nitting a ninja and i couldnt figure this out :))

[dangerousHat1]

Thank you very much. Just had a night school course and had forgotten how to increase.

[MissFlux]

Thank you very much, very helpful as I'm learning diagonal squares and you have to either ssk or k2tog. I've made my first swatch on the diagonal!! Woop woop! ;)

[nicole20092002]

thanks! :D

[HoogsMilne]

Thank you very much - it's so much easier seeing it being done than trying to work it out from written instructions!

[AnitaLife27]

@Verycuteyeah Knitting and Mighty Boosh...perfect combo. :)

[Muzikmesrm]

Perfect!!!

[Emmagination35]

very helpful. thank you!!

[ClouserB]

Easy to follow and understand - thank you!!!