Can you believe it — this is our final lesson! Today we will be learning how to increase and decrease in crochet. Crochet increase and decrease stitches are not that different in principle than their knit counterparts. In essence, you increase by working two stitches in one space and decrease by working two stitches together. I promise,…
When you are increasing stitches on a patterned garment, perhaps for a sleeve or some waist shaping, you may encounter the instruction “increase in pattern” or something similar. This is so that you won’t have something like a big weird unmatching section of stockinette at the side of your sweater — if your sleeve is…
I’ve talked to you in the past about how to increase and decrease, but how do you know when to increase or decrease? Often a pattern will tell you very explicitly how to place your increases or decreases, for example: Next Row (Increase Row – RS): K1 (4, 1, 4, 1), kfb, k4, p1, k5,…
It has been a lot of fun to see so many of you already starting the Inishturk Sweater and sharing your ideas and experiences with the rest of us. Probably the hardest part of this sweater is the part I’m going to talk about today – going from the ribbing into all those cable patterns!…
