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If a st stitch pattern just says "inc" - what increase do you do?
I'm making the hoodie from Stitch N B!tch, and it just says "inc one on each side every 6th row." I am knitting it flat in stockinette st. She makes sure you start counting rows on a wrong side row, so you would be adding your increases on the purl side.
Bar increase? M1? How do I know?!?!?
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I don't know why it has you inc on the purl side. I might be reading it wrong. It says to make 5 rows of a specific ribbing, then one inch of stockinette, ending on the WS. Then it says "Cont in stockinette stitch, inc one stitch on each side every 6th row, 16 times, then every 4th row 5 times..."
Right now I am doing a make one, by lifting the line of yarn from between the stitches a row below. I'm just going by feel as to whether I do it from the front or back. Then I purl into it. It is along the seam so it doesn't really matter. No one will see it. They look like stockinette but a couple of times there was a small hole underneath them, and the very first time I accidentally made the stitch the wrong way. But again, it will be in the seam, so should be unnoticeable.
Thanks for your input, everyone! Sometimes, being so new at this, I just feel dense.
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