How to Work the Make One (m1) Increase
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Make one increases are created by working into the strand in between two stitches on your knitting needles. In this video, Jen Lucas explains how to work the make one (m1) increase. You’ll find this increase used in many different types of projects, like fingerless mitts or mittens. It’s a great increase to have in your knitting toolbox!
MAKE ONE INCREASE
The make one is an increase that has the new stitch coming out to the left of the old stitch. It’s often abbreviated in knitting patterns as m1. You’ll notice that this increase is the same as a make one left (m1L) increase. It’s created by working into the strand in between the stitch just worked and the next stitch. With the left-hand needle, lift this strand by inserting the needle from front to back and placing it onto the left needle. With the yarn in the back, insert the right needle from front to back and knit through the back of the stitch. You’ve created the make one or make one left increase.
These increases are easy to work and create a clean look in your knitted fabric. Use these increases the next time you’re working a top-down sweater or the thumb gusset of a mitten!
Hi, I'm Jen Lucas for the Knitting Circle. In this video I want to show you the make one increase. This particular increase you'll see a lot in things like fingerless mitts, in different accessories, anything where you need to shape a piece to fit someone's body. This is a very easy increase to work and so I'm going to go ahead and show you how to do it now. The make one increase creates a nice smooth increase in your fabric. Here I have a little swatch of stockinette and I've created some make one increases right along here, and if I kind of pull it apart, you can see here. This is where I did my make ones and it actually creates a bar that leans to the left. So the make one increase is also called a make one left increase. Sometimes the pattern doesn't specify if you're gonna use a make one left or a make one right increase, so if they just say make one, you're gonna do the make one left. So that's the one I'm gonna show you here today. To make one, I'm gonna take my left-hand needle, and lift this strand from front to back and then knit through the back. You can see if I knit through the front, I'm gonna create a huge hole in my knitting, which is not what we're going for. We're gonna knit it through the back to close the hole. That's the make one. I'm gonna show you that one more time. Going in between on this bar, we're gonna go with the left-hand needle from front to back and then with the right needle knit through the back. And that's the make one increase. That's it. You can see that the make one increase is the same as the make one left increase and creates a nice left-leaning increase. I'm Jen Lucas for the Knitting Circle. I hope that you enjoyed this video and I'll see you back here again real soon.
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