Knit Front and Back
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To work the knit front and back increase, you’ll knit into the front of the next stitch, but leave the original stitch on the left-hand needle. Bring the right-hand needle around to the back of the left-hand needle. Insert the right-hand needle into the back of the stitch and knit the stitch again. You’ll then drop the stitch off the left-hand needle. As Jen demonstrates, the new stitch that is created makes a bar to the left of the old stitch. You’ll sometimes see the knit front and back increase also be called a bar increase.
Working the knit front and back increase is very simple and is used in a wide variety of projects from baby sweaters to shawls. It’s a great increase to have in your knitting toolbox for your next project.
The knit front and back increase is really easy to do, and it's all in the name. We're just going to knit into the front and back of a stitch to increase our stitch count by one. So you're gonna insert your needle as if to knit, and instead of taking your stitch off of the left needle, we're gonna come around to the back of the stitch, insert our needle into the back of the stitch, and knit it again. And we create this increase that has a little bar there, and that's the knit front and back.
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