How to Knit a Pearl Increase

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Hi, my name is Kelsey. I’ve been knitting for 10 years, and am a member of several knitting organizations. If you know the pearl, you can make stockinet stitch. When you are doing stockinet stitch, often you are going to want to add or take away stitches from the shape of your knitted item. A lot of times you can do that on the knit side, but sometimes only on the pearl side, so I’m going to show you now how to add stitches on the pearl side, how to do a pearl increase. I’m going to show you two different kinds. The first one is the simplest one, and the most basic. You’re going to pearl two stitches into the same stitch on the left hand needle. You start just as you would normally pearl and you go from right to left, you wrap the yarn around, and you pull it through but you don’t slide that stitch off the left needle. It’s a little bit tricky because it’s an awkward position, but you’re going to want to take the needle and bring it through the back loop of that left hand stitch. Bring the yarn around again, and pull it through. Then you can slide the left hand side off the needle and you’ll have gotten two stitches out of that one left hand stitch. That’s a nice tight little increase, but it leaves a barb on the front side which you can’t really see there, but it is visible. There is a way to make an invisible increase which is a little bit looser, but it doesn’t show up. What you’re going to do is get to the stitch you want to increase, but instead of pearling into that stitch, you’re going to pearl into the pearl bump below it. See that bump right there, you’re going to take your needle and stick it in from right to left which can be tricky. You can use your fingers to pull that up and stick it in. The wrap the yarn around and retrieve just like a normal stitch. Go ahead and pearl that stitch on top. That will give you a nice invisible increase, getting two stitches out of one. And that’s how you increase on the pearl side.

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