Increase number of stitches in a row

If you are left-handed, then change the option below, and all diagrams and descriptions will alter to suit you.

If you increase stitches at the end (or beginning) of a row, then the row gets longer, but the knitting stays flat.

Knit until you only have one stitch left on the row.

Do most of the stitch, but stop before you've slipped the old stitch of the needle. Leave that old stitch on. You have completed the first stitch of the two.

Now knit another stitch using that old stitch again. If the first stitch was a knit stitch, now do a purl stitch. If the first stitch was purl stitch, then the second stitch should be knit stitch. In other words, the two stitches that you are knitting must be different.

It is rather tight to do! When you have finished, you will have made two stitches from the original single stitch, so now have one more stitch. You can do the same at the start of the row as well.

If you increase the number of stitches in the middle of the row, this will make the knitting start to curve. For the piece of knitting below, I started with just a couple of stitches. Then, in each row, I knitted two stitches normally, then made two stitches out of the next stitch, throughout the row. At the end, I knitted several rows normally before casting off.

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