I’m going to show you how to knit one front and back. This technique increases your stitches. So if you needed to go up in the body size—say, like on a hat—because you have cables, which makes the body a little tighter than the brim, you would go up using this.
This particular one is also very simple to do. It’s probably one of the easier ways to increase stitches, but it doesn’t really flow with the pattern if you don’t need to do that. A make one right or a make one left might have you do that, or a make one purlwise—which I have video tutorials on those as well if you need them.
But I will show you how to knit one through the front and back to simply make extra stitches to increase the number of stitches on your needle.
So let me show you real quick how to do that.
We’re going to start with a couple of stitches here. Then what we’re going to do is go ahead and increase. I’ll use the next stitch, and I will knit that stitch normally. However, I will leave the stitch on the needle. Then I’m going to go around to the back, and I’m going to knit through the back of that stitch.
That’s kind of like a twisted stitch, if you’ve ever knit through the back on a brim or something. But if you notice, the second one looks like a purl bump. I knit the first one through the front, so that looks like a knit, and then I knit through the back, and that actually looks like a purl.
So we’re going to do a couple more just to show you.
Knit through the front, then go to the back and knit through the back loop. You’ll see now I have two stitches instead of one, and then I’ll remove it.
This is a good one if you are needing to do a one-by-one flow into the body. This would be a good increase for that.
Knit through the front as normal, leave it on the needle, knit through the back, and then remove.
I’ll do it one more time. Knit through the front, pull that through, knit through the back, pull that through, drop it off. Now I have a few extra stitches on here.
You’ll see how they kind of look like little purl bumps. So again, this is perfect if it goes into creating a knit one, purl one, and then it may continue in that pattern or it may not.
But that is how you do a K1FB, knit one front and back.
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