Knitting is one of those hobbies that brings not only pleasure from the process itself, but also an excellent result. Beautiful products are a real reward for a craftswoman who has invested a lot of her imagination and labor in its manufacture. One of the most important skills is the ability to correctly add loops in different ways.

How to add stitches on knitting needles?

There are quite a few ways to add loops, some can be considered simple, while others are more complex. Let's start with the simplest: adding loops with crochets. This method allows you to add loops both at the beginning or end, and in the middle of the row, creating a harmonious combination with existing loops. Adding loops from a broach is a simple and straightforward way that even a beginner knitter can do.

The broach itself is a kind of connection between two adjacent loops on the right and left knitting needles. Of course, you can add loops from broaches on both the front and back fabrics, the effect will be the same, it all depends on the author's idea or recommendations in the knitting pattern. But in fact, everything is simple: it is tedious to transfer the broach to the right knitting needle and then simply knit it with the necessary - front or back - loop.

How to add loops correctly and what to do with them next?

The addition of loops when knitting allows you to create interesting combinations of loops, increase the fabric in accordance with the pattern. Among the most applicable methods today is the addition of loops at the end of a row or at its beginning. There are also secrets here: you can add one loop, then everything is more or less simple, you just need to knit the same loop twice, or you can add several at once. Here the technology changes a little: in the first loop from the beginning of the row, you need to insert a knitting needle (front loop) and pull out the thread. It is with this elongated loop that the operation of adding loops is performed exactly as many times as the loops need to be added.

In general, the process of adding loops must be approached responsibly. To make the fabric look of high quality and not “please” with holes, the loops must be added tightly enough so that they fit organically into the overall concept of knitting. There is a very interesting way to add at the end of a row, which is called Italian: the point is that in this case a set of loops is done with the help of the index finger. A loop is made on it, wrapping a working thread around it, and then with the right knitting needle, passing through it, they grab the thread and already fix the future loop with it.

There is nothing difficult in knitting correctly to add loops. Although, of course, this process will require increased attention. An experienced craftswoman knows many ways and can determine by eye which one is suitable in a given situation. Well, beginners can be advised to carefully follow the description, on which you knit, and gain experience. In other words, you should not immediately take on the execution of the product, if the process of adding loops is only theoretically known. It is better to knit a few small samples, practice them in different ways, add a few loops at the beginning or end of the row, see what happens. An incorrectly chosen method of increase will lead to noticeable holes or an uneven edge.

Knitting is a complex process, especially when it comes to products with darts, interesting shapes, and decorative details. But learning how to knit correctly is not difficult, you just have to show patience and endurance, then a new sweater or coat will delight you incredibly.

We continue to acquaint you with the basic knitting techniques. Today we will talk about ways to add loops.

Knitting one loop from a broach

The connection between two loops is the thread between the loop on the right needle and the loop on the left needle. This thread is called broach.

Grab the broach with the right knitting needle and transfer it to the left knitting needle. Knit the newly formed loop as a front loop or in accordance with the pattern described in the instructions.

Knitting one front crossed loop from a broach

Grab the broach with the right knitting needle and transfer to the left knitting needle. With the right knitting needle, grab it by the back wall and knit it with the front one.

Knitting one purl loop from a broach

Transfer the broach to the left knitting needle, while the worker lies in front of the work. Knit 1 purl loop from the broach.

Adding one loop inside the fabric with a yarn over

One loop inside the fabric between two loops can be added with a yarn over: throw the working thread on the right knitting needle in the direction away from you. Knit yarn over like a regular loop. With this technique of adding loops, holes are formed on the canvas, creating an effect.

Yarn over the left needle and then knit it on the next row.

Adding one purl stitch with yarn over

Yarn over the left needle and then purl it.

Adding loops along the edge of the fabric

To give the knitted part the desired shape, loops are added from both edges. In this case, special techniques are used.

Adding stitches on the right edge

1. Insert the right knitting needle into the edge loop, as in knitting, i.e. behind its back wall in the direction away from you. Pull the working thread through it, do not transfer the resulting loop to the right knitting needle, but leave it on the left.

2. With the help of the left knitting needle, grab the loop of the right knitting needle away from you and transfer to the left knitting needle. Steps 1 and 2 are repeated as many times as there are loops to be added (Fig. 1).

Fig.1

3. On the added loops, knit in accordance with the pattern.

Adding stitches on the left edge

1. Lay the working thread around the large thread towards you.

2. With the help of the right knitting needle, grab the lower thread coming from the thumb (Fig. 2).

Rice. 2

3. Using the right needle, pick up the upper thread and pull up the loop. Then remove your thumb from the loop and tighten the thread on the knitting needle.
Thus a new loop was formed.

4. Repeat steps 1-3 as many times as needed to cast on.

Based on the materials of the magazine "Burda"

Hello dear friends!

Today's post for those who are interested addition and decrease loops when knitting, and I know there are such comrades! The same ones who addition and decrease loops does not touch at all, I beg your pardon - there will be no musical pause, its place will be taken by a playlist with the same additions and subtractions ...

By adding and subtracting loops, you can give the knitted fabric any shape - a circle, a rectangle, a square, a triangle, an oval ... But more often, these techniques are used to make the knitted product look the way we imagined it and sit on us like a glove.

Well, for this we must know and be able to add and decrease loops along the edges and inside the knitted fabric to the maximum imperceptibly.

Adding loops

Adding loops inside the fabric

Usually adding loops is not done in every row (so as not to pull the product), so it is best to carry it out on the right side of knitting. And you can do this in several ways.

Loop from broach(threads between loops) are knitted front behind the back wall. In this case, the loop is obtained and does not allow an unnecessary hole to form in the knitted fabric.

We pry the broach with the left knitting needle

We knit the front broach behind the back wall

A crossed loop is formed from the broach

If, after prying the broach, we knit it with the usual front (behind the front wall), then a large hole in the canvas cannot be avoided. So be careful!

The loop made on the front side of the fabric will be hardly noticeable only if in the next (wrong) row we knit this yarn with the wrong loop behind the back wall.

Making a crochet on the front side

On the wrong side, we knit the yarn over with the wrong loop behind the back wall

Otherwise, we risk getting a decent openwork hole. 😉 Although, to be honest, a very small hole is obtained even with a correctly knitted yarn loop. Therefore, it is still better to do such an addition not inside the canvas, but along the edges.

3. Adding loops from the previous row

Adding stitches from the stitch of the previous row is also one of the ways to add inconspicuously. In this case, the loop from the previous row is first knitted, and already after it the one that is on the knitting needle.

We hook the loop from the bottom row, pull it out and knit the front

Then we knit a loop from the usual row

Adding loops along the edge of the fabric

Adding loops along the edge of the canvas with the help of yarn carried out in the same way as described above (method 2). Only in this case, the yarn is made immediately after the edge loop, and at the end of the row - in front of it.

2. Adding loops from hem

Adding loops from edging is “fraught” with the formation of knots along the edge, so it is best to use it when a dense edge is simply necessary (for sides, collars, belts ...)

To add a loop from the hem, you need to knit the hem first with the front behind the front wall, and then, without removing it from the knitting needle, knit it again with the front behind the back wall.

We knit the hem for the front wall

Without removing the loop from the knitting needle, we knit it again behind the back wall

I have not yet used this method of adding loops in my practice.

Reducing loops

Reducing loops both inside the knitted fabric and along the edge, it is also best to do it from the front side of the product. Loops are reduced by knitting two or three loops together. And there are several ways. After all, only one loop can be reduced IN THREE WAYS:

• tilted to the right - we knit two loops together with the front;

• tilted to the left we remove the first loop as when knitting the front one, that is, from left to right, we knit the second loop with the front one and, picking up the removed loop with the left knitting needle, throw it on the knitted one;

Increasing one loop with an inclination to the left

• behind the back walls we knit two loops together behind the back walls (it also turns out the slope of the loops to the left, only crossed).

For simultaneous decrease two loops You can also use as many as FOUR WAYS:

1. Knitting three loops together with the front behind the front walls(tilt to the right).

2. Knitting three loops together with the front behind the back walls(tilt to the left).

3. Knitting three loops together in this way: remove the first loop as when knitting the front one, we knit the next two together with the front one behind the front walls and put the removed loop on them.

4. This method of decreasing is often used when knitting a neckline with a cape, as well as in various patterns. Once you figure out how it is done, and it won’t be scary anymore, I assure you: 😉

a) we remove three loops on the right knitting needle, we introduce the left knitting needle before work into the second loop (first figure);

b) pull the right knitting needle from the third and second loops and immediately return the third loop to it (second figure);

c) return the third and first loops to the left knitting needle (third figure);

d) we knit three loops together with the front for the front walls (fourth figure);

e) on the wrong side we remove this loop without knitting (thread in front of the loop).

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If possible, adding loops is best done on the front side of the work. There are several ways to add loops both along the edges of the work and inside the canvas.

Yarns are one of the most common ways to add stitches. For example, it is used for knitting openwork patterns, knitting raglan lines of sleeves. When they write in books and magazines that you need to make a crochet, then it means a straight crochet. If you need to do the opposite - this is negotiated separately. When knitting a straight yarn over with the end of the right knitting needle, the working thread is grabbed from the bottom right to the left, towards you. The yarn can be double and triple, when the thread is thrown two or three times.

Most often, the yarn is knitted without openwork - with the end of the right knitting needle, the yarn is captured from behind (behind the back wall).

Knitting a straight yarn without openwork

If you want to get an openwork hole in the canvas, you need to knit the yarn over the front wall.

The end of the right needle grabs the working thread from below, moving away from you.

We pull a new loop from the gap (broaching) between the loops of the previous row, as shown in the figure.

With this method, a small hole is formed in the canvas, so this method is recommended only when adding loops at the edges of the product.

The working thread is thrown onto the knitting needle, as shown in the figure.

If the air loop turns out to be the last one in the row, then when knitting the next row, it is not removed, but knitted like this. as a front, behind the front wall. The rest are knitted as the pattern requires. This method is used when you need to add a large number of loops at once.

To obtain a new front or back loop, knit the loop of the underlying row of the front or back.

Knitting a loop from the loop of the previous row, the first method

Another variant of this method is to put the loop of the previous row on the left knitting needle, as shown in the figure, and knit the front behind the back wall.

Using these methods, loops can be added both inside the knitted fabric and along the edge of the product, while the hole in the fabric is not formed and the place where the loop was added is not noticeable.

Several new loops (two or more) knitting the same loop, first with the front and then with the wrong loops. When knitting the front loops, the knitting needle is inserted into the loop from the front side from front to back (away from you). When knitting the wrong loops, the knitting needle is inserted from the wrong side, i.e. from back to front. The same loop can be knitted any even or odd number of times.

Knitting several loops from one, the first method

Another way to knit several loops from one is to knit several knit or purl loops, making crochets between them. In this way, any odd number of loops is obtained.

To give the knitted part the desired shape (for example, for bevels of sleeves or for kimono sleeves), loops are added from the outer edges. Increasing loops can also be done inside the fabric (for example, on panels of skirts that are knitted from top to bottom).

Adding individual loops along the edges of the canvas
At the beginning of the row, knit the 1st loop with the front one, leave the loop on the left knitting needle and knit the front crossed one more time. At the end of the row, also knit the last loop with the front and front crossed (see fig. and photo).

Adding individual loops inside the fabric

Inside the row, the loop is added as follows: pick up the broach between 2 loops of the previous row with the left knitting needle (see fig. and photo) and knit the front crossed (when knitting with the wrong side, the broach is knitted with the wrong crossed).

Adding multiple loops

From the right edge * insert the needle into the 1st loop, as in knitting, and pull up the thread. Leave the loop on the left needle. Transfer the resulting loop (see arrow) to the left knitting needle; from * repeat until the desired number of loops is added. Then knit on the added loops in accordance with the pattern (according to the photo - facial).

From the left edge * lay the working thread around the thumb, grab the thread in the direction of the arrow and the resulting loop, removing the thumb, tighten on the knitting needle; from * repeat until the desired number of loops is added. In the next purl row on the added loops, knit in accordance with the pattern.

Adding individual loops inside the gum

On the details connected with an elastic band (for example, on sleeves),
the seam when assembling the product will look smoother,
if the increase is not performed immediately after the edge loop,
resp. just before the edge loop,
but at a certain distance from it.

When forming the bevel of the sleeve (see photo) after
edge loop 1 loop is knitted with front stitch.
Then to add a loop in accordance with the pattern
1 facial crossed is knitted from the broach
or 1 purl crossed loop (photo above).
From the left edge of the increase are performed symmetrically.
Sleeve seam - see bottom photo.

Adding stitches with yarn over

With the help of yarn overs, loops are added in the front rows before and after 2 middle loops of the front surface. These increases can be repeated in each front row or in every 2nd front row, as in the photo. Yarns in purl rows are purl knit.

On this sample, the increase of loops is made in each front row: before and after 2 middle loops of the wrong side, 1 yarn over is made on the knitting needle. Yarns in purl rows are purl knit. Increases can also be performed in every 2nd front row.

This example shows how loops are added with yarn over to form the corner of the shawl. Yarn over after the first and before the last 4 garter sts in each RS row. In the purl rows, the yarns are knitted purl.

On this sample, increase in the form of crochets is made in each front row before and after the 3 middle loops of the front surface. The nakida in the purl rows are knitted purl crossed. Increasing loops can be repeated in every 2nd front row.

Adding two loops

In the right place, mark 1 loop. On the next RS row (forward and reverse or in the round), work to the marked stitch. With the left knitting needle, grab the right wall of the loop located under the marked loop, and knit it with the front one, then knit the front marked loop; With the left knitting needle, grab the left wall of the underlying loop and knit it with the front one.