It takes all the guess work out of the second set of new stitches! The increases in these mitts are "mirrored," which means that if you knit the first new stitch before the marker (as in Step 3), you'll also knit the first new stitch after the marker, and so on. The good news is that with "mirrored" increases new stitches will usually be worked identically. Here, you can see that the new stitch will fall after the marker instead of before it. You can see where the new stitches fall in the photos accompanying Steps 3-5, and this photo shows were the second set of increases fall. Okay, but what happens if the new stitches fall before the existing stitches, instead of after the existing stitches like in Steps 3-5? On most garments, increases are "mirrored," which means that the increases will be placed before the marker on one side of the work (as in Steps 3-5) and after the marker on the other side.įor example, the mitts pattern actually has two places in each round where increases are placed. On all subsequent rounds, continue to work this new stitch "in pattern." For these mitts, that means this stitch will get slipped every subsequent increase round, just like all of the second stitches in the repeat. So, when you come to this new stitch, you'll knit it because it's now the second stitch of the k3, p2 repeat, and the second stitch of k3, p2 is also a knit stitch. You also know from Step 2 that the new stitches will continue on from the first stitch of the k3, p2 repeat. You know that the stitch pattern for this round of the mitts is k3, p2. In a nutshell: when you get to the new stitch before the marker, work it based on what would logically come next in the stitch pattern, according to the instructions for that row/round.įor example, in the photo, you'll see that the increase round has already been worked, and there is now a new stitch before the marker. Now that you know which row/round instructions you need to follow ( Step 1), and you know where in the pattern repeat the new stitches will fall ( Step 2), you have all the information you need to begin working your new stitches "in pattern!" Working the first new stitch "in pattern"
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