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How to increase a stitch when knitting?

i have a knitting pattern for a monkey and it tells me to cast on 10 stitches then increase every stitch by one. How on earth do i do this?! Please, anything will help, websites or your own instructions... thanls! Cookie Monster xx erm...what do you guys mean by knitting into the same stitch again because i tried but it turned out like a cross and tis really hard. i don't know if i'm knitting into the right bit...

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1. To increase a stitch, knit one stitch in regular way but without slipping the stitch off the left needle, then knit another stitch through the back of same stitch and slip stitch off left hand needle
2. too hard for me to try to explain myself lol, try here
3. either knit twice into the same stitch before slipping it off the needle - thus 1 becomes 2 - or knit one then pick up the loop between the one knitted and the one to be knitted and knit into that. It should tell you on the pattern at the beginning how to increase for this particular item -
4. Here is a wonderful site for learning how to knit (or knit better) www.knittinghelp.com It's free and has videos showing you every stitch imaginable.
5. To me the BEST place to find almost any knitting technique other than having a teacher next to you is to find it on Youtube. I am waaay too 3-dimensional to be able to understand those knitting schemes they have in books. Every time I need to learn something new, if I can't get someone to show me, I try looking at Youtube. You can stop it in the middle, start over, run it back, over and over and over until you get it. It doesn't work for everybody, especially because some people aren't all that great with the Internet. Fortunately, YOU don't have that problem. And, to start you off I've done a little of the work myself. Here's a site I've found on increases. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0qU4wGEYDs
6. There are many ways to increase. If the pattern doesn't specify (look for a glossary section), the default is usually to knit into the front & back of the stitch, written "kfb." http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/increases has videos demonstrating each of the different increases, plus there's a large swatch that shows you exactly what each one will look like. (Some lean to the left or right, some leave holes, etc.) The book "Knitting in Plain English" by Maggie Righetti is an amazing resource. (See if your local library can get you a copy.) Here's how she explains kfb: http://books.google.com/books?id=vB7Bs_kxSw0C&pg=PA88&lpg=PA88&dq=kfb+increase&source=web&ots=NqTf-xNewT&sig=9t2rmKcTyBD8dA184nnKnU8MqVo "With the yarn at the back of the work, knit the next stitch in the ordinary way, but do not remove the old stitch from the needle. Swing the right-hand needle wide around and to the back and knit into the back loop of the old stitch. Remove the old stitch from the needle." (There are drawings in the book to explain how to move the needle to the back & how to knit into the back of a stitch.)
7. Ahhhh, there is another question for this poor monkey <G>. When you are shaping this monkey's head you need to bring it from very few stitches into a round orb (ball) like a head is. To do that you have to add stitches. If you cast on one stitch on each end when instructed to you will get the general effect, but the seam becomes stair-stepped and does not finish neatly when sewn. So you need another method. As has been suggested you can knit into the front and back of one stitch. I will tell you that for ease of finishing (and I hate finish work and will do a good deal to make it easier), do NOT increase in the first or last stitches of a row. Those first stitches should also be slipped, or just moved from one needle to the other without working them, too, to give a neat finish edge. Take the second or next to last stitch and look at it for a minute before you work it. I will use the same description that knitting designer, Anna Zilbourg, uses. The stitch has two legs and a crown. One leg falls to the front of the needle, one leg to the back, and the crown sits on the needle itself. So knit it as usual in the front leg, but don't remove the old stitch from the left needle, instead, take the right needle with the new stitch on it, swing it over so you can insert it into the back leg of the old stitch and knit it a second time. Now take the stitch off the needle and you have an increase. While this will leave you with one V shaped stitch and one bump shaped stitch on the face of the knitting, it is generally not too noticeable. Alternatively you can do a lifted increase, or a Make 1. Spread the stitch on the right needle and the next stitch on the left needle apart slightly and you will see a strand of yarn, or a bar, between the stitches of the row below. Put the tip of your right needle under it, and lift it to the left needle, puttig it on the left needle so the leftmost edge falls to the back of the left needle, and knit into the back. This twists the stitch so it does not leave a hole and looks like the rest of the stitches in that knit row.
8. there are many different ways to increase http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/learn-to-knit has videos to help you sometimes its better to see it done.
9. To increase you would knit into the next stitch. Leave it on the same needle and then put your needle into the back on the other needle and knit again. Then take these two off . It should look like a knit and a purl.
10. The pattern is asking you to double your number of stitches by knitting twice into one stitch, thus.. knit the first stitch but instead of passing it off the needle,put the needle into the back of that stitch (which is still on the left needle) and knit, then pass off both the stitches, so one stitch becomes two. If you just doubled your stitches by casting on more then you would have a straight line, whereas doing it this way shapes the piece you are knitting so the start will be smaller then gradually increase evenly on both sides. Is it possible you could get someone to show you? Well done for persevering once you have the hang of it you will be knitting all sorts.