In ordinary knitting you have choices depending on the garment and the increase or decrease position. However, in knitted lace you must use the correct increase or the pattern will not be right. If you are working from a book, you should have instructions there as to which increase they want when they say M1. They are usually in the front or back with 'general instructions'. Check the fine print. If that doesn't help you need to try a few different increases in a sample of the pattern first to make it look as close as possible to your picture. K into back and front of the stitch is rare in lace knitting. Knitting the loop up from in between and picking up the stitch below to increase are more common. YRN or YON are the most common.
Our Knitter's Guild recommends the Vogue Book of Knitting, it's beyond thorough and very easy to understand. --- Rochelle Sutherland & Lachlan (8 yrs), Duncan (7 yrs) and Iain (6 yrs) www.houseofhadrian.com.au ----- Original Message ---- From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, 20 April, 2007 2:54:38 AM Subject: [lace] Lace: Make 1/Yarn overs Hello: The only alternative instruction I've seen for "yarn overs" is "yarn round needle". The "make 1" thing is a matter of preference. There are left slanted make ones, right slanted make ones, knit one front and back of stitch, knitting below the stitch and on and on. If the pattern doesn't specify I usually fool around with them in a larger than usual swatch to see what happens. I like to balance the slanted ones in a pattern if possible or avoid the bars you get with some of the increases. I find Interweave knits a good source for simple instructions on how to do all the variations of "make one". They have a handy Knitters Companion. Even the how tos in the back of the magazine are great. The appearance of my kntting (both lace and otherwise) has really improved since I started paying more attention to increases and decreases. Karen Maki Toronto< Ontario Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail is the world's favourite email. Don't settle for less, sign up for your free account today http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/mail/winter07.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
