You’ve got knitting and purling down, but now you want to do more than create squares/rectangles. Whether shaping a garment or creating a pattern within a fabric, various styles of increases and decreases can be used! In this skill builder, we’ll create a small swatch demonstrating several visible and invisible increases and directional decreases and touch on techniques to increase or decrease more than 1 stitch at a time. 

1 two hour session

Skills Needed:

• Knitting and purling
• Ability to read charts is helpful but not strictly required

Skills Learned:

• Reading charts
• Yarnovers
• kfb
• M1L, M1R
• LLI, RLI
• K2tog, ssk
• Centered double decreases, double yarnovers

Materials:

• Yarn, preferably light colored, in a weight you enjoy working with, preferably non-splitty. If in doubt, default to worsted for a good middle-of-the-road weight. 
• Needles of an appropriate size for your yarn

Preparation:

Cast on 20 stitches and knit at least 4 rows of garter stitch to start the class swatch