A Variety of Increases to Use for RS and WS on Top-Down Raglans

[@wendygjohnson2062]

BEST tutorial of raglan increases I've EVER seen. And I've been hunting down this info for a long time. THANK YOU Suzanne!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Thank you Wendy.

[@katelynnwoods]

Agreed!!

[@lindagauthier-morin9522]

A very detailed and appreciated video. Must say your camera captures a very clear picture, plus the choice of a black background makes it easy to see what you are doing. High quality tutorial! You say the essentials without loosing us!!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Thank you and happy knitting.

[@kristinraphael2742]

Than you so much for this!I am a visual learner and have struggled for years to read knitting patterns. But now I feel empowered!! 🥰

[@siamese35]

I love your videos. You are absolutely the best teacher. I have been knitting for years but still continue to learn. You are my go to channel.

[@SuzanneBryan]

Hugs and happy knitting!

[@irenefussell5656]

Fantastic thank you! Very helpful for my current project.

[@kathrynburrowes3102]

So very helpful! Helped me to understand a M1R and M1L. I no longer have to stop and think about it everytime I do it!👍

[@SuzanneBryan]

Great job!

[@lindalesins538]

Once again you have saved me!!! What a great video, showing all the options together!! You are the best!!❤️

[@SuzanneBryan]

Yay, I'm so happy to help and I appreciate your kind feedback! ❤️

[@virginiamartinez9622]

Thank you 😊 I had missed 6 rows of increases and when I ripped back all my markers fell off . Your video showed me how to get them on in the right place . So grateful to you .

[@SuzanneBryan]

Glad it helped! 🧶

[@shyanha]

I crochet, and this has me utterly mystified. In crochet we increase the number of stitches for a raglan. In knitting it seems y'all just branch off the middle and somehow it works out. 😆 I like the roll the needle technique - I struggle with poking in the right spots with knitting needles, then dropping stitches. I'm dependent upon that hook grabbing my yarn. One day I'll get it, but for now I'm Finally able to make complex things with crochet so I'll continue to learn that and bookmark this video for my retirement crafting. 💕 I made a lovely swatch once with knitting, so I know I can do it - absolutely Love the drape and softness! I just lack the time right now to try in earnest.

[@skriesten]

Great video, something to keep in my Favorites. Excellent without excessive information. Thanks for putting it up.

[@SuzanneBryan]

You're so welcome, Steve, I'm glad it was helpful!

[@hwahwachuen720]

Love your tutorials! So super clear and easy to understand! I am a beginner and always curious about how to do this for my tiny dolls. This video helps me a lot..thank you very much! ❤

[@SuzanneBryan]

You are so welcome, Hwahwa Chuen! I hope you consider joining my Facebook group (same name), it is filled with supportive knitters of every level and we love to help beginners! ❤️

[@hwahwachuen720]

@@SuzanneBryan Thank you Suzanne for your kind information. Unfortunately my FB account has been hacked from time to time for no apparent reason and I no longer use it. I think I will enjoy watching your wonderful channel here. Your knitting demonstration is so clear and so easy to follow indeed! I love it! 👍❤️🙏😇

[@gardenlove2782]

You are a perfect teacher! I love your videos.

[@SuzanneBryan]

Wow, thank you, GL, I really appreciate that! ❤️

[@Vickalicious310]

This is so very helpful to have in hand, thank you! You're the best!!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Hugs and happy knitting!

[@katelynnwoods]

Thank you so much for clarifying all these increase techniques!!

[@SuzanneBryan]

You are so welcome! Happy New Year!

[@PerfectPatronus]

oh my goodness THANK YOU! i recently started knitting my first sweater and was following a pattern that uses short rows for neck shaping, however it didn't say to switch the M1s when on the wrong side OR to purl them so the raglan stitches were really raised and obvious, but i used your method and it's coming out PERFECT! ☺️

[@SuzanneBryan]

Wonderful!

[@magirl1803]

THANK YOU FOR THIS!! I've been trying to figure out how to do increases backwards since i want to do short rows for my neck shaping

[@SuzanneBryan]

Glad I could help!

[@nancyincanada5553]

Thank you, Suzanne, for this very helpful tutorial. I added it to my Pinterest board for future reference. Now that I'm self-isolating, I am checking out your videos that I didn't have time to watch:) I hope you and your loved ones are well during this epidemic. Stay safe.

[@SuzanneBryan]

Thank you Nancy. Yes, these times are certainly interesting. Be sure to subscribe to my channel if you haven't already, happy knitting.

[@jkim9843]

Thank you for this video and it really helps my understanding!!! You are the BEST!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Happy to help!

[@rlee5133]

Great to see your tutorials keep them coming

[@SuzanneBryan]

I appreciate you watching, R Lee, and I will keep the videos coming! 😉

[@benmonette7593]

What a great, well executed video! Thank you

[@SuzanneBryan]

You're very welcome!

[@56sleepy]

Wonderful video, thank you. I am making a sweater pattern with some reverse stockinette and the giftee doesn't like the lace look so much with yarn over increases. After watching your video I am thinking M1 will be the best alternative . Many thanks!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Great idea!

[@nadyaivanova1713]

Thank you Lady 🌹

[@SuzanneBryan]

You are so welcome

[@Mcshanda]

I hit the like before watching 😄😉

[@SuzanneBryan]

😘😘

[@madelynanderson3321]

Knitting with Suzanne Bryan Suzanne

[@vibekeschler7702]

Yet another beautiful video from you. You make the best videos. Thank you so much - this was just what I needed for my ITAG rigtig now 👍😊

[@SuzanneBryan]

Hugs and happy knitting!

[@izabellamat.3802]

THANK YOU ❣️

[@SuzanneBryan]

You are so welcome!

[@Devina46]

Hi Thank you for your videos, they help many new knitters including me😊😊😊 I learned to knit after an operation went wrong and i couldn’t work.I learn all what I know about knitting on KZbin videos.many thanks for all your time to teach us. My question is, if I only make increases on the right side Will it look the same as yours. Thanks Devina

[@roseeartworksnl7992]

Thank you. I'm interested in lifted increase [green] but no link showed to see this done in real time. Maybe as it's an old tutorial. Most were explained well but I like the green best.

[@SuzanneBryan]

Here you go - kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2bSZ3ykoLitjac

[@roseeartworksnl7992]

@@SuzanneBryan ❤🌹

[@bh4040]

I finally learned all the math to making a sweater but can you please tell me if you need to knit one round plain in between each raglan increase row because I feel like I've heard this before

[@calsanchez6390]

Definitely not! It depends on the pattern you follow -- some ask you to increase every row, some ask you to knit a certain amount of rounds in between increase rows -- but if you're not following a pattern, it's definitely personal preference. :) Happy knitting!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Great question. It depends on the number of increases you need to make, and the number of rows they need to be worked over. But, many times in a Raglan the increases are worked every other row or round. But not always. It is a case by case situation. 🧶

[@SuzanneBryan]

@Cal Sanchez 🧶

[@chrisma3256]

This is so helpful!! Thank you ❤❤

[@SuzanneBryan]

You're so welcome! 🧶

[@fatimadehaan9025]

thanks for the cleary indications!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Hugs and happy knitting!

[@noellenenuttall3853]

I love your videos, would you please show me how to do the arrow head Raglan incease on a baby cardigan 😊xxx

[@SuzanneBryan]

I am not familiar with that term for increases, can you give me more information and I will try to help you.

[@noellenenuttall3853]

@@SuzanneBryan hi, I think it's also called open bar, or make 1 increase, thank you 😊x

[@SuzanneBryan]

Here you go - kzbin.info/www/bejne/laPJmpyKeNRseLc

[@ewagago4647]

Hello , I bought a pattern for a sweater and this going to be my first time knit a raglan and I watched your video but instruction in my pattern is a little confused for me ,instead of one marker she wants to put two of them ,each one on the side of knit stitch and then she wrote : knit till you reach the marker,m1,move marker,m1, [ k to the next marker, m1,knit ,move marker,m1] .I suppose to start from the half back and it is like K12,pm,k1,pm,k11,pm,k1,pm,k24,pm,k1,pm,k11,pm,k1,pm,k12. First part to the repeat is ok but starting repeat k to the next marker ,m1 and then I am confused because she doesn’t say move marker after m1 , I just can’t figure it out ,please help me .I was trying to email a designer but she doesn’t respond it.Thank you .

[@SuzanneBryan]

just assume that when a designer says to knit to a marker,, then do something, that they assume you will slip the marker to go to the next step. You are oK.

[@anittasyvanen9126]

How do you knit that yellow one, is it number four? I think it's most beautiful of all. Love it.

[@kathyrusche901]

Another very helpful video. Thank you!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Hugs and happy knitting!

[@Dixiered03]

Thank you thank you thank you for this!

[@SuzanneBryan]

Hugs and happy knitting!

[@carmitaliac6624]

Thank you for sharing!!🌸

[@SuzanneBryan]

Happy Knitting.

[@thihoaithuongngo6762]

Thanks for this video. It so helpfull. But can i apply this for bikini ? Hope so you answer my question. Thanks a lot !

[@SuzanneBryan]

Yes you can!

[@hydro_pyro]

If you did the KFB on the WS would it look the same if you did PBF instead of PFB

[@SuzanneBryan]

Great question. What I do, when i have theses questions, is I stop, use some waste yarn and cast on some stitches and try the various techniques to see what they look like. Some produce twisted stitches, some don't. I am adding this question to my video todo list and will make a video comparing these methods. Thanks for asking.

[@lesliegreiff6415]

Excellent video. I just put a marker on either side of the center stitch and avoid the mental gymnastics. What can I say, I’m easily confused.

[@SuzanneBryan]

😀

[@quietone748]

Where can I find the suggested videos for the lifted increases? I am looking to make a Raglan with Fisherman's stitches and feel this increase would work best. Thank you!

[@theknittingchick]

Hi, how much of a difference would it be if I knit through the front loop when you are making a M1L?

[@jo-annemontgomery1839]

Great video, thank you! I have a pattern that calls for increases "M1A" and "M1T" aka make 1 away or towards. I find them very awkward- can I substitute? I can't figure out the direction of each of the "away" and" towards" to determine in which case I should do a M1R or M1L- Suggestions? Thanks in advance, Jo-Anne

[@didiabena2338]

Hi, it could be that my brain is just tired from trying to find a decorative 'raglan' increase, but the swatch at 2.30 and 10.11 are the same or different? because at 2.30 you say it is 'a left lifted increase followed by a right lifted increase', but at 10.11 you say 'it is a right lifted increase, knit one, followed by a left lifted increase'?? 🙀

[@SuzanneBryan]

Didi, take a few minutes to work those swatches and then take a look to see what you think. 😊😊

[@kaytedavis8297]

The yellow swatch…you first picked it up and said it was M1r~k1~m1L….then a few moments later you said it was the opposite (m1L~k1~m1r) . So which one is it lol

[@BabiaM71]

Please can you teach us also the KLL and KRL increases, and show them like this video? I would be really grateful to you as I am for this teaching. I'm writing from Itay

[@SuzanneBryan]

Yes, I am adding to my video todo list now.

[@BabiaM71]

@@SuzanneBryan thank you so much Suzanne 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@marfetka67]

Спасибо большое! 🌺🌺🌺

[@SuzanneBryan]

Thank you! Happy Knitting.

[@mana6868]

Love your videos! Thank you

[@SuzanneBryan]

Thank you mana! Happy knitting.

[@ettalau1754]

Can u demonstrate a regrant decrease for knit and purl side... with different looks and techniques?

[@SuzanneBryan]

Take a look at these and see if you find what you are looking for - kzbin.info/aero/PLLKJ9GuhEEwnSDWwpTJxNBL2T4DoAOqFi

[@libbywalsh358]

This is a great video thanks. I have been struggling to achieve a top down increase in a pattern which is ksr2/ksl2. Have you made a video of this technique as I can’t find anything anywhere on the internet. I think the return row following the increases can be misinterpreted quite easily. Thank you in anticipation 🙏🏻

[@SuzanneBryan]

Can you tell me how your abbreviations list describes this?

[@libbywalsh358]

Knitting with Suzanne Bryan Thank you so much for your quick reply. The instructions for this technique are quite long and consist of two rows to actually complete the sequence. A video has been made by the designer who is ANKESTRiCK and the pattern is JUiST No 2. The video link is kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJrZh6ahbrupi80 . I have visited this designers Ravelry page for her design and found a knitter who posted the problem I have been experiencing to which the designer affirmed her video link made it clear. The instruction for ksr(rs) knit one,slip the stitch back onto the left needle, lift the leg of the stitch below from front to back onto the right needle, then slip the live stitch again purlwise. 1inc'd st. Resolving the inc in the next round:- knit the stitches as normal through the front loop. For ksl (rs): knit slip left: knit one, but don’t slip it off the needle, slip the same stitch purlwise. 1 inc'd st. Resolving the inc in the next round:- knit 1, knit 1 through the back loop. The video shows the technique been knitted continental style and I throw the yarn which Changes the method of manipulating the stitch in my view. This is my first top down sweater and I got gauge first time but am using a DK Superwash merino and laceweight mohair and silk mix which gives me two Yarns to manipulate. Nothing like making things hard for myself...! I really appreciate your help and hope you can understand this reply.

[@SuzanneBryan]

I will watch and see if I can figure it out.

[@SuzanneBryan]

It is very interesting. It is like she is combining a lifted increase with a M1. She uses the leg of the stitch below to create a M1. I knitted a sample. You can slow her video way down and it is easier to see what she is doing. I am still researching this increase.

[@libbywalsh358]

Knitting with Suzanne Bryan thank you for continuing to follow this up despite what I am sure is a busy schedule. Yes I did slow the video down which did help. I have now started the sweater and have reached the increasing between the armholes. I’m finding the row after the actual increase is producing an uneven look. Sometimes the stitches lay flat (as they have to be knitted in the front of the stitch and the next in the back of the stitch) and other times they don’t despite trying really hard? I’m hoping these will block out. I’m really interested to see how you get on? Many thanks again.

[@dawnschroeder8580]

I use yo knit thru the back increases, doe you have any videos on this invisible increases

[@SuzanneBryan]

Not yet, but adding to my video todo list. Thank you!

[@dawnschroeder8580]

do you have any videos for yarn over increases?

[@SuzanneBryan]

Here you go, this is one of many that I have on yarn overs - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f161f36hlLl5qs0

[@SofieChanell]

It’s so good to see all the samples at once. Thank you. 😄 The WS increases got me all twisted especially where the marker had to be moved over stitches instead of slipped. But I’ll watch again. We should always knit/purl a row between increases, right?

[@SuzanneBryan]

Not necessarily. I did in the demo, just to make it easier for you to see the technique. There may be times when you will need to work increases on every row.

[@saharkazm6412]

❤

[@SuzanneBryan]

Thank you! ❤️

[@TrudySchwartzBurrill]

Thanks so much. I asked a question on your FB group. I need help, thanks.

[@SuzanneBryan]

I think I got it, right?

[@joycelockyer1173]

Overwhelming amount of information.

[@SuzanneBryan]

I am sorry, hope you found a video that helped you.

[@nicolegibson1491]

This is wonderful! I've been working on a sweater that I don't seem to be getting right. The pattern says "...k1, p1, to ONE stitch BEFORE the marker, M1BR, sm, M1BL..." for raglan shaping on the RS row. You made your increase AT the stitch marker. Is the difference between the two maybe why my count is off? Thank you so much for all you do!!!

[@SuzanneBryan]

It really does not matter as long as you are systematic and do it the same every time. Great question.