Baby Surprise Jacket: Increases

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I’m currently teaching a Zoom class on Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Baby Surprise Jacket. The jacket requires increases, and this video shows, specifically, how to perform m1 increases.

Here are the written instructions followed by a video demonstration.

Increases

m1, k1, m1

  1. Work to 1 stitch before marker

  2. * Insert left needle from back to front under the strand running between the stitch on the right needle and the one on the left needle. Knit into the front of this loop to twist it. (This is an M1R – tilts right.)

  3. Knit 1

  4. * Insert left needle from front to back under the strand running between the stitch on the right needle and the one on the left needle. Knit into the back of this loop to twist it. (This is an M1L – tilts left.)

  5. Remove marker and replace it to the right of the first stitch on the right needle (to the left of the center increase stitch).

Next row will be all knits (no decreases)

To have a prominent knit stitch show on the right side, purl the center stitch between the increases when you work on the wrong side. The stitch to be purled on the wrong side is the one right after the marker.

* The angle of the M1 really doesn’t matter. Because the piece is done in garter stitch, the leaning of the stitch is hardly noticeable. If you want to just use one kind (I think step #4 is the easiest), just pick one and be consistent.