How to Knit Front & Back

Video Transcript

"The other kind of increasing is what's called knitting into the front and the back of the stitch. That's a little bit more complicated, but it's still not that bad. I'm not going to do it on the first stitch. The first stitch I'm going to do a regular knit. You put your needle in the front and you yarn over and you pull it around and back and you're done with that stitch. Now, here comes the increase. When you knit into the front of the back of the stitch, you're taking this one stitch and instead of sliding it off, you're going to knit the front, hold the stitch, then knit the back, so you go. This is what you do. Go into the front of stitch, put your yarn over like you always did. Pull it back out, but guess what. You don't slide it off, you hold it. Then go to the back part of that stitch and you put your yarn, you twirl your yarn around, you pull it out. Now pull it off. See, now I have 3 stitches on there. This was the yarn over stitch from before, so I'm just going to do a regular knit on that so we don't have a big hole in our scarf. Now let's do another one of those increases. You go into the front of the yarn, you wrap your yarn around, you pull the needle back out but don't slide it off yet, and go back in to the same stitch, take your ball of yarn, wrap it over, pull it through, and push that off. Let's do just a couple straight knits because we did our increase right around here the last time through. Let's practice again. Put the needle through the front of the yarn, wrap the yarn around, pull it out, do not slide it off pull it back in the back of the yarn, wrap your yarn around, pull it through and slide it off. We can do another one into the front of the stitch. Wrap the yarn around, pull it back out, do not slide it off. This one's tight. Into the back of the yarn. Come on baby. Back of the yarn. Wrap it around, pull it through, now slide it off. This was our yarn over from before so I'm just going to knit that. Knit around and back. Let's do one more of those increase. We're into the front of the yarn, wrap it around, pull it through. Then the back of the same stitch, wrap your yarn around, pull it through, now shove that thing off. Let's just knit these last 2 stitches that are here. See what I did? I did something that's not a big deal. I let the stitch stay on the needle because I was trying to do something in a big old hurry. Put the needle through, wrap the yarn around, and push it out. Then last stitch here, and pull it around. We're done. We increased. Wow, that's getting thick. "