Mirrored KFB (knit front back) increase // Technique Tuesday

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This video demonstrates how to create a mirrored result to the standard KFB (knit front back) increase, so that the new stitch appears to the right of the original stitch, rather than to the left.
Examples are shown for how to use this increase for a raglan sweater (single "seamline" or two-stitch seamline, as well as for mitten thumb gussets
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Needles used in video demonstration: Chiaogoo double pointed needles
Yarn used in video demonstration: Brown Sheep Company Nature Spun worsted weight wool.
Introduction: 0:00
Demonstration: 2:32
Mirroring KFB for 2-st seamline: 8:14
Why mirroring solves tension issues: 8:52
Mirroring kfb incs at the edges: 9:36
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@teresameyer4574 3 жыл бұрын

You have the best close up of the stitches of any video I’ve seen. I can actually see what you are doing! Thank you for the visual clarity and multiple repeats of the stitch. Excellent.

@mistyblue5312 3 жыл бұрын

Flawless, crystal clear tutorials with great visibility and no distractions (ie music, nail polish, poor tool choices, etc). I am sharing these tutorials as always. Thanks Roxanne ... you are teaching a whole generation of knitters some amazing techniques. Keep ‘em coming! 😍

@kokilapatel5553 Жыл бұрын

Very useful tutorial , very complicated technique explained so nicely , I’m a beginner but could follow easily👍🏻

@Haijwsyz51846 10 ай бұрын

Just what I was looking for. Thank you.

@jenniehodge9199 2 жыл бұрын

Your method is so much easier and foolproof than the way I’ve been manipulating stitches to get a similar result. Thank you for sharing this! I love symmetry, so this makes me glad!

@okaminess 3 жыл бұрын

I agree that you have some of the best examples of knitting. Great audio quality with no distracting or annoying jingle music like so many of the Insta knitters have. THANK YOU.

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

@CindDJo 3 жыл бұрын

Love this video. You always are so clear with you lessons. I need to more that just "how", I need to also know "why" and you always provide that for me. Thank you!!

@user-fk5yh2ve3l Жыл бұрын

LOVE LOVE this. I have always wonder how to get KFB to mirror each other. I LOVE your explanations - stitch mount, construction and all. THANK YOU so very much.

@nz-nz 7 ай бұрын

Wonderful! I’ve been struggling with these increases. Have not seen this method before, but it certainly is good. Thanks again for an excellent tutorial. (You are my go-to lady when I’m needing help because you are so clear and slow for us beginners!)

@sabineh.4215 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I've been wondering for a while how to mirror a kfb! (Note to myself: actual stitch technique 4:10 - 5:40)

@beagare2197 3 жыл бұрын

Been using kfb, without mirroring, on the toes of my toe up socks; and being slightly annoyed by the large knit stitch at the seamline when I move to increases every other round. This is revolutionary! And just as I begin the MKH level 1. And the very evening I cast on a new pair of socks. Very happy. Thank you so much.

@elisabethkronqvist3987 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you ☺️ This was what I needed to get inspired to start a new pair of toe-up socks. A lot of the available increases cause tension issues some way or another, and while I know no one's going to look that close at the sides of the toes, I'll still know that the wonky stitches are there.

@batya7 3 жыл бұрын

Rox, this is so clear and makes sense. So glad I saw it. Thanks!

@phylliscaunt6197 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for such high quality productions! Your instructions are clear and the video of the stitches makes it super easy to understand what’s going on.

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! I'm glad you like my video-making style. :-)

@dorothyrainey1141 3 жыл бұрын

Great technique! I definitely will be using this!

@Mostly_Harmless99 3 жыл бұрын

Very clear and helpful! I will be adding this technique to my raglans going forward because the tensioning has been driving me nuts for years!

@IslandLady76 3 жыл бұрын

Great technique! I'd never seen or hear of doing that before. I never knew what to do to make the center stitches more symmetrical. Thank you.

@garyharvey4380 3 жыл бұрын

Brillant! Wish knew this technique last year while making my top down ragland sweater. I guess ill just have make another one. Thank you for sharing.

@theastewart6721 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Roxanne. This is such an interesting technique! I’ve never seen this before. Thank you for another great technique for our knitting arsenal! Much appreciated!

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

@Killersquirrel66 3 жыл бұрын

Oooh, interesting. I will experiment with this, and also see if I can apply it to KBF (as an Eastern Method knitter, that's my default increase for many stitch patterns, but I've never found a mirrored version). Thank you for once again blowing my mind and opening up a whole new approach to knitting! 😊

@sacredsortilege 3 жыл бұрын

So ingenious! Thank you for sharing this.

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome!

@okaminess 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Roxanne! I watched your video on garter stitch edge and I'm visiting more of your videos.

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful!

@connieschmittauer5581 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for doing this. I would never have guessed this could be done. The tension didn't bother me, but the bumps did and I can see many different uses for this. I was thinking about shawls that start in the middle with increases on either side to keep expanding the shawl. Raglan sleeves for sweaters would be a great one to try this new (to me, anyway) technique!

@kathleencarty149 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Very nicely done.

@michellelindgren8419 3 жыл бұрын

Cool! Thanks for showing this.

@georgiafl8285 Жыл бұрын

In my old knitting books (from the 70's) these are called Bar increases ... I think! And I really like using them in sock toes.

@RoxanneRichardson Жыл бұрын

When I started the master hand knitting program back in 2005, the kfb was labeled the "bar increase." I've never seen a mirrored version documented in a book. I'd love to know what book you might have seen that in (I collect older knitting manuals). "Bar increase" became a problematic label, though, as knitters talked with each other more and more on the internet. So many would refer to the m1 inc as a bar increase (because you lift the "bar" between sts). There's also lots of confusion over what a lifted increase is (vs a raised increase, which is another name for m1). KFB seems to be the one increase that clearly defines what it is and can't be mistaken for another increase! :-)

@georgiafl8285 Жыл бұрын

@Roxanne Richardson Yes, I remember there was confusion! Yarn over, raised, lifted, and bar. You are right that the mirror of the kfb was not in the book like I thought it was. It illustrated the bar(kfb) and the moss bar(knit front then purl it). The book my Mom gave me in the 70's was Complete Guide To Needlework. Now, I'm not sure where I learned the mirror... but I really like symmetry! Thank you for all your video. I love your thought process.

@debraraymer3386 3 жыл бұрын

Very helpful video! Thanks!

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

You bet!

@lindaalikhan7962 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant

@junec759 3 жыл бұрын

Wow. Thank you very much!!!

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

@Jenni.C 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. I am trying this on my sweater now. Could you consider doing a video on how to ladder down and fix a kfb (if you let the stitches drop and have the excess yarn available)? I couldn’t find anything that makes sense to me. Thank you!

@helentroy7968 Жыл бұрын

Great 😊

@CassieDA17 3 жыл бұрын

Very timely video. Just this morning I started the raglan increases. The pattern that calls the mirrored increase a KBF for raglan. She has that stitch to the right of the marker and a KFB to the left of the marker. I actually did them all wrong and didn’t t realize it until I saw yours video. Last step I knit into the front instead of the back. At this point I can’t rip it all out and do them over.

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

Without seeing the instructions, I have no way of knowing what the designer was intending. Some people believe that working into the back of a stitch and then the front is the mirror to a KFB, but it is not, structurally.

@CassieDA17 3 жыл бұрын

Roxanne Richardson I checked her video and hers is like yours. I did mine wrong :( The only difference from yours is that her KBF is on the right and KFB is on left of marker. My mistake isn’t really noticeable so I’m going to leave it. I usually go back and fix everything so this is really unlike me to leave it Btw- it’s the very popular Ranunculus sweater that I’m knitting

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

@@CassieDA17 So is she creating a 2-stitch seamline? I did a swatch using that approach and found that it created the same problem as the single-column kfb, because you're doing adjacent kfb incs, which worsens the tension, and you're doing sequential kfb incs which amplifies the tension difference. You might try a swatch with both methods (one doing sequential kbf/kfb incs in the 2-st column, and one using my method which is kfb, k2, kbf, and see which you prefer.

@CassieDA17 3 жыл бұрын

Roxanne Richardson - yes, they are right next to each other. It says “(K to 1 st before marker, kbf, SM, kfb)” fortunately it’s a yoke sweater and there are only 6 rows of raglan increases between the yoke and separating for the sleeves. I only did 5 because it’s a very oversized sweater and I want mine a bit narrower. I will definitely swatch the different ways so I know for future. Thanks for another great technique Tuesday video!

@noellenenuttall3853 3 жыл бұрын

I love your videos, very clear and easy to understand, do you have a video on the arrow head Raglan incease, i can't seem to find one anywhere 😊x

@tamaragrottker7677 3 жыл бұрын

great video as uneven stitches when increasing is something to mastered. I would like to see a technique for how to do stranded knitting not in the round. I am considering knitting some original Rowan patterns from the 80s, of which everything was written for flat knitting. Alternatively, how does one modify these sorts of patterns for knitting in the round?

@pernillep9049 3 жыл бұрын

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@sehryn 2 жыл бұрын

I’m looking for a suitable invisible increase that can be done in the SAME place every row (increase on top of previous increase) when knitting in the round

@maureenhart2854 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic Rod. Can these be done on the WS if there’s a pattern that requires increases to be done on the RS then the WS?

@maryvbates1425 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful new technique and so professionally filmed. I can actually see where everything is and where it's going! Thank you. Do you think this technique could be used in a knit chevron blanket? I do not like yarn over holes - even when purled through the back loop - and other increase techniques are M1R and M1L, which really slow me down. Same for lifted increases. Any suggestions? Thanks again! Be safe and stay well.

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

My suggestion is to try it out on a swatch, using the chevron pattern you're thinking of, and see how it looks. I sometimes plan to use one type of increase, and realize that I don't like the result, so I experiment with swapping the mirroring, or using a different version of the increase (eg knitting tbl of a YO is the same result as a m1 inc, but it has more slack and appears in the fabric a row later. Ditto for - a backwards loop on the needle, same result as a m1 where you lift the running thread, but a row later and even more slack than a YO worked through the back on the following row). Different stitch pattern juxtapositions can cause different increases to look better or worse than in other stitch pattern situations. The only way to know if you are going to get a result that *you* like in the project *you* are working is by trying it!

@maryvbates1425 3 жыл бұрын

@@RoxanneRichardson Experimenting is what I have been doing for three days (not all day, of course!) I asked about the "perfect" chevron pattern on Ravelry but have had no responses thus far. Thanks so much for answering. I like your videos very much because they are so clear, well-thought out, and visually accurate.

@antoinetteseals4549 3 жыл бұрын

Can you or will you do a tutorial on how to measure to make a raglan sweater for a woman and men and children? Thank you . I am still learning to knit and crochet sweaters.

@ireneritter726 Жыл бұрын

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@aptname9710 2 жыл бұрын

When transposed to garter stitch, the technique will be executed in the same way, right? Or will it require picking up of the back leg of the twisted stitch once it comes off the left needle? And once these stitches need to be knit into on the next row, do we knit them normally or through the back loop?

@sheilaf1406 3 жыл бұрын

I am struggling with determining the rate of increases for a compound raglan. Can you help, please?

@Loostyc 2 жыл бұрын

Is it possible to knit the mirrored KFB through the back loop instead of slipping it to the right needle and back?

@rosiemckinney1061 Жыл бұрын

I really likre this. ❤ Is there a way to do something similar bottom up?

@RoxanneRichardson Жыл бұрын

I'm not clear what you're asking. If you need to mirror kfb increases, you can do that regardless of the direction in which you are knitting. If you're talking about mirroring decreases, instead, then yes, you can mirror decreases.

@nadzoll 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Roxanne. I am currently working on the Flax free sweater pattern from Tin Can Knits, and I wanted to incorporate this, but because there is the pearled section right after the increase, I don't know how to add your method. If someone knows this pattern, let me know. Thank you.

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

When you do the mirrored KFB, the first step is to slip as if to knit, return, then knit through the front (trailing) leg, then when the twisted stitch comes off the needle, you lift that front-crossing leg to the left needle, which puts the leading leg over the back of the needle. So that part is the same for what you want to do for your pattern. Now you need to purl that stitch (since that's the original purled stitch). Move the yarn to the front, and purl through that leading leg which is over the back of the needle. You'll have to compare the results of this to just doing the regular KFB into the knit stitch prior to the purl section to see if you prefer this solution to what the pattern instructs.

@nadzoll 3 жыл бұрын

@@RoxanneRichardson Thank you Roxanne. I will try this.

@annmorris6575 3 жыл бұрын

So, I’m knitting the Children’s Raglan sweater, kfb increases, and the row has all the stitches with the leading edge behind. How should I approach so that the raglan is mirrored? The pattern also ask to kfb the 1st and last stitch as well. How is that done? Thanks so much!

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

For "combination knitters" like yourself, you will have to adjust how you work a stitch based on how it sits on the needle. For the proper KFB result (bump to the left of the stitch), you will have to remount the stitch so that the leading leg is over the front of the needle before working it through the front, and then the back. For the mirrored version, you will not have to remount the stitch first. You can knit through the front to produce the twisted st and then lift that front-crossing leg onto the left needle as shown in the video, and carry on. I assume you know to work the rest of the regular stitches (knits and purls) always through the leading leg, so that they don't come off the needle twisted? You will also know that your decreases are modified from standard instructions, yes?

@annmorris6575 3 жыл бұрын

Roxanne Richardson Thank you so much. I watched your video a few times to determine how I thought I should reposition the stitch. As far as the decreases, I’m not there yet. However, I have no doubt you have a most excellent video on that as well. Many thanks!😊

@daphnevega1812 3 жыл бұрын

It looks like the holes are larger in the mirrored version you are demoing- is this correct?

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

I hadn't really noticed, but it's possible. There could also be a slight difference in the yarns (different dye lots) that creates slightly different results. Or it could be a product of the stitch requiring more manipulation to create. I would suggest trying the technique out on a swatch and seeing what results you get, and whether you notice a difference in the pinhole size based on working closer to the tips.

@victoriapileski3966 3 жыл бұрын

This video has ads imbedded in

@RoxanneRichardson 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting me know. My settings have (up to now!) were always set for no mid-roll ads. I'll have to go see what other havoc they have wreaked on other videos.