Photo & Video Tutorial: Knitting Lifted Increases

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Lifted Increases

Lifted increases create a neat increase with no holes.  They are created from the stitch below, so they can easily used in place of a make one increase e.g. m1r, m1l, m1a, m1t.

Lifted increases can be created in mirrored pairs – the left-lifted increase (LLI) and the right-lifted increase (RLI). 

They can look quite different depending on which order that they are worked in.

LLI, k2, RLI
RLI, k2, LLI

The RLI, k2, LLI has an added benefit of working particularly well when seen from upside down. This makes it ideal for top down garments, as it looks like a knit column from top down.

They work best when there are plain rows worked between the increase rows, as it’s only possible to create a lifted increase on subsequent rows if they are worked in the order LLI then RLI. If you try to work them RLI then LLI on subsequent rows, you will be working into the same stitch each time and it just won’t work.

Video Tutorial

Youtube Video Link

Left Lifted Increase Photo Tutorial

1. Insert LHN from back to front into stitch 2 rows below the one on the RHN.
3. Knit stitch.
2. Insert RHN through the back loop.

Right Lifted Increase Photo Tutorial

1. Insert RHN from back to front into row below on LHN.
3. Knit stitch
2. Keep hold of the stitch on LHN, place loop from row below onto LHN and reinsert RHN knitwise into this loop.

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