How to Increase (pfb)

Tutorial Overview

In this video we'll show you how to purl into the front and back of a stitch (pfb). Purling into the front and back of the same stitch is one of the ways you can use to increase your row by one stitch.

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Step-by-step guide

Step 1:

With the yarn at the front of your work, insert your right needle into the next stitch as if to purl.

Step 2:

Make a purl stitch, but don't slip the stitch off your left-hand needle just yet!

Step 3:

Keep the yarn in front of your work. Bring the needle to the back and insert it through the back leg of the same stitch from left to right.

Step 4:

Wrap the yarn around the tip of the right needle anticlockwise.

Step 5:

Draw the loop through the back of the stitch.

Step 6:

You'll now have 2 new stitches on your right-hand needle, and can now slide the stitch off your left-hand needle.

And that's how you purl into the front and back of a stitch!

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