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Knitting the Make 1 Increase to Add Stitches

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Not all knitted pieces are square. If your piece needs to widen, you need to increase the number of stitches in your rows. The make 1 increase adds a new stitch between two existing stitches, and you can knit it so that it twists to the right or left.

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