Lesson 1 - swatch 2:

B. On the RS, use right slanted lifted knitted increase (RSLKI) technique to increase 5 sts evenly spaced across the row, knitting each stitch.

20 stitches divided by 5 increases is every 4 stitches.

increase every 4 stitches - which would mean increasing every 4 stitches which would place an increase in the last stitch on the row.

Yet the instructions for the 2. Lifted Increase pg 8 of 16 says for a RSLKI to "Use the right slanted at the beginning of a row before the second stitch."

I can certainly knit the increase after the first knit stitch and before the second knit stitch and I would have to adjust the increases across the remaining 18 stitches to work out to be even.

Correct? Yes or no?

David

Not to give you an answer but just a pointer--

When I space my increases across a row, I want--for example--4 stitches before the first one *and* four stitches after the last one (unless I'm working in the round). So just dividing five into 20 as you did wouldn't work--I'd need 24 stitches instead of 20, to have the increases spaced properly.

Does that help?

David -- When I divide the total number of stitches with the number of increases to get an idea of how many stitches to work in between each increase (or decrease), I divide that number in half so I will work that number before doing the first increase/decrease, and then work the remaining increases/decreases with the appropriate number of stitches in between, and hopefully if I've done my math correctly, I will end with just about the same number of stitches worked even as I had when I started the row.

Without having your instructions, I would expect that the purpose of this swatch is to get a knitter to think about how to evenly increase across a row and maybe to discuss the steps involved in calculating an even distribution, and the reason for spreading out these increases/decreases.

I wouldn't worry that there is a right or wrong answer here. Some people may want to begin and end with the increase or decrease. To do this, would generally mean having more stitches between the increases/decreases done throughout the rest of the row -- to my mind that increasing/decreasing evenly. Just not the way I would do it. <smile>

In the swatches it doesn't really matter if you put an increase in the first or last stitch but in an actual project you wouldn't want to do that. It makes seaming more difficult. Some of us are more visual. When I am placing increases I get out graph paper and chart it out. Don't stress too much over this topic. The important thing is that the increases aren't all bunched together.

Remember when you are thinking about this that you are making the increase IN as stitch so if I do the math of 20 stitches divided by 5 to get 4, my increase will be made IN one of those 4 stitches so there will actually be 3 stitches in between. (The exception is the M1 increase which is made between stitches).

Arenda