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Practice Increasing And Decreasing
Here's an exercise to help you get comfortable with Magic Loop: practice increasing and decreasing. This exercise will demonstrate one of the wonderful things about Magic Loop: that it dsn't matter how many or how few stitches you have - you can do Magic Loop with 2-4 stitches.
Try doing that on DPNs without pulling your hair out. This is also a good opportunity to practice some intermediate knitting techniques, with which you will want to be familiar when we move on to more challenging projects.
To continue practicing reading a pattern, follow the steps below to experiment with increasing and decreasing using Magic Loop.
Increasing and Decreasing Swatch – Pattern Instructions
Rnd 1: *(K1, KFB), rep from * to end (30 sts).
Rnd 2 and all even rnds: Work even
Rnd 3: *(K2, KFB), rep from * to end (40 sts).
Rnd 5: *(K2, K2tog), rep from * to end (30 sts).
Rnd 7: *(K1, K2tog), rep from * to end (20 sts).
Rnd 9: K2tog around (10 sts).
BO all sts, break yarn. That is one ugly sample (if you did it right). Nice work.
