What does M1 mean?
It means that you make a new stitch. To slant this increase to the right pick up the horizontal bar between the two stitches with your right needle from front to back and lay it onto your left needle from front to back, knit into the front loop of this stitch.To slant this increase to the left pick up the horizontal bar between the two stitches with your right needle from front to back and lay it onto your left needle from back to front, knit into the back loop of this stitch.
How do I increase in the same stitch?
Knit the stitch and don't take it off the left needle now knit into the back loop of this same stitch.
I got eyelets in my increase row. What did I do wrong?
You didn't twist the stitches. It can look quite attractive in a girl's sweater if the increases are spaced evenly.
Can I do M1 in a purl row?
If your increase has to slant to the right on the right side of the garment leaving your yarn in the front as if to purl pick up the horizontal bar with your right needle from front to back and lay it onto the left needle from front to back, purl into the front loop of the stitch. If your increase has to slant to the left on the right side of the garment leaving your yarn in the front as if to purl pick up the horizontal bar between the two stitches from back to front with your right needle insert your left needle into the front loop of the stitch from right to left, purl this stitch.
Can I increase in the same purl stitch?
Purl the stitch and take it off the left needle. Leaving the yarn in the front as if to purl pick up the left leg of this purl stitch with your left needle from back to front, purl this loop.
How do I increase several stitches at the end of the row?
You knit to the end of the row now turn your work around as if to start a new row. *Knit the first stitch but don't take it off the left needle, insert your left needle from right to left into your new stitch*. Repeat from * to * until you have the right amount of stitches.