Help - learner knitter needs advice

[Roskva]

My pattern says "inc 3 evenly across row", but my beginners instructions don't tell me how to do that. Please can someone help! Thanks.

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Yeah, you can do it as Pruni says, or you can knit 1/4 of the row, inc 1, knit 1/4, inc 1, etc ... depending on how you feel about increases near the edges of the row.

Thanks for your help. Another question: is increasing a stitch like casting on?

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the perfectionist answer is no, there is a special technique. you kind of knit into the front then the back.

here's a video

(tbh though, for ages I increased like this, and it didn't make a massive amount of difference, so don't fret massively if you just do it like an increase, there'll just be a tiny hole which will probably largely vanish with blocking)

god thats not a nice instruction there, btw, I would always say when in the row, cos it can make a difference. I'd go for inc at each quarter point (ie after 1/4 of the st, at 1/2 the st, at 3/4 of the stitches myself, probably, depending on what you're making.

Thanks for the link, Filly. That is the most useful demo I have come across.