Knitting help please

[LandGirlJudy]

So, I have 30 stitches, I have to knit one each end, then with the 28 middle stitches I have to increase 1, knit 1. Then end up with 58 stitches. I've tried several times and can only get 44 stitches. Obviously increasing every other stitch out of 28 is giving me 14 extra stitches, not the full 28.
Can anybody tell me where I'm going wrong please?

I'm not a knitter, but if I imagine it as crochet then I'd say the pattern is wrong.
In order to do [Inc1, k1] 28 times you'd need 56 stitches at the start.

30 to start
Knit 1- at start and end of row 28 stitches left in middle

You add a stitch then knit a stitch so make 28 stitches plus 28 you already had

28+28+2= 58

It depends which increase you are doing. If you do k1, knit front and back in the next stitch you will end up with 44. They are expecting you to do a M1 by either picking up a loop between stitches from the row below or wrapping the yarn round the needle - you'd need to knit into the back of the loop on the next row. www.wikihow.com/Knit-M1

Does it mean you K1, then Knit one + increase one in the stitch you have just knit 26 times and then finish with K1 ? That is the only way I can get it to work.

So
Knit 1 inc 1 knit 1 =3
Inc 1 knit 1=
Inc 1 knit 1
Inc 1 knit 1
Inc 1 knit 1
Inc 1 knit 1
Inc 1 knit 1
Inc 1 knit 1
Inc 1 knit 1
Inc 1 knit 1
Inc 1 knit

Clearly a knitted increase works totally differently to how I imagined in my head.

@LilyRed

Does it mean you K1, then Knit one + increase one in the stitch you have just knit 26 times and then finish with K1 ? That is the only way I can get it to work.

You increase between stitches. Not sure my explanation is very clear but the wikihow link is good.

You knit one then pick up the stitch that is lying in between the one you have knitted and the next one, then knit into it. That's what the pattern is telling you to do.
Personally I would knit one, then knit into the front and back of each stitch 28 times then knit one. You will end up with the right amount of stitches and it will look neater.

All the best op

Thanks everyone. The picking up the loop is make 1 not increase 1, and that was a different instrument for earlier in the pattern, but I think I'm just going to have to wing it and try some suggestion on here to make it work!

*Instruction

I think they mean M1 not Kfb.
I thought ´increase’ just means add a stitch but doesn’t specify what method to use.

Make one and increase one are the same thing. If they want a particular way they will specify in the instruction. (I used to knit for Sirdar and Rowan)

@Lifeisforalimitedperiodonly - yes, I would prefer to KFB also, however for the Op here is M1 (make one or Inc1 - there are so many ways of doing it! ) in video - sorry it is American but the method is the same

You only repeat the part in brackets, so you are increasing a stitch for every stitch except the 2 end stitches. Then you will get the correct number of stitches.

@Yarnivore

You only repeat the part in brackets, so you are increasing a stitch for every stitch except the 2 end stitches. Then you will get the correct number of stitches.

Yes, the OP knows that but it's the method of increase she is not sure about. I knit front and back if there are no specifics.