The M1L (Make One Left) increase is a method used to create a new stitch from the bar between stitches. This increases the total number of stitches on your needle while also forming a left-leaning slant in the fabric.
Written Tutorial
- Work up to the point of the increase. Notice the bar in-between the stitches on either needle?
- Insert your left needle tip from front to back underneath this bar.
- Lift it onto the needle.
- Push your needles together to create some slack in this new loop, then hold this in place with your finger.
- Insert your right needle into the BACK of the raised bar.
- Wrap the yarn around anticlockwise as usual and pull the loop through.
- Slide the bar off the needle and your M1L increase is complete.