Right-Leaning Bar Increase

The mirror image of the KFB or K1FB (Left-leaning Bar Increase) used to shape knitting.

This common increase can be used in a variety of situations, from one side of a thumb gusset, to knitted lace, to top-down raglan shaping, and more.

This is the mirror-image increase to the k1fb / kfb (knit one in the front and back loop of the same stitch) increase. While that increase creates a little bar that wraps around the bottom of the left stitch, allowing the right stitch to continue the column of knit stitches, this increase wraps the bar around the stitch on the right side.

I have not found a common abbreviation for this increase, so I refer to it as the BincR (Bar Increase Right).

Note that if you are left-handed and knitting in mirror-image, this will be a Left-leaning bar increase, but will still create the opposite look of the kfb / k1fb.

Video Tutorial

How to Do It

Basic Principle:

You will be increasing one stitch by knitting twice into the same stitch, but the bar will be on the right of the stitch you knit into instead of the left as with the KFB.

Steps

Text included in the images is written out below each step to make this Low Vision Accessible. Instructions on the images are for right-handed people. Instructions in the written text is non-hand specific.

Step One

Slip the stitch from stitch-holding to working needle knitwise. (Righties: From left to right. Lefties: From right to left.)

Then slip the stitch back onto the stitch-holding needle purlwise. (In other words, don’t twist it when you put it back, just move it straight across.)

Step Two

Knit into the front loop of the stitch.

Use working needle to remove stitch from stitch-holding needle.

Move tip of stitch-holding needle down beneath the working needle and toward your body to pick up front leg of same stitch you just knit into as the next stitch to work into. This is essentially just moving your left needle from the back of the stitch it’s already in to the front. (Refer to Steps Three and Four. This method creates one fluid motion instead of two separate ones. Work it the other way several times first to get the hang of it.)

Step Three

Insert tip of stitch-holding needle into the front loop of the stitch you just knit into, which is now in the row below the one you just worked on the working needle (in your dominant hand).

Step Four

Pull front loop of this stitch up so it forms a stitch on the stitch-holding needle (non-dominant hand).

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PROJECT LEVEL: Intermediate

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About Design

Construction

Socks are worked in the round from the cuff down with a heel flap and gusset, then worked in the round to the raglan decreased toes and finished with grafting. Designed with slight negative ease.

Variants

Make socks with or without the spiralling chain cable.

Sizes

When choosing a size, round up.

Youth or Adult Small: 8.5 to 9 inches (or 21.5 to 23 cm) instep circumference.
Adult Medium: 9.5 to 10 inches (or 24 to 25.5 cm) instep circumference.
Adult Large: 10.5 to 11 inches (or 26.5 to 28 cm) instep circumference.

Supplies

Yarn

2 balls fingering-weight sock yarn with 199 metres in 50 grams (or 218 yards in 1.76 oz).

Approximate yardages: 283 (305, 370) yards [or 259 (279, 338) metres].

Needles

Set of four 2.75 mm (US size 2) double-pointed needles (or, optionally, two circular needles of this size instead) OR size needed to obtain gauge.

Notions

A small cable needle, a yarn needle, and up to ten stitch markers.

Gauge

34 stitches and 47 rounds = 4 inches (or 10 cm) over stockinette stitch knit in the round.

About Samples

Striped Samples:

Knit Picks Felici Fingering Weight, a 75% merino wool and 25% nylon fingering-weight yarn with 199 metres in 50 grams (or 218 yards in 1.76 ounces) that knits up to 28 to 32 stitches in 4 inches (10 cm) on 2.25 to 3.25 mm (US 1 to 3) needles over stockinette knit flat.

Green Colourway: Spring Mix.
Orange Colourway: Maple Leaves.

Tweed Sample:

Knit Picks Stroll Tweed, a 65% Superwash merino wool, 25% nylon, and 10% Donegal tweed fingering-weight yarn with 211 metres in 50 grams (or 231 yards in 1.76 ounces) that knits up to 28 to 32 stitches in 4 inches (or 10 cm) on 2.25 to 3.25 mm (or US size 1 to 3) needles over stockinette stitch knit flat.

Colourway: Oyster Heather.

Techniques & Resources

Skills you will need:

Knit
Purl
Make a gauge swatch in the round in stockinette stitch

All other required stitches are explained.

Techniques used:

Knitting in the round using one or two circular needles or double-pointed needles
One-by-one ribbing
Super-Stretchy Cast On
Left-Leaning Bar Increase (k1fb)
Right-leaning Bar Increase

Included resources:

A comprehensive list of links to online tutorials on my website for necessary skills. Tutorials are screen-reader accessible, with instructions relayed fully in text, and also include videos and downloadable photo tutorials.
Full glossary
Cable charts and fully written instructions

Publishing Information

Release Date: December 1, 2015

Most recent revision: November 14, 2023

Publisher: My Secret Wish Publishing

Knitting pattern type: Multiple Design Options

Project type: Socks

Page Count (standard Bookmarked PDF): 20

ISBN (Bookmarked PDF): 978-1-989800-54-6

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING NOTICE:

This pattern is copyright My Secret Wish Publishing. Your purchase of this pattern gives you the right to use it for personal, non-profit use only. To license the pattern to use for profit, please e-mail me for permission. You do NOT have the right to print the pattern for other people (unless they reside in your household) or to transfer the digital file to any other person. This pattern may not be sold, copied, or distributed in any way.

Update History

November 14, 2023:

Revised formatting of PDF to align with current template style.
Clarified language where necessary.
Converted PDF to be screen reader accessible.
Updated URLs for new store and social links.
Renamed to "Beanstalk Socks" (originally “Jill and the Bean Socks”)
Revised and corrected errors.
Added two more sizes.
Added charts.

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Step Five

Knit into the back loop of the stitch on the stitch-holding needle.

Note that the stitch you are working into has already been worked into once, and that first stitch is on the working needle already.

Step Six

Remove stitch from stitch-holding needle. Your completed increase stitch is on the working needle. The outside (near the tip of the needle) of the newest stitch should line up with the column below it.

Step Seven

How the bar increase looks after you have worked a couple of rows. There is a bar wrapping around the column of stitches where the increase occurred.

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