Bar Increase

The Bar Increase, also known as KFB or KFBL, is a former favorite of mine. I stopped using it and went back to using an M1 because I decided that I wasn’t a fan of the obvious bar. It’s not very invisible and it doesn’t work well in pairs.

This increase is handy when you don’t want to pull on the row below, though. The bar does make the stitch you’re working into a little tighter, but it causes less distortion in the surrounding stitches than a M