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[cacunn]

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[Pleater]

When doing socks and increasing up the 'spine' at the back of the leg I make the increases on the side of the spine, so would take the heel of the next stitch on the right of the spine and the heel of the last knitted st on the left side of the spine.

The only exception would be if doing it that way would cause it to show up more.

Sometimes it can be neater if you do a few unpatterned stitches each side of the spine, and at the increases take the outermost stitches of the plain strip into the pattern and increase within the strip.

You can do either a couple of purl st each side of a k st or the opposite, or do K P K or P K P up the spine rather than a single st, which you do not change but make the increases just outside it, keeping the same number of st in the strip but feed them into the pattern as you increase.

I find that easier to keep neat, and also to maintain the pattern correctly rather than try to make a less noticable spine and increases.