Adding Stitchs

Adding stitches is quite as simple as it sounds. More or less, if a piece is to keep it's shape, then you will work one stitch into each of the previous stitchs, so you have the same number of stitches in each row. If you intend on increasing the size of your piece (Say for a hat. See Basic Hat Planning) then you have to add stitches so that one end will be bigger than the other.

Adding stitches is simply a matter of working 2 stitches into 1 stitch of the previous row. Say you're working with double crochets. Instead of working 2 double crochets into just the two top threads on the previous stitch, another option is to go first around all three strands from the top of that stitch, and then for the 2nd one go through just the top 2 strands. This will keep the piece from stretching out

ADDING STITCHES WITH Front/Back Post Double Crochets.

It can be difficult to double up like this if you are working with Front/Back Post Double Crochets because there is not very much give to them. what you can do instead is go in the gap between the posts of the stitch and the one previous, then do the FPDC/BPDC like normal. Also, with the FPDC, say I wanted to keep two FPDC's next to each other, but I wanted to expand the piece, I would do my first DC in the top of the stitch (around the uppermost 2 strands) and then I would do a FPDC around the same stitch. Then FPDC around the next stitch, and then a regular DC in the top of the the second stitch, working behind the post for a result like this : \ | | /