Researching Increases

I spent yesterday surfing the net to research different ways to increase. I searched Ravelry's fantastic techniques forum and found that I wasn't the only one to get holes. A website was recommended often so I had a look
http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/increases
This website had really clear videos to follow and these are my attempts

 

This is trying 6 different types of increase all decreases were knit 2 together (k2tog)

 This knit front & back (kf&b) I like this one as its easy and leaves no holes but it can create a small bump in the knitting -(although I feel thats preferable to a hole)

 

This is M1 or so I thought and was how I had ended up with holes in my jumper. This stitch or should I say my wrong doing of this stitch inspired the search. I learnt later that I had been doing it wrong...

This is another more successful way I have been doing M1,instead of picking up the centre strand I have been picking up the strand directly beneath the loop on the needle.

  

However the end result has been an increase with no hole.

The next 3 attempts were from videos on knittinghelp.com

This is Make 1 Away (M1A) which was making a loop with the yarn on your thumb and slipping it in the needle. I liked this one, it was a bit fiddly at first but NO HOLES!

This is Make 1 Towards (M1T) which again involved making a loop. This one was a bit trickier as I got the loop wrong the first time causing a small whole but once sussed it created an increase with no holes.

Last one now, if your still reading, this is Make 1 Left (M1L) and is the original M1 that I mentioned at the beginning which when I used it gave me the big holes. After watching the knittinghelp.com video I realised that I had been picking the stitch up at the back and knitting into the back, resulting in a hole. I should have been picking the stitch up from the front and knitting into the back. The picture above shows the difference.
So now its back to the Owl jumper as I still have 2 sleeves to make hopefully without any more holes.....