How Do You Knit A Purl Decrease?

To make any shaped items when knitting stockinette, especially garments, it is important to use increases and decreases to create the shape of the knitted fabric. In some cases, the decrease must be made on the back, or purl, side of a stockinette fabric. Though this is similar to a knit decrease, this focuses on the specifics of two methods for making a purl decrease.

Slide your needle purl-wise into the two stitches you want to decrease. Pass the yarn around the needle just as you would for a single purl stitch. Pull the right needle back out with the new single purl stitch on it.

Slide the two original purl stitches off the left needle, tighten your new stitch if necessary, and continue the row. Slide the right hand needle purl-wise into the first stitch where the decrease belongs. Move that first stitch to the right hand needle without wrapping the yarn at all.

Purl the next stitch as usual, and move it to the right hand needle. Slide the left hand needle into the slipped stitch ( ... more.

Many knitted items require a combination of knit and purl stitches, such as sweaters knitted in stockinette stitch (alternating rows of knitted and purled stitches) or items with ribbing (alternating knitted and purled stitches within the same row). No matter what you're making, you are likely to need some shaping in the finished project, which is exactly the reason for increases in a pattern. Here are two methods for increasing stitches in a purl section of pattern or on a purl side of stockinette.

Begin your row as directed in the pattern you are using, or as decided if you are making up your own pattern. Purl into the stitch where the increase goes, but do not pull the stitch off the left hand needle. Insert your active or right-hand needle into the same stitch from left to right at the back of the fabric.

This is similar to knitting in the back of a stitch, but a little trickier because of the angle of purl stitches. Wrap the yarn as with a regular purl stitch, and pull the ... more.

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