How Do You Knit The Purl Stitch?

The purl stitch is one of the most basic stitches used in knitting. Once this stitch is mastered you will greatly widen the spectrum of knitting projects you can do. Repeating a pattern of the purl and knit stitch gives a distinctive look to a sweater or hat.

Hold one knitting needle in each hand. The left hand should hold the needle with the cast-on stitches. The left hand should hold the empty needle.

The natural way to hold knitting needles is to keep the hands high on them and hold the needles at an angle, as if making a point with them. Cross the very tips of the needles with the right needle on top of the left needle. Grab hold on the first cast-on knit stitch on the left-hand needle with the tip of the right-hand needle.

Hold onto the loose yarn with the free fingers from your left hand. Keep the loose yarn in front of both of the needles. Use the right hand to wrap the loose yarn around the tip of the empty needle.

Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the needle. Keep the ... more.

Knitting, to borrow a line from author Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, is the craft of making fabric with two sticks and some string. The string is more likely to be a yarn, and the two sticks come in many forms. Once you've mastered casting on and learned the knit stitch, one of the two basic stitches of knitting, you can learn the first pattern: the garter stitch.

Cast on 20 stitches. Grasp the needle with stitches in your left hand with the tip pointed to the right. Take the yarn strand that's coming from the ball (the working yarn), not the tail left from casting on.

Hold your left hand with your palm facing you and bring the working yarn up over your little finger from between the little finger and the ring finger, then down on the outside edge of the pinkie. Wrap the yarn behind the ring finger, up and over the middle finger, and loop it around the index finger. Now place your last three fingers at the back of the needle, keeping the yarn wrapped and your thumb on the front of the ... more.

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