Purl stitch is just the opposite of a knit stitch. You hold the needles the same way as for knitting, but you keep the yarn in front of the needles instead of at the back.
If you alternate a knit row with a purl row you create the stockinette stitch.
As with knit stitch there are two ways of holding the needles and yarn to work purl stitch.
How to Purl using the English Method (yarn in the right hand)
In purl stitch the yarn is held at the front of the work (the side facing you) and is made up of four steps.
1. Hold the needle with the cast on stitches in your left hand and hold the working (empty) needle and yarn in your right hand. With the yarn at the front of the work, insert the right hand needle into the front of the stitch from right to left. Your needles will form an x, with the right needle in front of the left needle.
2. Holding the two crossed needles with your left hand, pass the yarn over and around the right hand needle (counterclockwise direction).
3. Pull the new loop on the right hand needle through the stitch on the left hand needle.
4. Slip the original stitch off the left hand needle. One stitch is completed.
Repeat these four steps for each stitch on the left hand needle. All the stitches on the left hand needle will be transferred to the right hand needle where the new row is formed. At the end of the row, swap the needle with the stitches into your left hand and the empty needle into your right hand, and work the next row in the same way.
In purl stitch the yarn is held at the front of the work (the side facing you) and is made up of four stitches.
1. Hold the needle with the cast on stitches in your left hand and hold the working (empty) needle in your right needle, with the working yarn wound around the fingers of your left hand. Holding the yarn in front of both needles, insert the right hand needle (from back to front) into the first stitch, keeping the yarn at the front of the work. The needles will form an x, with the right needle in front of the left needle.
2. Holding the yarn in front of both needles, use your left forefinger to wrap the yarn around the right needle from front to back, between the needles, and back to the front of the right needle. (or Move the right hand needle from right to left behind the yarn and then from left to right in front of the yarn. Pull your left index finger down in front of the work to keep the yarn taut.)
3. Pull the new loop on the right hand needle through the stitch on the left hand needle, using the right index finger to hold the new loop if needed.
4. Slip the stitch off the left hand needle. Return the left index finger to its position above the needle. One stitch is completed.
Tip: You may want to use your right forefinger to keep the wrapped strand from slipping off the tip of the needle.
Repeat these four steps for each stitch on the left hand needle. All the stitches on the left hand needle will be transferred to the right hand needle where the new row is formed. At the end of the row, swap the needle with the stitches into your left hand and the empty needle into your right hand, and work the next row in the same way.
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