How to purl a row
Most knitting is made up from knit and purl stitches. In this video we’ll show you how to purl, which will open up a world of new stitches as you progress!
Here’s how you do it
- Insert the tip of the right needle down and through the loop, then pull it up so it crosses in front of the left needle, from back to front.
- Hold onto the needles where they cross with the left hand needle.
- Take the yarn forward and wrap it behind the front right needle.
- Draw the tip of the right needle back through the stitch on the left needle, together with the looped yarn.
- Slip the original stitch off the left needle. You have now completed a purl stitch.
- Repeat, in and up, round, down and off.
- Complete the row purling each stitch.
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