{"id":133,"date":"2009-04-26T20:57:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-26T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/uncategorized\/tutorial-how-to-purl-english\/"},"modified":"2009-04-26T20:57:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-26T20:57:00","slug":"tutorial-how-to-purl-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/tutorial-how-to-purl-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial: How to Purl English"},"content":{"rendered":"

The purl stitch<\/b> is just as important as the knit stitch – you can’t do one without the other. I know a lot of beginning knitters who get confused and frustrated when it comes to purl stitches – I actually learned how to purl before the knit, and I find it just as easy. Here are the step-by-step instructions on how to make a purl stitch, English style<\/b>. You’ll get the hang of it with a few tries.<\/p>\n

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 First, take your nicely cast-on<\/a> work in your left hand and pick up the ball-end yarn with your right hand. Then take the right-hand needle and slip it into the first loop, right to left, bottom to top (Figure A<\/b>).<\/p>\n

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Then take the yarn in your right hand, and loop it around the right needle counterclockwise from back to front (Figure B<\/b>). Make sure the yarn is in front<\/i> of the needle and not behind it. You might want to hold the right needle in place with your left thumb so the needle doesn’t slip out.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the most tricky part: using the right needle, carefully lift the new loop into the first loop, under the left-hand needle (Figure C<\/b>).<\/p>\n

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 Slip the first loop off the left needle, and there! You have just made a purl stitch. <\/div>\n

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Repeat until you have finished the row. You’ll see that all the stitches have a loop right under them, almost like they’re wearing little pearl necklaces. Flip your work and start again – now you know how to purl!<\/p>\n

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The purl stitch is just as important as the knit stitch – you can’t do one without the other. I know a lot of beginning knitters who get confused and frustrated when it comes to purl stitches – I actually learned how to purl before the knit, and I find it just as easy. Here… Continue reading Tutorial: How to Purl English<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellaceti.com\/lindaknits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}