KNITTING TUTORIAL: The Purl Stitch
Once you've mastered the knit stitch, check out our step-by-step photo and video tutorial for the purl stitch
Video Tutorial
Photo Tutorial
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Hold your yarn to the front of your work. Insert your right-hand needle into the next stitch on the left-hand needle, from right to left.
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Wrap the working yarn around the tip of your right-hand needle. When I work this stitch it feels like a clockwise motion, so if you hold your yarn and needles the same as I do, you might find that a useful thing to pay attention to.
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Just the same as you do for the knit stitch, pull the loop through. Hold the working yarn to keep your tension.
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Drop the stitch off of the left-hand needle. You've completed the purl stitch!