I am a great knitter….of scarves! I really want to try hats, but i need to know how to knit purl stitch. All the videos i have watched just dont explain well and make me more and more frusterated! I understand the first part… but when it gets to where you have to slide the stictches off i have no idea what im doing!
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here is a great place to start.
http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/purl-stitch
If you are knitting a hat, do you use the purl stitch? Sometimes I do, but usually, I do it all in knit. You are knitting it in the round, I assume?
The link provided to the knittinghelp site is very good. She demonstrates most of the stitches quite well, and it’s worth watching.
Purl is the opposite of a knit stitch. In knitting, the yarn loop is pulled from the back to the front, and the old stitch is slipped off the needle. A purl is worked with the yarn in FRONT of the work, rather that the back as in knitting. The right needle is inserted from the back and towards the front. The yarn is wrapped around the right needle counter-clockwise, the same as in knitting. The loop is pulled away from you, towards the back, and the old stitch is slipped off the left needle, exactly the same as it is with knitting.
That is about as simple as I can make it. If you can knit, purling is not very hard at all. Knitting inserts the needle towards the back, pulls the new loop towards the front; purling inserts towards the front and pulls the loop towards the back. The rest is pretty much the same: wrapping the yarn, sliding the old stitch off.
If you can knit and purl you can do most any knit project. You just need more practice. To knit a purl stitch all you have to do is exactly as it is written, knit the purl. It sounds like you are putting in a decorative band. Hats are great for pracitcing sewing up seams and limited fitting. Try warm up america or knitty.con or ravelry.com Good luck!
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