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How to Purl. The purl stitch differs from the knit stitch in two fundamental ways: The working yarn is held in the front of the project instead of the back, and the needle is inserted from the back to the front instead of from front to back. Hold the needle with cast-on stitches in your left hand. Wrap the working yarn (ball end) around your left index finger, and hold it in front of the work. 1. Insert point of right-hand needle, from back to front, into the first cast-on stitch on the left-hand needle, opening up a stitch.
Here is what I do. If the pattern does not include selvage stitches, I add 2 sts to the stitch count. I ALWAYS slip the first st purlwise with yarn in front like in this picture: The stitch will be on your right needle. Knit the rest of sts in the pattern to the last one.