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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.
Knitting Basketweave Stitch. A simple variation, for example, might be to work k4, p4 across for 4 rows, then work p4, k4 across for 4 rows and repeat. This makes simple blocks of texture that are easy to read in your knitting, and it makes a fabric that is reversible, non-rolling and really easy to knit.