Purl two together, abbreviated as p2tog, is for when you want to reduce the number of stitches on a purl row. Insert your needle into two stitches purl-wise and purl them together to make one stitch. Like its knitting counterpart knit two together (k2tog), p2tog is a decrease method,...
Purl two together, abbreviated as p2tog, is for when you want to reduce the number of stitches on a purl row. Insert your needle into two stitches purl-wise and purl them together to make one stitch. Like its knitting counterpart knit two together (k2tog), p2tog is a decrease method,...
Sometimes you will be required to decrease on a purl row using purl two together (p2tog). This is done by putting the right hand needle through the first stitch as normal when making a purl, then continuing on to put it through the next stitch as well. Then wrap the yarn around and ...
Row 6 (wrong side): purl 1, * purl 1, yarn over, purl 2 together, purl 1, purl 2 together through the back loop, yarn over, purl 2*. Repeat from * to * until the end of the row. Row 7 (right side): knit 1. * Knit 2, yarn over. Slip 2 stitches together, knitwise, fr...
So if you are knitting in stocking stitch (stockinette) the last row you work is a purl row so that you are ready to knit the next row. Is the cast on row the right side? When you cast on stitches with the cable cast on method, the stitches are on the left needle at the ...
Short-row shaping is literally knitting a “short,” or partial, row before turning and working back in the other direction. It allows you to knit three-dimensional shapes or curved edges. I use it in these patterns to shape necklines and hemlines. There
How to Knit Your First Sock is aimed at someone who would love to knit socks but has never tried them before. However, I assumed that you are not knitting a sock as your very first knitting project and know how to increase, decrease, slip a stitch, knit and purl. There isn’t much...
Tip: these markers should be a different colour from the beginning of round marker to avoid confusion. What a k2tog looks like in the purl section: knitting 2 stitches together –see k2tog in greater detail in this tutorial. What a k2tog looks like in the knit section: ...
Get started with two-color brioche using this tutorial. Learn how to set up and continue working brioche for your knitting projects.
Step 1 If you are knitting along on the RS and the directions now say w&t for a short row2 Step 2 Don’t wrap and turn, but instead simply turn your work3 Step 3 And do a yarn-over onto the right needle4 Step 4 And now purl back. Can you see that the third st in...