PURL

To make purl stitches, just reverse the action of plain knit stitches.

1 Holding the needle with all the stitches on in your left hand, and ensuring that the yarn is at the front of your work, insert the right-hand needle down through the front loop of your first stitch as shown.

2 Wind the yarn around the tip of the right-hand needle from right to left, in an anti-clockwise motion, constantly keeping a slight tension on the yarn.

3 Now slip the right-hand needle back through the stitch, ensuring that you catch the yarn that you’ve already wound around the needle. This creates a stitch on your right-hand needle.

4 Pushing the point of the right-hand needle further through the stitch you’ve just created, pull the original loop up and off the left-hand needle. That’s one purl stitch! Repeat points 1– 4 across the row.