PURL STITCH

The purl stitch is basically the reverse of the knit stitch. Hold the needle with the stitches on in your left hand, with the loose yarn at the front of your work.

Insert the right-hand needle from right to left into the front of the first stitch on the lefthand needle (see Diagram 1).

Wind the yarn from right to left over the point of the righthand needle (see Diagram 2).

Draw the yarn through the stitch to form a new stitch on the right-hand needle. Slip the original stitch off the left-hand needle, keeping the new stitch on the right-hand needle. To purl a row, repeat these steps until all the stitches have been transferred from the left-hand needle to the righthand needle. Turn your work, transferring the needle with the stitches on into your left hand to work the next row.