How to knit
Purl
How to Knit the Continental Purl
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in this episode of be hips knitting I'm
going to demonstrate how to knit the
Continental purl my name is Brittany and
I'll be your guide throughout this
tutorial you might use the Continental
purl if you are more comfortable with
crocheting and holding the yarn in your
non-dominant hand let's see just how to
do the Continental purl many of us find
that holding the yarn in our
non-dominant hand is the most
comfortable when we're knitting
especially if we were crochet errs
before we became knitters that's
something that I started doing when I
first learned to knit I had already
learned to crochet first so I was always
more comfortable holding the yarn in my
non-dominant hand working knit stitches
this in this continental style is pretty
simple it's actually very
straightforward but what about pearls
pearls are the opposite of the knit
stitch and I just really couldn't wrap
my brain around how we were supposed to
hold the yarn in our non-dominant hand
and make this purl work so what I have
here is just a little swatch to
demonstrate how to do the Continental
pearl you're going to gather up your
yarn just like normal and you want to
have your working yarn coming out the
front of your work if you allow your
yarn to drape over your index finger
here you want to free up your middle
finger because you're going to use this
to push down on the working yarn just
like this before we can insert our
needle into the stitch that we want to
work we have to pull the working yarn
out of the way so we'll do that with our
left hand we'll just pull it down and
out of the way insert our needle then
release push it back down and finish the
stitch now let's do that one more time
you'll push your working yarn out of the
way in the stitch wrap it around
and you can see I just kind of help push
the stitch off of my needle with my
thumb
now since my little swatch has a garter
stitch border on each side let's just
quickly look at how to do the
Continental knit stitch so I'm holding
the yarn to the back of my work
and that's how you do the Continental
purl stitch
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