How to knit
1 Purl 1 Below
How to: 'Knit One Below' (K1B) & 'Purl One Below' (P1B) Stitches | Technique Tutorial for Beginners
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hello and welcome to my video all about
how to do the knit one below stitch or
k1 b4 shot later on in the video I'll
show you how to do a purl 1 below stitch
as well basically a knit one below
stitch is the same as a regular knit
stitch but it's knit through the loop
below the one you normally dip through
here is some knitting I've already done
and I've been doing the fisherman's rib
stitch which makes use of the knit one
below stitch so I've just done a purl
stitch and now I have to do a knit one
below normally what I do is hold the
left needle a bit more horizontally and
I angle the top stitch so that the front
strand is closer to the needle point and
the Strand behind the needle is further
away from the point this way I find it
easier to see the line of stitches and
it just makes the process a little bit
clearer I think so if I hold the stitch
like that you can clearly see that
there's a loop around and the needle
that's the top stitch however instead of
going through that hole that's right
next to the needle you're going to go
through the loop below that one so if
you look a bit further down you'll see a
nother loop with a hole in the center
and that's the one you're going to take
the right hand needle point through so
it's kind of what it says on the tin
really you're just knitting into the
loop below the one you normally knit
into so you take your right hand needle
from front to back through that loop and
then you do all the normal steps of a
knit stitch so you cross the right hand
needle behind wrap the working yarn
around it
and then pull that yarn back through the
stitch that you went through you just
have to be careful not to bring your
needle back through the loop that you
normally would come through right next
to the needle and as usual you push the
stitch off the top of the left hand
needle to complete the stitch
so we'll do that again I just need to do
a purl stitch in between and then we're
back to a knit one below stitch as with
any knit stitch the yarn is always at
the back of the needles again I
manipulate the stitches a little bit to
make the loops a bit clearer to me and
then I just identify the loop I would
normally go through which is currently
the top stitch and then I look at the
loop below that one I take my right hand
needle through that second loop down and
do the normal steps of a knit stitch and
then I bring the yarn back through that
same stitch to the front and then push
the stitch off the left hand needle to
complete the knit stitch okay so I'll
just do that one more time a bit quicker
if you look at the stitch you've just
made you'll see that it's now wrapped by
two stitches which is the effect you get
with the knit one below okay so now I'm
going to move on to show you how to do
the purl 1 below as always with purl
stitches the yarn is at the front of the
needles you're going to use the same
loop that you did for the knit one below
but instead you're going to pill through
it rather than knit through it so again
you identify that second loop down and
this time you're going to take the right
hand needle from the back to the front
through that stitch so you go from back
to front through that second loop down
and cross it in front then you wrap the
working yarn and then pull that yarn
back through the same stitch
and finally push that stitch off the top
of the left-hand needle
okay so I'll show you this again you
identify the second loop down and take
the right-hand needle from back to front
through that loop you cross it in front
wrap the yarn around the point and then
pull the yarn back through that same
stitch and now I'll just show you that
one more time
okay so that completes my demonstration
of the knit one below and purl 1 below
stitches I hope this video has been
helpful and thank you very much for
watching
