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KNIT STITCH
(k) (continued)
fig. 9 |
Holding both needles in this position with your left hand, wrap the yarn over your little finger, under your two middle fingers and over the forefinger of your right hand. Hold the yarn firmly, but loosely enough so that it will slide through your fingers as you knit. Return the right-hand needle to your right hand. With your right forefinger, pass the yarn under (from right to left and then over (from left to right) the tip of the right-hand needle, forming a loop on the needle (fig. 9). |
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Now draw this loop through the stitch on the left-hand needle (fig. 10). |
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Slip the original
stitch off the left-hand needle, leaving the new stitch on the right-hand
needle (fig. 11).
Keep stitches loose enough so that they do not slide when you don't want them to. Continue until you have knit all the stitches from the left-hand needle onto the right-hand needle. To start the next row, pass the needle with stitches on it to the left hand, reversing it, so that it now becomes the left-hand needle. |
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Purling is the reverse of knitting. Again, keep the stitches loose enough to slide but firm enough to work with. (I can't stress this more!) To purl, hold the needle with the stitches in your left hand with the yarn in front of your work. Insert the tip of the right-hand needle from right to left through the front loop of the first stitch on the left-hand needle (fig. 12). |
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With your right hand holding the yarn in the same manner as for knitting but in front of the needles, pass the yarn over the tip of the right-hand needle, then under it, forming a loop on the needle (fig. 13). |
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Holding the yarn firmly so that it won't slip off, draw this loop through the stitch on the left-hand needle (fig. 14). |
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Slip the original stitch off the left-hand needle, leaving the new stitch on the right-hand needle (fig. 15). |
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Insert the tip of the right-hand needle into the next stitch on the left-hand needle, as if to purl, unless otherwise directed. Slip this stitch off the left-hand needle onto the right without working it (fig. 16). |
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This is the relaxing part of knitting . This makes a finished edge and locks the stitches securely in place. Knit (or purl) two stitches. Then, with the tip of the left-hand needle, lift the first of these tow stitches over the second stitch and drop it off the tio of the right-hand needle (fig. 17). One stitch remains on the right-hand needle, and one stitch has been bound off. * Knit (or purl) the next stitch; lift the first stitch over the last stitch and off the tip of the needle. Again, one stitch remains on the right-hand needle, and another stitch has been bound off. It's that simple!! Repeat from * until the required number of stitches has been bound off. Remember that you work two stitches to bind off one stitch. If, for example, the directions read "k 6, bind off the next 4 sts, k 6...," you must knit six stitches, then knit two more stitches before starting to bind off. Bind off four times. After the four stitches have been bound off, count the last stitch remaining on the righ-hand needle as the first stitch of the next six stitches. When binding off, always knit the knitted stitches and purl the purled stitches. Be careful not to bind off too tightly or too loosely!! The tension should be the same as that of the rest of the knitting. (It sure took me many knitting projects to get this correct!!) |
