How do you tell whether you have been doing knitting or purl when you start in the middle of the row?

Answer 1

follow the pattern and knit the amount of stitches stated, then turn your needles and knitting completely around so the side that was facing you is now facing away from you carry your wool over the needles to the other side of your work as you do it, you are now about to knit across the stitches you have just knitted..........it makes one side longer than the other

Answer 2

Just a personal tip:

When I am alternating rows of knitting and purling, I mark my needles with a K and P in permanent marker and put a piece of tape around the letter (it will wear off quickly without the tape). Otherwise, you pretty well just have to do a stitch and see if it laying the right way.

Tghis is a very easy observation to make, but next to impossible to write. I would suggest going to a YARN shop with your work, and asking a clerk. No labelling is needed.

It's all in the appearance of the stitches as they face you.

Answer:

Carefully examine the fabric in the area where you stopped. If the stitches look like the letter "V", then you are viewing knit stitches. If they look like dashes ("-") then you are viewing purls.

Alternately, look at the very last stitch knit and examine the base of it carefully. There will be a bar going across the stitch immediately below the needle (touching the needle). If that bar is on the side facing you, you are looking at a purl stitch. If it is on the side facing away from you, you are looking at a knit stitch. (Remember that stitches already knit go in the right hand, and stitches yet to be knit go in the left hand, for right handed knitters).

Answer 3

after you've casted on the howevr many stitches you want take the hole of the stitch on the end of your needle and stick your other needle in the hole so know it goes around both needles. make sure that the needle with all the stitches on it is behind the other. you will do this for every knit for the rest of the row. take the yarn that is with the ball of yarn. wrap it from the back through the needles towards u. it help now if u wrap the yarn around ur 2 fingers about twice. take the needle with the new stitch on it and take it under the loop of the other one and pull it off. repeat till the end of the row. i realize that this iz confuzing. my advice is get a beginner knitting book that will teach you and pics help. that's what i have. i may be able to get you a better explaination if u email me at d.girl10@Yahoo.com.

Answer 4

In the same way that you pick up and purl stitches at the end of a row.

Figure out how many stitches need to be picked up, and find where each stitch will have to be picked up in order for the stitches to be evenly spaced.

Now, with the yarn at the front of the work, insert the right-hand needle downward into the material where the first picked-up stitch should go. Wrap the yarn as if purling the stitch, and pull the yarn through the material as if to purlto create an extra stitch on the right-hand needle. Repeatthis in the place where the second picked-up stitch should go, and just keep repeating the process until you have the correct number of stitches picked up.

Answer 5

It is important to keep track of which side of the work your yarn should be held on before making each stitch. For a knit stitch, the yarn is held at the back, and for a purl stitch the yarn is held at the front. Before you switch from one to the other, move the yarn between the needles (and between the stitch just finished and the one to be done next) to come to the front (or back) before inserting the needle into the next stitch to purl (or knit).

Answer 6

Purl is almost knitting in opposite, because you do a very similar stitch but the other way, for example you insert the needle from top to bottom instead of the other way around. Before you knit you need to cast on, then you hold the cast on stitches on the needle in you left hand, and the empty needle and wool in your right hand. Insert the right needle into the first stitch from bottom to top, right to left, making sure it goes behind the left needle. You should now be holding the needles in an X shape with the left needle in front of the right needle and the working yarn beside both of them. Make sure you don't get the working yarn mixed up with the end that you discarded while casting on. You then wrap the wool around the back needle and then in between the needles. Bring the back needle to the front by taking it behind the other original cast on stitch, scrape it against the left needle on the whole way to stop from losing the new stitch. Then take the new stitch up and off the left needle. You repeat this until you have finished the row.

To purl, you insert the right needle into the stitch from top to bottom, right to left, the right needle should go in front of the left. You should now be holding the needle in an X shape with the right needle in front of the left needle and the working yarn in front of both needles. Then you wrap the yarn around in between the needles and back around the front needle. Slip the front needle around to the back and lift the new stitch up and off the left needle. You should now have one new stitch on the right needle.