purl stitch

The other important rule is every wrong side row is worked in purl stitch. This plain row gives the knitter time to relax and helps you easily spot an error in the knitting from the previous row, enabling you to fix it before you've gone too far.

Purl the back stitch, and move needle in a figure-8 to bring new stitch and right needle out of the purl stitch and out through the front stitch from back to front, taking the original stitches off the needles.

If the next stitch on the left needle is a purl stitch, then work M1.

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When purling a stitch to the left of a knit stitch, insert your needle into the stitch purlwise as usual, but when making the purl stitch, wrap the yarn around the needle in the opposite direction.

Leaving a tail as for long-tail cast-on, make a slipknot on right needle (counts as the first purl stitch).

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