![]() ![]() ![]() That’s why, when knitting on flat needles, purl stitches still appear in garter stitch even though you’re not purling any stitches.īy knitting a knit stitch, you’re also creating a purl stitch (on the back). The knit and purl stitches are joined together, front and back, like Siamese twins. Like Janus, the knit and purl stitch are two distinct stitches, and yet they’re joined together as one. The god of beginnings and ends, of transitions and dualities, Janus is often depicted as having two faces. He is the god of beginnings and ends of dualities and transitions. The Roman god Janus is often depicted with two faces. The knit and the purl are two sides of the same coin! I like to think of them like the Roman god Janus. So, while the back of a knit stitch is a purl stitch, the opposite is also true: at the back of a purl stitch is a knit stitch! Turn the needle over and you’ll see a row of purl stitches. However, if you turn that knit stitch over, you’ll see that at the back, it’s. The front of a knit stitch has a flat V-shape. That brings us to the unique nature of the knit stitch.Įvery stitch has a front and a back. ![]() You might be wondering: i sn’t garter stitch just knit stitches on flat needles? Where do the purls come in? The Anatomy of a Knit Stitch Garter stitch is made up of alternating rows of knits and purls. Garter stitch lays flat and is totally reversible. Garter stitch lies flat and is totally reversible, meaning that both sides look the same. The resulting fabric is very stretchy both length-wise and width-wise. When knit flat it consists solely of the knit stitch. Garter stitch is the first stitch you’ll learn when you’re starting out with knitting. How Do You Know When to Knit and When to Purl?.Why is Garter Stitch in the Round Different?.I hope this tutorial has been helpful! If you would like to see how I use this same technique in stockinette stitch, you can see my video here where I was doing so on my Audrey’s Cardigan (video starts at duplicate stitch part). Below are the individual steps I will now work (they are the exact same as the above garter stitch version, just going in a different direction): Just like in garter stitch, the “ path of the stitch” is outlined in red above and the black arrows show you the direction in which I’ll be going. Additionally, I’ll be showing it to you going in a different direction (going in the left direction instead of the right direction – either works in duplicate stitch). It’s the exact same technique, but it looks different because of the stitch pattern. Then I just snip my end! Now let me show you show how this looks on the wrong-side of Stockinette stitch. Last photo shows how well hidden your end is now! How many stitches I “duplicate” when weaving in an end depends on the type of fiber and thickness, but typically it’s anywhere between 2-4 stitches. Step 6: You’ll thread yarn through both stitches and then insert needle downwards just as you did in step 2 and 3.Step 5: You’ll then continue to next stitch, inserting needle upwards into next bottom loop and loop above as you did in Step 1.Step 4: Then thread yarn through both stitches.Step 3: Then insert needle downwards, into next loop and then back into same bottom loop as Step 1.Step 2: Then thread yarn through both stitches. ![]()
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