How to Purl

Purling
After casting on the correct number of stitches (as called for by your pattern):

Step 1:
Hold the needle with the cast on stitches in your left hand. Insert the right needle through the first stitch on the left needle (the first stitch is the stitch closest to the end of the needle) making sure the working yarn (the yarn coming from the yarn ball) is held to the front of the needles. Note: the right needle is inserted through the front of the stitch loop and in front of the left needle.

Step 2:
Wind the working yarn (yarn coming from yarn ball) around the right needle from right to left.

Step 3:
Using your right hand, bring the right needle with the loop of yarn through the stitch. This forms a new stitch on the right needle.

Step 4:
Slip the original stitch off the left needle and tighten the new stitch on the right needle by pulling on the working yarn.

Repeat Steps 1 thru 4 until all of the stitches on the left needle have been transferred to the right needle. This completes Row 1 of knitting.

To begin Row 2, turn the work and transfer the needle with the stitches on it to the left hand and continue working Steps 1 thru 4.

Reading Your Purl Stitches
The picture illustrates purl stitches. Each individual purl stitch in your work should look like the stitch outlined in blue.

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