This day, we worked on a cowl that teaches the only two stitches you need to know for knitting: knit and purl stitches. “This is what we do with our beginning knitters,” Barrett explains.

This helps create tighter purl stitches that match the size of your knit stitches. Experiment with Different Purl Methods: ...

"Think of when you cut the sleeves off a T-shirt, and it curls up; that usually means it's made with only knit stitches. Purls just curl in the other direction." However, when knits and purls are ...

it went knit-one purl-one stitch by stitch in the same row. I blamed it on the morphine. John P. Whitelaw lived in Nanaimo, B.C., this essay was submitted by his wife, Christine Whitelaw.