{"id":5857,"date":"2013-01-05T01:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2019-10-26T07:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T14:07:40","slug":"knitting-101-how-to-knit-the-purl-stitch-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/knitting-101-how-to-knit-the-purl-stitch-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Knitting 101: How to Knit the Purl Stitch for Beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/nsad-knitting-101-purl-stitch-cover.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/nsad-knitting-101-purl-stitch-cover-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Knitting 101: How to Knit the Purl Stitch\" title=\"Knitting 101: How to Knit the Purl Stitch\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5956\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/nsad-knitting-101-purl-stitch-cover.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video knitting tutorial will help you learn how to knit the purl stitch. The purl stitch is the second of two dominate stitch techniques in knitting. The purl stitch and the knit stitch in various combinations make up thousands of stitch patterns. <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"arve\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-xvl4v_ybs5o65d7692557633345273739\">\n<span class=\"arve-inner\">\n<span class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 510 \/ 287\">\n<span class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.274510%\"><\/span><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" data-arve=\"arve-youtube-xvl4v_ybs5o65d7692557633345273739\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xvL4v_yBs5o?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/xvL4v_yBs5o?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\"><\/iframe>\n\n<\/span>\n\n<\/span>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/newstitchaday.com\\\/knitting-101-how-to-knit-the-purl-stitch-for-beginners\\\/#arve-youtube-xvl4v_ybs5o65d7692557633345273739\",\"type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/xvL4v_yBs5o?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<section id=\"materials\">\n<h2>Materials Used in this Tutorial<\/h2>\n<p>A Pair of Knitting Needles<br>\nA Ball of Yarn<\/p>\n<section id=\"instructions\">\n<h2>Pattern Instructions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Skill:<\/strong> Beginner<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li class=\"step\">\n<div class=\"label\">Step 1<\/div>\n<p>Take your working needle and insert purlwise through the front leg of the stitch making an x with the needles &ndash; your working needle should be on top.  <\/p><\/li>\n<li class=\"step\">\n<div class=\"label\">Step 2<\/div>\n<p>Pinch the needles together and wrap working yarn around working needle going over the top and around the back and finally in between the needles. <\/p><\/li>\n<li class=\"step\">\n<div class=\"label\">Step 3<\/div>\n<p>Take your working needle and push working yarn through the loop. <\/p><\/li>\n<li class=\"step\">\n<div class=\"label\">Step 4<\/div>\n<p>Pull the stitch off of main needle and transfer onto working needle. <\/p><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/section>\n<p><em>Repeat steps 1 &ndash; 4 until you have worked every stitch on your row.<\/em><\/p>\n<section id=\"amazon-link\">\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0823006751\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=nestada-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0823006751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0823006751&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=nestada-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0823006751&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=nestada-20&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=nestada-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0823006751\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=nestada-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0823006751\">\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"description\">\n<h2>Like This Stitch?<\/h2>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0823006751\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=nestada-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0823006751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chicks with Sticks Guide to Knitting<\/a><br>\nfor more great beginner projects just like the ones on this site!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[sidebar alias=&rdquo;after-post&rdquo; ]\n<\/section><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video knitting tutorial will help you learn how to knit the purl stitch. The purl stitch is the second of two dominate stitch techniques in knitting. The purl stitch and the knit stitch in various combinations make up thousands of stitch patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,128],"tags":[292],"stitch-attributes":[293],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5857"},{"taxonomy":"stitch-attributes","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstitchaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stitch-attributes?post=5857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}