Showing posts with label stitches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stitches. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Knifty Knitter Purl Stitches

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1: Slide the loops on the loom to the middle.
Purl Stitch Step 1
Step 2: Lay the wrapping yarn across the front of the pegs. Purl Stitch Step 2
Step 3: Then, using the hook, go under the loop and pull the wrapping yarn up through. Purl Stitch Step 3
Step 4: Take the loop off of the peg... Purl Stitch Step 4
Step 5: ...and replace it with the loop that is pulled through. Purl Stitch Step 5
Note: This stitch will make ribbed edges for hats, handbags and many other projects.

Knifty Knitter Decrease Stitch

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1: Knit to the end of the row and then knit back 3 stitches; this will hold the stitches. Decrease Stitch Step 1
Step 2: Take the first 2 stitches off of the pegs using the hook, Decrease Stitch Step 2
Step 3: and pull the second loop through the first loop. Decrease Stitch Step 3
Step 4: Place the second loop back onto the peg that it was taken from. Decrease Stitch Step 4
Note: More than one stitch can be taken off at a time. Knit back as many stitches as you need to take off, plus one more to hold the yarn as you take the stitches off.

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Increase Stitch

INSTRUCTIONS

Step 1: Knit to the end of the row.
Step 2: Wrap the peg that you have been turning on and then wrap the next peg to make it the turning peg.
Note: You can add stitches on either end of the loom.
Also, you can add two stitches by wrapping two pegs past the peg you have been turning on, and so on.

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