Things You'll Need:
- Wool yarn
- 2 knitting needles, any size
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Step 1
Hold one knitting needle in each hand. The left hand should hold the needle with the cast-on stitches. The left hand should hold the empty needle. The natural way to hold knitting needles is to keep the hands high on them and hold the needles at an angle, as if making a point with them.
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Step 2
Cross the very tips of the needles with the right needle on top of the left needle.
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Step 3
Grab hold on the first cast-on knit stitch on the left-hand needle with the tip of the right-hand needle.
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Step 4
Hold onto the loose yarn with the free fingers from your left hand. Keep the loose yarn in front of both of the needles.
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Step 5
Use the right hand to wrap the loose yarn around the tip of the empty needle. Wrap the yarn counterclockwise around the needle. Keep the yarn in front of the needles still.
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Step 6
Bring the right-hand needle very slowly towards your body keeping the yarn on it the whole time. Move slowly so you don't loose the yarn. With practice these moves become, fluid, fast and natural.
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Step 7
Slip the loop onto the tip of the left-hand needle. This is the first completed purl stitch. Repeat the previous steps until an entire row is complete.
