Knitting: Stockinette

Video Transcript

"So when you work your knit stitches and your pearl stitches together in the way they are most commonly associated it is called stockinette. Stockinette is where you knit one row which in this case is our public side or the side that is the right side and then when you turn it around you are going to work the purl side which is the bumpy side. So that is when you are going to go into your needle from back to front and you'll work backwards that way and this is called stockinette stitch. Stockinette is probably the most common stitch that there is and it is just knit a row purl a row. Now another way you can work with stockinette is what is called reverse stockinette which is basically the same way of handling your stitches except that your purl side is your right side and your knit side is your wrong side so if we were going to shift this particular swatch to the reverse stockinette here we are facing our knit side, our right side but we would purl across instead of knitting across. That would flip it to be a reverse stockinette. So I'm doing the same thing but on the reverse side and sometimes the pattern will call for reverse stockinette as a design idea. Sometimes it looks really good in novelty yarns or bumpy yarns so then you're purling on what would be your right side and knitting on what will now be your wrong side and that will change it over. So then you would have purls running across and from here up it would be all the purl stitch."