Knitting: Ribbing

Video Transcript

"Working a ribbing employs the use of your knit stitches and your purl stitch, and they give elasticity to what you're doing. Knit stitches can be any combination of the knit and purl stitch. Right now I'm doing knit 1, purl 1, and that will produce a ribbing that ends up looking only like knit stitches. And that will look like this when it's done. If you do knit 2, purl 2, it's just what it sounds like. I knit 2, my yarn comes to the front, and I purl 2, my yarn goes to the back, and I keep going in this way across the needle, that's a 2/2 rib, and that will look like this. And these were both done with the same number of stitches, it just shows you the difference in elasticity you get from different kinds of stitches. You can also do combinations like knit 3, purl 2. You can basically do anything you want, you just have to be consistent and read your stitches. So that would be knit 3, purl 2. And my yarn goes in the back for knitting, knit 3, and then the front for purling, purl 2."