Another basic stitch that is similar to knit is called "purl"
1. With the stitches on your left needle, pull the yarn so it hangs in front of your work instead of behind as it usually does. Insert the right needle into the first loop from back to front. [see diagram 12]
2. Wrap yarn around right needle counter-clockwise.
3. Pull the yarn on the right needle through the loop and behind the left needle. [see diagram 13]
4. Slide the loop off the left needle.
To make a scarf, you can continue the rows knitting the whole way, or purling the whole way, OR you can do a fancy stitch! There are many other stitches that are made by doing a combination of knit and purl stitches, either alternating between rows of stitches or between stitches themselves. Reading these patterns is simple:
k = knit stitch
p = purl stitch
the number means the number of times you do that stitch
two by two rib:
row 1- k2, p2
repeat this row throughout
seed stitch:
row 1- k1, p1
row 2- p1, k1
You can finish your scarf by "binding off", which ties off all the stitches.
Binding Off
(the weird American way, of course)
1. Knit the first two stitches of the row. Insert the left needle into the stitch you knitted first and pull it over the second stitch and completely off the right needle. You have just bound off one stitch. [see diagram]
2. Knit one more stitch. Insert the left needle into the first stitch on the right needle and pull it over the new stitch and off the needle. [see diagram]
3. Repeat step 2 until only one stitch remains. Cut the yarn from your ball of yarn leaving about 6 inches hanging. Tie this into the last stitch on the needle to make a knot. You can tuck the knot and the remaining yarn into the stitches to hide it.
