- [Kristen] Learning how to slip stitches.
Today we are slipping the stitches of edges
and in the middle of the row to work with patterns,
this is our, How To Knit for Complete Beginners Series,
Slip Stitches, Lesson 12.
This is the last of our lessons
and we're learning how to make our edges
this beautiful slip stitch edge.
Whereas when you've been knitting before
it may have this extra bumpy edge.
Especially when you're looking on, say a garter stitch
you used to have this outward bump on here.
Maybe you want to have it cleaned up
or your pattern calls for it.
So you're going to learn how to do that today
on Lesson 12, Slip Stitches.
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Today, of course, we're covering slip stitches.
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that outlines everything written up for you.
We're gonna be covering slipping the stitches knitwise
slipping this to just purlwise.
And of course going along the edge here.
And I'm gonna show you in a couple of different examples.
In our previous lessons
we have covered a knitting, knit and stitch here
to make garter stitch.
Also learning how to purl so we can get stockinette.
And then also our rib stitches.
So you can get those lessons down at the links below as well
and work up your own first samples
so that you can try our examples on here.
Let's jump into learning how to slip purlwise
and slip knitwise.
Slipping stitches is a very common practice in patterns
and there is a particular way that's standard
and it will just say slip the stitch.
And it won't say if you do it knitwise or purlwise.
So you may have said, well, it says slip the stitch,
but I'm very confused.
Well, let's set the stage for that.
So when we want to move one stitch
over to our working needle,
the easiest thing for us to do is just directly put
tip to tip, put our working needle
into the front of this very first stitch.
We just pop it in there,
just slide it right in and then slide it over.
It's very easy and simple and fast to do.
That actually is the standard way to do it.
You're just sliding it right over.
It's called slipping this stitch purlwise, technically
because this is the way you would approach it
if you were going to purl that stitch.
If I was going to put my yarn in the front
and put my needle in to start purling
it's setting that stitch up in that direction,
and that is why we call it purlwise.
Now, if you want to slip this stitch knitwise
generally in a pattern, it will say slip, KW or knitwise
and you were going to approach it like you're going to knit
and then simply slide it off that other needle.
That's all you're doing.
So let's put it back.
If we put it back, we have to go the opposite way
and slide it back on there.
So just practice that a few times,
slipping that stitch over.
Generally when it's slipping the stitch knitwise, this way,
the pattern is having you set it up
so that when you work on the other side
it will set up the stitch in the right way
to make whatever a stitch pattern it's supposed to.
So there are a number of reasons
for you to be slipping stitches in different ways.
These are just how you do it.
It doesn't really matter.
Just follow the directions of the pattern,
make sure and look in the notes.
And when it talks about slipping stitches
if it doesn't say knitwise or purlwise
assume it is purlwise, just like this.
Now there's one extra bonus to tell you,
if you see slipping this stitch purlwise
and it doesn't mention moving the yarn to the front or back,
just pay attention if you are on the right side
or the wrong side.
Typically if you're on the right side of your work
and it doesn't mention moving the yarn
or slip with the yarn in front or with the yarn and back
assume that you need to keep the yarn
in the back of your work.
If you are working on the wrong side
then you want to make sure to keep your yarn in the front
towards the wrong side to do that.
So if it actually tells you to slip the stitch
with the yarn in front or back in the back.
is just as you see it here, I'm slipping it purlwise here.
Then maybe it might say, so if it just says slip the stitch
and you're on the right side
then you just slip it like that and then it says
slip the stitch purlwise with yarn in front
then you can place the yarn in front
or a slip with yarn in front.
And then you slip that stitch over.
And then it might say knit the next stitch.
And so when you go to the back to knit the stitch,
what happens is, you get a little blip of yarn here.
You get an extra yarn over in front of this.
So this yarn that's held in front of this stitch
is part of the next stitch pattern that you're creating.
So that's done with a purpose.
All right, now that we've covered that, let's move on.
Let's do slipped stitches on the edge with stockinette.
So normally when you're knitting
you are working the right side with knit stitches
and then the wrong side,
you're working all the stitches in purl.
But if you want to have an edge that looks like this
where the edge is nice and pretty.
It looks like these uniform, these here on the side
and on this edge over here,
you see it's still stockinette, it's still curling
but this edge here is nice and pretty.
If you want to do that
then you will begin by looking at your stitches.
Just read your stitches.
Now you can see that this one here,
if I go straight in knitwise and start knitting that stitch
it turns and twists this yarn this way.
So let's look at my stitches I already have here.
So I've already got them set up in the right way.
So you can see if I just slip this stitch
just as if I was knitting,
but don't actually knit it in turn,
it lines all of these up and the right directional way.
So on this knit row, I'm going to leave my yarn in the back.
You can see where it's coming from here.
We're going to slip that stitch knitwise
and then knit the remaining stitches.
Okay, so let's knit these stitches
and then I'll show you what you do on the wrong side row.
Okay, let's turn over.
And we're gonna do the wrong side, which is purl.
And now you can see that my yarn looks like it's in front.
You can see that little purl bump here
and my stitches on the edge.
You can see the ones that I've previously done
already have that V.
So let's show you what you do.
So you've got the yarn in front here,
and you can see if I just look at the side here
and twist it around, you can see it's already aligning up.
So I'm just going to insert my needle purlwise
and just pop it right over like that.
And then start going into the front
of this next stitch to purl.
Now you wanna make sure and pull that first stitch tight.
And I didn't mention at the beginning of the other round
but it's the same way you want to make sure
that that very first slip stitch is nice and snug
and then knit that next is your actually this one's purled.
So we're purling that next stitch and continue on.
So these are pretty easy,
where slipping at knitwise or purlwise
on the row that corresponds that way.
So we just wanna pay attention to where our working yarn is
and the way it sets up turning that first stitch.
And then as all you need
to making this edge nice and pretty.
When I get to the end of this row, and I'm gonna show you
what that looks like.
And this last one,
knit that,
and you can see my edges are nice and pretty.
This one over here as well.
Let me show you how to make it in garter stitch
Garter stitch, you can see my original sample here
has these big bumps.
They're just an extension of the ridge
and they just stick out quite a bit.
Now, some people just really aren't a fan of that
and they just want to make theirs all with a slipped edge.
In some patterns will call for it.
They might call for only one edge to be slipped.
And so you'll just need to pay attention
to your knitting pattern.
But this is how I'm got it going right here.
So let's look at this sample right here.
I think I have about 13 stitches here.
Now I've got about 12, so it doesn't really matter.
They all end and begin the same way.
So the same thing over here,
now that we saw the stockinette sample
it's going to be a little bit clearer.
But you can see how I've got all my stitches lined up here.
I'm starting by going purlwise
and you see my yarn is in the front.
So remember what we did on that purlwise row
or that purl row before in stockinette,
I'm slipping my needle in purlwise.
And then I'm going to move my yarn to the back from here.
But I need to go in between these two stitches,
because if I go around the side,
I'm gonna create an issue there.
I'm gonna create an extra amount of yarn on the outside,
and I don't want that.
So I'm gonna tighten that up and put my yarn
in between these two, placing my yarn in the back
and then I'm going to continue by knitting my row.
So when we turn, it'll look similar,
let's just show you how this goes.
So we're knitting along.
Go to the very end.
When I knit this last stitch,
you can see how my yarn is still in the back.
So when I turn it around, the yarn is in the front.
You see that.
And so I can just follow the way my stitches are.
They're already set up
with going around the needle like this.
I just slipped that purlwise,
place my yarn in the back between the two needles
and then start knitting.
So it's the same thing either way.
So if you have to go and undo your rows
just remember this last row though,
we're gonna have to slip it back over,
but move your yarn to the front again,
and then slip that stitch.
So if you have to rip back on your work
remember that that first stitch wasn't worked.
So you don't undo that stitch.
And that is how you make the garter stitch
with slipped edges.
Now let's do a ribbing.
Okay, so we're looking at a one by one ribbing here,
and this sample on the top here
versus the one down at the bottom,
I'm showing you with the edges slipped.
So we have this slipped edge here
and this slipped edge here.
Now I'm kind of having to turn it
because I'm looking actually at the wrong side of the work.
So when I flip it over,
this is a side that you normally would see a knit edge.
And then we have the purl and the knit,
and then opposite edge it's mirrored so
this would be a knit edge on the edge here
and then that is a purl here.
So this has a nice, really clean finished-off edge.
Actually, if you look on the which is the right side here
with this nice smooth front of the long tail cast on,
or if you look in the back
it just pushes these edges in just a little bit
right up against this knit column here.
So either way, it's very pretty,
has a nice reversible look.
Let's look at if you were to do the same one by one ribbing
but without doing the slipped edges.
You can see it's a bumpier texture here on this right side.
And of course, you've got your stitches with your purls
next to it in those columns there.
But this knit column is very bumpy.
We turn it over to the wrong side
and it has just as extra bumpy edge on it.
So if you're working at a really large blanket
and you want the edges to have
this really pretty uniform edging,
this is a nice bonus for you to pick this.
Whether your pattern calls for it or not.
You can always make changes.
You have the freedom in your own knitting to kind of fly.
And so this is our last lesson
and our knitting for beginner series,
I thought this was a great one and two
just to throw in there as an extra bonus to you
so that you can test your creativity
and make some samples to try this on your own.
So let's work on slipping the stitches.
So we have got ... we're on the wrong side here
and I'm showing it starting on this side,
because if you've already casted on
with a long tail cast on
and you've turned it over to this direction,
this is where you would be starting for your first row.
And this is will be your wrong side row.
I do have an odd number of stitches on here.
There's just 13 on here.
So you can work with an even number.
This is just how I'm doing it with the odd.
So we've got our first stitch, that's going to be slipped
and we have our next column right here
that's got to be knit.
Now my column obviously has already been set up
on this edging
so you can see where all the stitches are set up.
But of course, again,
we're starting with the wrong side on purpose.
So we're going to take this yarn that's in front.
And notice that it's in front here.
And if we slip the stitch purlwise
it continues with our pattern of slipping those stitches
and making them go in a V shape column here.
So we turn that and now we need to put our yarn
in between our needles to the back
because the next stitch is a knit column.
So we're gonna go ahead and hit that.
And then you just start working your ribbing pattern
whatever yours is, it doesn't have to be one by one.
All right, go ahead and work yours all the way to the end,
pause the video as you need.
Coming to the end.
And my last stitch is going to be purl
because this is an odd number of stitches.
And turn that over, my yarn is at the back.
But now when I turn around, it's in the front here.
And if I slip my stitch purlwise,
you'll see that it will include this little purl bump here
which I don't want.
But I put my yarn towards the back
and go ahead and go in knitwise,
it sets it up in the right position
for that little column of V's, cool, right?
And now my yarn is in the back.
So now we need to put our yarn
in between these two needles to the front
because our next column is actually a purl column.
And there we go, we're gonna pull that.
And then at the next one and continue on.
And that's all there is to it.
So now you know how to slip your edges on your ribbing.
I hope that helped you today,
learning how to slip your stitches in the middle of the row
or on your edges on these different types of projects.
And I hope you've enjoyed our series so far.
This is the end of our series.
We're wrapping it up.
But we do have all those tutorials and patterns
that we've come up with for this series.
So be sure and visit our links
and blogs for that information.
I have really enjoyed this with you.
I hope you join me for many more videos to come
and all the tutorials we already have on this channel.
Be sure to check out our beginner playlist
which has even more videos in expanding your learning
and learning how to
'Stitch your love and love your stitches'.
This is Kristen signing off.
Happy Knitting!
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