I find it strange that so many knitters have an aversion to purling. After all, it’s almost 50% of knitting isn’t it? I was doing quite a bit of purling on a project a while back, and I found that wrapping the yarn around the thumb of my left hand (I’m a continental knitter) made things go faster. Here’s a video showing you how…
I hope this helps you, and do share if you have any other good tips on making purling pleasanter! ;)
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Found your post via twitter. LOVE THIS TIP! Normally I norweigan purl, esp for ribbing, but your technique will be much faster for longer runs of purls. Thanks for sharing this!
This is how I have always purled. Though, I do bring the yarn through my usual tension wrap and then down and under my thumb.
I put your purl on my tweets on many variataions of the purl stitch
Check it out
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donna
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I’ve never seen this kind of purl before, but it looks easy.
I’ve published a link to this post in a Norwegian forum – if you wonder why you suddenly get a lot of visitors :-)
Have a nice day.
very clever! i’m going to try it.
lovely yard, by the way. =]
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never tried on my thumb before. Will try… now!
This is how I purl! It is very fast.
What a great tip. I’ve only tried continental knitting briefly and couldn’t get on with purling, but I’ll give this a go!
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