Crossed purl: how to knit beautifully

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Let's consider in more detail the knitting of the purl crossed loop. The use of crossed (purl or front) loops makes it possible to significantly increase the number of patterns knitted on the knitting needles. They can also be used as the main elements. The fabric comes out a little tighter.

Materials

You will need:

• knitting needles according to the thickness of the threads.
• threads for knitting.

The following is a step-by-step instruction on how to purl a cross stitch. So let's learn.

Crossed purl: how to knit. First way

Cast on a random number of stitches for the pattern. The fabric is rarely knitted with only crossed purl stitches, usually this type of loop is used in combination with others. If you need a garter stitch option, which is made with crossed loops, it is better to knit it with facial ones, which are done like this: remove the hem, insert the right knitting needle that is currently in the loopon the edge, right to left. All the time the working thread must be in work. With the right knitting needle, you need to grab it, pull it to the front side. Slip off the stitch of the previous row as you would with normal stitches.

This is how you get a crossed purl stitch. How to knit continuously? To do this, when performing purl crossed loops, the working thread must be involved all the time. The crossed loop differs from the wrong side of the usual loop in that the right knitting needle is inserted from left to right into the loop. That is why this type of loop is also called "purl behind the back wall". This name is found in some old knitting publications. Insert the right needle into the loop from left to right. The working thread should be placed on the left needle. It must be captured, the loop pulled to the front side. Drop a loop from the previous row.

Second way

Crossed purl - how to knit it in a different way? Remove the edge loop, place the working thread in front of the left knitting needle. The right needle must be inserted from right to left into the loop in the same way as you do when knitting ordinary purl loops. Bring the working thread under the end of the right needle. Transfer to the right needle, pull to the front side.

No more difficult than an ordinary one, a crossed purl loop is created. How to knit faster? It takes a little more time to complete it, as a result, the knitting process slows down a little. Therefore, when making a smooth fabric with crossed loops, only knitone kind. Often, the front ones are crossed, and the wrong ones are ordinary (although it is possible vice versa). The pattern is dense, but is no faster than ordinary stocking.

Differences from an ordinary purl stitch

If a simple purl is knitted for the right half of the loop, then the crossed one is topsy-turvy: for the left half of the loop. It is inconvenient to knit, because the crossed ones cannot be confused with standard loops.

Due to the fact that the placement of the loop on the knitting needles is different, the option of knitting a crossed loop is not the only one, there are four of them. In addition, the capture of the thread can be carried out in different ways - counterclockwise and clockwise.

There are two options for knitting a purl crossed loop. 2 loops of the wrong crossed we knit for the front of the loop. If you take a closer look, you can find that the crossed loop does not occur in the current, but in the previous row. On the other hand, when grabbing the working thread, it will be located differently (on the right knitting needle).

Since we now know how to knit various crossed loops, we will show two examples of front surface for comparison.

One of them is connected with crossed, and the other with ordinary loops. There is a difference.

When knitting crossed purl loops, the thread is always in work. The right knitting needle should be inserted towards you on the left into the loop from left to right (it is taken by the back wall), grab the thread in the direction of the arrow and pull it to the wrong sideloop. Then, on the right knitting needle, the last loop must be left, and the loop of the previous row from the left knitting needle must be discarded.

French crossed purl knitting method: the thread is placed in front of the right knitting needle. The working thread is located to the right of the loop, the tip of the right knitting needle must be inserted into the first loop under the thread from right to left. We grab the thread on the index finger (above the knitting needle) with a movement from left to right, hold it and knit it through the first loop away from us (crossed purl using the French method corresponds to knitting an ordinary purl loop, described at the very beginning of the article). Note that knitting with crossed loops gives the fabric greater elasticity.

What is interesting about the crossed loop?

Of course, by the fact that with its help they make the required reductions in knitting. In this case, the place of decrease is almost imperceptible.

Success in your endeavors!