so i've recently picked up knitting and the thing that I mess up the most is dropping stitches when purling. This website gives the following instructions for picking up the stitch:
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To retrieve a dropped purl stitch, insert the right needle through the loop, and under the strand.
Insert left needle from front to back, and lift stitch gently over strand.
The strand thusbecomes a stitch facing the wrong way.
Slip needle into loop and slip stitch to correct position for purling.
posted by geoff on 2/20/2005 09:46:00 AM
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