How to Purl: Continental Style

     With the yarn in front, insert your right-hand needle into the back of the first stitch on the left-hand needle. (For instructions on how to do a basic cast on, see my post How to Knit: Continental Style)

     Wrap the yarn from the back of the right-hand needle to the front.

     Pull the yarn through the stitch.

     Pull the stitch off the left-hand needle and you have made a purl stitch!

     The purl stitch is the opposite side of the knit stitch, so if you purl several rows you will still get garter stitch.

     If you knit one row and purl the next, you will get stockinette stitch (see below). Picture one is the knit side of the work, the second picture is the purled side.