Knit 1 Below

Hi guys and welcome to The Knitting Circle. I'm Mary Beth Temple and in this video we're going to learn the Knit One Below stitch. It's just as easy as it sounds and it has a lot of uses in a lot of different texture stitches. So let's take a look. We're going to knit up to where we want the Knit One Below stitch to happen. I'm going to do it after I knit three stitches. We're not doing a pattern right now. I'm just trying to show you the actual stitch. So for Knit One Below, instead of working in the front leg of the stitch like you normally would. You are inserting your needle point into the loop below the stitch that is on your needle. You're going to knit, and then pull the whole ballgame off the left hand needle if you're right-handed, and right hand needle if you're left-handed. Let's see that again. There's a regular Knit stitch. I'm going to knit one below. It is important that you don't just grab the leg and miss the top guy. You have to get in the center of the loop below so that when you finish the stitch. See how I've got two loops right there? You want to make sure when you finish the stitch, that both stitches are caught on the stitch you've just made. And you saw me, I just pulled that out by hand so that you can see both of them, but I'm not going to do that as I'm knitting. I'm just going to let the stitch even itself out as I go. Knit, knit one below. Knit, knit one below, et cetera. So you use the Knit One Below in texture stitches like Fisherman Rib. And you can also use it to adjust colors in multicolored yarn. So once again, not the stitch that's on the needle but through the loop of the stitch below. I'm trying to show it to you all different ways. Yarn over, finish your stitch, and push it off the needle. That's all there is to that. So thank you so much for joining me here for that interesting video on Knit One Below. Once again, I'm Mary Beth Temple for The Knitting Circle. I look forward to seeing you again here real soon, buh-bye.