Purl Through the Back Loop (P1 tbl)

Hi there. I'm Jen Lucas for the Knitting Circle. In this video, I'm gonna demonstrate how to purl one through the back loop. Purling through the back loop is an important skill to know because it's used in lots of different applications in knitting. So let's get started. I'm gonna show you how to purl one through the back loop. That particular stitch or direction, you'll see a lot of knitting you'll see it in different stitch patterns, and you'll also see it in some decreased stitches for example, you might have to purl two together through the back loop if you're decreasing while shaping a sweater or something like that. Here I just have a little bit of twisted rib just to show you one application of where you might use a purl one through the back loop. So twisted rib, the one I did here, I was knitting one through the back loop and then purling one through the back loop and that is creating twists in our stitches to create this nice twisted rib. So let's go ahead and look at how to do a purl one through the back loop. So, because we're purling, our yarn is at the front of our work. And when we normally do a purl stitch, we just go in this way into the front like this. To go through the back loop, the directions sort of just tell us what to do. We're gonna bring our right needle around to the back, and now we're coming through the back loop like this. So instead of going this way through the front, we're bringing our needle around and going through the back like this. Then we're just going to wrap our yarn around and purl as we normally would. And that's purling one through the back loop. This one is a little bit more awkward than a knit one through the back loop this one does take a little practice. So again, our yarn is in the front cause we're purling we're gonna take our right needle around to the back and we're going to go through the back loop this way and then purl the stitch as we normally would. Again, to the back through that back loop, purl the stitch and there you go. And so from the back to me, it's a little bit hard. You can't really tell necessarily that you've purled through the back loop, but if we come to the right side of our work, here are those stitches that I just purled through the back loop. And you can see that I have created a twist. So this one, like I said, just takes a little practice because it is a little awkward cause you have to sort of reach all the way back to get that back loop for your purl stitch. But that's purl one through the back loop. And there you go. The direction is telling you just what to do we're just purling through the back loop of the stitch. I find purling through the back loop to be a little bit more tricky than knitting through the back loop, but with a little bit of practice, you'll have it mastered in no time. I hope that you enjoyed watching this video here at the Knitting Circle, and be sure to take a look around our website and look at all the other great knitting content that we have for you. I'll see you again soon.