Purling Two Stitches Together (p2tog)
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Learning a few decreases in knitting helps to expand your skills and helps in being able to knit all kinds of knitting projects. Jen Lucas shows you a common single decrease in this video by demonstrating the purl two stitches together (p2tog) decrease.
PURL TWO STITCHES TOGETHER (P2TOG)
This decrease is commonly worked on the wrong side of your work, where you would be working the purl stitch. That’s not always the case though; sometimes you’ll use it on the right side of your work if you are purling stitches on the right side. You might also find p2tog stitches used in many different decorative stitch patterns. In the video, Jen specifically demonstrates the purl two together decrease when worked on the wrong side of the fabric, when working in Stockinette stitch.
When looking at the p2tog decrease on the purl side, or Wrong Side, of the fabric, it’s not that easy to identify where the decrease is placed, as it blends in with the other purl stitches. When you look at the fabric from knit side, or Right Side, you can easily see where the decreases are placed. The p2tog stitch leans to the right when you are looking at it from the right side of the fabric in the example in the video.
The p2tog decrease is worked with the yarn to the front. Insert the right-hand needle into the next two stitches on the left-hand needle purlwise. Purl these two stitches together as if they are one. Now you have decreased by a single stitch, as you’ve taken two stitches and turned it into a single stitch.
Hi, I'm Jen Lucas for "The Knitting Circle". In this video I'm going to show you how to purl two stitches together. This particular purl wise decrease is super simple to work, instead of doing a regular purl stitch we're just going to purl two stitches together. It's as easy as that. So let's go ahead and get started. A purl two together stitch is typically worked on the wrong side of your fabric. That's not always the case, it's sometimes used in different decorative stitches or in different applications. But most often you're going to see it worked on the wrong side of your fabric. So in this particular swatch I have worked purl two togethers on every wrong side row and you can sort of see here where I've done them. But it really doesn't look like much. Where you really can see them is if I flip over to the right side of my work, you can see here is where I created my purl two togethers on the wrong side. So a purl to together stitch creates a right leaning decrease when you looking at the right side of your work. So let's go ahead and do a purl two together stitch. This particular stitch is pretty easy because it's just as it sounds, we're going to purl two stitches together. So I have my yarn at the front of my work cause I'm going to purl and all I'm going to do is I'm going to insert my right needle into the next two stitches as if I'm going to purl and then I'm going to just purl, the two stitches together. I'm just gonna do a regular purl stitch but just through these two stitches, wrap the yarn around and pull a loop through. So here I've taken two stitches and made one. Again to purl two together, gonna insert my right hand needle into the next two stitches as if to purl and then just purl those two stitches together and that's it and again, you can see that from here, it doesn't really look like much, but again, if we look at it from the right side you'll be able to see these nice neat decreases in your work. As you can see, it's a super simple decrease. It's the easiest of the purl wise decreases and you can use it in a wide variety of projects particularly when you need to shape something like a sweater or a hat or something like that. I'm Jen Lucas for "The Knitting Circle", I hope you enjoyed this video. Be sure to take a look around the website and check out all our other video content. I'll see you back here again real soon.
How about some left hand techniques, especially increases and decreases and there directions they form