How to Work Reverse Stockinette Stitch

Hi, everyone. I'm Jen Lucas for The Knitting Circle. In this video, let's explore working reverse stockinette stitch in rows. Reverse stockinette stitch is, you guessed it, the reverse of stockinette stitch. Traditional stockinette stitch is worked by working knit stitches on the right side of your work and purl stitches on the wrong side of your work. Well, in reverse stockinette stitch we're going to work purl stitches on the right side of our work and knit stitches on the wrong side of our work. So, let's go ahead and get started. Reverse stockinette stitch is created by purling the stitches on the right side of your work and then knitting the stitches on the wrong side of your work. So, it's the exact reverse of stockinette stitch. So, here's my swatch here. And this would be reverse stockinette stitch here where I'm showing what's called the purl bumps. This would go to the right side of my work. So, the wrong side of my work, you can see it looks just like regular old stockinette stitch but this side is going to be the public or right side of our work. So, to do reverse stockinette, we're going to purl all the stitches on the right side. So, however you purl, whether it's English or Continental, we're going to purl all the stitches. I'm just going to go ahead and purl across this little row here. What's nice about this is you don't have to worry about any other special stitches that you have to do. It's just purls all the way across and you can see that we're creating those little purl bumps there. So, I'm just going to go ahead and finish this little row. And you'll notice when I get to the end of this row and I am getting a little bit of curling going on here. So, just like stockinette stitch, reverse stockinette stitch does have that tendency to curl, as well. And any of your knitting patterns will account for that. Sometimes this will end up just being a seam, anyway. Sometimes there'll be some sort of little edging of maybe, garter stitch or something like that along the edge to sort of help with that curling and same thing at the bottom, it has an natural tendency to curl, just like regular stockinette stitch. So, now we've worked the purl stitches, which were the right side of our work. So, we're going to go ahead and flip. This is now the wrong side of our work because we're working reverse stockinette stitch and on the wrong side of reverse stockinette stitch, we're going to just knit all of these stitches. So, reverse stockinette stitch is just as easy as regular stockinette stitch. Just finish off these last few. Flip it back to the right side. There's reverse stockinette stitch. And there you go, that's reverse stockinette stitch. I love using this much like I would use garter stitch. I think that it's really great for when you're using a variegated yarn or when you want a little extra texture in your knitting project. I'm Jen Lucas for The Knitting Circle. I hope that you enjoyed this video and I'll see you back here again, real soon.