Slip As If To Knit vs. Slip as if to Purl

Hi everyone, I'm Jen Lucas for the knitting circle. In this video, I want to talk a little bit about slipping stitches. In particular, I want to take a look at, slipping as if to purl and slipping as if to knit. When you're slipping stitches, you can slip them either to purl or to knit and you use them in different applications and they give you a different look in your knitting. So let's go ahead and take a look at slipping stitches. Sometimes in the knitting pattern, you're gonna need to slip stitches. Sometimes you need to slip them as if to knit and sometimes you need to slip them as if to purl. So there's a few little things to remember, if it's a slip, slip knit, which is a single decrease where we're going to slip as if to knit, slip as if to knit, bring the stitches back and knit them together through the back loop. A slip slip knit. That is typically worked by slipping the stitches as if to knit. That's a common knitting convention that is just standard. So if you're doing an SSK, it's slip as if to knit. a pattern may also tell you whether you need to slip as if to knit or slip as if to purl. However, if a pattern doesn't say, if it just says, slip stitch, slip one, that means slip as if to purl. So you're always gonna slip as if to purl unless a pattern tells you otherwise. And again, the exception is the slip slip knit because we're always slipping as if to knit when we do that decrease. So I just quickly wanted to show you the difference between the two for when you come to it in a knitting pattern. So slip as if to purl, we're just taking the stitch from the left needle to the right needle. We're just inserting it and bringing it over. That's it. Again, slip as if to purl, we're just slipping the stitch. You will leave the yarn wherever the pattern tells you to. Just gonna slip these back. And this particular swatch I had been knitting. So if the pattern didn't say, I'm just going to leave the yarn where it is, which is in the back because I had been working knit stitches. And again, slip as if to purl. I'm slipping that stitches, if I'm gonna purl it but I'm just slipping it to the right needle. So that's slip as if to purl. Just gonna ahead and knit a stitch here just to get away from those little slip stitches. And then if a pattern tells you to slip as if to knit, you're going to insert your needle. Like you're gonna knit and then take it off the needle, to the right hand needle and you can see here that what we did is we changed the direction of that stitch. So to go back, you can see that your stitches are oriented on your needle this way. You have this leg in the front here, the first leg in the front and then the second one is coming around the needle in the back. So when we slip as if to knit, we're going through that stitch and slipping it to our right needle. And now you can see that we have changed the orientation of the stitch. And so again, in certain applications, some decorative stitch patterns, you may need to do that. So, the pattern will tell you, again, slip as if to knit. we're gonna insert our right hand needle into that stitch as if we're going to knit and then slip it off. I'm just gonna go ahead and knit another stitch here. So here we have our slips as if to knit and then over here we have our slip as if to purls. And so you can see our slip as if to knits. We changed the direction of our stitch. and there are some slip stitch basics for you. And that's it. As you can see, slipping stitches is super easy but it's also super important to know whether you need to slip as if to knit or slip as if to purl in your project. I'm Jen Lucas for the Knitting Circle. I hope that you enjoyed this video and I'll see you back here again very soon.