Basic Bind Off: Purlwise

Hi everyone. I'm Jen Lucas from The Knitting Circle. In this lesson let's take a look at working a purlwise bind off. This particular bind off might be useful if you are binding off on the wrong side of stockinette stitch, but you can also use it for decorative purposes. It has lots of great places in your knitting.

It's a great bind off to have in your bag of knitting tricks. And I'd love to show you how to do it. Let's get started. Let's talk about a purlwise bind off. So traditionally, when you're doing a bind off you're binding off knit wise on the right side where you're knitting a stitch, knitting a second stitch and then passing a stitch over, and all the stitches that you're working, your knitting and then passing them over.

But sometimes you might want a purlwise bind off. And you might do this if your last row was a right side, and now you want to bind off on the wrong side. You could also do a purlwise bind off to make your bind off, be more decorative. There's lots of reasons that you might use a purlwise bind off. But it's very simple and it's just like a traditional knit wise bind off, except we're going to be purling the stitches instead of knitting them.

So here I just have my swatch and here's my bind off here. And it does pretty much look like a standard bind off. And actually if I bring in a swatch here where I've done a knit wise bind off up here, the only real difference is that I added one more row of knitting to this. So then I worked one more right side. So then I could bind off on the wrong side.

But if you look really, really closely, you'll notice the little V's of my bind off stitches are actually going in opposite directions. Very minor, little detail on that purlwise bind off. So let's go ahead and just work this purlwise bind off. So I have a swatch here where I am going to just be binding off on the wrong side of my work. I worked some stock in that stitch, so we're on the wrong side here.

So I'm just going to purl one stitch. Purl a second stitch, and then pass the first stitch over the second stitch. And that's it. So it's exactly like a knit wise bind off except we're purling. So you just purl one, and pass.

Purl one, and pass that stitch over. Again, the only difference is that we're just purling instead of knitting. So you're just going to work that all the way across to the final stitch. And then you can just snip your yarn and pull the loop through too fasten off your knitting. And you've completed the purlwise bind off.

And there you go. Isn't that super simple? We're just working a regular traditional bind off, but instead of knitting the stitches, we're purling them. It makes a great bind off perfect for lots of different projects. And I hope that you'll give it a try.

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