How to work purl stitches
The opposite of the knit stitch is the purl stitch. If you alternately make 1 row knit and 1 row purl it is called stokingnette stitch or stocking stitch.
This is how to work purl stitches:
Figure 1: Hold the needle with the stitches in your left hand. Place the yarn over the needle and your left index finger and keep the yarn in place in the palm of your hand using the other fingers. Make sure that the yarn is in front.
Figure 2: Insert the right hand needle into the back of the first stitch (from left to right) on the left hand needle to make a new purl stitch – remember to keep the yarn strand in the front.
Figure 3: Place the yarn from the index finger over the right hand needle.
Figure 4: Pull the yarn through the loop with the tip of the right hand needle.
Figure 5: You now have the new stitch on the right hand needle, but the old stitch is still on the left hand needle.
Figure 6: Slide the old stitch off the left hand needle and pull lightly on the yarn strand behind the new stitch.
Figure 7: Continue like this until you have worked all stitches from the left hand needle, all the new stitches are on the right hand needle.
You have now completed 1 row with purl stitches.