Hi, Everyone!
My name is Myra, in Colorado Springs. I am a new knitter, have only made 3 of the same type of scarf with just alternating knits and purls. I am learning different stitches and making a sampler scarf just to learn new stuff.
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this site! I just learned how to cast on by watching the video!
I am now working on a Sugar Cube block.
My question: How do I knit a K stitch and purl a P stitch?
I am SUCH a visual person, is there a video on here showing how, I haven’t found it yet!?
Thank you so much for your help! Now that I have found you all I will be up all night catching up on posts!
Take good care!
~Myra 
You found the Cast on video - there’s some on knits and purls too. Move your mouse over View Videos and click on Knit and Purl. And in the Tips section, it shows more knitting and purling under Basic Stitches.
Here’s more help:
[B] The [COLOR=Red]most important thing[/COLOR] you can learn is what the stitches look like. It will help you for the rest of your knitting career.[/B]
Each stitch has two sides. One side is a knit stitch the other is a purl. So if you knit two stitches and turn your work you’ll see two purl stitches.
To rib you knit the knit stitches and purl the purl stitches as they face you. As they face you just means when the work is in your left hand and you are ready to start knitting again. If you ended with two purls when you turn your work you’ll see two knit stitches so you knit them.
If you were to knit the purls and purl the knits you would get seed stitch.
Here is a sample of what the stitches look like.
To add a little to Jan’s explanation of sts - when you knit all the sts on all the rows, you get garter stitch and you can also purl all the sts on all the rows to make garter stitch too. When you knit all the sts on one row and purl all of them on the next row, and keep alternating, you get stockinette st.
Thank you SO much, Suzeeq and Jan. I am so glad you are here! I DO know how to just knit a stitch and purl a stitch. But I don’t know how to “knit a knit” and “purl a purl” as the instructions say in the Sugar Cube directions. Jan you are SOOOO right about recognizing stitches. The knits are the little 'v’s and the purls are the little bumps, right? Looking at the picture Jan postes as an example, there are 4 knits, 4 purls and 4 knits, is that correct?? I just practiced and practiced rows and rows of knits and purls to try to familiarize myself with each stitch. I just don’t know how to knit a knit/purl a purl. How do you come at the stitch, where do you put the working yarn, where do you pull it through? I know it is going to be so simple, but I just can’t see it in my little head!
Again…many thanks for your help!! Hope ya’ll have a great little Sunday!!
Take good care!
~Myra in CO Springs
It’s not that complicated, you’re can identify a knit st and a purl st. So when you see that the next st is a V, or knit, you knit it; when the next one is a bump, or purl, you purl it, just as you would if you did a whole row of knits or purls. Yarn in back for knits, move to the front for purls. Move the yarn between the needles instead of over them though. It’s just written that way because it’s easier to write than to specify the exact number of knits or purls on a row which may change from row to row.
Thank you so much for the picture and the explanations! It made this VERY clear! Thanks!