Knitting Help - Purl 1 below - P1b

[music] I'm going to demonstrate for you the purl 1 below stitch, which is usually abbreviated p1b. and i know the first question will be - when do i want to use this stitch? and my answer is - wait for someone to call for it in a pattern. that's why i made this video. if you run into this stitch in a pattern, i'll show you how to work it because it's kind of a weird one. anytime you have modifications on purl stitches, it kind of blows peoples minds on how to work them. now this is a straight up purl 1 below. this can be worked as an increase, as a purl 1 below and purling one on the needle. i am just going to show you the purl 1 below stitch here. let's go ahead and take a look at the sample that i knit. now this is funny. i did not intend to make a fancy stitch combo. i just wanted to demonstrate purl 1 below, but i came up with this really cool effect! [laughs] i do know how it happened, but it wasn't my intention! these, this is regular stockinette here. this is purl 1 below, this is a plain knit stitch, this is purl 1 below, and back to regular stockinette. and then i just purled all of the stitches on the back of the work. but the purl 1 below stitches are, ah, you see a double loop going through each one, and then a wider space. if you want to play around with this and include it in something you're designing and working on, it's a good idea, kind of weird things happen with it. this is not an increase, this is just straight purl one below, then purling on the wrong side. and here it is in straight stockinette. you really can't see that anything different happened, this is all purl one below. other than because i purled one below, the garter stitch from the border actually got pulled up, this way. isn't that funny? okay, i'm going to purl up to a spot where i can show you how to do this. now when we look at the stitch to do the purl 1 below, we are going to ignore what's on the needle here. that loop does not matter. it's the stitch below. and whether you're looking at it from this purl side or the knit side, the knit side is a bit more familiar, because we are used to seeing knit stitches as a V. and you see it here like that. but on the purl side it is still a V, it just has this loop across the front. so my yarn is in front so that i can purl, i'm going to take my right needle, from the back, and go through that V. let me show you that again. i have this really stretched out, both the yarns, so you can really see where this goes. right needle from the back, through that V. wrap it like a normal purl stitch and pull it through, then pull that old stitch off the left needle. again. right needle, from the back, through the V. wrap the needle and pull it through like a normal purl stitch. then pull the old purl stitch off the left needle. now the way this can be worked as an increase, the pattern will tell you whether it's going to be an increase or not. if it's not an increase, do it just the way i showed you. the pattern might say, p1b, then p1, same stitch, something like that. so you'll do a normal p1b, and then also purl through the stitch that's on the needle. you see, you've actually increased by one there. but that is different than a straight-up purl 1 below. that's it. purl 1 below, p1b. [whooshing sounds] [music]