Purl Stitch (English Method)

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Hold needle with stitches in your left hand. For the purl stitch, working yarn is held in the right hand and in front of the work.

Insert your right hand needle from top to bottom, into the stitch.

Use your right index finger to wrap strand of yarn (in a counter-clockwise motion) around right hand needle.

Bring yarn through stitch with right hand needle and pull loop off of left hand needle.

Continue until end of row or as pattern directs.