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Why Do We Purl?

Posted May 13, 2008 * Comments(0)

Every so often, as I’m teaching a new knitter, the question comes up:
 

What is the point of purling?  Why don’t we just ‘knit’ all the time?

This is actually a really, really good question, if you think about it for a minute.  Why DO we bother with purling?
After all, a ’stitch’ is just a loop pulled [...]