This post is to provide a photo tutorial on how to work the wrap and turn technique. In fact I created this tutorial specifically for the wrap and turn instructions for my patterns:
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Where can you find these patterns?
You can find these patterns in any of the following places:
Etsy: Mindy’s Knit Monster Pants Pattern
Mindy’s Knit Elf Pants Pattern
Ravelry: Mindy’s Knit Monster Pants Pattern
Mindy’s Knit Elf Pants Pattern
Lovecrafts: Mindy’s Knit Monster Pants Pattern
Mindy’s Knit Elf Pants Pattern
How to work a Wrap and Turn Photo Tutorial
Knit the specified number of stitches.
Slip the next at purl wise from left to right
Here is what the completed slipped stitch looks like.
Bring the working yarn from back to front between the slipped stitch and the next stitch not worked yet.
Next slip the previously slipped stitch back from the right needle to the left needle.
Pictured here is what your work will look like after the 2nd completed slipped stitch.
Time to turn your work…
Turn your work and bring the working yarn to the front in order to be able to properly work purl sts back across the specified number of times in the pattern.
Continue working your wraps and turns according to the pattern. When you are done you will need to begin working the wrapped sts together with the sts they are wrapped around. Below is a pic of what the wrapped sts look like from the front of your work.
Purl back across the row until you come to the 1st wrapped stitch, as pictured here.
Working your wrap and stitch together
To work your wrap and stitch together, lift the back loop of the wrap onto the left needle with the right needle.
Pictured here showing what the right needle placing the wrap onto the left needle looks like.
This is what the left needle looks like when the wrap is placed in front of the stitch it was just wrapped around.
Purl the st and the wrap together.
Here is what the wrap looks like on the wrong side of the work after you’ve stitched the 2 stitches together. It is normal for it to look a little loose and not snug to your work.
Here is another picture of how the wrap will look a little loose on the wrong side.
Keep working each wrap
Continue working each wrap as it appears. When you finish purling across you must W & T again to work back across the other half of your short rows and work the other wraps in. Sl your BOR marker and the next st purl wise from left to right.
Bring the working yarn from back to front as pictured below.
Sl the st and the BOR marker back to the right needle and prepare to knit back across.
A little tip to avoid a hole
In order to try and reduce a possible hole in your work here, be sure to trap the MC with the yarn you are working with before knitting back across.
Knit across every stitch until you come to the first wrapped st which will look as pictured below.
Insert the right needle through the front part of the wrap.
Continue to then insert your right needle through the stitch it’s wrapped around.
Knit these 2 sts together.
Knit the remaining wraps the same way until you reach the last wrapped st. Do not work this wrap yet, instead sl that same st from left to right and make a 2nd wrap.
Here is a picture of what the st looks like with both wraps around it.
This is a pic of how to work that double wrap together when you reach the part of the pattern of the first row of MC after working the mouth. Insert your right needle through both wraps and the st they are wrapped around and knit all 3 together.
Here is another pic showing all 3 sts on needle before stitching them together.
Finally, don’t forget to knit that last wrap together with the st that it’s wrapped around at the end of the round.
Please let me know if you have any questions or comments about this tutorial.
Happy Stitchings!
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~Mindy~
