Learn to Knit: Yarnovers
Learn to Knit: Yarnover Tutorial
When working yarnovers, all you are doing is wrapping the yarn around the needle to create a 'hole'. This increases one stitch in your work.
- For lace, you combine those yarnovers with decreases for decorative openwork that keeps the same stitch count.
- For a standard yarnover, you wrap the yarn around the needle in the same direction as you knit the stitch.
- For a backwards yarnover (creates a smaller hole), you wrap it in the other direction.
- When you are working a yarnover between different combinations of stitches (knit and purl), it works a little differently.
This video goes through all the possible stitch combinations.
Enjoyed this article?
Discover so much more here at Stolen Stitches
Learn
Continue to explore our large library of free tutorials, or join us in a live knit-along! Here are a few articles related to this one that we think you'd like:
Search
Community
Join over 2000 like-minded knitters in our free, supportive Knithub community. It’s really easy to get started and you’ll find knitters of all levels here.
Clubs
Join one of our clubs and get exclusive content, enjoy group learning and a supportive community - in one membership.