Kimmy asked:


I’m just a beginner knitter so I don’t know much of anything - just knitting and purling

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4 Responses to “How do I YO (Yarn over) in a knitting pattern?”

1. Kate M on November 5th, 2008 7:26 am

   It’s an increase technique - it creates another stitch.

   I found a really good tutorial:

2. mliz55 on November 8th, 2008 7:29 am

   You literally bring the yarn over the needle. this creates a hole in your knitting. Using the yarn over, with left and right slanting decreases, is the basis for lace knitting.
   Imagine that you are bringing the yarn forward to purl a stitch. Now change your mind, and, wrapping the yarn around the needle, bring the yarn to the back of the work, as if to knit. That is a yarn over on a knit stitch.
   You might check Knittinghelp.com, they have some great instructional videos.

3. editorgrrl on November 10th, 2008 7:53 am

   If you’ve ever had a mysterious hole in your knitting and ended up with one more stitch on the needle than you started with, you’ve already made a yarnover (YO), called a “yarn forward” in the UK. Here’s how to do it on purpose:

   Just move the yarn to the “wrong” position before making the next stitch. So if the YO is before a knit, move the yarn to the front. And if the next stitch is a purl, move the yarn to the back. One stitch is increased, leaving an eyelet (or hole) in your knitting.

   Here’s a free video (scroll down to the bottom):

   Some people mistakenly believe that a YO involves moving the yarn *and* making a knit stitch. This is wrong, and may throw off your stitch pattern. YO is just the wrapping the yarn around the needle part.

4. Mommiedearest on November 11th, 2008 5:27 pm

   You have just stitched a stitch, take the yarn and put ut over the needle and then go to and stitch into the next stitch. This adds another stitch and the instructions for the next row will tell you what to do with the YO

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