Grafting Garter Stitch

There are lots of ways to graft together garter stitch! We’ll give one way if you’ll be starting with a purl stitch.

We used 2 colors just to make it easier to follow along. But, in most cases, you’ll be grafting together just 1 color.

Setup 1: The bottom just finished a knit row. The top just finished a purl row.

Setup 2: Thread yarn through darning needle. Insert needle knitwise through the bottom (pink) and pull through. Insert needle knitiwise through top (lavender) and pull through.

And after the setup is done:

You only do this step once – at the start.

Step 1: In bottom (pink), insert needle purlwise through first stitch and drop it off.

Step 2: In bottom (pink), insert needle knitwise through what’s now the first stitch. DO NOT DROP IT OFF.

Note that I do Step 1 and 2 as one big motion. I didn’t do that at first, but now I do.

Steps 3 and 4: Do the same as Steps 1 and 2, but this time do it in top (lav).

Here it is after a few stitches were done from each needle.

Repeat these 4 steps until just 1 stitch remain on each needle.

End 1: In bottom (pink), insert needle purlwise through first stitch and drop it off.

End 2: In top (pink), insert needle purlwise through first stitch and drop it off.