How to Knit Yarn Overs | Knitting Tutorial for Beginners | Between Purl & Knit Stitches

This tutorial is aimed at beginners who want to learn all about yarn overs (yo), and who want to see a demo of yarn overs between knit stitches, between purl stitches and between knit & purl stitches.

I also demonstrate how to deal with yarn overs on the next row, whether you want to keep them, or you want to be dropping the yarn over off the needle because you did it accidentally!

Yarn overs are made by simply wrapping yarn around the right-hand needle, so it’s an easy technique to do…however, yarn overs can be confusing because they are executed slightly differently depending on the stitches directly before and after it.

Yarn overs are a single increase technique, so they can be used to increase the total number of stitches on the needles by 1. Instead, though, they are often paired up with a decrease (often a k2tog decrease) on the same row so that the overall number of stitches remains unchanged.
So why would we do this?
Well, because a yarn over creates a hole in your knitted work – and funnily enough, yarn overs are actually most often used to add holes to knitting! This may sound like a bad thing, but it can be used to create beautiful lace knitting patterns by arranging these yarn over holes into a pattern.

I hope this video makes the method nice and clear for you.

Thanks for watching!