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Yarn overs are particularly useful as button holes in clothes where you need little tiny buttons for babies or toys' clothes. It's very simple! When the instruction YO appears in a pattern, simply wrap your yarn around the needle, bringing it under and over the needle between two stitches. Whether you are yarning over between knits or purls, the action is the same, to make an extra loop on your needle, but if you are yarning over between purl stitches, you will need to bring the yarn over the top of the right hand needle and then underneath and over to create that extra single loop.
When you're yarning over after a knit stitch, you bring the yarn forward to the front of the work, and then knit the next stitch:. When you are yarning over after a purl stitch, your yarn is already forward, so you need to take it over to the back of the work and bring it forward again to work the next purl stitch:. A yarn over worked before a purl stitch takes a slightly longer path around the needle, than one worked before a knit stitch, which means more yarn is used and the resulting hole is larger.
Working the yarn overs before a purl stitch as reversed or backwards yarn overs can reduce the amount of yarn it uses. To keep the yarn over hole open you'll need to work into the back leg of the yarn over on the following row. If you are working on a project that has lots of yarn overs between different types of stitches you may want to swatch and alter the yarn over directions so that your yarn overs are of a uniform size.
In the swatch below we've included regular and reversed yarn overs between all combinations of knit and purl stitches so you can see the difference in size.
The regular yarn overs are labelled "yo" and the reversed ones are labelled "byo". Working a regular yarn over — bring the yarn to the front between the two needles and then to the back over the right needle. If the next stitch is a purl bring it to the front between the needles. Working a reversed yarn over — bring the yarn to the front over the top of the right needle.
If the next stitch is a knit bring it to the back between the needles. Backwards yarn overs result in a stitch that's mounted on the needles with the leading leg at the back. On the following row you'll need to work into the back leg of the stitch to avoid twisting it. As can be seen in the above swatch regular yarn overs worked between a knit and a purl create a substantially larger hole than they do when the purl stitch comes before the yarn over and the knit stitch comes after.
Working a backwards yarn over between the knit and purl can give a more symmetrical result.
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