Here's a trick that you can use to knit garter stitch in the round without having to purl. Yay! It's gonna be awesome. Okay, so on a tiny swatch like this, it doesn't obviously really make much sense to do a bunch to avoid purling. But let's say you're knitting, I don't know, something bigger, a hat in garter stitch. For me, I would much rather knit the whole thing using this little trick rather than switch between knitting and purling just in order to make garter stitch, right? So here's the trick. I've casted on 16 stitches and divided them from magic loop and I went ahead and knit one round of magic loop and I did the trick and I did another round. So you can see I have two rounds of garter stitch here. And this is the trick. Let's pull it back and eat it out. We're basically going to do a wrap and turn right here. And I don't even think you can see. Surely you can't see it from a galloping horse. This is what you do. Slip the stitch, the first stitch here or the row. You can see right at the beginning of the round here because of the tail, right? Slip the first stitch to the right hand needle, bringing the yarn to the front like this through the tips of the needles like that and put the stitch back on. Alright, now it's time to get back to ready position. That's our wrap and we need to turn now. So it's time to get back to ready position. Pinch the tip here so that your stitches don't slide off. Like I've pinched the tip and pull this cable, push the needle back in there. And this is what we're going to do. See that? The fastest way to get back to ready position now that we've changed direction. Because see, our yarn is coming off the back needle now. Oops, let's tuck that in there. Let's get that out of the way. Let's tail. Okay. Now our yarn is coming off the back needle more or less, right? And we've, what it is, this is the wrap that we made right here. So when I pull it tight, you can see what happens. There we go. So it just loops in around this stitch right here and comes back. So now let's start knitting. Pull out the back needle just like we normally do from magic loop. And go ahead and knit into that first stitch. Make sure to pull that wrap tight. We don't want a big loose thread right there. Alright, and go ahead and knit one round in guard your stitch like that. Make sure you know where your round end is. It's over here so let's drop the needle, turn everything around, pull the cable. Push the needle back in, pull the cable out and finish this round. And then we'll turn around again. There are a pair of slippers that are really cute called prairie boots. They're by Cocoa Knits. They're by Julie Weissenberger of Cocoa Knits. And they are guard your stitch and they're more or less in the round. The top part becomes not in the round, but let's get back to the righty position here. But for the most part you knit like the whole foot you knit these whole house slippers in their guard your stitch in the round. And I use this technique to like make that project so fast and a lot more fun I think. Alright, let's do it again. It's time to turn around again. Pull the back needle out. Let's do our wrap, slip the stitch here. Whoops, like that to the right hand needle. Move the yarn to the front. And if you're knitting American style, it's going to look the same. Let's get some more yarn here. If you're knitting American style, it's going to look the same. It's going to look like this. Your yarn is in back. Moving your yarn to the front like that. And, oh that's hard. And move the stitch back. Let's get back to ready position pinch here. Pull the cable with the loose needle on it like that. And ready. Put the needle that has the working yarn on it in the back. Push that tail through. Alright, this is my project. I probably weave that end in right now because it's bugging me and just stick a marker right there. Alright, our yarn is coming off the back needle. Pull the yarn out there. Pull the tight right there. There's our wrap. There's our wrap. Pull that tight. Pull the back needle out. Let's get ready to knit. And you can see that we're working in garter stitch. These all look like pro stitches. We've got all these problems here even though you and I know that I just knitted that whole last round. So, I really hope you like this trick. You do not have to do... You do not have to purl if you don't want to. Anymore. Alright. So, there's what it's starting to look like. Super easy.