we're ready to Pearl Continental now make sure that your yarn is in front of your work if it's behind like that just go ahead and move it in front like that pull these stitches down so that you don't see something like this you don't want that that'll make two stitches out of one so pull pull the stitch down to until the knot is underneath the needle right there now I always like to slip the first stitch just pass it over like that and we're ready to begin so with the yarn in front we've practiced our aerobics so that we're familiar doing the see how I have my middle finger holding that stitch right there and here's how I'm holding everything else you may be holding a little bit differently but these two this finger and this finger need to be up not down here away up on your kneading okay so the needle comes in from the back to the front like that now the right needle comes forward and over in front of this loop of yarn right here you can see we're actually placing a little stitch right across that needle next your left index finger comes down a little bit to hold that new stitch on there and we push the needle back through and the finger comes up stitch comes off that is a continental purl stitch and you may be saying whoa whoa but it's okay once you get the movement it's going to get really easy so needle comes in like this I'll show you my hand wraps up like this finger comes down to hold that new stitch on there and the needle goes back through that stitch finger comes back up stitch comes off use your right fingers to push the stitch down and your left fingers to push the stitches up see how I'm letting the yarn feed like there see how it moved that's because I made a new stitch and a new stitch needs yarn if you don't let it feed it's going to look something like that and really tighten your sigil become really tight and while be sad so don't do that so this is a little bit different than what we've learned before if you know American style and it might take a little bit of getting used to one thing that I see a lot of people doing is they come in like this and go over and through they sort of want to scoop around it and push it down that is not right if you do that your stitches are going to be twisted so instead of holding it like this where it's a little bit confusing you know which way to go this way or this way hold the yarn up like this so that as soon as you insert your needle it goes behind both yarns already then all you have to do is rotate it up like this you know like like the hands of a clock going up like that hold this down right there and push that through now I want to give you one other trick in case the this is really not working for you some people's hands just don't want to do that and that's fine what you can also try is something like this come up like this and then use this finger to hold that loop on there as you push everything back through and you can see that in that instance and you let the yarn feed in that instance I didn't have to push my finger down I do have to sort of rotate this a little bit more than I do in the other style put the finger right on there and down back through so if that feels better for you go ahead and try it that way rotating it more and down in you can see my finger stays pretty stable and nothing's really moving this way is just the way that I got used to using my left finger to hold it down but either way can work for you so go ahead and practice about five rows of purling continental and then we're going to switch back and practice some other things I don't want you to wear out your hands too much learning this new style right away just make sure that you're doing the movements correctly remember we do not do that come under both of them come up like the hands of a clock ticking like that and push through and I'll meet you in the next video