If you would like to see how the seed stitch works, download this Windows Movie file. Download Seed Stitcher Movie. Note, for ease of photography, the tool is shown on the knitting machine, but the same techniques apply for hand knitters.

Hand Knitters

Do you use a crochet hook to fix split stitches? What about a stitch that was purled when it should have been knitted? No more . . . the 'seed stitcher' saves time and frustration!

Simply insert the tool into the stitch, if its a knit stitch, catch the rung and pull it through the front and if its a purl stitch, push the tool through to the back (with a crochet hook, you actually have to remove it from the stitch which makes it easy to drop the stitch!) and pull the rung through the backside.

Machine Knitters

Change stitches (convert) from knits to purls or vice versa for ribbing or seed stitch.

Here's how: knit several rows, insert the tool in the row below the stitch you want to convert, drop the stitch and let it unravel. Use the tool to latch stitches back up, either from the back or the front thereby converting stitches to make seed or moss stitch, or even garter stitch.