After the Garter stitch the Stockinette or Stocking stitch is the most basic and commonly used around the world. It has a very smooth texture on one side [what we call the right side of the work (RS) for most knitting patterns or the knit side], easy to identify because it looks like columns of “V’s”, each one next to the other: The other side, the wrong side of the work (WS), is really bumpy (the purl side):   To knit the Stockinette / Stocking stitch we need to alternate one row of knitting and one row of purling. The texture appears when you knit every stitch on one side…