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How to Pick Up and Knit Stitches
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About This Technique
There are times in your knitting where you need to continue knitting on your piece in a different direction. Or perhaps you are adding a collar or button band to a sweater. In these situations you will do something referred to as “picking up and knitting stitches”. This is where you work into an edge of a finished piece of fabric. You’ll create new live stitches to continue working from. This allows a seamless look to the project without having to seam two pieces of fabric together.
It’s a relatively simple technique that can be done on a bound off edge or on the side of the fabric. This tutorial will show you how to do both.
[Video] Technique Tutorial
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Technique Instructions
Method 1: Picking up a bound off edge
- Step 1: Insert your needle into the center of the “V” for the row you want to begin picking up stitches in.
- Step 2: Wrap your working yarn around your needle.
- Step 3: Pull the yarn through the stitch.
Continue repeating these three steps until you have picked up all your stitches.
Method 2: Picking up from the side
- Note: This technique is used for slipped stitches along the side of your work. To use this technique on a bound off edge, repeat only steps 1 – 3.
- Step 1: Insert your needle into the center of the “V” for the row you want to begin picking up stitches in.
- Step 2: Wrap your working yarn around your needle.
- Step 3: Pull the yarn through the stitch.
- Step 4: Insert your needle below the front leg of the same stitch, through the center of the stitch.
- Step 5: Wrap your working yarn around your needle.
- Step 6: Pull the yarn through the stitch.
Continue repeating these 6 steps until you have picked up all your stitches.