Picking up stitches in knitting

Learn how to "pick up and knit" stitches from the edge of your work. This is a particularly useful skill for sleeves, collars, and edgings.

Picking up stitches when you're knitting can sound like a counterintuitive instruction. As the stitches are already on your needles, right? In today's tutorial I will demistify this jargon for you and make sttiches to knit a border or button band.

How to pick up stitches in knitting - This is explained clearly for you through step by step photographs and a video tutorial.

When your pattern says to "pick up and knit" what does that mean and how do you do it? I dreaded it for a long time, but not anymore! Watch and I'll show you...

How do you pick up stitches in knitting? In this tutorial I discuss when and why you need to pick up stitches in knitting, talk about pick-up ratios and what they mean, and show you my method of picking up stitches with a crochet hook.

It can be a bit frightening if you dropped a knit stitch. Your whole work could unravel before your eyes. However, picking it up is...

Whether you need to add pockets or work neck and buttonbands, the art of picking up stitches is a useful addition to any knitter’s arsenal. Learn to...

This is one that you’ll use a lot. There’s an easy way to do it though! How to Pick Up Stitches Evenly on a Horizontal Edge This one is easy! Just pick up a stitch for every stitch. I suggest picking the row just below the bound-off row. Here’s an example. See? I told you …

Finding mistakes in your knitting can be frustrating. Learn how to easily pick up a dropped purl stitch and your work will be back on track in a flash!