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How do you pick up more stitches than there are?

by Bobbi Devlin

How do you pick up more stitches than there are?

Measure along the edge you will be picking up stitches from and using safety pins or locking stitch markers divide the edge into two or more equal sections, placing the markers/pins at even intervals along the piece. Divide the number of stitches you need to pick up by the number of sections you’ve created.

What is edge stitch in knitting UK?

The edge stitch, often called selvedge or selvage (self-finished edge), refers to the stitches on the left and right sides of a flat knitting project. A selvage can be one or more stitches wide.

How to knit a picot edge?

Knit Five Rows. Knit 5 rows in stockinette stitch.

  • The Picot Edge Row. Knit the picot edge row as follows.
  • Continue Knitting. The next row after the picot row is always a knitted row.
  • Turn the Picot Edge Under to Form the Flat Hem Line. With right side of work facing,turn the picot edge under and sew neatly into place.
  • The Finished Hem.

    • What are the different stitches in knitting?

    There are hundreds of different kinds of knitting stitches, but the two basic building blocks of the majority of these stitches are the knit stitch and the purl stitch.

    How do you knit stitches?

    Knitting Across the First Row Push the tip of the right needle into the first loop on the left needle. Check that the yarn is lying at the back of the needles. Loop the yarn over the back needle. Pull the new yarn through the cast on stitch. Slip the cast on stitch off as you pull the new loop through.

    What are the different types of stitches?

    Types of stitches are continuous stitches, which use a single line of suture material; simple interrupted stitches, where a single suture line is cut and used more than once to close a wound; mattress stitches, which penetrate deeply into the skin; and subcuticular stitches, which penetrate just under the skin’s surface.