For horizontal edges: Insert the knitting needle through the center of a stitch below the bind-off chain, wrap or pick the working yarn, and pull it through the stitch to the front. Picking up through the center of a stitch on horizontal edges creates continuity from the sweater body into the neckband ribbing.
How do you pick up stitches for a sweater collar?
For horizontal edges: Insert the knitting needle through the center of a stitch below the bind-off chain, wrap or pick the working yarn, and pull it through the stitch to the front. Picking up through the center of a stitch on horizontal edges creates continuity from the sweater body into the neckband ribbing.
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.
How do you pick up stitches for a shawl collar?
To pick up a stitch, insert the tip of your needle THROUGH the edge of the work, 1 stitch in from the edge. Wrap the yarn around the needle, and using the tip of the needle, draw a loop up through the work from the WS to the RS of the work. and draw it through the RS. You have picked up one stitch!What is a ribbed collar?
Ribbed t-shirts are knitted in a way that they are covered in rows of vertical lines. These lines alternate between being raised and sunken. In some instances, the whole shirt is ribbed, while in others just the collar and cuffs of the shirt are ribbed.
