techniques: picking up stitches – Quince & Co.

picking up stitches: what, why, and how Many a pattern instructs the knitter to, at one point, pick up stitches from a completed piece of knitting and continue on with the next part or piece of a project—for example, picking up stitches around an armhole to knit a sleeve down to the cuff, or picking up stitches around a neck edge or cardigan fronts to add trims. While it is possible to knit every piece separately and seem them together at the end, picking up stitches and continuing as a singular piece tends to be the more elegant solution. As a general rule, when picking up stitches you will either pick up perpendicularly from the side edge of a knitted fabric (which is comprised of rows), or from a bind-off or cast-on edge (which is comprised of stitches, and from which your new
picking up stitches: what, why, and how Many a pattern instructs the knitter to, at one point, pick up stitches from a completed piece of knitting

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