Combined Knitting Picking Up Stitches
		Casting On • Making A Knit Stitch • Making A Purl Stitch • Increasing a Stitch • Decreasing a Stitch • Binding Off • Picking Up Stitches • Horizontal Stripes • Weaving Ends • Invisible Seams 1 - Stitch to Stitch • Invisible Seams 2 - Row to Row • Invisible Seams 3 - Stitch to Row • Size / Fit Chart for Women • Confessions of a Knitting Heretic A good rule of thumb for figuring how many stitches to pick up is to divide the rows per inch by the stitches per inch (rpi/spi = x). Pick up 1 stitch along the edge of the piece for every x rows. For example, if the gauge is 3 spi and 6 rpi = 1", divide 6 by 3 to get 2. You would pick up 1 stitch along the edge of the piece for every 2 rows. When picking up stitches along a curved neck edge a few more stitches will be required to be picked up to give a graceful curve to the work. Step 1: Insert needle into edge of right side of knitted piece, 1 stitch from the edge. Step 2: Wrap the yarn around the tip of the needle and pull back through the stitch, creating a loop on the right hand needle (figure 1). Work along the edge until the necessary number of stitches are picked up.
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