Neat Knitting Techniques by Jo Shaw

Author:Jo Shaw [Shaw, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

If you keep the pick-up consistent, then you’ll get a beautiful straight line from the main fabric.

Treat the knitted edge like your left-hand needle. Insert the RHN into a stitch from front to back and to check you’re in the edge stitch, look how many strands are on your needle – there should be 2.

Take the yarn around the needle as if to knit and, keeping tension on the yarn, pull back through to the front. Re-insert the RHN into the next stitch up – there should just be one vertical bar in between then repeat.

If you have no edge treatment on the piece, then the edge stitch tends to roll around and sit at the back of the work. Ensure that you are working into this stitch – tilt the knitting towards you, so you can see the back of the fabric as you work. The actual picking up can be done with one needle, two needles or even a crochet hook. My preference is the one-needle method, as it is relatively quick and there’s only one needle opening the stitches, so it doesn’t over-stretch them. To give smooth edges, start your pickup directly into the cast on/off row.

If you are skipping stitches, try to do this on the smaller stitches, if possible. When skipping stitches, there should be two vertical bars in between. Don’t skip two adjacent stitches. For example, if you need to work 3 stitches in 5 rows, work this as pick up 2, skip 1, pick 1, skip 1. If you struggle to pull the yarn through, then the two-needle or crochet method might help. The two-needle method involves inserting the LHN into the stitch and then using the RHN to knit this as normal. Alternatively, a crochet hook is inserted instead of the needle and the yarn scooped through and then placed on the knitting needle.

Picking up stitches along the top

Necklines and collars are often picked up from a combination of side and top edges. For top edges, you are picking up into stitches instead of rows, so the ratio will be different. If the same needle size is used, then pick up into every stitch. Technically, if a smaller needle is used, then you’ll likely want to pick up more stitches. However, most of the time, this is done for necklines, and you don’t want a perfectly straight edge as it curves into the neck, so the numbers will be fewer. It is best to use the numbers in the pattern for necklines, as there are other factors in play.

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