Show Notes
Picking up stitches allows you to knit multi-directional fabric, button bands, heel-flap socks, and so many more things! Here are a few helpful links to videos that will show you how to pick up your stitches.
Vertical Stitches
How to Pick Up Stitches for a Button Band or a Collar from Cocoknits
Picking Up Stitches Along a Vertical Edge Tutorial from Purl Soho
Horizontal Stitches
Picking Up Sts Along a Finished Edge from Roxanne Richardson
Picking Up Stitches Along a Horizontal Edge Tutorial from Purl Soho
More Pick Up Techniques
Picking Up Heel Gusset Stitches from Under the Olive Tree Knits
Picking Up Stitches in Garter Stitch Tutorial from Purl Soho
Picking Up Stitches Purlwise Tutorial from Purl Soho
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What's on our needles this week:
Vanilla Is the New Black designed by Anneh Fletcher
DRK Everyday Socks designed by Andrea Mowry
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