You must be reading my mind, as I’m working a sock with garter edge to pick up right now. I settled on the first method you showed, using my tiny 1.75mm needle to pick up the bumps, but I feel a lot more confident about the technique now that you have demonstrated it. Thanks so much!
Thank you Roxanne for all of your videos, they have taught me so much about knitting. When I watch your videos, I feel as if I were in a live knitting class. You make your videos so explicit with know room for errors.
Thank you Roxanne! Just recently I've started knitting my heel flaps with the 3 stitch garter buffer on either side. I've found it easier to pick up for the gusset, and smoother inside the sock. Now I have 2 ways to do the garter edge!
I've always loved what we called a 'garter pip' edge when I was growing up and have found that if I need the edge to stretch (e.g. an edging on shawl or babies' things that are seamed and need to stretch a bit being taken on and off) that working the first stitch rather than knitting it builds in a touch extra yarn to 'go the distance'.
Thank you! I like the look of a garter edged heel flap, but have gotten confused about which bump to pick up. The knit-wise slip stitch makes it so much easier!
Thank you!! I wanted a flat pickup but I was struggling to get it right with variegated yarn. The slip stitch edge worked perfectly for being able to pick up along the side easily.
Thanks for this very clear video. I usually pick up through the left bump (being the top of the stitch on the edge, but that results in those edge stitches developing a lean and not sitting straight. I'll have to try using the middle bump instead. 😊
I sure do enjoy your videos, as so many other people do. One video I would really like to see about picking up stitches, is what it all looks like on the other side! I am currently about to pick up stitches for the neckband of the sweater I am knitting. I always think that it looks so awful on the wrong side. It may look nice on the right side, but I would also like for it to look nice on the wrong side. Seeing the wrong side of what you knit would be really helpful, for picked up stitches as well as for seaming.
What's your definition of "look nice"? Assuming you have kept shaping at least a stitch away from the selvedge, and that you have worked the selvedge in stockinette, what you should see along a vertical edge is the column of stockinette selvedge stitches. Along a horizontal edge, assuming you have picked up through the center of the stitch below the bind off chain (and not below the bind off chain itself, you should see the bind off chain on the WS. I do have several videos on picking up stitches that discuss these recommendations.
Hi Roxanne after watching your video on how to knit mittens with any weight yarn, I feel so confident now. Please can I ask you to do a video on how to construct a top down raglan cardigan in any weight yarn. Maybe you have already done one and I can’t find it. Things like a formula on length of round of neck, what percentage for sleeves, back etc. thank you so much and very grateful for all your lessons. You are a master knitter.
Have you ever done a video on measuring gauge over a patterned swatch like cables? Sometimes the pattern says swatch gauge to pattern. I’m foggy on how to measure a bumpy swatch. I really like your programs. Thank you.
Thank you for this informative video! Im Struggling because I am making a blanket that has a picked up edging in a contrasting color. I don’t like the way the back looks when you pick it up. The straight line of yarn of that contrasting color makes me crazy. 😝
Love your videos. Thank you. If you do one about fixing an edge when you accidentally drop the stitches. I was sl 1st stitch wyif to make a neat edge and I dropped the first few when I went to start a new row, they also tinked a few rows down and I had to just rip back 6 rows, (it was a blanket and that was a lot of stitches). I couldn’t figure out how to fix that edge. The neighboring stitches I fixed no problem ugh that edge… it felt like a puzzle that I just couldn’t solve.
I have this video here. th-cam.com/video/K0kibLyBSqc/w-d-xo.html For a slipped st edge, you'd slip the st at the start of the span of the laddered down sts.
I love your videos. Very informative. I would like to know what u rec when joining another skein. I am using dk for a sweater, bottom up, I used the Russian join and I am not to happy w the results. There is no edge since I am knitting circularly. Any advice will be appreciate it. Tks.
If it's non-superwash wool, I usually spit felt the two ends together. If it's not a feltable yarn, I usually let the tails hang, and then weave them in using reverse duplicate stitch: th-cam.com/video/UHUOkLOaFjs/w-d-xo.html
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Thanks - your tutorials are always well done, useful, and interesting!
You must be reading my mind, as I’m working a sock with garter edge to pick up right now. I settled on the first method you showed, using my tiny 1.75mm needle to pick up the bumps, but I feel a lot more confident about the technique now that you have demonstrated it. Thanks so much!
Slipping the stitch makes picking up stitches look so much easier! Thank you!
Thank you Roxanne for all of your videos, they have taught me so much about knitting. When I watch your videos, I feel as if I were in a live knitting class. You make your videos so explicit with know room for errors.
That was very helpful!
Sometimes all it takes is for someone to point out the stitches! Thanks for taking the time to do this.
Thank you Roxanne! Just recently I've started knitting my heel flaps with the 3 stitch garter buffer on either side. I've found it easier to pick up for the gusset, and smoother inside the sock. Now I have 2 ways to do the garter edge!
Thank you, Roxanne, for that knitting technique!! ❤
Thank you for showing us this method of picking up stitches Roxanne 🙋🏼🏴
Thanks so much! I have picked up stitches on garter stitch thousands of times, and never knew this refinement. Filed away for my next time!
Thanks so much for this. I was clueless as to where to pick up on these stitches. Very helpful! 🧶
Hi Roxanne. This is a great video. You explain everything so clearly. Thank you.😊
Thanks so much that clarifies picking up stitches on garter fabric.
This is a perfect pair for the mitered square blanket I have been mulling over. Thanks Rox!
I've always loved what we called a 'garter pip' edge when I was growing up and have found that if I need the edge to stretch (e.g. an edging on shawl or babies' things that are seamed and need to stretch a bit being taken on and off) that working the first stitch rather than knitting it builds in a touch extra yarn to 'go the distance'.
Good tip. I don't always know/remember which bumps to go into in order to keep it flat so that helps. :)
Thank you! I like the look of a garter edged heel flap, but have gotten confused about which bump to pick up. The knit-wise slip stitch makes it so much easier!
Thanks Roxanne 🥰
Thank you!! I wanted a flat pickup but I was struggling to get it right with variegated yarn. The slip stitch edge worked perfectly for being able to pick up along the side easily.
Thanks for this very clear video. I usually pick up through the left bump (being the top of the stitch on the edge, but that results in those edge stitches developing a lean and not sitting straight. I'll have to try using the middle bump instead. 😊
O i love that sweater. It looks so good in you! I really like seeing items on you from The Project.
I sure do enjoy your videos, as so many other people do. One video I would really like to see about picking up stitches, is what it all looks like on the other side! I am currently about to pick up stitches for the neckband of the sweater I am knitting. I always think that it looks so awful on the wrong side. It may look nice on the right side, but I would also like for it to look nice on the wrong side. Seeing the wrong side of what you knit would be really helpful, for picked up stitches as well as for seaming.
What's your definition of "look nice"? Assuming you have kept shaping at least a stitch away from the selvedge, and that you have worked the selvedge in stockinette, what you should see along a vertical edge is the column of stockinette selvedge stitches. Along a horizontal edge, assuming you have picked up through the center of the stitch below the bind off chain (and not below the bind off chain itself, you should see the bind off chain on the WS. I do have several videos on picking up stitches that discuss these recommendations.
Thanks Roxanne. I knit mostly socks and will try this new to me, technique.
Really useful! Thank you very much! 😍
Beautiful! Great tip. ❤❤❤
Going to start doing this on my mitered square joins.
Thanks very much Roxanne. Another great video❤
Another wonderful video. Thanks so much. I've always struggled with this. ❤❤😊😊
Wonderful demo.
Thank you so much for this! I love your videos. I keep referring back to your very helpful got a better heel flap.
Thank you. Most helpful.
Hi Roxanne after watching your video on how to knit mittens with any weight yarn, I feel so confident now.
Please can I ask you to do a video on how to construct a top down raglan cardigan in any weight yarn. Maybe you have already done one and I can’t find it. Things like a formula on length of round of neck, what percentage for sleeves, back etc. thank you so much and very grateful for all your lessons. You are a master knitter.
so useful, thank you!
May I say you look lovely in your cardigan. It's such a beautiful colour, too. 🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
Have you ever done a video on measuring gauge over a patterned swatch like cables? Sometimes the pattern says swatch gauge to pattern. I’m foggy on how to measure a bumpy swatch. I really like your programs. Thank you.
Great episode!
Thank you for this informative video! Im Struggling because I am making a blanket that has a picked up edging in a contrasting color. I don’t like the way the back looks when you pick it up. The straight line of yarn of that contrasting color makes me crazy. 😝
Love your videos. Thank you.
If you do one about fixing an edge when you accidentally drop the stitches. I was sl 1st stitch wyif to make a neat edge and I dropped the first few when I went to start a new row, they also tinked a few rows down and I had to just rip back 6 rows, (it was a blanket and that was a lot of stitches). I couldn’t figure out how to fix that edge. The neighboring stitches I fixed no problem ugh that edge… it felt like a puzzle that I just couldn’t solve.
I have this video here. th-cam.com/video/K0kibLyBSqc/w-d-xo.html For a slipped st edge, you'd slip the st at the start of the span of the laddered down sts.
I love your videos. Very informative. I would like to know what u rec when joining another skein. I am using dk for a sweater, bottom up, I used the Russian join and I am not to happy w the results. There is no edge since I am knitting circularly. Any advice will be appreciate it. Tks.
If it's non-superwash wool, I usually spit felt the two ends together. If it's not a feltable yarn, I usually let the tails hang, and then weave them in using reverse duplicate stitch: th-cam.com/video/UHUOkLOaFjs/w-d-xo.html
@@RoxanneRichardson thank you very much for the instructions I will try that method