HELP, confused by pattern

How-to Questions
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So I am working on these baby booties for a friend’s newborn. I have never made booties before so I am a little stuck. Here is the pattern:

[CENTER]LEFT BABY BOOTIE[/CENTER]

[COLOR=“Red”]SHAPE SHOE STRAP
With US3 needles, cast on 30 st.
Working in Garter st, knit for 2 rows.

MAKE BUTTONHOLE
Next row: (right side) k2, yo, k2tog, k to end.
Knit 3 more rows. bind off 11 st, knit to end. (19 sts)
Working in garter st knit for 6 rows. Cut yarn and
leave stitches on a stitch holder.[/COLOR]

[COLOR=“Red”]SHAPE SHOE TOP
Cast on 7 st and knit 1 row.
Starting with a knit row, work 14 rows in st st.
Cut working yarn.[/COLOR]
With right side facing, rejoin yarn at right side of shoe top. Pick up 9 st up right side, knit 7 st across top, pick up 9 st down left side, knit across 19 st left onholder, making sure
buttonhole is to the left of needle. (44 st)
Working in garter st, knit for 13 rows.

Next row: Bind off 8 st, knit 8 st (this includes st on needle after bind off. Bind off remaining 28 st.
Cut working yarn.
Rejoin yarn to remaining 8 sts and work in garter st for 36 rows.
Bind off.

So i have completed everything in red print. I have never reconnected stitches from a holder and I am very confused about how i end up with 44 st. I know this is going to be difficult to visualize but i can use all the help i can get. THANK YOU!!!

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All you need to do to go on is start with the yarn end, leave about a 4" tail, and pickup the 9 sts, k7, pickup another 9 and knit the sts on the holder. To see how to pick up sts, look at the video for it near the bottom of the Tips page.

3

what do you mean pick up 9 stitches? So im basically increasing?

4

Not exactly increasing, a little more like casting on. You have an edge that you’re going to knit in another direction, so you pick up sts along it, k7 (from the 7 sts on the shoe top piece) and pick up 9 sts from the other side of it.

5

There is a video here on picking up stitches.
http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/knitting-tips
Scroll down until you see Picking up stitches.

6

thank you so much!