Hi everyone - I’m doing the Thuja sock from Knitty
I am at the gusset - I’ve done my heel flap and then the pattern says to:
K all heel sts; with same needle, pick up and k11 sts along side of heel flap
so does this mean to simply pick up stitches
OR
does this mean that I pick up a stitch (meaning pull the loop up through the sides of the heel flap stitches) AND then knit that pulled up loop also as I go along?
help - not sure which it means!
Thank you,
Christi
Pretty much always, “pick up and knit” means just picking up the stitches (so pu&k is just pulling the loops through the side stitches, without doing anything extra to them).
Yes, like isabeau says. You pick up x number of stitches along the side of your heel - usually it’s one stitch to be picked up per every row or every other row (depends on your pattern). This gets you a row of new picked-up stitches on one of your needles.
Once you’ve picked up all the required stitches on both sides of the heel flap, you then will most likely knit one round - this settles the newly-picked-up stitches into easily-knitted, same-as-the-other-stitches so you can, after that initial knitted round, start with your decreases.
Deceptive, I know. But that’s the terminology that’s been used since the dawn of time: pick up and knit x stitches along y edge.
Dot
thank you!