Any advice please. I’m a very loose knitter and when I pick up and knit stitches, round a neck line for example, the neck band separates from the body. This picture is where I’ve pulled this garment down (I got as far as neck band done and shoulders joined then trying it on I noticed a mistake smack bang in the middle of bust line) and it demonstrates how the edge stitches have stretched. I did my decreasing in the second stitch but I’m not sure that makes a difference. Wondering if I should pick up a stitch and a half to give it some robustness. Any ideas anyone.
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Presumably, you’re close to the correct gauge, even if you had to go down a needle size or three. (I’m a loose knitter too.)
When you have to re-do picked up sts there’s often a hole left before you pick up the sts again. I wouldn’t let that bother me. Did the collar or neckband look ok before you took it out?
If fixing a mistake includes redoing the decreases, then you might place them 2 sts in from the edges.
The opening may partly be the yarn that you’re using too which seems not so stretchy?
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Could it be that you are picking up stitches too close to the edge of the knitting? I’m always tempted to pick up half a stitch in to minimise seam bulk, but then get gappy joins. So make sure you pick up a good whole stitch in for vertical pick ups and through whole cast off edge for necklines.
I am a very tight knitter but recently had to redo a sleeve pick up in heavy aran wool as my half stitch in gave horrible gaps, solved by picking up a whole stitch in.!
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