Hi all…
This is my first time to pick up stitches. I am doing a mock-turtle neck sweater. All is knitted & assembled, and now I need to pickup stitches at the neck, for the mock-turtle neck.
My question has to do with picking up less stitches than exist. Do I just do a proportion - like pick up 2 for every 3 stitches?
The instructions tell me to pick up 68 stitches. I have (best as I can count with all the joins, decreases, bind offs…) right about 102-104 stitches. Should I pick up 2 out of every three??? Or do I need to make some other adjustment?
I definitely refuse to entertain any ideas that I actually did something wrong!! :oops:
Your help is greatly appreciated! (I’m playing hooky today and would love to finish my sweater!! :eyebrow: )
Do do pick up fewer stitches. Sometimes a pattern will tell you how many to pick on each section, sometimes you have to wing it.
Very often a pattern has you pick up the same number of stitches where the knitting is flat–like across the back or front where you bound off, and pick up fewer stitches along where the decreases would be at the neck edge. I’d pick up fewer along the decreased edges, but if that’s not enough, then distribute the rest of the skipped stitches along the front and back.
Very often a pattern has you pick up the same number of stitches where the knitting is flat–like across the back or front where you bound off, and pick up fewer stitches along where the decreases would be at the neck edge.
That’s how I would do it - pick up one for one along the back and front of the neck, then like 2 for every 3 or 3 for every 4 along the sides.