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So, what I'm going to show you here is how to pick up
stitches along a selvedge.
It's a plain stockinette selvedge,
and because of that it's got a
series of knots
and gappy-loops things.
So, that's a knot, that's a loop, that's a knot, that's a loop.
So, what you're going to do is
pick up stitches in the very
edge of the knitting,
and that is, %uh
where the knitting turns, there's a little loop
that's sort of hidden in the knot,
%um that you can use,
which will give you the neatest possible pick up on the side of the knitting.
I'll start at the very top of the knitting, the last-knit piece,
and look for the first gappy loop,
and it's being held by a knot.
You can see that if you follow
the yarn of the loop
through the knot,
it comes out the back,
and this (sometimes hard to see)
little piece of yarn (you can tell you have the right piece of yarn because)
it's connected to the gappy bit.
So...
this little piece of yarn in the back here
is used to re-form this edge stitch here
which is, you know,
half of it looks OK and half of it's
participating in this %um
gappy loop-and-knot thing.
Alright, so I have this little piece of yarn on my needle, and I'm going to
take the rest of the gappy loop,
and push it back through the knitting,
And now, it's on the needle, and it's in such a way that I can knit from it.
So I'm going to knit the first stitch off this picked-up loop
right now.
Stitch number one...
and, you know, this loop has gotten really gappy,
so much the easier
to work with it,
this little piece of yarn.
I'll push the rest of the loop
through to the back.
Now I have another loop to knit,
there's another hugely-gappy loop:
follow it to the back.
Pick it up...
push the rest of it through to the back.
I'll keep going, a little quicker now.
Follow it to the back, pick it up.
Push it through, one more time.
Okay, that's the last one.
I'm going to purl back to see
what the join looks like.
These are huge needles and
kind of a loose gauge so I could show you better.
So, it's not the best example of
how nice this join is,
or this pick up is. But for
purposes of demonstration, it's better. OK.
Now, what you can see from this is that
picking up the loops in this way
has re-formed
the edge stitches so that they're pretty similar.
The edge column of knit stitches
is pretty similar to the rest of the stitches in the knitted piece.
And %uh ignoring
for the moment
that this is gappy and loose,
if I were to use the regular needles for this
weight of yarn it would look a lot better.
Later on, I'll show you some examples of the edge
done with regular needles and regular yarn.