Picking up stitches
Intermediate
When the different parts of a garment are knitted, the stitches are picked up by inserting the needle into the selvedge, to make the collar or the edges of the fronts.
Diagram 1
To pick up stitches in the knitting direction, insert the needle into the center of each stitch in the last row.
Diagram 2
When picking up stitches on one side of the knitting, a stitch being wider than it is high, insert the needle into 2 or 3 successive rows, then skip a row, to obtain the number of stitches indicated in the explanation.