What an absolutely *magnificent* tutorial! A perfect example of why Roxanne Richardson is my primary UA-cam knitting professor. She gets deep down into what I think of as the "engineering" of this art,. It is hugely helpful to my learning and _understanding_ of the function of all the various holes and loops and bumps and stuff (I consider myself an advanced novice knitter so still have lots to learn). Now if you'll excuse me, I must go "pick up and knit" some collar stitches for the cabled-to-the-hilt sweater I've been devoting myself to for months.
Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial!!! Picking up stitches has been the bane of my knitting life and I've always felt it didn't look quite right. This tutorial made the techniques so clear and I see what I've been doing wrong. I'm so grateful for this tutorial.
Your videos are great, love your technicality and how you cover many scenarios practically. Thank you! I don't know anyone who knits so you have been a treasured resource
Thank you! I'm working on a hooded cowl and needed to pick up 54 stitches along a slip stitch edge and your suggestion of adding a marker ever so often to help evenly pick up the correct number was VERY helpful!
Wow you are so great teacher! Clear, precise, and for people which English is not the main language it is very easy to follow and understand. Thanks a bunch for sharing your knowledge, God bless you!
Thank you so much Roxanne I have struggled with this for years mostly the ratio You have explained everything so concisely that I now feel confident to make more patterns which require these methods xx
I have knit for 60 years and have "guessed" at how many stitches to pick up 100's of times resulting in a lot of tearing out and doing again. Thank you you SO much for making it clear and simple!!
After decades of knitting, I still need refreshers. I was about to try to pick up stitches from the bind-off rather than the last knitted stitch. Thank you for saving me from myself!
Thank you so much. I have to pick up 176 stitches divided by 16. I have 11 extension totaling 32 stitches for each. I was so worried on how to pick up and knit correctly. Your tutorial video has been an immense help. Keep ‘em coming. God bless and keep you.
This is so clear and helpful - I love that I can jump to the relevant section, and find myself returning to it again and again when I need to pick up sts. Thanks Roxanne!
This was absolutely brilliant, very detailed. I have been knitting for many years and used to get my mum to pick up my stitches for me or avoid patterns with picking up in. Making a matinee set for my friend and have no one to pick up my stitches now so I needed to do it myself. My first attempts were untidy as I didn't really know what I was meant to do. Found this video and watched a couple of times and then had it playing at the same time and I have managed to get a neat line where I picked up the stitches with no holes. Thanks
Thank you for sharing your tutorial, I found it by mistake but somehow it knew that I was up to that part in my knitting, seems like we are in tune. Brilliant job, as always. Take care.
Thank you Roxanne for your very informative video! I am a beginner in knitting and I appreciate all your content as it is absolutely valuable to me! I love you!
Was picking up stitches from a crochet edge to put a knitted ribbing on a crochet hat; stitches were big and big spaces between edge of hat and row of picked up stitches; used your knit on method-stitches are neat, uniform and no big holes or spaces between crochet edge and start of knit row! Ty.
great video, very clear descriptions and good detailed info, covering all my questions. Also fab tight shots to really see what you’re doing. thankyou, this was a big help! props to you 👍🏼
Thank you for helping me thru this. Your videos and way of explaining things are very clear. It really helps me to see what you are doing when you use different color yarn like you did in this video. PS-I wish I could follow you around for a week and just pick your brain, or better yet, just download all your knowledge and skill to me! A girl can always dream
Appreciated your video lesson on picking up stitches. Have not done this in a few years and needed expert advise and review in order to assure a nice baby garment
Great Video Roxanne! Just what I needed to pick up stitches on a perpendicular edge for sleeves. Thank You so much for helping me to surprise myself again!
Brilliant love the way you have explained everything and you can see exactly what you are doing you come across lovely 😊 thankyou I've been so stressed out over a little bear jumper I'm knitting.xx
Thank you. I am partially-sighted and have a screen that enlarges things so | will be able to see the knitted edge and now I know what to look for when picking up stitches. I really appreciate this video.
Thanks I’m left handed but knit normally but just cannot get to grips when it says pick up an knit stitches for button bands or neck bands get in an awful mess but now I see where to actually push the needle through the work an just make a loop I think I will find it easier to use a crochet hook to pull through and transfer to needle hope you keep this on as, hav knitted a long time but have never been happy if had to pick up stitches and it’s never looked right , I will refer to you when need to pick up stitches thank you very much
What a fantastic tutorial!!! I just found you! I needed this exact video! I'm a beginner knitter and am making a dog sweater and am stuck at the point of making the edging around the back end. This video taught me so much! i'm going to check out your other videos. I'm your new fan!!!
Thank you so much! Working on a long sweater coat and don't want to make a placket... I'm going to pick up the stitches all around the neck and down the front. I have bad arthritis in my thumb and it hurts too much to sew seams etc. Excellent video!!
Hello, I really hope that you're STILL making your videos. You just seem to explain things so thoroughly for us all. Thank you for doing that. If you don't already have one, and, if you're still making videos, would you please show us how to make a "pocket" on a pattern? I appreciate your time and advice. Thank you for sharing.
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What an absolutely *magnificent* tutorial! A perfect example of why Roxanne Richardson is my primary UA-cam knitting professor. She gets deep down into what I think of as the "engineering" of this art,. It is hugely helpful to my learning and _understanding_ of the function of all the various holes and loops and bumps and stuff (I consider myself an advanced novice knitter so still have lots to learn).
Now if you'll excuse me, I must go "pick up and knit" some collar stitches for the cabled-to-the-hilt sweater I've been devoting myself to for months.
Isn’t she wonderful! I’m forever telling my friends that Roxanne has a video that can help.
Excellent video. I like the way you zoom the work so the areas where you are picking up stitches are easy to see. You are a great teacher.
Thank you so much! :-)
Yes, your camera focus is excellent!
Thank you so much for this excellent tutorial!!! Picking up stitches has been the bane of my knitting life and I've always felt it didn't look quite right. This tutorial made the techniques so clear and I see what I've been doing wrong. I'm so grateful for this tutorial.
Thank you, Roxanne for sharing your techniques with us!! ❤
Your videos are great, love your technicality and how you cover many scenarios practically. Thank you! I don't know anyone who knits so you have been a treasured resource
Really good I am 77 and have been knitting for years and 8 still learned somethind
Thank you! I'm working on a hooded cowl and needed to pick up 54 stitches along a slip stitch edge and your suggestion of adding a marker ever so often to help evenly pick up the correct number was VERY helpful!
Thank you, Roxanne! I will be using this video over and over. You did a great job at explaining things.
Thank you for the explanation. I love the way you talk! So professional and with a good pace ❤
Brilliant! So we’ll explained and demonstrated for all challenging picking up scenarios. Many thanks 👍🏻🙏
Wow you are so great teacher! Clear, precise, and for people which English is not the main language it is very easy to follow and understand. Thanks a bunch for sharing your knowledge, God bless you!
You're very welcome!
Perfect Explanation
Thankqqq Rozanna
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Very helpful video
Thank you so much Roxanne I have struggled with this for years mostly the ratio You have explained everything so concisely that I now feel confident to make more patterns which require these methods xx
Thank you so much this video is so helpful! I’ve knitted my first neckline!
I have knit for 60 years and have "guessed" at how many stitches to pick up 100's of times resulting in a lot of tearing out and doing again. Thank you you SO much for making it clear and simple!!
This is absolutely marvellous. I need to do this on a cardigan for the first time and this tutorial is amazing!
Brilliant tutorial, thank you so much.
After decades of knitting, I still need refreshers. I was about to try to pick up stitches from the bind-off rather than the last knitted stitch. Thank you for saving me from myself!
Thank you so much. I have to pick up 176 stitches divided by 16. I have 11 extension totaling 32 stitches for each. I was so worried on how to pick up and knit correctly. Your tutorial video has been an immense help. Keep ‘em coming. God bless and keep you.
As always you are the best instructor I have found. I remember what to do because you explain it so well. Thank you.
I love your videos! I'm learned so much from you. Both your explanations and the camera work are excellent.
Super clear video, I’ve used it a few times for different edges and really appreciate your expertise! Thanks so much for producing and sharing it! ❤❤❤
This was the best tutorial! Totally saved my cardigan and made it look WAY nicer!!!
This is so clear and helpful - I love that I can jump to the relevant section, and find myself returning to it again and again when I need to pick up sts. Thanks Roxanne!
Thanks - I’ve always used a crochet hook and came here to learn the “right way” thinking I was doing it wrong.
This was absolutely brilliant, very detailed. I have been knitting for many years and used to get my mum to pick up my stitches for me or avoid patterns with picking up in. Making a matinee set for my friend and have no one to pick up my stitches now so I needed to do it myself. My first attempts were untidy as I didn't really know what I was meant to do. Found this video and watched a couple of times and then had it playing at the same time and I have managed to get a neat line where I picked up the stitches with no holes. Thanks
Fantastic! That's always how it is, isn't it? Not so hard, once you know what you're doing! :-)
I did the same with my mom. Now she’s gone so I have to learn to do it myself too.
I LOVE that I can jump to exactly where I need. You are the best!
I'll echo Anna: You are the BEST, Roxanne!
This was wonderfully analytical and comprehensive, thank you!
Thanks for your super clear video!
Very good video . Clear and precise. Excellent for beginners.
Fantastic video, clear descriptions and very good closeup video! Thank you for using yarns that contrast well
Clear, concise and great camera work = very happy subscriber. Thanks!
Fantastic video, thank you so much. I need to knit a border for a blanket and this explained exactly what I need to know.
Thank you 🙂Excellent video! You made my projects so much easier! 💓
Thank you for sharing your tutorial, I found it by mistake but somehow it knew that I was up to that part in my knitting, seems like we are in tune. Brilliant job, as always. Take care.
Great teacher!!! Thank you!!
Thank you Roxanne for your very informative video! I am a beginner in knitting and I appreciate all your content as it is absolutely valuable to me! I love you!
I learn so much from you. Thanks for teaching on UA-cam.
Thank you 🙏🏻 Nicely taught!
Was picking up stitches from a crochet edge to put a knitted ribbing on a crochet hat; stitches were big and big spaces between edge of hat and row of picked up stitches; used your knit on method-stitches are neat, uniform and no big holes or spaces between crochet edge and start of knit row! Ty.
Fabulous'; simple direct, no fluff. Thank you
great video, very clear descriptions and good detailed info, covering all my questions. Also fab tight shots to really see what you’re doing. thankyou, this was a big help! props to you 👍🏼
Thank you so much! Another great video!
Thank you for helping me thru this. Your videos and way of explaining things are very clear. It really helps me to see what you are doing when you use different color yarn like you did in this video. PS-I wish I could follow you around for a week and just pick your brain, or better yet, just download all your knowledge and skill to me! A girl can always dream
Wonderfully explained and shown! Thank you so much for your thoroughness.
Extremely helpful. I have some difficulty picking up and your two needles tip is what I really liked. Thanks.
Thank you! Great explanations and excellent, easy to see demonstrations.
This was so helpful! Thank you!
Appreciated your video lesson on picking up stitches. Have not done this in a few years and needed expert advise and review in order to assure a nice baby garment
Just what I was looking for. So well explained. Many thanks
Great Video Roxanne! Just what I needed to pick up stitches on a perpendicular edge for sleeves. Thank You so much for helping me to surprise myself again!
Awesome lesson thanks!
This really helped me with picking up stitches! Thank you for this great tutorial!
You are so welcome!
Excellent video! Thank you very much
Clear, concise and well photographed! Thank you for helping me out! 👏
You are so welcome!
Brilliant love the way you have explained everything and you can see exactly what you are doing you come across lovely 😊 thankyou I've been so stressed out over a little bear jumper I'm knitting.xx
Thank you, this is so informative and easy to follow.
Thanks, I found this very helpful.
Glad to hear it!
Incredibly informative. Thank you.
Thank you. I am partially-sighted and have a screen that enlarges things so | will be able to see the knitted edge and now I know what to look for when picking up stitches. I really appreciate this video.
Awesome tips! Thank you Roxanne!😊
Excellent video, explained so well, thank you
Thanks Roxanne. Love your video. Really helpful
Thank you so very much for this, much appreciated lovely lady🙋🏻♀️👍🏻🌟
Such a great teacher!
This was sooo helpful!
This is a brilliant tutorial. Thank you
Excellent, thank you. clear, detailed but to the point.
Wonderfully helpful tutorial.
This helped me so much!
Thank you. This was a great video. You are a good instructor
Very clear and useful, as always!
Thanks I’m left handed but knit normally but just cannot get to grips when it says pick up an knit stitches for button bands or neck bands get in an awful mess but now I see where to actually push the needle through the work an just make a loop I think I will find it easier to use a crochet hook to pull through and transfer to needle hope you keep this on as, hav knitted a long time but have never been happy if had to pick up stitches and it’s never looked right , I will refer to you when need to pick up stitches thank you very much
Thank you, brilliant tutorial. Have just subscribed.🐨🇦🇺🏖
Thank you for showing those who hold in left hand also
Very clear best I have seen
What a fantastic tutorial!!! I just found you! I needed this exact video! I'm a beginner knitter and am making a dog sweater and am stuck at the point of making the edging around the back end. This video taught me so much! i'm going to check out your other videos. I'm your new fan!!!
Thank you... this was very helpful. I'm not a fan of picking up sts because I'm not very comfortable doing it, but this is very informative.
Thank you so much! 😭 I was struggling like crazy and thought I might need to throw out a project!
This is immensely helpful!
Thank you. Excellent video!
So helpful! Thank you for this!
Thank you so much! Working on a long sweater coat and don't want to make a placket... I'm going to pick up the stitches all around the neck and down the front. I have bad arthritis in my thumb and it hurts too much to sew seams etc. Excellent video!!
Super helpful! Thanks for the tips 🙏🙏🙏
Rox definitely Rocks, thanks!!!
Really helpful! Thank you so much!
Clear instructions, thanks much! 😀
5:32 wow your camera is amazing. GREAT ZOOM IN. Thank you, valuable information.
Very helpful
Hello,
I really hope that you're STILL making your videos. You just seem to explain things so thoroughly for us all. Thank you for doing that. If you don't already have one, and, if you're still making videos, would you please show us how to make a "pocket" on a pattern? I appreciate your time and advice. Thank you for sharing.
Very knowledgeable, excellent video tutorial, thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you!
Thank you for sharing. Once again I've gone from dazed and confused to knowing exactly what i need to do and how to do it.
As always Rox another very informative tutorial..Thank you. 🤗
You are an angel!
Thank you for this! You have saved my project!
Great video, really helpful. Thank you so much!
You're very welcome!
thank you so much for this, great information
Thank you very much
Awesome 👌☺️