Thank you for this tutorial! I'm making my first sweater and it's time to pick up stitches for the sleeves! ❤😊 you're tutorials are always sooo helpful!
I’m about to start the sleeves of my first knit sweater and the pattern calls for knitting them flat. I’m not a fan of purling, so I’m going to attempt picking up stitches and knitting in the round! Thank you so much for this very straightforward video!!
Great video!! May I ask you the reason why the pattern suggests to skip some stitches when picking them up? (I'm creating my own pattern, and I'm trying to understand what I should do). Thanks in advance!
Thank you! Usually, with most gauges you have more rows than stitches (per inch or per 4") so when you pick up stitches along a vertical edge like this, you want to use a ratio. I don't know them off the top of my head, but you can probably find them online. You want to do this because if you just pick up using a 1:1 ratio you will end up with too many stitches and you knitted edge or piece will probably go a little ruffly because you had too many stitches. I don't think that explained it very well, but because your stitch count is not equal (but rather less) than your row count when measured then you have to use a ratio to get less stitches to equal about the same amount of rows. I hope that kind of made sense. Some googling will do a better job than me at explaining this, I bet.
@@TheBlueMouseKnits Omg, I was looking for an answer like this. My sleeve kept ruffling and I thought of using decreases to help counter that - I must've restarted my sleeve about 10 times. Knew I should have looked up "picking #st every # rows"! Thanks for making this video!
My pattern doesn't tell me which leg to pick up along the armhole. Is there a general rule of thumb for how to pick up if not stated? I ended up picking up both legs.
I think it's more of a preference thing. I like picking up both legs and pulling a new loop through them, I think it looks neater. But, I don't think theres a super general rule. Just whichever you find gives you the cleanest edge :)
Hi, I've done a seed stitch jumper with ribbed edges in two almost rectangular pieces and I'm tempted to knit the sleeve downward using this excellent method. Can I check that that's possible? Or is the point to pick up stitches to join the sleeves? (It's my first jumper so I'm improvising the pattern as I go along for the sake of simplicity!)
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Thank you for this tutorial! I'm making my first sweater and it's time to pick up stitches for the sleeves! ❤😊 you're tutorials are always sooo helpful!
I’m about to start the sleeves of my first knit sweater and the pattern calls for knitting them flat. I’m not a fan of purling, so I’m going to attempt picking up stitches and knitting in the round! Thank you so much for this very straightforward video!!
I'm so glad it was helpful! Good luck on your project :)
This technique using the crochet hook helped me sooo much! Thank you!
So helpful! I had brain freeze on picking up stitches. Thank you!
Happy to hear it was helpful
So helpful. Thank you!
excellent lesson, thank you
Thank you :)
Tutorial makes it very easy for me. Thank you..💜
Thank you! I'm so happy to hear it
Thanks thanks thanks for this video 🙌🏻🙌🏻 it’s so helpful
Glad it was helpful!
This was so helpful. 😊 Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent!! Thank you.
What a awesome and amazing idea.
Great video!! May I ask you the reason why the pattern suggests to skip some stitches when picking them up? (I'm creating my own pattern, and I'm trying to understand what I should do). Thanks in advance!
Thank you! Usually, with most gauges you have more rows than stitches (per inch or per 4") so when you pick up stitches along a vertical edge like this, you want to use a ratio. I don't know them off the top of my head, but you can probably find them online. You want to do this because if you just pick up using a 1:1 ratio you will end up with too many stitches and you knitted edge or piece will probably go a little ruffly because you had too many stitches. I don't think that explained it very well, but because your stitch count is not equal (but rather less) than your row count when measured then you have to use a ratio to get less stitches to equal about the same amount of rows. I hope that kind of made sense. Some googling will do a better job than me at explaining this, I bet.
@@TheBlueMouseKnits Thank you so much! It is much more clear now. How do you think I can google it?
@@TheBlueMouseKnits Omg, I was looking for an answer like this. My sleeve kept ruffling and I thought of using decreases to help counter that - I must've restarted my sleeve about 10 times. Knew I should have looked up "picking #st every # rows"! Thanks for making this video!
Thank you for all the tutorials. I love your rings. Can you tell me what is the name of that gray-ish yarn your are working with?
Thank you :)
The yarn is from Hobby Lobby, it's called Denim in Color (Yarn Bee is the brand)
Very helpful...thanks!
Thank you so much for this!!!
Thanks! Very helpful tutorial. ❤
How I’m going to knit that part at 6:42 ? It’s kind confused because then the video stop a little bit and then you had the placed marker already.
Hi, I just knit those 2 stitches like normal knit stitches. Hope that helps.
My pattern doesn't tell me which leg to pick up along the armhole. Is there a general rule of thumb for how to pick up if not stated? I ended up picking up both legs.
I think it's more of a preference thing. I like picking up both legs and pulling a new loop through them, I think it looks neater. But, I don't think theres a super general rule. Just whichever you find gives you the cleanest edge :)
I don't think I've ever had a pattern tell me that :s
Hi, I've done a seed stitch jumper with ribbed edges in two almost rectangular pieces and I'm tempted to knit the sleeve downward using this excellent method. Can I check that that's possible? Or is the point to pick up stitches to join the sleeves? (It's my first jumper so I'm improvising the pattern as I go along for the sake of simplicity!)