Complete Definition of "pick up stitches"

English

Verb
pick up stitches

  1. idiom to add ("pick up") stitches to the knitting needle that were previously bound off, or that belong to the selvage, during the process of knitting or entrelac.

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Noun
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  1. stitches that were added to the row, during knitting.

References

June Hemmons Hiatt (1988). The Principles of Knitting. Simon and Schuster, pp. 183-200. ISBN 0-671-55233-3

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