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- Hi, I'm Edie Eckman, I'm a knitter and crocheter

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and I'm going to show you how to pick up stitches

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along a curved edge, as if we were doing a neckline.

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On this curved edge, I have some horizontal stitches

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where I've bound off

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and then I have a shaped portion

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where there were some decreases

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and then a vertical portion.

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So we're just doing a combination of picking up

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under a horizontal edge or bound off edge.

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I'm gonna go under one strand here

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because that bound off edge is a little bit tight.

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So you might go under two strands

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or you might go under one strand,

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just pick one and stick with it.

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That first one I went under one,

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this time, I'm going under two.

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So I'm going under both edges of my bound off stitches,

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both legs I guess I should say, of my bound off stitches.

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And now I come to my decrease rows

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and I'm going to work,

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because I've done a full fashion decrease,

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those are the decreases,

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but I have a selvage stitch here

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and I'm going to work into that selvage.

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And my rate of pick up is going to depend on my fabric.

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And it's going to be maybe one stitch per row.

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Now when you're working along a vertical selvage,

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you would not do one stitch per row.

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And it may be under this diagonal part,

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you're not going to be doing one stitch per row.

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You're just going to have to figure it out.

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That looks a little too tight for me,

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I think I have too many stitches there,

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so I'll stop and pull back.

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Maybe I didn't need a stitch there, maybe I need one here.

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So you can figure it out as you go, as to what rate you need

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and of course,

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if you're picking up a certain number of stitches,

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your pattern will tell you.

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Now when I've finished the diagonal part,

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or the shaped part,

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I'll be working onto a vertical edge.

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And on the vertical edge, I'm just going to pick up

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at whatever rate I need to,

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maybe three stitches out of four rows,

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to make it lie flat.

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Go ahead and pick up at whatever rate you need to pick up

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in order for it to lie flat,

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it's just going to depend on your work.

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It looks a little messy here when it's on a straight needle,

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because it's a curved edge

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that I've flattened out into a straight needle,

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but when I put it on the curved portion

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of this circular needle,

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you can see that it's going to lie nice and flat

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and be rounded.

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And any little gap here is going to fill in

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if I'm doing ribbing.