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blueberrypie

cuddles123 wrote: »

Can I ask for some advice please?

I have to pick up some stitches around the hood of a jacket I'm knitting.
2 stitches for every 3 rows. As I'm a novice knitter, can anyone advise or point me in the direction of a good tutorial please?

Do you mean for an edging on the hood? You're picking up stitches from the ends of the rows? In that case it's often easiest and neatest to pick up a stitch from each row, then increase/decrease as needed on the first row you knit.

cuddles123

blueberrypie wrote: »

Do you mean for an edging on the hood? You're picking up stitches from the ends of the rows? In that case it's often easiest and neatest to pick up a stitch from each row, then increase/decrease as needed on the first row you knit.

Yes, its for the edging on a hood. Never done it before, and want it to look neat. The pattern doesn't say how many stitches, so is it crucial? Can I just pick up one from the end of each row?
I have to do 5 rows of rib then cast off.

lambanana

I'm surprised it doesn't say how many stitches you need to pick up but as you said it states 2 for every 3 rows you will need to count how many rows there are and do the maths for it to work out how many. You then need to do 2 for every three rows so figure out the neatest way to do that (or just calculate how many stitches you need, how many rows there are and work out how frequently to pick up stitches to make them neat and evenly spaced)

There's a video here on how to pick up stitches http://www.knittinghelp.com/apps/flash/video_player/play/166/1

cuddles123

Good video - thank you.

Kittencat

Dear All

My good friend is expecting twins, so I thought i'd try to knit something. I have in mind a small baby blanket, I wonder where I can find a pattern for a blanket, I'm thinking to knit squares first then sew them together because it's the easiest way, but would like to make it pretty.

Any help would be great, also I haven't knitted since I was a child, so a beginner pattern would be useful.

Many Thanks in advance

Kittencat
xx

NualaBuala

Hi Kittencat,

I've never knitted a baby blanket before but it might be worth looking on LionBrand's pattern finder http://cache.lionbrand.com/cgi-bin/patternFinder.fcgi

I find it really handy as it lets you search by ability, type of yarn etc ... and they're free!

Hope you enjoy getting back into knitting!

mardatha

Was somebody in here looking for gloves but not sure how to do them ? I found a really easy looking pattern, you knit them sideways in garter st. I would need to email you the pattern though as it was on Ravelry and not the net.

notjustlaura

Kittencat wrote: »

My good friend is expecting twins, so I thought i'd try to knit something. I have in mind a small baby blanket, I wonder where I can find a pattern for a blanket, I'm thinking to knit squares first then sew them together because it's the easiest way, but would like to make it pretty.

Hello

You may find Ravelry helpful. It's basically Facebook for knitters/crotcheters and has loads of patterns available (some of which are free).

blueberrypie

cuddles123 wrote: »

Yes, its for the edging on a hood. Never done it before, and want it to look neat. The pattern doesn't say how many stitches, so is it crucial? Can I just pick up one from the end of each row?
I have to do 5 rows of rib then cast off.

If it says 2 stitches for every 3 rows and you have 3 stitches for every 3 rows, you'll end up with a floppy ribbing.

Just pick up one stitch from each row and then when you knit the first row, knit every 2nd and 3rd stitch together - i.e. k1, k2tog, k1, k2tog, k1, k2tog, etc.

kezbabybabe

Hi Fellow Knitters,

I've finished my Scarf kit:


Going to be saving up for some needles and yarn for my next project, a comfort wrap, but until then I think it's back to my cross-stitching, as I still have some kits for that to finish.