pick up stitches

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (AU)(file)

Verb[edit]

pick up stitches (third-person singular simple present picks up stitches, present participle picking up stitches, simple past and past participle picked up stitches)

  1. (idiomatic) To add stitches to the knitting needle that were previously bound off, or that belong to the selvage, during the process of knitting or entrelac.

Noun[edit]

pick up stitches pl (plural only)

  1. Stitches that were added to the row, during knitting.

References[edit]

  • June Hemmons Hiatt (1988). The Principles of Knitting. Simon and Schuster, pp. 183-200. →ISBN
Retrieved from "https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=pick_up_stitches&oldid=77817214"