pick up stitches
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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)
- (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)
- 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