Pick Up and Knit Stitches

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Pick Up and Knit Stitches Along a Horizontal Edge
With the right side of the work facing, *insert the knitting needle into the center of a stitch under the bound-off edge (Figure 1). Wrap the yarn as if to knit and pull the new stitch through. Repeat from * for each picked-up stitch.

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Pick Up and Knit Stitches Along a Vertical Edge
With the right side of the work facing, insert the knitting needle from the front to the back between the first two stitches at the selvedge edge of the piece (Figure 2). Wrap the yarn as if to knit and pull the new stitch through. A general rule for picking up stitches along a vertical edge on stockinette stitch is to pick up three stitches for every four rows.

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