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Adding A Picot Edge To Your Knitting Once you start to become more confident in your knitting, you can add your own flourishes and embellishments. It's a lovely thing to be able to take a basic pattern shape and make it your own -adding different buttons, ribbons or embroidery can really release your creative juices and allows you to customise your knitting to suit your own individual style. Adding a fancy edging can be a simple but very effective way of transforming a simple pattern into something really special. One of the simplest edgings is a picot.
This stitch is deceptively simple to do, yet gives a delicate, pretty and, dare we say, 'whimsical' flourish to your knitting! It is made from a combination of casting on and off - the more stitches you cast off, the wider the gap between the bobbles. This particular picot pictured has been done by casting off 2 stitches. It's done as follows: *Cast on 5 stitches. Cast off 2 stitches. Slip stitch on Right Hand needle back onto Left Hand needle*(3 stitches should now be on the Left Hand needle.) Repeat from * to * until you have the desired number of stitches on needle to begin the rest of your pattern. e.g. if your pattern requires 47 stitches to be cast on, follow from * to * until you have 47 stitches on the left hand needle. Continue in the rest of your pattern as normal.
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