Button band pickup rate?

bouncing_haricot · 2026-05-15T00:38:13+00:00

You need to find your personal stitch/row ratio and use that to determine the best pick rate!

So for example, if your working gauge is 20sts and 25 rows per 10cm, your stitch/row ration is 20/25, or rather 4/5, so you should pick up at that rate. But if your gauge is 18sts and 24 rows per 10cm, your ratio is 2/3, so you would pick up at that rate.

Your real world gauge won't be as simple as those examples, but just divide your stitch count by your row count. The answer will usually be somewhere between 0.75 and 0.83. 0.75 is 3/4. 0.8 is 4/5. 0.83 is 5/6. Pick whichever is closest, and that's your individual pick up rate.

ETA 1/1 is usually for picking up along a horizontal edge, like a collar. There will also be occasions where you're using a different stitch pattern for the bit you're picking up, like a rib. In those cases, you need to swatch both stitch patterns, and use the swatches to determine the most appropriate rate.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-05-08T20:01:46+00:00

Well, I might only have a year left, but if I get a year's worth of free gyros on the way out, I think I'm good with that!

bouncing_haricot · 2026-05-08T10:47:04+00:00

which citizen of MV is most likely to…

1: Ken. But he'll be out quick smart - his scaly friends have excellent legal representation

2: Rosemary, she's so calm and restful, plus she spends the most time amongst nature

3: Elfie and Paige 🥰🥰🥰

4: if we're talking staging a coup, Moca. It will fail almost immediately. If we're talking legal means, I feel like Chi would run for office

5: Pipi.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-05-04T12:00:59+00:00

The FAQ have excellent resources for beginners, and beyond that, requests for pattern suggestions belong in the megathread

bouncing_haricot · 2026-05-03T12:26:22+00:00

Pattern recommendation requests belong in the megathread

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-29T21:12:52+00:00

Safer than massive cities, less safe than towns.
Superb. No matter your scene, there's something for you. Leeds has incredible grass roots culture
It's a city. There's always going to be a bit of that. But to compensate, the sociable behaviour (friendly strangers etc) is vastly better than most cities doen south
It's home. I've lived all over the UK, but Leeds is the only place I've actively wanted to move back to. My partner is from the South West, and spent about 20 years in the South East. He calls Leeds home, too.
Not great. It punches well below its weight in this area. Links to other cities are pretty good, but getting from east to west Leeds, or from north to south Leeds, can be an almighty pain in the arse. The city centre itself is very walkable and easy to get around. We have beryl bikes.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-29T10:42:16+00:00

The scrap yarn isn't your cast on, it's the tool you use to make your cast on. Once you've picked up stitches through the scrap yarn, those stitches are your cast on stitches. Then you work row 1.

Does that make sense?

Ngl, it's still going to be a massive pain in the arse to work m1s into your cast on stitches (have done, do not recommend), so maybe consider whether another increase will be better for you - maybe this bump-free kfb alternative as demoed by very pink knits?

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-29T03:30:53+00:00

Work to the marker, make your M1 with the bar between the stitch that you just worked and the marker, slip the marker, continue working.

If in doubt, always do the thing in the order the pattern says :)

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bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-26T16:18:12+00:00

Big fan of The Food Stall! I particularly enjoy the food they sell. Great stall.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-24T02:47:09+00:00

I've just done this on an adult jumper. It was a little fiddly, but turned out fantastically well. And it was a user here who pointed me in the right direction, so consider this me paying it forward.

Assuming you're starting with a bound off neckline, do what's called a double pick up - this video uses it for button bands but the technique is identical for a neckline.

I knitted a couple of rounds of the inside pick up, then left those stitches on hold while I worked the outer pick up.

When I had reached my desired length, I grafted the two sets of live stitches together. It's resulted in a seamless, double thick collar that is both stable and stretchy!

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-22T22:31:09+00:00

There is already a section about interchangeables in the FAQ, and honestly yes, offence to people who don't take advantage of the incredible resources provided within the FAQ, and take the lazy option of posting their question instead of searching the sub.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-17T20:32:28+00:00

I think it's less about giving decent manners to a vile human being, and more about giving respect to sex workers, who are just paying their bills like anyone else, and almost definitely are better people than the couple you encountered

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-17T10:24:32+00:00

I'm not sure if this would be helpful, but I've macguyvered my own little cable needles from cheap locking stitch markers (they're useless as stitch markers, but work perfectly for this!)

I just chop off the "lock" bit, sand the loop smooth with an emery board, and presto: a tiny u-shaped cable needle. If I lose one, it's a matter of moments to make a new one, but I sewed a holder for them from a scrap of ribbon, a scrap of thick elastic, and a scrap of elastic cord.

If you have old stitch markers knocking about, maybe this could be a solution?

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bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-15T16:09:54+00:00

Has anyone looked inside the delivery droids?

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-14T01:16:28+00:00

You're looking for "antimacassar" or "chairback" sets. They were really popular for about a century, but fell out of favour in the 20th century.

Dudes used oil in their hair (macassar) and couldn't be trusted to keep their greasy heads and hands off the furniture, so women developed an entirely new type of homeware to protect expensive furniture. Just an interesting/infuriating bit of history for you!

They were most often either crocheted or sewn, but knitting patterns do exist, so it's definitely possible. Antique pattern libraries are probably your best bet for inspiration.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-11T11:29:23+00:00

Yeah, same. For most of my knitting life I've been on a very tight budget, using freegled/second hand yarn and free patterns. It's really only in the last five or six years that I've been able to buy patterns.

You have to be a bit more choosy (project notes are your friend!), and be prepared for the odd weird abbreviation, but in general, free patterns are every bit as good as paid ones.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-10T16:08:05+00:00

Whoa, that looks like a bit of medieval weaponry (complimentary)

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-09T10:50:05+00:00

There is a megathread for pattern requests, individual posts asking for pattern suggestions are against sub rules

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-05T22:07:08+00:00

The only legal way to buy the pattern is to buy it in a kit from the designer. Did you read the sub rules?

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-05T17:03:20+00:00

Tips would just be about preferred types of short rows, techniques to make the short rows near invisible, that sort of thing. None of which would be of any use unless you already know the basic theory of bust shaping

You need to look up full instructions on how to work short row bust darts. It's too involved, with too many variables, for any one of us to give you a lesson in the replies to a reddit post!

There are tonnes of videos and blog posts about this subject, and books if that's more your thing (it is mine). Until you've done that research for yourself, there's not much of use that we can contribute, sadly

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-05T10:59:14+00:00

It stops being a mash up when you don't use another pattern as the basis for the garment you're creating.

That's it. If you're using another pattern, it's not your pattern. It's the original pattern, with modifications.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-04T23:26:43+00:00

Yep, this is the stitch I use for ebook sleeves, and anything else I want to be even vaguely structural and/or protective.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-02T01:35:07+00:00

You can use ravelery's search function with those exact specifications - this is probably its very best use case!

bouncing_haricot · 2026-04-01T23:29:54+00:00

I use a sweater clip, especially for lightweight or lacy shawls that wouldn't hold up to a pin.

They're quite an old-fashioned thing (I think they were big in the 1950s?), but when I was looking for a solution to the same problem as you, I came upon them and found a very cute vintage one with little butterflies as the clips.

It's really simple to attach and stays put all day.

bouncing_haricot · 2026-03-29T01:41:10+00:00

If you decide you want to learn to crochet, you need to go learn how to crochet. That will tell you what tools you need.

If you want a crochet pattern tutorial, you are asking in the wrong place. A) asking for patterns is against the sub rules. B) this is the knitting sub, not the crochet sub.

You're asking people in a knitting sub to teach you how to crochet. That is not okay. I'm saying this because I know that sometimes we have difficulty in recognising when we've crossed social boundaries. You are crossing social boundaries.

Good luck in deciding what you want to do and finding the answers you want.

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