How To Pick Up Stitches In Knitting Around Neck. The results should look like this. How to pick up stitches around a neck that has been cast off.
Put needle through last stitch right before neckline decreases on sweater and pull yarn through from back to front to create stitch. Then, when picking up and knitting the second stitch, wrap both ends of the yarn around the needle. Determine where you will need to pick up stitches in order to evenly space the stitches in the space available.
If you don’t have a final count then use the marked sections to ensure even spacing around the neck.
You have now picked up one stitch. Whether you cast on stitches to start, or pick up stitches around neck opening, working the rest of the neckband is the same. Right side of sweater or cardigan facing you, on a cardigan start at right front and pick up around neckline and on sweater begin picking up stitches at left shoulder. Work as many rows of 1 x 1 rib stitch as indicated in the pattern.