Knitting Socks: Pick Up Stitches

Video Transcript

"When you've finished turning your heel and you've got this cute little heel sitting there you need to pick up the stitches to begin going back on the round to finish working your sock. So when you pick up the gusset you're going to pick up all those slip stitches you made, which are nice and big on the inside here, and you're going to pick them up by inserting the needle into the slipped stitch bringing the yarn through. And you're going to do that in every stitch that you have across the gusset. And then here's where the gusset and the leg meet. I don't have any more gusset stitches there. What I like to do is I like to go into the stitch below the last stitch worked on the instep and make an extra stitch there so that I don't have a hole. Now I'm going to get another pointed needled and I'm going to put all my instep stitches on one needle. So I'm going to continue and I'm going to knit across my instep which was waiting for me patiently on those two double pointed needles. And instead of switching I'm going to knit across. So whereas before I had all my heel stitches on one needle now I'll have all my instep stitches on one needle. When I get to the end of the instep I'm going to go back and take that stitch right below the stitch just worked and create that extra stitch to close the gusset and I'm going to go back and I'm going to pick up the other stitches along the side of the heel flap the way I did before. And when I get to the end of this I'm going to go across half of the heel stitches that I worked when I turned the heel and that will become the new round for the needle, for the sock. And I put a little marker there so I knew where I ended. So now this will mark the beginning of my round."