I've actually finished this project, but I haven't had time to update Pins and Needles. In this picture, you see the collar marked every inch with safety pins. I needed to pick up five stitches per inch.
For picking up stitches instructions, continue reading.
In the Knitter's Handbook, which I use all of the time, the thing that helped me understand picking up stitches most was when I read that one should think of it as "knitting up" rather than"picking up" stitches. You don't just go around lifting loops up from the edge of the knitting. This is a step-by-step to picking up one stitch.
First, pick up a loop from the edge.
Next, loop the yarn from the ball of yarn you are using over the needle.
And pull it through the loop.
This is what it looked like when I had picked up all of the stitches and was ready to do the ribbing for the poncho's collar.
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