Woods Road Vest Armhole Trim

On this page I show you how I get started with picking-up and knitting stitches for the armholes in Woods Road Vest.

To start, the pattern says to join yarn at center of underarm and pick-up and knit the left-side underarm sts.

If your size says to pick-up and knit, say, 4 left-side underarm sts, then to start you would insert your needle tip into the 4th-stitch-in at the underarm – each of the underarm sts look like sideways “V”‘s, so I like to insert the needle into both legs of the “V” as shown below:

Then you’ll drape the yarn over the top of the needle…

…And then you’ll knit it.

Then you’ll insert the needle into the next underarm cast-on stitch, like this…

…And knit it.

You would then repeat that until the specified number of left-side underarm sts have been picked-up. Then, you’ll be ready to work step 2 which is to pick-up and knit sts up to the shoulder, picking-up 3 sts for every 4 rows (making sure total picked-up in this step is an even number). The steps I work in this are similar to those outlined in the Front Bands tutorial.

Before I start, I like to place a removable marker on the right needle, just to make counting easier as I make my way up to the shoulder. And when picking-up into the stockinette st area of the side, I insert my needle into the “V” stitch that is next to the edge st, like this:

When picking-up in any of the garter ridges, I use a skinny DPN needle to assist me (just like I did in the Front bands). I insert the DPN into the loop in the ridge, and then knit it with my right needle.