Attaching a Pocket - Part 3: Knitting On the Pocket

Step 4: WS rows.

• Your WS (wrong side) rows should be done in pattern without attaching to the garment.  For a stocking stitch pocket this will be a purl row.

Step 5: RS rows - the Right Hand Side.

• Take a look at your baste line on the sides of your pocket.  You will see that every second bar up the column is sitting on top of your basting yarn.  These are the only bars you will be working with as you will only be attaching the pocket every second row (the RS rows).

Bars over the Baste Line

• Skip the first bar over your baste line (which is in line with the base of the pocket).
• With your yarn to the back of your work, with your left needle pick up the bar which is next in the baste line.  Pick up the bar from the bottom - so run your needle up the baste line to pick up the stitch.  Your working yarn should be coming from in between the two stitches out the back.  This is very important so that you are not wrapping the bar when you knit it causing an uneven edge.
• k2tog.  Knit the picked up bar and the first stitch together as if they are one.

Step 6 - RS rows - the middle.

• Knit across the row in pattern to the last stitch.  Leave one stitch on your left needle.

One stitch on left needle

Step 7 - RS rows - the Left Hand Side.

• Skip the first bar over the baste line and pick up from the bottom to top the next bar over the baste line onto your left needle.

Pick up the bar over the baste line

• k2tog.  Knit the picked up bar and the first stitch together as if they are one.

k2tog

REPEAT STEPS 4-7 PICKING UP THE BASTE LINE BARS IN ORDER AND KNITTING THEM WITH YOUR RS ROWS UNTIL YOUR POCKET IS THE RIGHT HEIGHT.

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