Wacky method for picking up stitches

[ohsochewy]

I'm making Hazel Carter's Violets By The River shawl. I'm done with the center section and am now moving on to do the wide band of Running River/Old Shale edging around the shorter two sides of the triangle. I've put the live stitches across the top on some holding yarn and am trying to pick up along the left side, then right side. The edge

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[kitchenwitch]

I'm so sorry! This was sitting in the queue for ages!!

[ohsochewy]

Ha! I was wondering about that; I hadn't gotten a rejection or anything!

[belle_noiseuse]

You're right; the 'bars' are the strands between garter bumps and the 'knots' are the bumps themselves. 'Over' here means yarnover, so: you'd (knit into a strand, yarnover, knit into a strand, yarnover, knit into a strand) until you ran out of edge to pick up stitches from. That gives you 5 stitches ready to work for every 6 rows already accomplished.