It’s understandable for a knitter to shy away from using a crochet hook. But a picot is a great introduction to using a crochet hook in your knitting!

Give a picot a try! It’s a gorgeous way to add a little extra flair to your knitting:

• It makes an ornamental or decorative way to create a beautiful border or edging to a pattern.
• You can use any number of stitches to create a picot. The number of chains you make can create a more rounded or pointed picot.
• It gives the border or edge a wave-like appearance when you intersperse the picots with some plain stitches.
• It’s important to note that you need a crochet hook for this tutorial. While a specific size isn’t required, we recommend a hook size similar to your yarn.

How to Make a Picot in Knitting

For the purposes of this tutorial we are going to use a 6 chain to create the picot. As always, follow the instructions contained in your pattern.

Step 1: Begin by chaining 6 stitches.

Step 2: Insert your hook into the back loop of the 1st stitch of your chain 6.

The 1^st stitch may also be referred to as the base stitch.

Step 3: Yarn over and pull through the base stitch and the loop on your hook as one. You have now completed your picot stitch.

Step 4: Place the loop on the hook onto the right needle

Here’s the finished picot after binding off the remaining stitches.