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picked up stitches

picked up stitches is the simple past and past participle of pick up stitches.

Meaning of pick up stitches

Verb

pick up stitches (third-person singular simple present picks up stitches, present participle picking up stitches, simple past and past participle picked up stitches)

  1. (idiomatic) To add stitches to the knitting needle that were previously bound off, or that belong to the selvage, during the process of knitting or entrelac.

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Questions about picked up stitches

What is picked up stitches the simple past and past participle of?
Picked up stitches is the simple past and past participle of pick up stitches.

Words near picked up stitches in the dictionary

  1. picked up on
  2. picked up one's crumbs
  3. picked up one's marbles and gone home
  4. picked up one's marbles and went home
  5. picked up steam
  6. picked up stitches
  7. picked up the ball and ran with it
  8. picked up the ball and run with it
  9. picked up the mantle
  10. picked up the pace
  11. picked up the phone

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