1. pick up stitches - Noun
2. 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)
(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.
pick up stitches pl (plural only)
Stitches that were added to the row, during knitting.