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Posted by Harlan Messinger on February 27, 2007, 9:59 pm
The pattern I'm using has the following stitch distribution as I'm
working even on the fingers:
Needle 1: 20 stitches
Needle 2: 21 stitches
Needle 3: 16 stitches
Needle 4: 16 stitches
The first two needles are for the back of the hand, the others for the palm.
When it's time to start the decrease, the instructions say to rearrange
the stitches as follows, reducing the number of stitches on the back and
increasing the palm:
Needle 1: 18 stitches
Needle 2: 19 stitches
Needle 3: 18 stitches
Needle 4: 18 stitches
After this, every other round has SSK for the first two stitches each on
the back and the palm and K2tog for the last two stitches each on the
back and the palm.
But I don't understand what stitches to move where. At first I assumed
symmetry: two stitches at the right of needle 1 move to needle 4, and
two stitches at the left of needle 2 move to needle 4. But then I
couldn't figure out what to do with the two stitches that would move to
needle 4, which would be sitting between the working yarn and the newly
first stitch on needle 1. I could work them before moving them, but that
would mean that those two stitches get worked an extra time, since
they'll get worked again at the end of the first round following the
transfer. Weird.
Would any of you be able to explain this?
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Posted by WoolyGooly on February 27, 2007, 10:16 pm
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:59:54 -0500, Harlan Messinger
*snip*
It doesn't matter what you move to where, as long as you maintain the
line that defines the center of the thumb gusset. Pick a front, pick
a back, then move stitches off the "back" and to the "front. How you
distribute them shouldn't matter if you maintain that seam for the
thumb gusset and start the index finger in the correct place.
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Posted by Harlan Messinger on February 27, 2007, 11:51 pm
WoolyGooly wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:59:54 -0500, Harlan Messinger
>
> *snip*
>
> It doesn't matter what you move to where, as long as you maintain the
> line that defines the center of the thumb gusset. Pick a front, pick
> a back, then move stitches off the "back" and to the "front. How you
> distribute them shouldn't matter if you maintain that seam for the
> thumb gusset and start the index finger in the correct place.
I shouldn't have said "glove". I meant "mitten". No index finger. In any
event, the thumb gusset was over and done with inches ago; the part of
the hand below the fingers is complete.
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Posted by Mirjam Bruck-Cohen on February 28, 2007, 12:39 am
I read this and thought , that it looks like a mitten not like a glove
, but i see you already corrected that yourself ..
if i understand you correctly you have knit the `cuff` part and
increased the Thumb stiches ,,, and than knitted up to the fingers ,
but you are not going to make finger `sweaters` , you ask how to end
it ???
On my mitten i have 40 stitches you have way more than mine!!!
My mittens are Neutral and don`t have right and left thumbs , you can
wear them as you pick them up ,,,
for the thumb i use 1 stitch on which sides i increase the thumb ,
than when mooving those stitches aside i add a stich and go on
knitting in the round till i get to the END of the lowest finger ,,,
From the beginning i knit on 3 not 4 needles which makes it easy to
keep the thumb line ,,, thus your solution is ,, LOOK for the Thumb
middle `line` and from this 1/2 your stitches on 1 needle and 1/2 on 2
others ,, now you can end as prescribed .. For last 2 rounds turn
inside out and finnish inside !!!
mirjam
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Posted by Harlan Messinger on February 28, 2007, 7:26 am
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote:
> I read this and thought , that it looks like a mitten not like a glove
> , but i see you already corrected that yourself ..
> if i understand you correctly you have knit the `cuff` part and
> increased the Thumb stiches ,,, and than knitted up to the fingers ,
> but you are not going to make finger `sweaters` , you ask how to end
> it ???
> On my mitten i have 40 stitches you have way more than mine!!!
Yeah, the gauge in the pattern is 9 stitches per inch. The yarn I'm
using gives me 6 per inch so I rewrote the whole pattern for it with 55
stitches around. But the instructions I cited are from the original
pattern.
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