After knitting fingerless gloves, you will have four loose ends to weave in. Using a darning needle, you can sew the tails into your work in a manner that matches your pattern. Then, I like to tie tiny knots to…
Knit Off a Stitch Holder in the Magic Loop – Glove Thumb
After separating the sections of your glove with your stitch holder, you will knit the hand portion. Then, you can remove the live stitches from the stitch holder and start knitting the thumb. You can knit thumbs in the round…
Knit Off Stitch Holders with DPNs – Knitting a Glove Thumb
After you have separated your glove thumb and hand with a stitch holder, you’ll knit the hand of the glove. Then, you will want to make the thumb using the live stitches you have saved. To work the live stitches…
Bind Off in the Magic Loop
You can also use the Standard Bind Off to take the stitches off your needles when you have been working in the magic loop. Bind off down one side of your work, turn, and adjust your knitting needles. Then, bind…
Using Scrap Yarn Instead of Stitch Holders
If you need to use a stitch holder, but do not have one available, you can substitute a strand of scrap yarn. Using a darning needle, thread a bit of yarn through live stitches that need to be kept workable…
Slip Stitches onto a Stitch Holder to Work Later
When you are knitting gloves or other shaped knitwear, you may need to separate groups of live stitches. For example, when knitting gloves, you will need to separate the hand section from the thumb. To do this, you can slip…
Make One Right (M1R)
The “make one right” increase allows you to add stitches to knitted rows that are in progress. These increases will lean toward the right, so your work will grow in a rightward direction. This increase is especially helpful in knitting…
Make One Left (M1L)
As its name suggests, the “make one left” increase is a left-leaning stitch. Use this increase to add live stitches to a work that is already in progress. This will lengthen your knitted rows and enable you to shape your…
Increases
Increases add live stitches to your knitted rows. This is useful in shaping knitwear. Gloves and mittens, for example, use increases to shape around the base of the thumb. Adding increases along one edge of a knit tube creates a…
Weave in the Cast-on Tail in the Round
At the beginning of your knit rounds, there will likely be a small jog near your slipknot. When you weave in the cast on tail on a round knit project, you can fix the jog and hide the slipknot. Use…
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