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A standard bind off in the round will leave a yarn tail and a small jog where your knitted row ends. As you weave in your bind off tails in the round, you can use the yarn tail to close…

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…

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…

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’ve saved. To work the live stitches off…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…