If you used a stitch holder to separate and add your glove thumb, you will have a yarn tail and a hole at the base of your glove thumb. You can use the loose end to close the gap as…
Weave in Bind-off Tails in the Round
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…
Weave in the Cast-on Tail of Fingerless Gloves
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 of fingerless gloves, you can fix the jog and hide the slipknot. Use a darning needle…
Weave in Loose Ends on Fingerless Gloves
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…
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…
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…
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…
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