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Posted in Sewing on 04/14/2004 04:05 am by admin

knitting left handed
Knitting Mittens: Thumb Pattern Help!?

Hi! I'm knitting the "stripy mitten scarf" mittens via this pattern:

http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/9C07936D-6349-4EB5-AD30-257C14219730/0/3972athmittens.pdf

Now, despite the confusing name these are infact mittens.

I need help!! On the left hand I have done up to row 32, and it now has directions to do the thumb for the next step.

However, row 33 is continued below the thumb paragraph as the "hand" directions, which are step 3.

My question is,

Do I skip the thumb and do it last---will my knitting pattern give me a hole to sew it into?

Or do I do the thumb after row 32, and then after the thumb continue to row 33? Does the thumb not count as rows?

please help, because I can't continue until I make this decision.

Thank you!

-Trux_Dea
Just in case the last link doesn't work:

here it is--I may have mistyped last time.

http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk/NR/rdonlyres/9C07936D-6349-4EB5-AD30-257C14219730/0/3972athmittens.pdf

She is actually asking you to make the thumb before the rest of the mitten. It's not usually done that way (usually you finish the hand first and come back for the thumb), but so long as you are using solid colored yarns and making stripes by row count rather than a self-striping yarn, it doesn't really matter which you do first.

If you have made a yarn substitution on this pattern and are using a self-striping yarn (one that makes color changes all on its own) then you should work the rest of the hand first, then the thumb. Why? Because pausing to do the thumb in the middle of a self-striping yarn will disturb the sequence of stripes and make a noticeable change in the stripe pattern. But if you are knitting as the pattern suggests with individual balls of different colors and doing the color changes on your own, you might as well follow the pattern and see if you like doing it that way. You're free to change patterns if you'd rather do it a different way, but it's good to do them as written if you aren't confident in modifying them. That confidence comes from knitting several similar garments comparing how different designers do things. Once you learn an approach to something it is yours to keep and you can use it on any future project that strikes your fancy.

She's got you using just 25 of the stitches you've previously been working with. That means you slip the other stitches, the unused ones, onto a stitch holder or scrap piece of thread to get them out of your way while you work on the thumb. When you finish the thumb, put the unused stitches back on the needles and continue with the rest of the hand.