Sunday, January 31, 2010

Glitten Help



The Peace Leaf Glitten pattern that I've posted has a few strange steps, so I'm going to attempt to clarify them with some visual aids (ooooaaaaa).

The pattern for this walk thru can be found here.

In the "Mitten Flap" section (pg3), you need to carefully remove the waste yarn that you've knit across the palm of the glitten.  When you've done this you should have 20 stithes on the bottom and 19 stitches on the top.  This is what that should look like:


Then the instructions say to knit a 1x1 rib for the flap using the "top" needle, that would be this one:


Then you have to CO 20 stitches and knit them with the "bottom" needle in the round.  Leave a nice long tail when you CO for reasons that shall become apparent in a little bit.  In this pic, I have used a Cabled cast on, and then knit across the 20 stitches on the needle.  Then all you have to do is distribute the stitches on your DNPs and knit in the round.


Once you start working on the fingers it helps to put the stitches that you are not using on a given finger onto waste yarn with the ends of the waste yarn at the side that is next to the finger you are working on.  This way, when you are ready to move onto the next finger, you can take 5 stitches from each end of the waste yarn and have the right stitches without doing any shuffling.  


Ok.  The last weird bit.  Once you finished the fingers and the thumb, you need to attach the edge of the finger part to the rest of the mitten.  I would suggest weaving in all the ends EXCEPT the long tail I told you to leave earlier.  Getting all the ends out of the way makes it easier to see what's going on.  The tail is going to be used to sew the edge on to the inside of the glittens.  The first step is to turn the top part of the glitten inside out.
Then you place the loose edge of the finger part against it and use the a tapestry needle and the long tail to sew across the edge.

TADA!  That's it!  Hopefully that clarifies things :)



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