How to make the thumb for Fetching, Dashing + Glowbal Warming

Some people have found the thumb in Fetching a bit of a challenge, but it's pretty simple one you figure it out. The instructions below are written for Fetching. You just need to adjust the number of stitches if you are making Dashing.

The instructions read:

Using waste yarn, k7; slip these sts back to left needle and k them again using working yarn.

By working 7 stitches with waste yarn, you are holding a space to make the thumb later on. So: you take a new piece of yarn, in a contrasting colour (so you can find it easily to take it out later), and work 7 stitches with it. You just drop your working yarn, pick up the waste yarn, and (leaving about 10 cm hanging down inside the glove), start knitting. After you make the 7 stitches with the contrasting waste yarn, drop the waste yarn, leave the tail hanging inside your glove, slip the stitches back to your LH needle and work them again using the working yarn.

	1. Finishing off the last round, about to drop the working yarn.
	2. Picking up the waste yarn (pale green), holding the end with my left index finger.
	3. Knitting with the waste yarn (three stitches done).
	4. 7 stitches with waste yarn finished, ready to slip back to LH needle.
	5. Re-knitting the 7 stitches using working yarn.
	6. Finished the 7 stitches, ready to carry on with the rest of the round.
	7. The 7 waste stitches before removal.

Once you've bound off the top of the glove, carefully remove the  waste yarn and put the exposed loops onto your needles . You will use these live stitches, plus some stitches that you pick up on either side of the open space, to create the thumb.

Still stuck? The Knitty.com Coffeeshop has several threads on this topic. You might want to check it out.

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Comments (1)

	1. 27-11-2010 20:18
	I think this thumb is really easy! My question is the placement for the thumbs on Dashing. I knitted the left mitten, placed the thumb as directed, and it's a right mitten. (if it were a left mitten, the cables would be on the palm.) And so I'll be knitting a left mitten and will jury-rig the thumb I guess. Guest

Alison

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