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Glove: moving stitches from back to palm

The pattern I'm using has the following stitch distribution as I'm working even on the fingers:

Needle 1: 20 stitches Needle 2: 21 stitches Needle 3: 16 stitches Needle 4: 16 stitches

The first two needles are for the back of the hand, the others for the palm.

When it's time to start the decrease, the instructions say to rearrange the stitches as follows, reducing the number of stitches on the back and increasing the palm:

Needle 1: 18 stitches Needle 2: 19 stitches Needle 3: 18 stitches Needle 4: 18 stitches

After this, every other round has SSK for the first two stitches each on the back and the palm and K2tog for the last two stitches each on the back and the palm.

But I don't understand what stitches to move where. At first I assumed symmetry: two stitches at the right of needle 1 move to needle 4, and two stitches at the left of needle 2 move to needle 4. But then I couldn't figure out what to do with the two stitches that would move to needle 4, which would be sitting between the working yarn and the newly first stitch on needle 1. I could work them before moving them, but that would mean that those two stitches get worked an extra time, since they'll get worked again at the end of the first round following the transfer. Weird.

Would any of you be able to explain this?

Reply to
Harlan Messinger
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It doesn't matter what you move to where, as long as you maintain the line that defines the center of the thumb gusset. Pick a front, pick a back, then move stitches off the "back" and to the "front. How you distribute them shouldn't matter if you maintain that seam for the thumb gusset and start the index finger in the correct place.

Reply to
WoolyGooly

I shouldn't have said "glove". I meant "mitten". No index finger. In any event, the thumb gusset was over and done with inches ago; the part of the hand below the fingers is complete.

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Harlan Messinger

I read this and thought , that it looks like a mitten not like a glove , but i see you already corrected that yourself .. if i understand you correctly you have knit the `cuff` part and increased the Thumb stiches ,,, and than knitted up to the fingers , but you are not going to make finger `sweaters` , you ask how to end it ??? On my mitten i have 40 stitches you have way more than mine!!! My mittens are Neutral and don`t have right and left thumbs , you can wear them as you pick them up ,,, for the thumb i use 1 stitch on which sides i increase the thumb , than when mooving those stitches aside i add a stich and go on knitting in the round till i get to the END of the lowest finger ,,, From the beginning i knit on 3 not 4 needles which makes it easy to keep the thumb line ,,, thus your solution is ,, LOOK for the Thumb middle `line` and from this 1/2 your stitches on 1 needle and 1/2 on 2 others ,, now you can end as prescribed .. For last 2 rounds turn inside out and finnish inside !!! mirjam

Reply to
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

Yeah, the gauge in the pattern is 9 stitches per inch. The yarn I'm using gives me 6 per inch so I rewrote the whole pattern for it with 55 stitches around. But the instructions I cited are from the original pattern.

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Harlan Messinger

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