Casting on a stich in the middle of a glove

#1

Hi folks,

I’ve been knitting for a few months now and am trying my first pair of gloves. All is going well so far except…

…after setting the stitches aside for the thumb, the pattern (http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer05/PATTcigar.html) says to cast-on 1 stitch before joing the round. It doesn’t mention how to cast-on the stitch and I’ve never had to cast-on stitches in the middle of a pattern. I’m assuming this is different than doing an increase? This seems like it should be simple, but I can’t quite figure it out! Any help with this would be most appreciated!

Thanks!

#2

You can use the cable cast on. Insert the tip of your right hand needle between the last two stitches on the left hand needle. Wrap as if to knit, pull the loop forward and place the loop on the end of the left needle like you do when you make a knitted cast on.