Graft question

How-to Questions
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I started making the little bear that Myloveoverflows is making from the knitty site. Here is a link to the pattern. When you make the arms of the bear you make a tube in the round with 10 stitches. Then at the end of the tube it has you K2 tog 5 times so that you end up with 5 stitches. Then you work one row even. Then it tells you to “Break yarn. Graft remaining 5 stitches together.”

I looked at the list of terms that knitty has and “graft” is not there. I always think of it as kitchener stitch, but don’t you need an even number of stitches to do a proper kitchener stitch graft? What do you suppose they want you to do to join the ends?

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You don’t need an even number of stitches, just the same number on one row as below. In this case though, it sounds like you are not grafting the 5 to another 5 st (which would be fine) but to each other, like treat half as one row and graft to the other half (other row), correct? In that case it is odd, I would either run the wool through all 5 st.s and pull up tight, OR graft 2 st to the other 2 and just do whatever I could with the extra one. As long as it doesn’t fall down, you should be fine!