OH DEAR…THE PAIN! THE PAIN!
Yes Jan I have done just as you indicated over and over for 4 or is it 5 days now. I did the crochet provisional cast on.
I don’t understand how a blasted mitten can be so darn hard…after all I have done a couple of pairs of socks…should be similar. Of course…this all started because I was TRYING to make a swatch in a colorwork pattern just to make sure I got a hat that fit. (I just made one with WW yarn, and didn’t do a colorwork swatch and it was just fine)
But this is with fingerling yarn, knit picks “gloss” so I thought I should do a swatch of the colorwork because I had some concerns about the pattern. I got the size 5 needle to get the stockinette gauge of 24st/4in.
But this pattern also states: 32 stitches and 36 rows needed for gauge. Recommending that you use a 1 size larger needle to get this. This did not compute…larger needle, MORE ST
ITCHES? Ok…I better do a swatch just in case. I asked the designer if there was a mistake in the gauges…and she indicated it was correct.
Problem was initially…I could not do the swatch in the round…in pattern. I just kept loosing stitches all over the place…over and over. SOOOOOOOOO I decided to knit a tube…then thought why not just make the mittens BEFORE the Tam and Cowl and use the mittens as my gauge “tube”.
:roflhard:
^$&* cuff!
Once again I have spent an entire day and I am just to row 6 of the mitten.
I at least have the cuff securely done. I don’t know why when I inspected the K2tog of knitting in the hem I just couldn’t see a problem…till a hole appeared 2 rows later and I’d see a several dropped stitches.
Anyways…now I have a problem reading the chart for the thumb.
Wish I could explain it properly…but basically you do the mitten chart…PM do a KLL then KRL PM then do chart again and you now have top and bottom of the mitten. I assume this is NOT a increase row…BECAUSE 2nd row…shows only 2 stitches.
3rd Row says KLL, red stitch, white stitch, KLR
4th row shows only 4 stitches…soooo this means the KLL and KRL are not increases?
I am confused so I am gonna go to Youtube to see if there are an videos on thumbs. 
I think next time I do a swatch in color…I will do a tube and not a sock, mitten or glove…just saying!
Sadly, last week I did a colorwork gauge in the round…using 3 stitch 1 color 3 stitch 2nd color…and at the LYS…when I was buying more yarn (like I need more yarn) and the ladies there had a good laugh at my chicken viking hat, then told me that I should do the gauge in the PATTERN. AND I had the right gauge, but a little puckered. So I started over…in pattern.
Which was a complete fail. SO here I am…with 1 cuff…and I should have finished this whole project within 5 days.
I am knitting for hours and hours daily with nothing to show yet…except a felting cuff.