PLEASE HLEP!!!
Everytime I go to make a pair of mittens or gloves and I get to the part where I start the fingers or thumb and have to pick up stiches I get real nervous!!!
I pick up the stitches, but end up with this big hole, what am I doing wrong? :wall:
Thanks
Try picking up and extra stitch where you are having the hole problem. You can just decrease it away on the next round.
I had the same problem. I do not use a waste yarn to hold my sts. I slip my sts on a circular needle to hold my sts. Then pick up extra sts and when you finish, weave in any gaps. If you pick up to many sts, you can k2tog. This works for me. I also knitted socks, this helped me practice on picking up sts.
I just finished a mitten pattern and it only said to pick up 1 stitch in the gap and it was obviously way too few so I picked up 3 instead and on the next round I K2tog twice to absorb the extra picked up stitches and leave me with the correct number stated in the pattern for the thumb. It almost worked, left me with just a small hole on each mitten which I tacked shut when I wove the end in. You can’t even tell.
I just finished a mitten and had a small hole where the thumb began. When I wove in the ends, I just sewed up the tiny hole. From what I’ve read you’re not doing anything wrong, this is just the nature of the mitten. When I get the other mitten done, I’ll post a picture.
thank you for your help. I will try to pick up more stiches and see if that helps.(Which it should) You have no idea how many attempts I have made and I have thrown every one of them away!!!
I have knitted many pairs of socks and just slip the first stich in my heel flaps which helps when I go to p/u stiches, but with the glove or mitten there is no way to do that.