Hi!
I’ve knitted up some very long fingerless gloves but made the thumb gussets waaaay too large. See images, my thumb is drowning, 
I’ve already placed the xtra sts on waste yarn and knitted one of the gussets, using decreases, past my thumb but wondered if I can rip out what I’ve done this far, and decrease the gussets too shrink them? Any one ever have to deal with this?
Thank you!!
Valentina
If you want a good result, there is no other way than to frog all the way down to the beginning of the thumb gusset and reknit it. Try to add a stitch on each side of the thumb every third row until you have added something like 14-16 stitches.
I figured as much, but I’m not afraid. Ha! Another question, since the sts have been placed on waste yarn or are no longer attached to the working yarn, I’m assuming I’ll have to cast on, then pick up sts to get started?
Thank you for your reply!
Disclaimer, all the numbers are assumptions I made from trying to estimate your gauge just from the pictures.
Knit until you have 3 stitches remaining on the back side of the mitten. Put a marker and M1. K2, M1 and put the second marker. Knit around and on every third row you increase on the thumb side of the markers. Repeat until you have something like 14-16 stitches added for the thumb. After the last increase, knit one round more.
Transfer all the thumb gusset stitches on waste yarn. On the next row when you reach the gusset, cast on two stitches (because the thumb gusset begun with two stitches) and skip all the gusset stitches and knit in the rounds until you have the desired length for your mitten.
Transfer all the thumb gusset stitches to needles and pick additionally up 2 stitches from the border where you earlier did the cast on and work the thumb in the rounds. To avoid holes some pick up even more stitches than the 2 you earlier cast on and then working them together on the first round.
Thank you! i’ll see what i can do.
