Waste yarn and thumb

How-to Questions
1

Hi-
I am going to knit fingerless gloves/mittins. I was trying to practice:

“Using waste yarn, k7; slip these sts back to left needle and k them again using working yarn; work in 4x1 Rib as set to end.”

When I was doing the practice, I could NOT get my waste yarn out, I had to pull SOOOOOOOOOOO hard. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,
Rae Ann

2

Maybe try a more slippery waste yarn or one that’s a little thinner?

3

You know what I do? I just carefully snip the waste yarn, stitch by stitch, then you just have to pull out the little bits and there’s little to no risk of losing the live stitches.

4

Is this Fetching from Knitty? When I did these, I used size 10 mercerized cotton (the kind you make doilies from) as my waste “yarn,” and it worked perfectly.

5

I used a piece of Opal sock yarn, worked fine for me.