Advice sought
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knittingI'm trying to make myself a pair of convertible gloves (those things that look like mittens but you fold back the top and voila, it's fingerless gloves underneath). I couldn't find a pattern that did exactly what I wanted, so I'm making up my own as I go, with ideas from several of the patterns I looked at.
I'm using my yarn double-stranded for the body of the mitten, but since that's really thick and might be uncomfortable to have two layers of double-stranded knit between my fingers, I'm thinking about knitting the fingers single-stranded (I'm not worried about loss of warmth because most of the time the fingers will be covered by the mitten flap). I'm not sure how to best do that, though: if I switch to knitting single-stranded, I'll also switch to smaller needles to keep the fabric tightly knit, and that means I'll need more stitches to go the same distance around the glove. Do you have any advice?
Ideas I've had so far:
- the first row with the single strand and smaller needles, knit two stitches into each old stitch (adjusting as needed to meet the right number of total stitches).
Or,
- knit the single-strand section separately and sew it onto the double-strand section.
Or,
- ??
Update 2/23: I pulled out the smallest DPNs I had near and did a gauge swatch of single-strand, and found out that five stitches on the double-strand with the larger needles was equivalent to six stitches of single-strand with the smaller needles. (I was surprised it wasn't more of a difference.) So I switched to the smaller needles and single strand and *knit four stitches plain, then one stitch in the front loop from the double-stranded row, then one stitch in the back loop from the double-stranded row,* (repeat starred section around the work). It worked nicely and now I'm knitting the third finger!
I'm using my yarn double-stranded for the body of the mitten, but since that's really thick and might be uncomfortable to have two layers of double-stranded knit between my fingers, I'm thinking about knitting the fingers single-stranded (I'm not worried about loss of warmth because most of the time the fingers will be covered by the mitten flap). I'm not sure how to best do that, though: if I switch to knitting single-stranded, I'll also switch to smaller needles to keep the fabric tightly knit, and that means I'll need more stitches to go the same distance around the glove. Do you have any advice?
Ideas I've had so far:
- the first row with the single strand and smaller needles, knit two stitches into each old stitch (adjusting as needed to meet the right number of total stitches).
Or,
- knit the single-strand section separately and sew it onto the double-strand section.
Or,
- ??
Update 2/23: I pulled out the smallest DPNs I had near and did a gauge swatch of single-strand, and found out that five stitches on the double-strand with the larger needles was equivalent to six stitches of single-strand with the smaller needles. (I was surprised it wasn't more of a difference.) So I switched to the smaller needles and single strand and *knit four stitches plain, then one stitch in the front loop from the double-stranded row, then one stitch in the back loop from the double-stranded row,* (repeat starred section around the work). It worked nicely and now I'm knitting the third finger!
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Date: 2010-02-22 08:33 pm (UTC)You might or might not need to do some decreases on the next round.
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Date: 2010-02-22 08:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-02-23 09:42 pm (UTC)I pulled out the smallest DPNs I had near and did a gauge swatch of single-strand, and found out that five stitches on the double-strand with the larger needles was equivalent to six stitches of single-strand with the smaller needles. (I was surprised it wasn't more of a difference.) So I switched to the smaller needles and single strand and *knit four stitches plain, then one stitch in the front loop from the double-stranded row, then one stitch in the back loop from the double-stranded row,* (repeat starred section around the work). It worked nicely and now I'm knitting the third finger!