Queen of Diamonds Help?

[spyridona]

I'm working on my first pair of gloves - the Queen Of Diamonds from KnitPicks.

This is a grand thing, really. I've had the needles and yarn for this pattern for three years now, but I couldn't manage the needles. Now I can.

However, I've just gotten to the eyelet rounds on the hand of the right glove and I'm a bit baffled. I've placed three stitch markers (one at the beginning of the row and one immediately after and one on the next needle) and yet the instructions for row 15 are "k to marker, SM, k14, k2tog, yo, k to end." Well, says I, knit to which marker?

Comments

[labellementeuse]

I haven't knit it myself, but from reading the pattern - it says that the beginning of the round starts at the thumb, moves across the palm, and then around the back of the hand. Since the eyelet pattern is halfway around the back of the hand, I would probably go with the third marker - it doesn't say what the second marker is for, but it seems like if you knit 14 st from the second marker you'll be making the pattern in the middle of the palm.

Reading the pattern it seems like the first marker may be some kind of thumb gusset marker? I don't get it, though, because it seems like the gusset increases are happening right at the beginning and end of the round which... shouldn't really need a marker? I guess it's helpful to see what round you're on? I don't know, I'm confused, but it doesn't seem like there are any instructions which actually *use* that marker.