What if you knit a slit spanning the thumb from the base of the gusset to the notch where it splits from the hand by going back and forth as Jaya mentioned? Then, after all is done, you could pick stitches up along the slit and shape the thumb gusset using short rows. This way, the added stitches of the thumb should not mess up the striping.
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A thumb slit is easy. You just knit back and forth for a few rounds before joining again.?
If you want to make a thumb with a gusset, it will break up the striping pattern because the width of the mitt at the thumb gusset will be wider. But you can if you want. You just do a provisional CO of the sts needed for the thumb at the point where the thumb meets the hand (maybe 12 or 16 sts for sock weigh yarn). Then you decrease 2 sts on each side of the gusset every other round till all the extra sts are decreased away. Switch to ribbing for the cuff after a few plain rounds.?
A better fit that requires more calculation is to shape the gusset with a decreases every? round at first and then every second and then every third round because one's hand doesn't widen at the same rate. It starts off slowly and then gets wider all of a sudden.. But that does need a bit more trial and error and calculation to figure out when to switch. I do this for the liners I make for my wrist braces because I want them to fit very closely. I don't do this for regular mittens.
Knitting (or design really I suppose) question:
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I’ve got some really lovely self-striping yarn left over from a recent pair of socks and I’d like to use it to make mitts so I can take advantage of every little bit of it.? Because I’d like to make the mitts longer rather than shorter and would also like to avoid disrupting the striping pattern, I’ve decided to make the mitts top (hand ribbing) down (to wrist).
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At the moment, I’m trying to wrap my head around how to either leave a thumb slit and do the equivalent of an afterthought gusset and thumb or just leave a thumb slit.? I can’t quite visualize it and was hoping that someone might either have knit something like this in the past or be able to visualize it and help me figure it out.
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I think if I do a simple slit that a horizontal bindoff and immediate cast back on in the next round would work, but I don’t think I would be able to work a true thumb, which I think might be preferable for me.? The thumb would be an entirely different color from elsewhere in the stripe sequence, although I think that would work out fine as far as colors.
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Any ideas or words of wisdom?
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Melisande
