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elizabeth_mn) wrote2007-11-05 06:32 am
elizabeth_mn) wrote2007-11-05 06:32 am
Mitten
I finished the hand!
The top still needs to be grafted together, and then I need to pick up the thumb stitches and knit the rest of the thumb.
I kind of hit a snag, though, when I came to the part about the grafting, because I could not figure out this "kitchener sttich" thing. After a while, I realized that's because I've been using my double-pointed needles wrong for, well, as long as I've been knitting!
Does anyone have any advice for me on workng with DPNs (or circulars) the "right" way, or know whether doing it the "wrong" way will make much difference?
The top still needs to be grafted together, and then I need to pick up the thumb stitches and knit the rest of the thumb.
I kind of hit a snag, though, when I came to the part about the grafting, because I could not figure out this "kitchener sttich" thing. After a while, I realized that's because I've been using my double-pointed needles wrong for, well, as long as I've been knitting!
It just seemed to make sense to me, based on the way I hold the needles, that the project knits up inside-out. The mitten in the photo above is inside-out. It also made sense that all the seaming and stuff happen on the 'wrong' side, the side that's facing out now. But after a little research (which was hard, because everything about knitting with DPNs basically tells you how to begin, and then assumes you'll know where to go from there) I realized that I'm doing it wrong, and the 'right side' is supposed to be on the outside as you work.
I finally found something on a knitting website that said "make sure that when you knit with DPNs, your working needles are closest to your body, with the work behind." Holding them that way, the project would knit up right-side-out, but I have tried to hold them that way, and it feels really awkward! It either means that the working ends of the needles are pointing toward me, which would make it hard to manuever them, or the growing mitten would be above the place I'm working, instead of below, in which case it would get in the way of stitching.
I feel stupid. I don't think the inside-out-ness will affect my mitten that much, and I don't even think that I will change the way I've been holding my DPNs, but I still feel kind of dumb for not knowing.
I finally found something on a knitting website that said "make sure that when you knit with DPNs, your working needles are closest to your body, with the work behind." Holding them that way, the project would knit up right-side-out, but I have tried to hold them that way, and it feels really awkward! It either means that the working ends of the needles are pointing toward me, which would make it hard to manuever them, or the growing mitten would be above the place I'm working, instead of below, in which case it would get in the way of stitching.
I feel stupid. I don't think the inside-out-ness will affect my mitten that much, and I don't even think that I will change the way I've been holding my DPNs, but I still feel kind of dumb for not knowing.
Does anyone have any advice for me on workng with DPNs (or circulars) the "right" way, or know whether doing it the "wrong" way will make much difference?