A leetle bit of a problem…now solved.
(left-hand glove inside-out)
So, I finished my gloves, well, more precisely, the second glove, weave in the ends and I find…well…a problem. The thumb pulls alot and since I knit the thing while watching a movie or two, I couldn’t figure out what I’d done wrong. I read the pattern very well and did specifically what it said and found that…THE THUMB WAS IN THE VERY MIDDLE OF THE PALM. While there may be a few unfortunate people out there who would love to have a glove fit precisely like this one, the majority of folks find their thumb on the one side of their palm and not smack dab in the middle of it.
So…now what?! Make another?…I don’t have enough yarn or time to make another, nor the inclination to throw away what I’d just made, so that’s out of the question. I went to bed and caught 40 winks or so, and when I awoke, it came to me instantly: I’ll move the thumb over to the side and sew up the hole where the old one was!
And I thought I’d bore my readers to tears show you all how I made a new glove by moving one of the digits over 8 stitches.
The thumb was originally constructed like an afterthought heel. As you can see below, this is what the hole looked like when I finished tearing out the old thumb and after putting scrap yarn in the live stitches that I will have to kitchener closed at the end.
Now, to the left of the hole, I had to put 16 stitches on a circular needle, ( one size smallerfor easier movement) splitting the difference, so I had 8 stitches on top and 8 stitches on bottom, with a row of 8 stitches in between. I cut the yarn, and unraveled the 8 stitches in between the top and bottom rows and tied a knot on the right hand side to hold the old yarn and weaved in the other end of the unraveled yarn so that no more stitches would go bye-bye.
I found that I needed to put the stitches on three dpn’s for easier movement, and since I didn’t possess any dpns a size smaller than the original work, I had to use my #2’s and it came out just fine.
Here I had the bottom 8 stitches
Here’s the top 8 stitches
Then, to keep the thumb free of holes, I had to pick-up two stitches in the corner between the top and bottom on each side.
I then had 20 stitches altogether, so I put 5 on dpn #1, 5 on #2, and 10 on dpn #3, creating a triangle. I then knit in the round for about 2 1/4 inches, or 22 rounds.
I have to k2 tog on the last round and end up with only 10 stitches. I then cut my yarn, and thread it into a tapestry needle and draw the yarn through these 10 stitches and fasten on the inside of the thumb.
Okay, so now I have that massive hole to deal with, right? So, I pick up my stiches that are on scrap yarn and it looks like this:
I kitchener stitched these, then added a few stitches to each side of the kitchener spot because the yarn had been pulled some and the stretched stitches looked like holes.
Here’s the finished product:
Not great, but not too bad, I know you can see where I kitchener stitched and I plan to block the glove to improve the way the fabric lays down.
So all’s well that ends well 
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