Comments on: Knitting MittenThumbs – The Debate (by Ina Gilmore) http://www.naughtyknitterz.com/knitting-mittenthumbs-the-debate-by-ina-gilmore/ The Internet Knitting Circle Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:49:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Patrice http://www.naughtyknitterz.com/knitting-mittenthumbs-the-debate-by-ina-gilmore/comment-page-1/#comment-169 Patrice Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:31:11 +0000 http://www.naughtyknitterz.com/?p=1119#comment-169 I admired your Norwegian mitten, as I also just finished my first one yesterday. I followed a pattern from Terri Shea's book, Selbuvotter, but looked at the Folk Mittens book in the library last week. For me, the thumb was the only problem, which is how I found your site. I don't think either author explained the casting on of stitches very well. My mitten looks fine on the outside, but is not really correct and I shall investigate and practice further before I attempt another. To me, you were casting on in the wrong direction and the instructions I got for how to do a "backward loop"cast on, which is what my pattern called for, didn't produce a very satisfactory line of stitches. I'm sure there is a great technique for this - I just need to find it! Sorry, I do fine at email etc, but am not up to speed with blogs & pictures etc. Happy knitting and thanks for sharing. Patrice (Michigan) I admired your Norwegian mitten, as I also just finished my first one yesterday. I followed a pattern from Terri Shea’s book, Selbuvotter, but looked at the Folk Mittens book in the library last week. For me, the thumb was the only problem, which is how I found your site. I don’t think either author explained the casting on of stitches very well. My mitten looks fine on the outside, but is not really correct and I shall investigate and practice further before I attempt another. To me, you were casting on in the wrong direction and the instructions I got for how to do a “backward loop”cast on, which is what my pattern called for, didn’t produce a very satisfactory line of stitches. I’m sure there is a great technique for this – I just need to find it!

Sorry, I do fine at email etc, but am not up to speed with blogs & pictures etc. Happy knitting and thanks for sharing. Patrice (Michigan)

]]> By: Knitting instructions: my first Norwegian mitten : The Knitting Yarn http://www.naughtyknitterz.com/knitting-mittenthumbs-the-debate-by-ina-gilmore/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Knitting instructions: my first Norwegian mitten : The Knitting Yarn Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:45:55 +0000 http://www.naughtyknitterz.com/?p=1119#comment-147 [...] The thumb is surprisingly comfortable. You see, I’ve often wondered how comfortable a Norwegian thumb gore would be, since I’ve almost always made side seam or normal thumb gores. Confused? Don’t be: check out my recent article on knitting instructions for mitten thumbs. [...] [...] The thumb is surprisingly comfortable. You see, I’ve often wondered how comfortable a Norwegian thumb gore would be, since I’ve almost always made side seam or normal thumb gores. Confused? Don’t be: check out my recent article on knitting instructions for mitten thumbs. [...]

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