Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Fox Gloves

Ok all you wonderfully talented knitters out there.  My fox has a body, tail, and half a head.  I am approaching the dreaded little fingers again.  Does anybody understand how to knit fingers/hands and then attach them to the arm???  Helpful links to videos or simple directions would be lovely.  If not, I will be giving this fox the finger for real, and it won't be attached to his body, it will be attached to mine!

(directions as written from designer Jennie Eveleigh Lamond...

CO3 sts using black.  Place one st on each dpn and join into round.
Row 1: kfb in each stitch [6 sts]
Row 2: k
Row 3: [k1, kfb] 3 times [9 sts]
Rows 4 and 5: k


break off yarn and place first 4 sts on one holder and last 5 sts on a second holder (safety pin works great).  This is one finger.  Repeat finger twice more - you will have 3 fingers.

For last finger, do not break yarn and do not place stitches on holder. 

now here is the tricky part...
Palm Row 1: K first 4 sts off of the finger still on the needles (finger #1), and slip the last 5 onto one dpn to knit at the end of the row.  Then k first 4 sts off of finger #2, and first 4 sts of finger #3.  Using a new dpn, K last 5 sts off of finger #3 and last 5 sts off of finger #2.  Using the third dpn, K last 5 sts off of finger #1.




So, yeah...good luck with that!

1 comment:

  1. "I will be giving this fox the finger for real, and it won't be attached to his body, it will be attached to mine!"

    Hilarious! Good luck baby fish mouth.

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