One Down, One to Go
I present for your viewing pleasure the completed right-hand glove. Again this is modeled by me, instead of the one for whom it is intended, and therefore, it's a tad large.
In my experience, the following tips gleaned from various sources proved helpful:
- After you've completed a finger and have threaded the yarn end through the last round taking those stitches off the needles, run the tail through those loops one more time to fill them up and neatly finish the tip.
- Turn completed fingers into the hand to keep them out of your way while knitting the rest.
- To help avoid gaps at the base of the fingers, pick up extra stitches and decrease down to the correct number on the first round.
- Try weaving in the yarn end at the base of the finger on the outside of the glove, duplicate stitching over any gaping, loose stitches there.
- Be sure to bind off very loosely on tip-less fingers. I finished the index finger and thumb here with a few rounds of stockinette stitch followed by about a half inch of 1x1 rib so they wouldn't roll up.
After I finished knitting this glove, I forced myself to immediately start weaving in the ends, in spite of my eagerness to cast on for the second. I figured that ten ends were intimidating enough without waiting for there to be twenty. I know myself too well not to realize that I might never be able to face that many at once.
John actually took this single glove to work and wore it for a bit. Much to our disappointment, none of his co-workers said anything about his unique glove or even the fact that he was only wearing one. Either they just aren't very observant or they're too accustomed to him behaving oddly to remark upon it.