Mittens Mended
I’ve finished mending the mitten thumbs, and it was a good learning experience. First I found a 2/6 Donegal Tweed cone in the warehouse about the right color and wound off just enough for the mend.
Next I grabbed a set of 2.75 mm double points and picked up stitches at the bottom of the hole. I added some thread as guides for picking up stitches along the sides.
The trickiest part of the mend was to figure out how to graft 1×1 rib with access only to the right side. I used Vogue Knitting as my grafting guide. I separated the two sets of stitches onto four needles, dividing the purls from the knits. Since I couldn’t graft the purls on the wrong side as suggested, I went ahead and grafted them on the right side. Then on top of that I grafted the knit stitches.
Looks ok since the grafted purls sort of just disappear between the knit ridges, just as I hoped they would. And there you are. A thumb without a gaping hole.
