Help with mittens please,...

[hartleystudio]

Hi all:

I'm making a pair of felted mittens to match my DD's hat. I have made mittens before so I thought I knew the score but I was knitting along happily and I ran into a snag,...

Here is the pattern:

http://aproudusafwife.blogspot.com/2...d-mittens.html

and I'm stuck at the part where you K3, K4 sts onto waste yarn (?) and then SL them back onto the right needle and K to end.

Now, when I knit mittens before I put the thumb sts on a holder and came back to them later. With this pattern, I don't understand the instructions about the thumb later. Is there a hole there? Where is the hole for the thumb? Can I just put those 4 sts on a holder and PU sts later??

Thanks for your help. I'm at the point where I need to know and I want to get these finished, it's getting so cold!!!

[Ingrid]

What she's having you do is knit with the waste yarn so the waste yarn is what you knit on the following row. So you'd use the waste yarn to knit the 4 stitches, and on the next round you'd be knitting 4 stitches of the waste yarn.

Later, you remove the waste and you'll have 4 stitches below where the waste was and 4 above where the waste was.

[Cynamar]

I love your description of yourself! Did you name your girls after their grannies?

[hartleystudio]

I love your description of yourself! Did you name your girls after their grannies?

Do you mean me?? It's not my blog so I don't really know where she got the names of her daughters. It's a cute blog though, isn't it??

[Cynamar]

Well, nevermind then.