Knitting by Zen

I have now made a few improvements to the wonderful Dashing pattern that I’ve knit a few times now, so here they are summarise:

Cast-off
I worked out after the first one that the cast off is not for me because it curls up! The way I fixed the curling over of the top of the glove was the funk-ify my cast off. I simply turned my knitting around, and cast off the opposite way to what I’d been knitting, but I knit where the stitch looked like a purl, and I purled where the stitch looked like a knit. So, with the pattern as k4 p1 on the right side, I turned and slipped the first stitch (looking like a knit), then knit and cast off 4 (looking like a purl) as I went, then p1 (that looked like a knit) and cast off, then k and cast off the next 4 (which looked like purls), then discarded the needle and continued around the top of the glove. When I got back to the starting point, my cast off was now 2 rows above the start of the row, so I picked up, k and the co a stitch from below, then picked up and knit and cast off another one, then picked up one randomly below all the knitting and knit and then cast off, then broke off the yarn and pulled the yarn through the last loop. I guess what that does is turn the cast off into a garter stitch one rather than a stockinette one. Woo.

Thumb
You need 4 needles to do this neatly. Pull the waste yarn out gently and have a look at your thumb - you will have 4 stitches on one side, and 5 on the other. Pick the 4 up and put them on one needle (needle #1). Pick the other 5 up and put them needle #2.