Monica Knits

This is an image from a series of eight which illustrates techniques for repairing knitwear or for altering the length or width. Click here to read: Knitwear Repairs & Alterations - Cut Apart and Graft Together.

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Grafting (Joining) Two Stocking Stitch Pieces Together.

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1. Glove cut along circumference into 2 pieces. A stitch marker was placed on a palm side finger.
2. The yarn was unravelled from the thumb to the wrist so that it could be narrowed by 3/8" in circumference across the hand. Then it was reknitted, narrower than before. to reknit the hand and then graft the 2 pieces back together.
3. Cotton crochet yarn was threaded through the loops for fitting and as a safety line, since these stitches are difficult to see (dark and mohair). The markers at the sides were placed for alignment.
4. Additional stitch markers have been placed around the circumference to hold the two glove pieces in alignment for grafting.
5. Because the dark, fuzzy, small stitches were difficult to see, I rolled a face cloth into a cylinder, stuffed it in the glove and used it to pin stitches in position so that I wouldn't have to hunt for the loop. This also prevented twisting the stitches, which could easily happen, since they were small and difficult to see (unlike the grafting stitches in the lace towel). The top pin is holding an upper loop open in position. The second pin is used to indicate where I stopped stitching (bottom piece). You can see a number of completed invisible grafting stitches on the right. Please note that I started on the palm side so that I was in peak stitch rhythm by the time I was grafting the most visible side of the glove. At this stage, about 60% of the glove has been grafted back together.
6. Position for start of bottom loop. The yarn is coming up from the pinned loop and is threaded back to front (towards the viewer).
7. A flower pin is placed down through the loop holding it the position shown. The advantage with this dark yarn is that you don't have to be able to see the loop, you just need to follow the path of the pin.
8. The yarn has come up through the bottom loop and is threaded down through the half completed upper loop, following the pin shaft.