Our Butterfly Kisses earwarmer is knit and now it's time to join the ends together with a technique known as Kitchener Grafting.
Lesson 3: Kitchener Grafting
In knitting, the Kitchener Stitch is used to join live stitches (stitches that are on your knitting needles) from two pieces of work or two ends of your work together. The Kitchener Stitch is most commonly used to graft together sock toes, but it is also a very neat way to join tubular pieces like our earwarmer.
Kitchener Grafting, especially in the round takes a some patience, but the result is well worth the effort.
Materials
In addition to your dpns, you will also need:
- 2 removable stitch markers
- yarn or tapestry needle
Tutorial
Pattern
(If you would like a printable copy of the entire pattern, Butterfly Kisses is available in my shop.)
It's time to join your ends together. Make sure your working yarn is at least 24-30 inches long. In this case, you would much rather the yarn was too long than too short.
Remember the following steps from the video.
Remember the following steps from the video.
Step 1: Weave in the CO yarn tail and divide the last round of stitches onto 2 dpns.
Step 2: Transfer the stitches from the waste yarn onto 2 dpns.
Step 3: Transfer the last stitch and remove the waste yarn.
Step 4: Make sure the transferred stitches are seated properly.
Step 5: Start grafting with the Kitchener Stitch.
Step 6: Turn the tube for the second half of the join.
Step 7: Complete the join (at the stitch markers), weave in the yarn tail and hide the tail.
In the next lesson I'll teach you the long tail cast on so you can start your mitts.
In the next lesson I'll teach you the long tail cast on so you can start your mitts.
Post Your Progress
My ears are feeling warmer already!
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