All right, you just finished the ribbing. You have 16 stitches on each of 3 different needles for a total of 48. You then worked 2 rnds even.
Rnd 1: On the first needle of the row
All right, you just finished the ribbing. You have 16 stitches on each of 3 different needles for a total of 48. You then worked 2 rnds even.
Rnd 1: On the first needle of the row you K8, M1, K8. Now you have 17 sts on that needle. Knit across needles 2 and 3 without doing anything special. You now have 49 stitches.
What you are going to be doing is increasing the gore (sometimes called a gusset), which is the place where the thumb will be later. All the gore shaping is on the first needle each time, then you just knit even across the other 2.
Do you know how to do the M1?
After the first round you knit 2 roun