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The Promethean Pocket.
Oct. 5th, 2008 04:33 amZimmerman proposed the "Afterthought Pocket," made by snipping the yarn, unraveling to make a one-row hole in the knitting, then picking up the stitches around the hole and knitting the pocket onto them.
PROBLEM: This requires turning the entire sweater twice for every round completed on the pocket, which may be only 10-15 stitches.
Solution: The Promethean, or Before-Thought pocket (guaranteed to be more fun than having your liver eaten by birds!).
Try on the sweater as you knit it. Figure out where on the sweater you want a pocket (e.g. sleeve, front, sides). When you get to the row before where you want a pocket, STOP KNITTING.
MAKE THE POCKET:
Pick up a second set of needles. Cast on the number of stitches you like onto provisional yarn and then knit your pocket to the desired depth. Try it on your hand, or whatever else you want to put in your pocket, and when you are done, bind off and seam together (or bind off front and back of the tube together in one step to make the bottom).
Unravel the provisional yarn. Put the pocket on two needles, one front and one back. Now we're ready to knit the pocket in with the sweater.
Knit around your sweater until you reach the location where you want the pocket to start.
SET UP: Slip the first sweater stitch onto the right needle. Now slip a stitch from the front pocket needle. Alternate sweater and pocket stitches until the entire front of the pocket is slipped between the sweater stitches.
KNITTING FRONT OF POCKET IN:
Now slip all those stitches back onto the left needle, and bind off two together, until you've bound off each sweater stitch with a pocket stitch and you're back to nothing but sweater stitches.
KNITTING BACK OF POCKET IN:
Continue knitting around the rest of the sweater until you are back to the stitches you have bound off. Then, instead of casting on again, just knit the stitches off the other pocket needle and continue knitting your sweater when you run out of pocket stitches.
Voila, a pocket you don't have to manhandle the whole sweater to knit!
PROBLEM: This requires turning the entire sweater twice for every round completed on the pocket, which may be only 10-15 stitches.
Solution: The Promethean, or Before-Thought pocket (guaranteed to be more fun than having your liver eaten by birds!).
Try on the sweater as you knit it. Figure out where on the sweater you want a pocket (e.g. sleeve, front, sides). When you get to the row before where you want a pocket, STOP KNITTING.
MAKE THE POCKET:
Pick up a second set of needles. Cast on the number of stitches you like onto provisional yarn and then knit your pocket to the desired depth. Try it on your hand, or whatever else you want to put in your pocket, and when you are done, bind off and seam together (or bind off front and back of the tube together in one step to make the bottom).
Unravel the provisional yarn. Put the pocket on two needles, one front and one back. Now we're ready to knit the pocket in with the sweater.
Knit around your sweater until you reach the location where you want the pocket to start.
SET UP: Slip the first sweater stitch onto the right needle. Now slip a stitch from the front pocket needle. Alternate sweater and pocket stitches until the entire front of the pocket is slipped between the sweater stitches.
KNITTING FRONT OF POCKET IN:
Now slip all those stitches back onto the left needle, and bind off two together, until you've bound off each sweater stitch with a pocket stitch and you're back to nothing but sweater stitches.
KNITTING BACK OF POCKET IN:
Continue knitting around the rest of the sweater until you are back to the stitches you have bound off. Then, instead of casting on again, just knit the stitches off the other pocket needle and continue knitting your sweater when you run out of pocket stitches.
Voila, a pocket you don't have to manhandle the whole sweater to knit!
