I have now finished working all of the increases for the thumb gusset. I'm making the smaller size, so I've now got 18 stitches in between the beginning of the round and where the second marker is. So you can see how that's really opened up the thumb. Now the instructions tell you at this point that it's time to set aside your thumb stitches, and I just want to show you how to do that. So it says to use a yarn needle, slip all those thumb stitches, whether it's no matter how many of those you've got, slip them onto waste yarn. And what's made by waste yarn, by the way, is typically you want to use, preferably something like cotton, something that's not going to leave a lot of fuzz on your knitting. You don't want any fibers left behind, and you want it to be roughly the same weight as the yarn that you knit with. You just put it onto one of these blunt-tipped needles that you use to weave an ends. And then all we're going to do is just run this needle through each of those stitches, and you can even do it several at a time like this. And slip them all onto here so that they're on the waste yarn. And this is instead of, say, putting them on a stitch holder, particularly for something small like this, small and rounded, like a thumb. I really like to use waste yarn because it doesn't stretch out the stitches, and it doesn't weigh them down. And I'll just pull the needle off and adjust the yarn so that it's sitting nice and comfortably there, and it won't go anywhere. So now we've got the thumb stitches set aside, and we'll come back later and get those when it's time to do the thumb. For now, what we're going to do is actually join this hand back together again. So the instructions tell you to go ahead and work your way around the rest of the round. So I'm going to do that off camera, and then I'll come back and show you how to pick up the two stitches you need right here to get the rest of the hand going. All right, so I've worked around the rest of this round back right back here to the beginning of the round, and we're now ready to begin the hand portion of the instructions of the pattern. So the instructions say to replace the beginning of round marker onto the needle. I'm actually going to hold off on that for a minute. I had kept in keeping it down here on the mitt. I am going to put it back on the needle, but I'm just going to hold off on that for a second so that you can see the cast on that I'm about to do. We're going to be casting on two extra stitches in here, and let me tell you why we're going to do this first before I show you how to do it. Notice that right here we've got two purl stitches, and the stitches right next to it are also purl stitches. So in order to keep the continuity of this rib, we need to add two stitches in between them in order to get our two knit stitches back. We need it to be purl two, knit two, purl two. Now where did those two stitches go? Because they used to be there. Well, they got consumed into the thumb. Remember, we used those two knit stitches to build that thumb gusset outward, and now those stitches are all sitting down here waiting to be worked later. So we just need to add two stitches back on here to get our original number of stitches back that we cast on. So let me show you how to do that. The instructions tell you to turn your work so that you're looking at the inside of the mitt. And all I mean by this is that normally when you're working in the round, you're looking at the right side, you're looking at the outside of the mitt, at the moment I want you to turn it so that you're looking at it like this. And we're going to be working in here for a minute. So here's the working yarn, and I'm just going to cast on two stitches by using the knitted cast on. And here's how you do it. It's worked very much like a knit stitch. I'm going to go into that first stitch on the needle, wrap it like a knit stitch, pull through like a knit stitch, but now instead of pulling this loop off, I'm actually going to take this loop and transfer it to the left hand needle. And then I'll just do that again. Go into that first stitch on the needle, when we just cast on, in fact, wrap, pull through, and transfer that loop to the left hand needle. So now I have two extra stitches sitting there on the needle, and these will be the two that I knit when I come back. Now remember the pattern tells you to place your beginning of the round marker on the needle, so it's actually going to go right here in between those two stitches that you just cast on, and the rest of your knitting. So go ahead and lock that up. And then you just keep working. So again, regardless of what kind of needles you're working on, just go ahead and keep working in the round. Your next stitch will be a purl stitch. Just make sure to pull that nice and tight, close up any ladders, and off you go. And you'll see that when you come back to those two stitches that you just cast on, it'll be obvious that you need to knit them. And then you just keep continuing up the hand, according to the instructions.