knitting gloves flat

[Flor]

When I first started knitting, I tried a pattern for glvoes knitted flat. They looked nice except they were missing a palm! I just figured I was a newbie. Now, I got the pattern out again, and I don't see what I missed. You knit the ribbing, the hand, the thumb, each finger, then? Where does the palm come from? It from a book, too, not just something off the internet. Could someone just briefly explain the order of knitting mittens flat?

Ok, I just edited this because I meant "gloves" not mittens. I can and have knitted mittens flat, it is the gloves I'm confused about.

[Flor]

Anyone? I looked at the pattern again, and it seems the hand part is about 40 something stiches across, with thumb in the middle. Each finger is 10 or 12 stiches so they will go all the way across the hand, or am I missing something?

[flapjack]

Can you tell us what book? What I'd assumed was that you knit two pieces and seamed, because I can't see another way to make mittens without knitting in the round.

[IsaFrench]

yes I' d like to know which book too ... I would be interested by the pattern in fact ....

[Flor]

Ok, the book is called Hats Gloves Scarves: Easy Designer Knits for Family and Friends by Louisa Harding. It has several patterns for mittens knit flat, and I've tried them and they work fine. Basically, you knit the ribbing, then a few rows then increase in the middle of the rows for thumb, knit thumb back and forth, seam thumb, then join thread to knitthe rest of the hand. It's as if you cut open a mitten along the pinky edge of your hand. You seam it to gether there. Those patterns work just fine. But, it is the pattern for gloves that I can't get to work. So, if anyone has ever knitted gloves flat, could you please explainwhen the palm gets knitted?

I can follow that you knt the ribbing, then the thum in the middle then a few inches up you starte the fingers (which are seamed), but by then you've used up the entire hand, there isn't anything to fold over and seam.