After thumb, first only did three repeats…this was a smidgen too short for my fingers, but perfect on a friend with shorter fingers, so you might want to check. The specified four repeats was perfect for me. Picked up an extra two stitches around the thumbhole and did a k2tog on each side. Had a great deal of trouble figuring out where to pick up those extra two stitches, and still had a gaping hole on one side I had to sew up. I’d probably move the thumb one stitch away from the decorative side to have a better place to pick up the extra stitch and not have a cable right by the thumbhole. But who knows if that would work? ;)