Today I will be showing you step-by-step how to do Japanese Short Rows. I think these are the most seamless and best looking on the right side, but they do show on the wrong side. They are also more tedious than any of the other methods and if you're doing a lot of short rows it's a lot of safety pins.
In this example I will be working 3 sets of paired short rows (to create a curve in the middle) on a swatch that is 30 stitches wide, and each wrap and turn will be two stitches from the end, then two stitches from the previous wrap and turn.
Here you can see the right side. The wraps are practically invisible.
And here is the wrong side, where you can clearly see the wraps.
Today I'm posting a step-by-step tutorial for make one short rows. Personally, these are my least favorite. I think that the 'wrapped' stitch becomes warped and there are small holes left where the stitch is picked up.
In this example I will be working 3 sets of paired short rows (to create a curve in the middle) on a swatch that is 30 stitches wide, and each wrap and turn will be two stitches from the end, then two stitches from the previous wrap and turn.
Here I've marked where the short row turns occur. You can see that there are small gaps from the M1s.
We're on Day 3 of short rows! Today I'll be covering how to do yarn over short rows. These seem less fiddly to me than the wrap and turn, but not quite as tidy. You can try them and tell me what you think.
In this example I will be working 3 sets of paired short rows (to create a curve in the middle) on a swatch that is 30 stitches wide, and each wrap and turn will be two stitches from the end, then two stitches from the previous wrap and turn.
Today I'm going to be showing you how to do the classic wrap and turn short rows. These short rows are easy to employ and don't leave any holes in your knitting. They are not as invisible as other ways to wrap and turn, but are easy to work.
In this example I will be working 3 sets of paired short rows (to create a curve in the middle) on a swatch that is 30 stitches wide, and each wrap and turn will be two stitches from the end, then two stitches from the previous wrap and turn.
Below you'll see the 6 wrapped stitches after being knit with the wraps.
Tomorrow I'll be posting step-by-step instructions for the yarn over short rows.
I've decided that this week I'm going to be focusing on short rows. Every day I'm going to post about this wonderful technique. I'll start today by explaining what short rows are and how they work. Later this week I'll continue with posts about how to do different short row techniques including: the wrap and turn short row, the yarn over short row, the make one short row, and the Japanese short row. Then next week I plan on talking about different ways to use short rows. I hope you'll all find this information helpful and interesting.
What are short rows?
Short rows are incomplete rows of knitting, where instead of working every row on the needle you knit back and forth on just some of the stitches. In the picture you can see below that I knit a swatch, and the pink yarn is where I worked the short rows. The arrows show how I first worked to before the last 3 stitches, then turned the work and purled back to before the last three stitches. I continued to do this two more times, and then I knit across all of the stitches again.
In the picture below you can see that at each turning point the number of pink rows increases by two stitches.
Tomorrow I'll be posting step-by-step instruction on the wrap and turn short row technique.
I wish I could mail you all little bunnies as part of my bunny mail project, but alas I don't have time to knit so many little bunnies (not that I have a huge following, but enough to make knitting everyone a bunny a scary thought). So, I would like to give everyone the opportunity to enter in a drawing to receive a bunny kit!
What is a bunny kit you ask?
Well a bunny kit is a little bit of pink, white, and black yarn (enough to make two bunny items) a pattern for bunny puppet and bunny ring, and a surprise all in a little plastic easter egg, sent to your address.
What's the surprise?
I can't tell you! Then it wouldn't be a surprise would it? But it'll be small enough to fit in the egg.
How do you enter to receive a bunny kit?
Well you join my mailing list. You can use the form below or the one on the left side of the page. If you want two entries you can also 'like' me on Facebook.
What is I live outside of the USA?
Well, I've heard that other mail systems don't like mail in plastic eggs, so if your name is drawn and you live outside of the USA you will receive your bunny kit in an envelope.
I will draw names on March 31, 2012, so subscribe to the mailing list and like us on Facebook before then! I have three bunny kits waiting to be mailed.
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