Comments on: How to: Short Rows

By: tkoo

tkoo — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:19:46 +0000

Help! Very confused over this knitting directions ….

use provisional cast on, CO 90
row 1 RS use main yarn k 42
work in stockinette st next 3 rows

left armhole shaping
row 1 (RS) k44 wrap and turn.
row 2 (all WS) purl to end
row 3 K to last wrapped st, k next st tog with its wrap, k next st tog with its wrap, k1, wrap and turn

Question:

1. Do I wrap and turn AFTER 44 stitches (original 42 + 2 pick up from the edge)?

2. Do wrap and turn at stitch 40? or stitch 42? As you can probably tell..Im getting confused all over again.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:15:34 +0000

THANK YOU! I have been working on the same diaper soaker for 2 weeks now, only because I could ever figure out these dang short rows. I love you!!

By: John Decart

John Decart — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:14:57 +0000

Couldn’t figure out how the other side of the bolero was going to get ribbed!!!!

By: Cheryl

Cheryl — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:30:28 +0000

Thanks so much, I’ve watch video tutorials and for the life of me they looked sooo hard. You made it super easy! I can now confidently try it out when before it stopped me in my tracks.

By: Shelley

Shelley — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:59:02 +0000

I too use short rows a lot and checked this thread out to see if there was some technique that I hadn’t yet figured out. The instructions are wonderful and clear as are the pictures but I already knew how to do what Lucia was demonstrating. I figure if I cannot learn something here, I might as well share something while I am in the neighborhood.
So. . . being the lazy person I am, I got sick of the time wasted in turning my work especially when I was working the shortest of my short rows. The solution to my problem was to knit backwards rather than turning my work. It really isn’t hard to do.
I took some left over yarn from another project; cast on a few stitches and then knit about three or four inches. Once I had enough knitted to be able to easily work my yarn, I began paying attention to the way my needle looked in relationship to the rest of my work as I went through the normal steps of knitting. Then I began reversing each step until I was able to knit up one whole row and back without turning my work. It was a revelation.
After that, I worked on purling in reverse until I could do that without thinking. Voila, all is right with a lazy knitter’s world. I was originally taught to knit by my grandmother who, after repeated attempts to get me to regulate my tension, gave up on me and lovingly suggested that I just stick with crochet because I was really good at that.
After years of taking Grandma’s advice I moved to Belgium with my teacher husband and met a blind woman who had had to teach herself to knit by feel. There were not books for her or teachers so she became the most accomplished, self taught knitter I have ever met. Her work was astonishingly detailed and beautiful. Under her skillful hands I finally master the problem of uneven tension, garment construction that appeared almost seamless and designing my own patterns. Her greatest gift to me, however, was confidence in my own innate ability. That confidence now lets me experiment without fear. It sends me off in directions I never would have considered before and it is amazing what I find out there when I just ask what if.
Shelley

By: SuEllyn Rody

SuEllyn Rody — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:41:00 +0000

Thank you for your great tutorial WITH PICTURES! There are so many things in knitting that are easy once you SEE what you’re supposed to do.

By: B! « stances and stitches

B! « stances and stitches — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:50:51 +0000

[...] “byaaaaargh!” because that is what I say when I have to knit exorbitant amounts of short rows. Specifically for Interweave’s Short Row Hat (it’s at the bottom of the page). [...]