Comments on: How To Read Charts: Short Rows

By: Brenda

Brenda — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 14:16:00 +0000

And those non-conventional hole-avoiding things are?

By: lucia

lucia — Sun, 15 Jan 2006 16:41:23 +0000

There are two things I do to avoid holes. The conventional one is picking up extra stitches after that final stitch on row 11 and before the first stitch shown in the yellow box — but of row ten. or row 12, Then, I knit them away on the next round. That’s a pain to chart.

The other thing I do, which I like better when I use double wrapped short rows (as here) is I work an extra pair of short rows at the end. So, on row 11, work across until I’ve knit the wrapped stitch on the left. Then, I pick up 1 stitch from the stitch holder, wrap and turn. Then, I purl across, pick up one stitch from the stitch holder, wrap and turn.

Then I start to knit around and around. This reduces eliminates the hole (or just makes it much much smaller) because instead of there being a stitch height of “2 stitches” at the edge of the short rows, there is a stitch height of 1.

I haven’t read of anyone doing this, but I thought it might work, fiddled around, and concluded it did for me!

By: sharon meeks

sharon meeks — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:35:55 +0000

I read your paragraph on no stitch/don’t work. Does that mean I just slide the stitches that are not to be worked from one needle to the other? Hope you can make this cleart. Thank you

By: lucia

lucia — Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:21:54 +0000

No, stitch/ don’t work means you do nothing at all with those stitches. Leave them right on the needle where they currently sit and don’t do anything at all with them.

There will be stitches on the right hand needle when you begin knitting the next row.