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This video knitting tutorial will help you learn how to knit the wrap and turn short row stitch. This technique is used to shape your work without using decreases or increases. It is a achieved by stopping in the middle of the row, turning your work, and knitting the other direction. By wrapping the last stitch before you turn, you can keep from a small hole forming when knitting back over the stitch. This will make you knitting look more seamless.
Skill: Intermediate
Pattern:
Step 1: Slip the next stitch after your turning point onto your working needle.
Step 2: Wrap your working yarn around the slipped stitch.
Step 3: Slip the stitch back to your main needle.
Step 4: Turn your work and continue knitting in the opposite direction.
Once you are ready to knit over your wrapped stitches, pick up the wrap and place it onto your main needle, then knit the wrap and the wrapped stitch together.
Example of the Wrap and Turn Short Row Stitch
randidm
hey, you have a fantastic clear instruction method. kudos! Now, can you please show the purl side of wrap short row? I’m not sure which way to slip the stitch on and off the purl side, as well as which way to grab the wrapped stitch on the purl side.
JohnnyV
The technique is exactly the same for the purl side. you would just wrap front to back since your yarn will be in front.
Evelyn Bonilla
Thank you for your prompt response to my request. Your explanation of this technique is the best. Clear and concise.
JohnnyV
Thank you so much! Glad you found it easy to understand.
2manyyarns
Were can we find you on Ravelry? You ARE on Ravelry right?
newstitchaday
@2manyyarns http://www.ravelry.com/people/JohnnyVasquez
lasowq@sbcglobal.net
This is great!! A friend and I have been working on a pattern for 4 hours and just could not figure it out. We played it over and over again until we could work our pattern without watching the video. Thank you so much!