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- Hi, I'm Edie Eckman.

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I'm a knit and crochet designer.

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There are many different opportunities to use short rows.

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You can use them in sock heels,

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you can use them in sock toes, sleeve cap shaping,

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bust darts, and all sorts of stitch patterns use short rows.

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I'm going to show you the most common way we use short rows

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using the wrap and turn method.

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I've done a few rows of stockinet stitch to get started.

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In this example, I'm going to knit all the way across

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to the last three stitches of the row.

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When I have three stitches left,

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my instructions are going to say wrap and turn.

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What that means is, I'm trying to wrap this piece

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of working yarn around this stitch.

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If I just turn and started working in the other direction,

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I'd leave a hole here, so I have to do a wrap and turn.

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The way I do that is I slip the next stitch purlwise

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then bring my yarn forward between my needles,

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slip that same stitch back onto the left hand needle,

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and turn my work, I've wrapped and turned.

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You can see that that yarn is wrapped around this stitch

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but I didn't actually work the stitch.

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Now, I need to purl to begin the next short row,

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so I'm going to bring the yarn forward between the needles,

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and now to make my sides the same,

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I'm going to work to the last three stitches on this side.

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Here, my yarn is already in front.

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How am I going to wrap the yarn around this stitch?

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I'll slip the stitch purlwise, bring it to the back,

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slip the stitch back to the left hand needle, and turn.

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You can see that the yarn is wrapped around that stitch,

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but I didn't actually work the stitch.

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Now, I need to knit.

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As I knit across, you can see that the wrap stitch

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has a little bump at the base of it.

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That's the yarn that wrapped around the stitch.

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Same thing on this side.

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Let me show you one more time.

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This time, I'm going to work to within five stitches

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of the end of the row.

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One, two, three, four, five.

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And I'll wrap and turn this stitch again.

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Slip it purlwise, bring the yarn forward,

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slip it back to the left needle.

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And if I want, I can go ahead and bring my yarn

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back to the back, there's my wrap stitch, and turn it.

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Because I went ahead and brought the yarn to the back,

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now when I'm ready to purl,

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my yarn is in position to purl.

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Let me show you once more going in this direction.

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I want to work to within five stitches.

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One, two, three, four, five.

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There's my wrap stitch from before.

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I'm going to wrap this stitch.

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I have the yarn forward, slip the stitch purlwise,

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bring it to the back, slip the stich back

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onto the left hand needle, and if I want to,

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I can bring the yarn back around to the forward position

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so that when I turn, I'm ready to knit.

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Now, if I wanted to work all the stitches all the way across

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and I don't want those little bumps to show up,

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I have to do something that's called picking up the wraps.

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Let me show you what that looks like on a knit row.

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I'll work up until the wrap stitch.

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And by the way, if you are a thrower

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rather than a continental knitter,

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it doesn't matter which way you hold your yarn.

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You can do it either way.

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Here I am with my wrap stitch, and I want that wrap

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to disappear so that it doesn't show up.

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I'm going to insert my needle under the wrap

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and then into my knit stitch, wrap my yarn around,

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and bring the yarn through both the stitch and the wrap.

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You can see that it has disappeared.

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I have one plain stitch.

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Let me do that once more.

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There is my wrap stitch.

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Go under the wrap, through the stitch,

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and knit them both together.

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Bring it out through the wrap, and then work to the end.

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I have made those wraps disappear on the knit side,

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but when I come back,

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I still have those wrap stitches on this side.

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I need to get rid of those wraps as well.

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To do that, I will purl across to my first wrapped stitch

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on the other end of the fabric.

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Here I have reached my first wrap stitch.

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You can see that wrap on the right side of the fabric

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as well as on the wrong side.

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I want it to disappear from the right side of the fabric,

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that's the public side.

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To do that, I'm going to insert my needle under the wrap

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on the right side and then purlwise into the next stitch,

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the stitch that was wrapped, and I will purl those together

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and then bring it out through the stitch

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and underneath the wrap.

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You need to do that very slowly.

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You may want to do it one part at a time

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and then drop the purl stitch off.

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Let me show you one more time.

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I have a plain stitch and then I have one more wrap stitch.

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There's my next wrap stitch.

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I twist it toward me, rotate it toward me,

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and go under the wrap and then into the stitch purlwise.

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Wrap the yarn and come back out through the stitch

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and underneath the wrap, and then purl to the end.

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Let's see what that looks like on the right side.

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You can see that my wraps have disappeared,

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but maybe you can also see that

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there's a little shaping going on here.

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Let me put it on the cable part of the needle.

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Can you see that there's a little hump here?

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That's because I have more rows in the center

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than I do on the sides.

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You can use it for interesting shaping.

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If you don't pick up your wraps,

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you're going to end up with these little bumps,

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which can be a decorative element,

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but you may or may not want those to be showing up,

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so you can choose either to pick up the wraps

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or not to pick up the wraps.

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Now you know what wrap and turn means

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and a common way to do short rows.