Short Rowing Knitting Stitches

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Jeanette White on behalf of Expert Village and Piper's Quilts and Comforts. And today we're going to be doing what's called short rowing. Short rowing is used for building in shape like on collars is the most predominate place that it's used. On baby booties on the bottom of a soul. It confuses most people a lot and it's a really very simple technique so let's get started. Your directions may say for example knit 11 stitches, turn and return back to the end of the row. That's simple enough. The problem is that you usually end up with a hole where you've done the turn. So I'm going to show you a quick little thing you can do that will eliminate that. So here I've knitted 2, 4, 6, 8, 9 stitches. I'm going to slip my next stitch. I'm going to bring my yarn forward, turn my work around and then I'm going to slip that stitch back on to my right hand needle. Bring my yarn forward and purl down to the end of the row. What I've done in essence is I have wrapped my yarn around a slipped stitch. And that's going to stop that little hole that you get when you do short rowing. Short rowing is a lot of fun for building in shaping. You'll find that it's done for most of the collars in cardigans and it really is a very, very simple technique to do. And that's how you do a short row. And you can see here we've done this right here and we don't have a hole. And that's how you do a short row."