Short Rows Wrap + Turn Tutorial | Purl Soho

hey guys this is Laura from trill Soho and I'm gonna demonstrate how to work short routes using a wrap and turn technique short rows are used to create triangles or wedges within your knitting as you can see here it's a shaping technique that's commonly used to turn a heel of a sock or to create a nice smooth slope along the shoulder of a sweater okay so I've knit across this swatch to just past halfway point and I'm gonna demonstrate how to do a wrap and turn on the knit side or the right side of this fabric the first step is to simply slip this first stitch purlwise from the left needle to the right needle the next step is to take your working yarn from the back of your work between your needles to the front of your work the next thing you're gonna do is slip that slip stitch from the right needle back over to the left needle and then once again move your working yarn this time from the front of your work to the back of your work now that we've completed all the wrapping steps the only thing left to do is turn so keeping your orientation how it is just switch the needles in your hands and when you do that you'll see that your working yarn is here on the near side of your work and you're ready to purl begin purling across this row I'm going to take a few purl stitches and then we'll go into how to do a wrap and turn on the pro side of the fabric so here I am ready to do a wrap and turn on the pro side or wrong side of this stockinette stitch swatch the first thing I'm gonna do is use the tip of my right needle and slip this first stitch purlwise from the left needle to the right needle the next thing I'm going to do is take my working yarn from the front of my work between my needles to the back of my work then I'm gonna bring that slip stitch back over to the left needle from the right needle and move my working yarn from the back of the fabric between my needles to the front of the and once again now that I've done all the wrapping steps of this wrap and turn all that's left to do is turn so and I just switch the needles in my hand and here you can see my working yarn is in the back and I'm ready to knit across this row so here I've knit across this row until I've reached this wrapped stitch this was the stitch I wrapped on my previous right-side row what I need to do is pick up this wrap you can see it right here I want to pick up that wrap and knit it together with this wrap stitch so this is here's how you do it on the right side I'm going to insert the tip of my right needle into the wrap knit once as if to knit and then I'm gonna stick my needle into this first stitch as if to knit and then I'm going to knit these two together when you do this your wrap should fall to the back side of your fabric and it'll be hidden from view picking up the wraps also closes any tiny holes that might appear during the wraps in turn portion of this technique so if pearled up until I've reached this wrapped purl stitch this is the stitch we wrapped on that previous purl row we worked and the goal here is the same I want to work the wrap of this stitch together with the stitch itself it can be a tiny bit trickier to identify the wrap on the purl side of the fabric but here I'm pointing to it with my thumb here and this is the back side of the wrap I've just put my needle through so just want to identify the wrap so in order to work these together I'm going to insert the tip of this right needle into the back of this wrap here and then into this first stitch all purl wise in order to purl these two together like so and when you do this that wrap will fall to what is like the near side for you right now but when you turn her at the work around it'll be on the wrong side of the work in any case now I'm ready to just continue Perley I have a bonus clip I want to show you guys how to work or pick up a rap stitch that's been wrapped on the wrong side but it's then picked up on the right side let me explain a bit more so you can see here I have a top down sweater started I threw it on scrap yarn so it'll a nice and flat I've worked a number of short rows here to shape around this front neckline area and my last short row I worked on the wrong side row so I wrapped this stitch I turned my work I've knit all the way back around and now I'm about to encounter this wrong side wrapped stitch but I'm going to encounter it and pick it up on the right side let me show you how so I've knit up to this wrapped stitch the first thing I'm going to do is use the tip of this right needle to kind of pick up that wrap just I'm just slipping this right needle into the front of that wrap and I'm gonna place it on the Left needle now when you place it on the Left needle you want to kind of get it it'll go there naturally probably but you just want to get it so it's it's the actual stitch first and then the wrap next the next thing that you're gonna want to do is slip this knit this stitch the actual stitch knitwise and then slip the wrap purl wise then insert the tip of the left needle into the front legs of both of those stitches both the wrap and the stitch and now just knit them together and when you do this you'll find that the wrap perfectly falls to the back of your fabric

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Length: 6min 32sec (392 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 06 2019