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Skill Builder Exercises

Mastering Short Row Shaping is essential to your success as a machine knitter.

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The Goal of this Challenge

Adding shaped shoulders to a sweater can really improve fit. Using Short Row | Partial Knitting makes short work of creating the shapes.

This is a useful introduction and exercise for short row shaping (partial knitting)
Why use Short Rows?
  • Shoulder Slopes
  • Bust Darts
  • Neckline shaping
  • Curved hems
  • Shaping heels and toes of socks
  • Mitered corners
  • Knitting Circles
In this challenge you will knit at 3 swatches. Each exercise will use different skills that may be new to you.

  • Manual Short Rows

  • Automatic Short rows

  • Seaming the shoulders

Advanced Challenge:
  1. Work these exercises in pattern (tuck, slip, fairisle etc)
  2. Work these exercises on the ribber (1x1, full needle rib etc)


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