I found this great tutorial for shadow wrap short rows at socktopusunplugged.wordpress.com and decided the best way for my ADD brain to find it again is to reblog it. I hope other people may find it useful and will visit the original blog.
Over the last couple weeks I’ve reviewed the plain wrap, the yarn over wrap, the Japanese wrap, and the double stitch wrap. Finally we come to my little unvention, the shadow wrap.
Thank you to Penny, Aurelia & Alice for their eagle sharp eyes! The instructions have been updated.
Method #5: Shadow Wraps
With the shadow wrap all the work is done when creating the wrap – once you’re done, the shadow wrap dissolves into the shadows, and yay! gets ignored!! It’s easy to see, so you can tell where to stop and turn, and easy to work since you simply treat the shadow as, well, the inseparable shadow to its twin stitch, that is you ignore it.
The first step is to knit to the turning stitch.
Before going any further, let’s just take a moment to identify the relevant stitches. We’ll be creating…
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