Hi. Welcome to Knit With Hannah. Today we're talking about wrap and turn. (intro). Hi. Welcome to Knit With Hannah.
I'm Hannah. I'm here with knitting natter to help you learn to knit the easy way. And wrap and turn.
What on earth is that? Well, wrap and turn is all about creating short rows, and it means you're
knitting halfway across, or ten stitches across, or at some point across a row, then you're turning your
needles and you're knitting back, so you ignore the rest of that row. Now, the problem with that is
sometimes if you do it you can have a big gaping hole in the middle of your row, because you've gone
so far and then gone back and that stitch, the stitches that are still sitting in there on
the needle are kind of separated, so we have this little trick called wrap and turn and I'm going
to show you how to do that today in the demo. Now, do hang around till the end. I'm going to let you
know how you can find all of my demonstrations and videos all in one place so stick around for
that. Here's the demo right now: wrap and turn. So we are going to knit across this row just a
little way, and when you wrap and turn it's called in a longer hand way we are doing short rows so
I'm knitting across there and then I'm going to knit backwards, so I haven't done the full row, I'm
going to knit half a row or a short row. Oh. I have knitted all of these stitches and now I need to
wrap the next stitch and turn the needles. So we wrap by doing this: we move the next stitch onto
the left-hand needle but we don't knit it, as if we were about to purl it. So just put the needle
in there, move that yarn around the needle and then pull that stitch back onto the left-hand
needle. There you go. So, you can just see that's that's the wrapping part. That piece of thread
that we're knitting with has just been wrapped around the next stitch. We then turn the needles, and we carry
on along this row as if we've gone all the way along and all the way back again, but we haven't. We have
wrapped and now we're turning. Now, I'm going to go all the way along this row and I will show you
how you approach that stitch that you've wrapped and turned when you come across it again on the
next row. So let me just go all the way along here. You're going to notice "Oh. There's a bit of a bump
there." It feels like there's more knitting. Well there is because you've already done one row and
two rows more than you have on this side. So you've got more knitting here, more fabric than you have
on this side. So I'm going to go all the way along here and then I'm going to show you a little trick
that you can do, because when you wrap and turn you can actually end up with a hole, because the
stitches don't seem quite even. There's a little hole there. It feels a bit awkward, but what you
do: this is the stitch that we wrapped, so take a look at that stitch. You have the stitch hanging
on the needle but you also have the wrap there. So, what we're going to do is knit into the wrap
and into the stitch as if we're doing a knit two together almost, but we're not. We're just taking
hold of that stitch and we're including the wrap in it. So let's do that. I'm just going to pull that
yarn through. Just like any other knit stitch it has to pull through the wrap as well. Let go of
that stitch on the needle, and then you can see that it is so much neater. Sometimes when you
do a wrap and turn and you don't consider what the wrap is going to do, you can actually end up
with a bit of a gape in between the stitches. See, there you can see it's probably a bit more fabric
on that side but it doesn't notice that something happened in the middle here, and you can't see that
wrap still sitting around the stitch. That can be very noticeable sometimes if you're doing a wrap
and turn. So knit the wrap as well as the stitch and you're good to go. OK, give me a thumbs up
if you like that because that's a great tip. I learned that from a book I think, and it was really helpful and
yeah. Great! We can now wrap and turn. Wasn't that great? It is a brilliant way that I learnt only a
few years ago because I've been doing it so many other ways, and this just gave that extra step to
say it's closed. That section of stitches are quite happily sitting together: there are no gaps, there
are no holes, it doesn't look ugly or mismatched. It's more than happy to sit there, and wrap and
turn is so useful when you're shaping. Even in jumpers sometimes you want just a fancy bit on
a collar, and that's especially good for shaping collars. It could even be used when you're shaping
a hat. If you're shaping shawls you see that a lot. If you want a nice billowy fringe around the edge
the short rows are used a lot. We need that. We do need these little tips and these little tricks
to set up along our knitting experience so that we can use them again and again and again. Now, if you
want to make sure that you can remember how to do this, then click the link in the description
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