How to Knit German Short Rows for Neckline Shaping

[@jshroll1911]

First. THANK YOU! Second. Please know that you are very much appreciated for taking time out of your life to freely give all of us newbies clear instructions and showing us the why and when and how. Your kindness has enabled so many to succeed. I want to express how truly grateful I am and I believe many others share that same appreciation. You have enabled us to not only knit your sweater patterns, but to also feel that sense of accomplishment that spills over into other parts of our lives. You, dear Ashley, deserve gold stars and ice cream cones! Again THANK YOU,

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh wow, you are so kind! Thank you so much! It was so nice to read this -- you really have no idea! Happy knitting to you :)

[@annaphillips3697]

This is THE MOST helpful knitting video ever. I was in utter confusion about what was happening and could only find flat lay tutorials. The beginning was so necessary for the conceptual understanding. Thank you!

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh I’m so glad it was helpful!

[@Ayanathurman]

This is such a great tutorial. I don't think there are many (any) like it that explain everything so clearly. I was so flustered before I watched it. I feel like you've opened up a whole new skill level for me. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

oh you're so sweet -- thank you so much!

[@karolinatajchman4753]

Thanks a million! I’ve been obssesively looking for an answer to my questions and after searching for 1,5 days (all day long) I’ve found it in your video! You saved my sanity ❤️ Thank you for that tutorial!!!

[@valegory]

I've been putting off my current project for over a week because I didn't understand what it was asking me to do with the GSR section. Watched the first 4 minutes of this and completely understand how GSRs work. This video is seriously helpful and very straightforward. Thanks!

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh I’m so glad - thanks for letting me know!! ❤️

[@shonp3761]

You are literally my go to for anything "new" I need to learn. THANK YOU! I just started knitting 2 Months ago. I am 3 completed projects in, 100% addicted, and would not have completed a single item without your help. I am not sure how everything seems to make sense once you explain it, butI have just started a new sweater and 100% understood the pattern simply based on things I have learned watching your videos. Again, a huge THANK YOU!

[@joslinbeard7925]

Thank you so much for this video! I’ve read the pattern I’m working on so many times and have not been able to figure what they are talking about 😅 This is exactly what I needed to see!

[@northwoodfalls1403]

Thank you so much! I had knit a sweater for my daughter as my first attempt at a sweater and did it by just winging it (I struggle with written instructions so I had just watched someone make a basic sweater using straight needles and creating panels and sewing them all together) but then I got some circular needles and followed your Fall Bluff raglan sweater tutorial and I am immensely proud that I actually made a sweater I can wear and it looks pretty good! It was exactly the encouragement I needed to build my confidence that I can learn how to continue to advance my knitting skills and I am eager to tackle another sweater with more shaping around the neckline. You have a real gift for explaining and demonstrating the why’s and how’s of these techniques. Most tutorials are more like expert knitters who have forgotten how tricky these techniques are when you are just learning and seem to always skip over the concept of why they are used, which made me feel like maybe knitting more complex projects just wasn’t going to be for me. Now I’m excited to gradually expand what is possible to do ❤

[@Kloulock]

Hey Ashley! This tutorial was instrumental in knitting my first adult sweater! Your instructions are clear and concise! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this technique!

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh I’m so so glad! Yay!

[@SandPell123]

Hi Ashley, This is my first time doing the German Short Row. I watched other videos and was so confused. I was about to frog my sweater. Just wanted to say thank you for your video. It has been the most helpful and I have gotten past the short rows. Thanks again! You're the best!!!

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh thanks for the feedback!! I’m so happy this helped! Hope the sweater turns out great. Happy knitting!

[@kkr1994]

Thank you! I was having such a hard time visualizing this technique and your 5min intro made it click.

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh thanks! So glad it helped ❤️

[@kathwhit6462]

German short rows, I'm going to have to watch this again. Your tutorial is a tremendous help overcoming this pattern instruction.Thank You.

[@katiekelley4390]

Got through a confusingly written step of my first ever sweater thanks to you!!!

[@VivianSmiling]

Thank you so much for this tutorial, Ashley! So clearly demonstrated and explained. 👍👍 I am going to try it with the simple top down sweater on your other video.

[@marquesn77]

This tutorial is actually a great help when knitting any sweater with German short row shaping

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Yes, true! Thank you!!

[@gardenlove2782]

Such a clear explanation! I will use it as I knit my next sweater.

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh I’m so glad!! Happy knitting to you!!

[@lisasmith3955]

Thank you SO MUCH! I am knitting my first sweater and couldn’t visualize exactly what to do. By you showing in the video how to do this in the round, I have a much better understanding of the pattern instructions. Great and super helpful video.

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

So glad it was helpful!

[@constanca7976]

Thank you Ashley for this tutorial. It is really really helpfull and so easy to follow

[@MyHobbyNest]

Im so glad I came across your Channel. I have really enjoyed your tutorials. Thank you for sharing.

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Thanks so much for watching - hope it’s all helpful to you and happy knitting!

[@rubyrayne8]

I’ve done German short rows at least 5 times but I working on a sweater pattern right now that was confusing. I think I knew what she meant but want to watch some people knit first. This helped me with the pattern but also helped me realized I was doing German Short Rows wrong! I wasn’t working the turn, so I’d knit to and then turn, instead of knitting 3 then turning. This was great, thank you for the visual overview in the beginning. I wish I watched this a couple years ago.

[@charitypoole8481]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! You just saved my first adult sweater! Thanks for being so clear. I’ll be knitting your pattern next!

[@PaulaSimoes67]

Thank you ! You are very generous once more and I hope you get a lot of blessings and good things in your life. Lots of love from Lisbon 😘😘😘😘😘😘

[@savannahmorris1587]

Thank you for this video! Broadly expanded my horizons and helped me feel so much more confident in the understanding of why, when, where, and how!

[@_somebitsandbobs_]

Love this video, as usual I'm really satisfied with your content. The video is not rushed, you walk us through all the steps so we can see clearly what we have to do. And more importantly, you explain the logic behind it. I feel this is such a great help to improve, more than just blindfully following without knowing why we do this or that. Thank you so much!

[@doyouzgot2knw]

Ashley I love your tutorials. Please never stop, you’re an amazing person.

[@ambulllynk2428]

I am so happy with these clearly explained videos. Long searched and now found. But I would really like to see a video of shortened rows in the neckline of the back with your explanation. I have seen the neckline in the front but I would like to learn it in the neck (back). I like loose collars, or waterfall necks as they are sometimes called here in the Netherlands 😉 I hope you read my message and would like to help me and many others with me. Greetings Esther

[@EmeseVida]

Thank you so much for this, the most useful video about short rows on KZbin

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Ha! Yay! Glad it helped 🥰

[@TheCraftyCoco]

I’m making the Calliope Sweater by Espace Tricot. I’ve never worked German short rows before, this tutorial is SO helpful. Adding it to my Ravelry notes for other newbies to reference.

[@maryhornsby9441]

Thank you, this was amazingly helpful. I was about to scream trying to decipher my written instructions!

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Yay! Happy to help!! ❤️

[@cristinaafonso5003]

Hi dear Ashley, Really great explanation. I did not understand how these short rows were made but with your excellent and very clear explanation I finally understood. I am blind and love knitting but watching videos is not always the easiest thing so it’s got to be crystal clear for me to learn and be able to apply the knowledge and you can do exactly what I need. Really appreciate many many thanks God bless you

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh this make me so happy! I always struggled with German Short Rows so once I finally figured it out, I knew I had to share it with everyone :). Happy knitting!

[@cristinaafonso5003]

@@AshleyLillisKnits hi once again dear Ashley, Can you please tell me where I can find your patterns please? The tutorials that you have on KZbin are very easy to follow but anyway, I would like to be able to follow the patterns with written instructions Thank you very much for your help, kind regards

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

@@cristinaafonso5003 all of my patterns are listed on my website here! www.ashleylillis.com/knitting-patterns

[@jennypenny516]

You have the best tutorials!

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Glad you think so! Thank you!!

[@monicavazquez3744]

Wow...so well explained! I dealt with making that neck dip a whole different way, this is so much easier!!! I think I’m ready to SOLO!!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience 🌹👏👍👏👍👏 NEW SUB👌👍

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Glad it was helpful! Yay!! Thanks for the kind words!!

[@kittenkorleone2918]

I agree. It's so scary to invest in some quality yarn (I'm also a big gal) to make a first sweater when you're not really sure how to actually make it fit. I know me. If it isn't comfortable, it'll drift to the back of the closet. I think in ready to solo too.

[@ginettelabonte5084]

Very good explanations, very clear and easy to follow. Thanks

[@cinnamon_x]

Omg, literally love u so much! So easy to follow and understand ❤❤❤

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

I'm so glad! ❤️❤️👍🏻

[@nancygianakas3258]

Your tutorials coupled with the PDF files, are EXCELLENT! Is there a PDF file for the German Short Rows Cardigan? Thank you.

[@camillejames9545]

This is an amazing tutorial! I'm making my first sweater and my pattern suddenly said "Work GSR" and I was so confused about when to turn and what to do! You made it so clear and easy to understand, thank you thank you!

[@bujoreancristina378]

Great tutorial! Thank you so much! 💖

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh good! Glad it was helpful!

[@mayazc7553]

Thank you for your tutorial. I have a question. Why don't you do all the increases on the right side?

[@raquelleone2594]

Thank you so much! I was struggling with another pattern that uses this technique but the instructions were not clear. Mystery solved!

[@madelineammend5956]

THANK YOU this video was so helpful

[@NeonNaomi]

Hi, thank you so much for the tutorial. The question I have is why do you increase at the purple marker? Isn’t that the end of the row?

[@karencote6810]

I love the turtleneck sweater you are showing in the beginning of thos video and really love it! I was hoping that was what you were going to show. Do you have a video for that one or a pattern?

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Here you go! www.ashleylillis.com/blog/2021/3/18/top-down-sweater-knitting-pattern-the-southern-coastline-pullover

[@karencote6810]

@@AshleyLillisKnits thank you so much!

[@adelialasam6620]

I like how you give instructions very easy to understand especially for beginners like me and after 2 years of knitting and crocheting I want to try on complicated ones for example this German short rows or the neck elevation in the raglan but I have a question about doing short rows and raglan increases at the same time and so I noticed from this pattern that, should we increase both from the right side and wrong side? But not alternating?

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

hi there! Same concept applies with raglan increases -- every other round. It's just confusing because you're just doing them on the wrong side of the work

[@charlieb1764]

Hi Ashley, thank you for this tutorial, it’s the most helpful one I’ve found so far 😊 For my next winter bluff sweater, I plan on adding some short rows. How many stitches into the front should I start my short rows, and how many rows should I do? I’m struggling to visualise it 😕

[@ColleenMak]

Great video. Can you wait until the right side to increase? That way you don’t have to increase during purling. Thx

[@studio_anaelle]

This video helped me sooo much thanks 💛☺️

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Oh you’re very welcome! I’m so glad!!

[@susanengland8289]

Do you have written instructions for German short rows

[@SaggyMx]

Hi! If the raglan sweater is knitted bottom up, how would the short rows would be made?

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

I don’t make raglan sweaters from the bottom up, but I’m assuming the logic is the same!

[@susanengland8289]

Could you explain the difference between German short rows and short rows.

[@TheKingreturns2030]

So your short rows are in the front? Wouldn't this make the front higher then the back. I am confused sorry could you explain please? I have never tried this before just want to be sure before I start my increases

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Nope! Short rows create a dip so that the front is lower than the back. Best way to see it is to try to do it and it will make more sense!

[@cleaberge9395]

I have the same question. All other tuts show short rows in the back (thought it creates more fabric).

[@janicebest-nesbitt6455]

Awesome tutorial is there a pattern for that sweater ?

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Yes! the pattern is available for purchase here: www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/southern-coastline-pullover

[@janicebest-nesbitt6455]

@@AshleyLillisKnits Thank You. Is there a video to go along with this sweater. I love it.

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

@@janicebest-nesbitt6455 no video, but my simple raglan tutorial is very similar. The German short rows are the hardest part!

[@janicebest-nesbitt6455]

@@AshleyLillisKnits so is this suitable for beginners. I am doing the fall bluff sweater but what about the fold over neck collar. Will that sweater help me.

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

@@janicebest-nesbitt6455 I have a video for my fold over neck collar! This pattern is probably a bit harder then a beginner.

[@studio_anaelle]

For the right sleeve you always work the raglans on the right side of the sweater, and for the left sleeve you always work the raglans on the wrong side of the sweater? (Depending on where your row begins I guess)

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Yes just depends where your round begins/ends!

[@silviahirschmann8717]

Wow! Perfect! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💞💞💞💞💞

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Thank you!! I really appreciate the support :)

[@shrutibhavsar3908]

Could you please make a tutorial on raglan turtle neck sweater

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

I have lots of other sweater patterns and tutorials that you might want to check out. You can always modify the collar!

[@deehawkins9983]

Thanks for sharing.

[@AftonGroveKnitter]

What’s the purpose of putting BOR @ RS, instead of center back?

[@artycraftycutie4950]

How can you tell if it’s on the wrong side?

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

If it’s reverse stockinette stitch!

[@anamarrone2020]

What’s the name of the yarn you are working? Is sweeter for an adult!

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

This is We are Knitter Petite wool. This is my southern coastline sweater made for adults. More info here! www.ashleylillis.com/blog/2021/3/18/top-down-sweater-knitting-pattern-the-southern-coastline-pullover

[@sangkumkhmer1047]

Thank you for sharing 🌹

[@lynnadirim3206]

While it took me a little bit of time I was great thanks.

[@AftonGroveKnitter]

Why don’t you put BOR @ the center back?

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

This is just how I do it! Feel free to do it however you’d like 👍🏻

[@mldcomert9118]

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[@ewamahring]

hi there the video is totally overexposed with overboosted contrast, there are just parts of wool and hands in white, is that on purpose?

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

I did my best! Enjoy the free content!

[@missree1995]

@@AshleyLillisKnits LOL

[@pattyjones657]

Thank you so much Ashley for this demonstration, you made it easy to follow. Is there any way that you can post it in writing so I can make a copy of it. Greatly appreciated 😊🌹🧶🌺

[@AshleyLillisKnits]

Feel free to purchase my sweater pattern with the written instructions here! www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/southern-coastline-pullover

[@pattyjones657]

@@AshleyLillisKnits Thank you😊