Dear knitters - urgent question about short row shaping!!

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I am designing a jumper for my DD and want to do short row shaping to achieve triangles of colour separated by 'wooly' seams (i.e. in a different yarn).

How far from the end of the row do you propose that I wrap and turn as it were? Am I correct in thinking that on the next row i knit over the top and then on the 3rd row, I wrap and turn again until that triangle is completed??? I want them to be fairly steep angles I think so that the end result isn't tooooo busy looking.

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sorry, i may be being a bit thick - don't really understand

ooooh - imagine a side ways triangle, where for example the point is on the left hand side and the long side of a triablg eos on ht eirght hand side and the bottom of the triangle coinsides with the bottom of the jumper.....then there is another mirror image triangle above that - i.s. each panel of the jumper is made up of different coloured triangles. i wasn to knit that!

this sounds exactly like a kaffe fassett pattern. could you change one of his to suit?

so it seems that you're going to knit each triangle and then sew them together afterwards? would the triangles be pretty big?

i'd get a piece of graph paper and draw the angles you want, and then knit a sample to check.

Hi Warthog - I'm actually planning to just knit a triangle (like a sideways one), then change yarn and do 3 rows in a woolly yarn and then back to the original yarn for a triangle in the opposite direction (so the overall piece ends up as a rectangle!). That will then be the back of the cardigan....

Hmm, I have no idea how far in to start- I am not sure anyone could advise without seeing it to be honest. You sound right about the wrapping but you have to remember to pick the wraps up or you'll have holes (sorry if that's obvious). I've only ever done short row shaping from patterns so not much help, sorry.

Thanks Tanum - can you remember if you wrapped and turned every other row and in the same place or not? Once I understand the principles of how to knit a slope, I think I can probably work the rest out. I hope!

Crisis over - I;ve managed to work it out. i think.

sorry - out of my depth here... glad you worked it out

Aha, I am too late, but you can do every other row or every row, depends on how steep the slope you want. Glad you've got it sorted thought!

I read this as deaf knitters and couldn't think why it would matter...

I have become quite deaf to my DH, so you're not far off

Ah Tanum - here's a problem for you. If I have 55 stitches and wrap and turn every other row 'holding' 5 stitches at a time but the I want to do another slope that is equally high but based on 28 stitches (i.e. the slope is twice as steep) - how many stitches do I hold etc???