{"id":101,"date":"2010-11-01T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T16:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/?p=101"},"modified":"2012-06-17T16:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-17T16:17:13","slug":"turning-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/turning-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/japanese.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-102\" title=\"japanese\" src=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/japanese.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/japanese.png 400w, https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/japanese-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Earlier this year, I put together a pictorial step-by-step how-to video for working Japanese Short Rows when knitting flat.\u00a0 It is now permanently added onto this site on the \u201c<a title=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/Extras.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.melindavermeer.com\/Extras.html\">Extras<\/a>\u201d page.\u00a0 The video captures photos of each step needed to complete Japanese Short Rows along with text instructions &amp; the 1980\u2019s \u2018Turning Japanese\u2019 by the Vapors just to make it that much more exciting.<\/p>\n<p>Below are the various steps needed to work a Japanese short row if you prefer a written version:<\/p>\n<p>Place (removable) markers at extent of short row<\/p>\n<p>Knit across to left marker (slipping right marker along the way)<\/p>\n<p>Remove marker and turn work<\/p>\n<p>Slip next stitch purlwise<\/p>\n<p>Place marker on working yarn<\/p>\n<p>Continue purling across to marker<\/p>\n<p>Remove marker and turn work<\/p>\n<p>Slip next stitch purlwise<\/p>\n<p>Place marker on working yarn<\/p>\n<p>Continue knitting across to the gap<\/p>\n<p>(marker is on stitch below right needle)<\/p>\n<p>Pull marker up<\/p>\n<p>Place pulled stitch on left needle<\/p>\n<p>Knit pulled stitch together with next stitch<\/p>\n<p>Knit remainder of row<\/p>\n<p>Purl across row to gap<\/p>\n<p>Slip next stitch purlwise<\/p>\n<p>Pull marker up<\/p>\n<p>Place pulled stitch on left needle<\/p>\n<p>Slip stitch on right needle back to left<\/p>\n<p>Purl slipped and pulled stitches together<\/p>\n<p>Continue purling across row<\/p>\n<p>One complete Japanese short row has been completed with no visible holes or bumps (on the knit side)!<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, I put together a pictorial step-by-step how-to video for working Japanese Short Rows when knitting flat.\u00a0 It is now permanently added onto this site on the \u201cExtras\u201d page.\u00a0 The video captures photos of each step needed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/turning-japanese\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,6],"tags":[126,66,65,67],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","category-knitting","tag-how-to","tag-japanese-shortrows","tag-short-rows","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melindavermeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}