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Short rows with a knook

I'm using shadow wraps because that's my favorite short row method. But everything explained here will still work with wrap and turn or any other type of short row method. I'm not explaining how to make the double stitches, there are plenty of knitting tutorials and videos about shadow wraps, for example here. And like all knitting stitches they work the same when knooking. What is different in knooking is how to manipulate the cord while making short rows. Of course you can take a new cord for every row, but who wants to juggle that many cords? So instead I show you a method for which you need two cords if you work on a flat piece and if you work on something that is in the round before you start the short rows you don't even need an extra cord (but you can, and it might help). It is useful to work with two cords with a contrasting color. Lets start with a row of 20 stitches and we are working simply in garter stitch. We are told by the pattern to wrap and turn af

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