What Is Shoulder Shaping & Why Do We Do It?

Have you ever come across shoulder shaping in a pattern and wondered why we do it? Or are you trying to write a pattern and struggling to wrap your head around short row shoulder shaping?

I wanted to make this video & the one on back neck shaping to illustrate why and hopefully demystify it for you.

A few notes:
1.) The drawings are mirrors of what it looks like when you wear it. When I say right shoulder that means your right shoulder when you're wearing the sweater, not the right side when you're looking at it laying flat (with the front facing you).
2.) For right shoulders when working bottom up you make your turns on RS rows, and for left shoulders when working bottom up you make your turns on WS rows.
3.) You only make turns when moving in the direction of the shoulder, otherwise you knit to the end of the row when moving in the direction of the neck.

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[marykayengel]

Perfect!! Thank you!! I could not understand the concept the way it was written in my pattern!

[yippy]

Wonderful job teaching this, thank you :D

[gourmand_knitter]

This looks like for a bottom up sweater. Is that correct? I am looking for something in top down

[AftonGroveKnitter]

What would I do if the pattern has no short row shaping, as in the MILLIE sweater?

[outandfullyawake]

So would you use short row shaping rather than traditional cast off x amount to start undrarm shaping and then the knit2-tog on alt or whatever rows or is that for a different shsping?

[Mireya]

Is this for working in the round? Flat? Confused