Class Schedule Have you ever wished there was a better way of shaping shoulders as you are struggling to match your “stair-step” bindoffs into a flat, good looking seam? There is! Shortrows are an elegant way of building shaping into your knitting and thus avoiding those stair-steps and it just may be the perfect way to shape both shoulders and collars. The Japanese shortrow is not entirely easy to learn, but it is by far the most polished of the shortrow methods available and once you master it, you will never again be faced with having to assemble those challenging stairstep shoulder bind-offs. Time permitting, we will discuss how to convert stair-step shoulder shaping instructions into shortrow shaping and I will also show you several examples of how collars can be shaped successfully using this technique. I call this the Japanese shortrow because I first encountered it more than 20 years ago in a booklet written by a Japanese woman living in Sweden. It’s a compendium on advanced finishing techniques and when I attended the Nordic Knitting Symposium in Härnösand in 2002, it was still being used as a reference in a finishing workshop!