Mary Maxim hooded tweed collar


Please help I don’t understand short row instructions to shape back. Cast on stitches are 139, but what happens to the add’l stitches when shaping? Please clarify.

Welcome to the forum!
The idea of short rows is to add shaping in an area of the knitting by adding extra rows in one specific area. Don’t worry about the unworked sts, you’ll incorporate some of them into the center panel as you work through the decreases in the short row section.

Thank you so much for your help