Frogging or Tinking? Basic Knitting Terms You Don't Want to Use.

Frogging and tinking? What?

In the knitting world, frogs say "rip it, rip it." And that's the reason knitters use the term "frogging" as they merrily unravel their hours worth of knitting. Okay, it's not always a particularly fun thing to do, especially if you've found a glaring error and have to rip back something complicated... but it can be incredibly liberating to admit that, well, this here just ain't working, while still posessing the sure knowledge that you have the skill and talent to make something beautiful out of a monstrosity.

The term frogging gives the impression of a rather exuberant ripping out of knitted stitches... so there's also tinking, which is a little easier to handle.

Undoing your knitting stitch by stitch - technically known as tinking - can also be a useful trick to master. It's quite easy to be knitting along and realize you've gotten your ribbing off one stitch during the particularly exciting bit of that movie you're watching on TV.

The great thing about tinking is the ease in remembering what the term means... because it's just "knit" spelled backwards! Get it?

Good luck with that scarf - hope you don't tink with too many frogs!