My problem with my abandoned first sweater project is that the yarn is crappy too. I bought it before I knew anything about anything, and it's miserable on the fingers to work with, and it's also clear my gauge was wrong and the sweater is not going to fit me, and is a dorky style for anyone not me. I mean, it's dorky for me too, but I can rock out dorky, especially stripey dorky.

But yeah, I should frog it anyway. I'm trying to finish the hat I started last spring, to go with my new coat. And then I need to do some dishcloths, which will wokr out because I'm trying to teach myself to switch over from English to combination.

But I really still am having string tension issues. I just don't hold the yarn right, I think.

What I actually want to do is frog my favorite store sweater, which has a hole in the shoulder, but in such a way that I think I can salvage most of the yarn, which is fabulous and looks great and doesn't hold dog hair. But I'm askeered. Although really, I'm not wearing it anymore, so there's very little risk.

But yeah, I should frog it anyway.

You should take it to Goodwill and let someone else frog it if they have a use for the yarn. It doesn't sound like stuff you'd want to use again anyway.

I am not a knitter but I kind of love the term frog. What does it mean, to unravel the pattern? I wonder where the term comes from.

Oo, I should check Wordnik, shouldn't I?

Yeah, Liese, if you're not using the sweater, there's not a good reason to not frog it.

I do agree with brenda, though, if you have no use for the yarn, don't put in the work to frog the WIP.

Burrell, yeah, to "frog" is to unravel a piece of knitting entirely. It comes from the sound frogs make: "Rippit Rippit"

You may also enjoy the term "tink," which is to undo stitches one at a time (you know, knit backward)

Thanks DebetEsse

Liese- are you going to left thumb purl? I have been trying to switch to that, but it is hard to unlearn my method, which I taught myself and is continental on the knit, and a really crazy unknown method on the purl.

What is really weird is that my mom tried to teach me to kniw (I learned when I was about 4) and she knits English style, but I just made up my way, and it turned out it was continental!

Ack!

Whew, link snafu, lemme try again.

I dunno, I may finish the original sweater just for sentimentality's sake, and who knows, now that I'm losing weight it may eventually fit!

The commercial one I'll definitely frog.

I didn't know the term "tink" but I do that a lot! I'm timid ripping stuff back, because I often put it on the needle wrong. So I happily knit backwards a lot to get to an unnoticed error.

Liese- are you going to left thumb purl?

I dunno! Here's the relevant videos: Combination knit. Combination purl. I want to learn because it's so much faster, but I'm not sure, maybe I should just learn straight Continental? It seems more complicated to interpret patterns this way, something I'm already not good at.

Heads up - American Horror Story has gone the supremely annoying Survivor route of retitling for the new season, so if you have a season pass set for American Horror Story it will not pick up American Horror Story: Asylum tonight.

Well, my complicated sock project is turning out oddly. I had started out on 1s using the larger size in the pattern. What I got was waaay too small - so I frogged and re-cast on with 2. Still using the large size of the pattern (are alarms going off somewhere?) - so the first sock is GINORMOUS and I messed up the pattern somehow because it is also very odd. Very odd. I've cast on the 2nd sock on 2s but the smaller size. I'm going to see if I can figure out where I went wrong with the pattern - but it could be that pattern is too much for me.

I intend to bring pattern and socks to knitting groups for consultation.