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.

If I start watching Nikita tonight, will I have a lot of trouble understanding the backstory?

I doubt it. The few episodes I watched out of order told me everything I needed to know as I went. Jump right in!

But catch up on the first two seasons when you get a chance, because they are good.

so hive mind question for knitters-

Does anyone know of a pattern (preferably vintage) for a woman's dress that's A line and short sleeve and falls below the knee?

There was a customer in the yarn ship today looking for one, she's getting married this summer and wants to knit her own dress (if the pattern is simple enough).