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[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls, The Inside and Drive), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath. Oh, and help us get Terriers dvds!
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).
2 pages of wedding dresses on Ravelry.
