What is "tinking" you ask? To tink is the opposite of knit, therefore, it is unknitting. Such as, when you knitted when you should have purled, dropped a stitch several rows below, or did the neck shaping on the armhole edge. Hmm, all of the above I have done in the past week, so I have had much practice in tinking.
On the other hand, when you have to "undo" sewing, it is called frog stitching. ("wesing" just doesn't work). You take a seam ripper to your stitches and "rip-pit, rip-pit" like the ribbit of a frog. I haven't sewn any in the past couple of weeks, so I haven't frog-stitched!
Somehow tinking is more interesting to me than frog-stitching. Not sure why....
1 comment:
Most knitters actually use frogging to mean pulling out large amounts of yarn (rows and rows) because you, as you said, 'rip it', 'rip it'. Unknitting one stitch at a time is called tinking.
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