The sound a frog makes
In my last entry, I wrote about the hat which was made too small. I started a new hat for the boyfriend, since the original hat was supposed to be for him. This time, instead of a roll-brim (which happens if you use stockinette stitch from start to finish), I decided to do a nice rib at the bottom for about two inches, then switch to stockinette to give a smooth top. This would make a snug fit around the ears, or so I had hoped
I dropped a stitch. This is when the stitch slips off your needle before you work it. Often us newbies don’t notice this until a row or two later. This would be fine, normally. All you have to do is take a look at the tutorials online to see that picking up a dropped stitch is not such a daunting task once you calm down and realize you can fix it. The problem is that I was doing a simple rib pattern. Knit two, Purl two. So when I dropped the stitch, it threw off the count. The lovely rib pattern was now no more.
As such, I decided to FROG back to the mistake. What is Frogging, you ask? What is this weird terminology that those crazy knitters use? Well, newbies need to know this: The sound a frog makes is “Ribbit, ribbit”. That sounds very similar to “rip it, rip it”. So when you take your knitting off the needles and have to rip out a bunch of stitches/rows (effectively, “ripping it”), knitters call this Frogging. I have no idea who came up with this term, but perhaps one day I’ll find out.
Unfortunately, there is a fine art in Frogging. You have to know what you’re doing. Though I had a vague idea of what I was doing, it did not save me from having to unravel the whole 1.5 inches I’d already knit. Sadly, the hat will have to be cast on again. Sadly, there are no photos of this catastrophe. It all happened too fast.
Another lesson learned.
Tomorrow my mom gets her birthday scarf, the previously mentioned Coffee Scarf. Hopefully she’ll like it. I’ll post a photo of her wearing it if I can.
Cheers everyone, happy blizzard day!
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