Frogging is
such a funny name! I couldn’t imagine what it meant! It means
picking or ripping knitting stitches back one at time. If you
say “Rip it! Rip it! Rip it!” it sounds just like a frog. If you
talk out loud to yourself while you do it, you may sound just
like Kermit the frog!
When you frog, it is really helpful to mark your mistake with a
split ring marker. You can see a picture of them in my book,
Show Me How: Knitting.
If you dropped a stitch, place a split ring marker on the
dropped stitch. That will keep it from raveling back and making
a bigger mistake. If you just knitted when you should have
purled or vice versa, place a split ring marker on the stitch or
stitches that you made a mistake on.
Frogging is like knitting backward. It doesn’t make any
difference if you are knitting or purling. You do it the same
way.
Here’s how you do it. You can watch the video or read the
written
instructions below.
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Ripping out from the beginning of the row:
Hold the needle with all the stitches on it in your right
hand.
Wrap the working yarn around your right index finger and hold
it just above and straight up from the stitch you just made.
Keep the yarn up tight. Pull down a little on knitted piece so
you can see the stitch below the one you just made.
Poke the end of the left needle from front to back into the
stitch below the end stitch on the right needle.
Slide the right needle out of the stitch and gently pull the
working yarn out of the stitch. One stitch is now on the left
needle.
Keep ripping the stitches out one at a time until you get
back to place you need to fix.
Keep tightening the yarn on your right index finger by
wrapping it around more times as you work.
Ripping out when you are in the middle of arrow:
Hold the stitches just the same way you would to knit. That
means the needle with the stitches you just made are on the
right needle, the ones to be worked are on the left needle.
Follow the directions above beginning with Step 2.
