Why is ripping out knitting called frogging?
Why is ripping out knitting called frogging? Tink is knit spelled backwards, and it refers to undoing one stitch at a time. My knitting colleagues know that I prefer to frog, meaning I take the knitting off the needles and pull the yarn, undoing rows of stitches at a time. Frogging gets its name from "Rip it, rip it," which sounds like a frog's croak. Can you undo rows in knitting? Sometimes, when you are knitting a pattern you can get distracted and knit more rows than what you needed at first. In order to unknit these rows, you have...