Help with frogging

#1

edited because I forgot to be specific in my title. :slight_smile:

I’m knitting a cable belt that I started 3 days ago. I was about 15 rows away from being complete (well, ready for the fringe) when I decided to boast to my husband about how well my cable was coming along. Oh I was bragging and bragging and then realized that somewhere along the line, I turned my work wrong and my cable has flipped sides. :oops: :oops: Over half of my belt is turned the wrong way!!! :doh:
So, I learned what frogging was after looking it up the other day and I’m guessing that is what I need to do. I want to do it from my cast on end though since it’s shorter (and that end of the cable was still learning ground so it doesn’t look as nice as the other end.)

On to my question ~ do I just start pulling and insert my needle into the loose stitches when I get to where I need to be?
I am so not looking forward to this, but I hate to scrap the whole thing since I’ve put several hours into this!

(Or is that what frogging even is?) :??

#2

It’s called frogging because you rip-it, rip-it. :smiley:

It’s much easier to frog from the needle end because your stitches will be in the right direction. If you try to frog from the cast on edge, it will be difficult to get out and I think you could have trouble getting your stitches back on.

You can try putting in a lifeline in the destination row and unravelling up to there and reinserting your needle. You could bind off those stitches and then continue from the other end.

#3

Yep, that’s what frogging is–unravel (or rip) to the point where you need to re-knit.

This video is a lifesaver: Watch Amy’s video about inserting a needle into a destination row before unraveling.

#4

Even better is to insert that life line as you go…say you are at a point where you know its all good…when you finish the row, thread a needle and run it through along the knitting needle…then keep knitting. If you have to rip back you won’t have that horrible feeling of wanting to rip back 10 rows but then going back more than you need to. This is a very good tip for new knitters.