Is there a good video somewhere? “A friend of mine” thinks she did it yesterday 
but her stitches were then twisted. :roflhard:
Thanks, and of course I’ll pass all of your suggestions on to her!
Tinking is just pulling out the old sts one by one. It’s possible she twisted some of the stitch when she inserted the needle, that’s not a big problem, just put them back the right way when you get to them. There’s a video under Tips under Fixing Mistakes http://www.knittinghelp.com/videos/knitting-tips that shows how to know twisted sts, how to insert the needle correctly, etc.
Also, a good article about the topic can be found at Knitty, called ‘Frog Pond Edition’.
Yeah that…I use it frequently. As a matter of fact, I recently had to frog 9 rows back to fix a non critcal error (meaning I was the only one who noticed of course), and it showed how to do it without loosing stitches.
You probably already know this, but “tink” is just “knit” spelled backwards. You are just un-knitting your stitches to go back to a place you need to fix.
When I tink I pull down slightly on the piece of knitting right below the first stitch on the right hand needle, then I insert the left needle tip into the hole that is the stitch from the last row (from the front, toward the back). This doesn’t have anything to do with any part of the loop on the needle, but into the center of the stitch below that. After the left needle tip is in the stitch I slide that stitch loop onto the left needle and let the loop that was on the right needle come undone by slightly pulling on the skein yarn. No stitches or loops are ever off of the needles so that they have a chance to go anywhere.
This should work with any standard knitting English or Continental, but if your friend knits some other way, for instance, Combined knitting, it may be a little different because the way the stitches present on the needles can be different then, which could cause standard tinking to twist the stitches.