Frogged. I never knew that the word had anything to do with yarn. I just thought it was something people said in substitution for the obvious. You know like “Omg that’s so frogged up”. I have said it before, so don’t laugh.
It actually means to rip out your work to the point where you screwed it up. In crochet, it’s ripping.I am slowly learning the language of knitters. If my son is really serious about learning to knit, I will have to learn with him anyway.
Purl. Who would have ever guessed that pearls aren’t the only kind of “pearls” in this world. When I read knit purl, I think of computer code : 01101 .. knit purl purl knit purl.
It actually means to work your knitted stitch through the back and not the front of your row.
Binding. There are a number of references one could make to binding. There is the binding of feet, binding of books, etc…
In this case it is used in the phrase “binding off”. This is the way one would finish a knitted project. The process of taking the loops off the knitting rod so that your project doesn’t have loose stitches hanging off the edges.
Faggoting. Now we are all well aware of the implications of this word, no explanation needed.
In this case, it is a means of making lace with increasing and decreasing knitting stitches.
I learned a lot today as far as knitting is concerned. My son keeps talking about it. I know that when the money gets deposited next week, that will be the first thing I buy. I don’t think he could watch me work with yarn for another 3 months without going stir crazy. He likes to wind the yarn into balls for me, but he yearns to make things on his own.
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