I hate tinking!

That’s knit, backwards…the process you have to do when you un-knit something. Yesterday I finally had an hour to sit and work on a sock I’m knitting…basic 4x4 rib, really mindless and relaxing…except somehow I started at the wrong needle junction after a potty break and didn’t notice until I had done a complete round that there was a carry-over length of yarn from where I should have started to where I did start. I was going to just rip it back, but this yarn has a lot of elastic in it and the stitches don’t just sit there waiting to be stuck back on a needle, they spring back out of their loops and disappear. So…tink. Stitch by stitch, for 64 stitches. And then when I was ready to knit again, I discovered each and every stitch was twisted on the needle, so before each stitch I had to lift it off and turn it the right way…sigh. Took all the fun out of my hour of mindless pleasure.

You have my sympathy. Otherwise I’m afraid I can’t help you. Kilmore don’t knit.

You need someone who gives a tinker’s damn. :smiley:

Believe me, there are whole herds of “damn!” involved when you have to tink something, especially if it’s for more than one row…

From the title I thought you were having your piano tuned. :stuck_out_tongue:

I don’t knit, but unraveling crochet work is pretty fun. Except for the part where you have to re-do everything with kinky yarn.

Oh, frogging things is fun, especially when you don’t have to try to put it back on the needles! I just love the bumpy little feeling you get when you unravel knitting!

Send it to me, and we’ll take care of it. Celtling loves nothing more than ripping stitches out of my crocheting. I seem to remember how that felt when I was a kid too, the sensual pleasure of each little tug as the knot slipped free. . .

Yeah, you just need to embrace your inner toddler. :wink:

I thought this was going to a Jamaican rant thread…

I hate tinking mon! :smiley: