Jun 19 2008
How Often do you Frog?
Do you know what frogging is? Chances are, if you’ve been knitting long enough, you’ve frogged, and may not even know it. Frogging is the process of knitting along, realizing you’ve made a mistake, and ripping your knitting back to the point where you can fix the mistake. Why’s it called frogging? Because you just have to “rip it” and get along with it. Ah, now you get it!
Well, I’m working on a project now that has be froggin’ crazy! I’m using a soft, chenille type yarn, and it just isn’t working in the pattern I chose. It’s a crossover pattern, which took me about five tries to get right, and then, as it progressed, I just see it’s not right at all, and I’m going to have to frog it again.
Oh, frogging is also that other well-known process in knitting, the one where you hate the project so much that you rip it out entirely and put the yarn aside to use for something else. Been there, done that. In fact, this scarf project I’m working on right now, (the crossover pattern), is heading in that direction. I’m going to frog the whole thing and move on to something else, until I can decide what to use the yarn for.
The yarn is a beautiful variegated fall-burnished copper color, and I love it, but it’s just not doing justice to this pattern. Don’t you hate it when that happens?! I think I’ll move on to another project for my house that I’ve been meaning to do, and call it a froggin’ day.
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