Frogging of course!
At the end of 2024 I recorded a little video showing most of the things I knit through the year. You can see it here.
Missing was everything I knit and frogged! I decided to record all of my 2025 frogging but do you think I have? Nope, not even a single photo to include here. I’ll let you in on a little secret, I frog a ridiculous amount of knitting.
In the past month I have frogged a large scarf/hood FO and since reknit it, have another scarf project in time out, waiting to be frogged (and reknit), also a decent start of a garment frogged and reknit.
Why so much frogging? It seems to be a part of my design process; sometimes things just don’t work out as I had planned/imagined. Sometimes I don’t listen to my gut instinct and try to convince myself it’s all AOK along the way. Other times I accept it’s the trial and error process of working things out on the needles. Sounds a bit like life in general, doesn’t it?
I think the reason I don’t record all of my frogging is that I am eager to get back on track, rip that bandaid off, wind up the yarn and get on with it. Usually the reknit is much faster, I’m clearer about what I’m doing and I don’t think I have ever regretted it.
I generally only have one or two projects on the go at a time, which is why I will generally just rip it out and get on with it.
The scarf in time out is unusual. It was a side project and other scheduled designs have taken priority. Perhaps I will get around to documenting the frogging of this one!
I like to think of it more as swatching, sometimes very large swatches! I always learn something and am always much happier with the next iteration.
The garment I re-started for example. I began using two strands of fingering weight yarn held together to make a DK weight. I’m working with a mini skein gradient set and originally planned to work each colour in a block and started out that way. A few colours in I realised I had the opportunity to fade the colours into each other by holding a strand each of colours 1 and two, working for a few rows then dropping colour 1 and holding colour 2 double for a section, then transitioning to colour 3 in the same way.
Either way would have been fine, but as I was not too far into the project I decided to rip it out and start again.
That’s just some of my recent frogging!
I’m always happy to forgive myself a small error, use some duplicate stitch to tidy up a little mishap, try and tink down to fix my errors. Sometimes frogging is the only way with a fresh start – even though it can be seriously annoying at the time!
