If you’ve been in the crochet world for a little while, you’re probably familiar with the term ‘frogging’. If not, to frog is to ‘undo’, or rip out a number of stitches in your work to fix an earlier error.
I must admit, I did have to look up why ‘frogging’ was so called – turns out that the name comes from the repeated ‘rip-it, rip-it, rip-it’ motion, as you’re tearing apart each lovingly crafted stitch…
In case you couldn’t tell from the tone of this blog entry so far, I’ve recently had a fair bit of experience with frogging. I’m working on creating a pattern for a lovely soft jumper, designing as I make, and making as I go…So, as you can imagine, there have been plenty of opportunities for things to not quite work out as planned, and a few wobbles that needed ironing out.
The biggest incident that has required frogging so far has been the shaping from the underarm to the neck – at first I decided that I wanted to try and taper the front piece towards the neckline – which ended up proving less than successful and resulted in this uneven disaster:
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