Knitting Goddess #9: Frogger

Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Frogger

I think I have another frogging project, for when I finish the other 20,000 listed on the side of the blog. Its name will be Frogger v3.0

Note for the KnitWits: Frogging is when you rip out more than one inch of a project, or a whole project... you rip-it, rip-it.

See, back when I was young, foolish and naive, knitting only scarves, baby blankets out of stockinette, and other foolishnesses, about 3 years ago, my mom bought me enough yarn for a sweater and a pattern.

This first pattern was Beach, in that it was a simple raglan sweater with rolled sleeves, waist, and mock turtle neck. Again, being young, innocent and naive, I found my size and blindly followed the pattern, not pausing to consider my own body measurements.

The thing was a tent on my, the sleeves were 4" too long, and the sweater could have easily been a tunic. I wore it maybe twice, then stuck it in a drawer until the summer. I frogged it and started to reknit.

Then, about six months later, still naive, I picked out a sweater pattern from one of those Michael's pattern pamphlet thingies that cost more than the yarn, but you don't know why because the patterns are godawful. I knit the sweater. I wore the sweater. I realized I had made it 3" too short for me, and then I frogged and reknit to the correct length. That is, waist length.

So, now I have a sweater that ends at my waist and is a full collar sweater. Despite measuring desired sleeve length, they're too long because the pattern was designed for someone with much broader shoulders than I have- those seams end at the tops on my biceps. It's also a box- no fitted anything. In it, I look like an overly preppy secretary when I wear a collared shirt, and just weird when I wear a normal collar.

So, I think once I finish everything else (probably next summer), I'm gonna frog it AGAIN and make a nice, hip length, fitted v-neck sweater. I really do like the yarn- it's a pretty red-blue acryllic that's a great color on me.

When all's said and done, I will have spent more than 3 months on this sweater. That's more than sitcom.

I never check when I knit, and I occasionally make impulsive pattern decisions. Hopefully, this will change.

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Christina - Knit blogger, tentative pattern designer, sporadic spinner, occasional beader, a sewer without a sewing machine, a self proclaimed Knitting Goddess, who sometimes depends on the kindness of strangers (especially strangers who come bearing gifts of yarn) and a happy fiber enabler.