Frogging and Casting On…
I’m going to assume that most people who are reading this knitting blog have a basic understanding of frogging and casting on. For those who don’t I will offer a brief explanation. Frogging is the act of ripping back or completely ripping out your knitting or crocheting because you “rip it, rip it.” Casting on is the process of putting the desired number of initial stitches onto your needle in order to start the project. Recently, my life has been a lot of frogging. My family business and full time job had to close suddenly. The process of closing and the hard decisions that go with it were very similar to ripping out lace mohair. It was kind of a sticky, knotty mess. Then while all of that was going on my boyfriend and I were moving out of our apartment without having the next apartment secured. That kind of move requires a person to tug at the mess of yarn that is life and hope that it helps untangle the mess instead of making the knot tighter. Talk about a lot of frogging in the course of a month. Thankfully, I have a new place to live and a variety of jobs that are blending together to become an exciting living. I’m looking at the several balls of rewound yarn that survived a month of crazy frogging and I can’t help but think about what beautiful raw materials are in front of me. I have spent the last few years spinning and plying different skills and tools for creating a new fabric for my life. They are waiting to become something new, something interesting, and something that will keep me intrigued for a while. I’m still test knitting this thing we call life but I am really excited about where it’s going. (Also, I finished the knitting on the sweater I cast on during the opening night of the 2022 Olympics. Pattern: Harvest Cardigan by TinCan Knits. Yarn: Shepherd’s Wool in the color Storm.) Frogging and Casting On…
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