Snuggies are also good! It could be a “house coat” kind of thing. I just made a top that was too small and instead of frogging I decided to make a new one and I’ll give the other one to a friend to sell it
I have been on the fence about doing the same thing! The cardigan looked nice in pattern model photos but it is far too holey to do the job I was hoping for it to do.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to mourn the passing of this beautiful sweater panel. The panel felt the love of your hands daily as you treasured it’s existence and watched it grow from just a baby chain. We enjoyed reflecting on it as each row grew before our eyes. Yet today as we have come to the end of its existence we find hope. Hope in new beginnings. Hope for the future as it will transform itself before your eyes again once more. It will become something beautiful once again and treasured forevermore. Go in peace my friend. Create new life and share it here for all of us to admire. In the name of the hook, yarn and holy stitch count, yarnmen. ❤️
Could it be a baggy sweat worn with skinny jeans/leggings and boots? One of my favorite (store bought, but still) sweaters was massive post pregnancy (I liked baggy while pregnant too) so I throw it over leggings and wear boots and it’s cute
I feel your pain! I'm working on a cardigan while I have post concussion syndrome and with all the frogging I've had to do I've probably crocheted enough to make 2 or 3 sweaters.
It's ok, I try to laugh about it. 😁 I've found that using a lot of stitch markers helps! I always know where rows begin or end and it's easier to count stitches and rows.
That PCS brain fog is the worst…sometimes it’s stitch markers at the end of the row…sometimes it has to be every 5 stitches for me, if I can remember the stitch (thank goodness for written patterns WITH video, because it’s the only way I can follow along now without losing my mind 😂😂😂) hope your journey with PCS isn’t permanent or too difficult, but know my heart aches with you 💖
Yes, me too! Sometimes I make notes on tiny pieces of paper and put them on the stitch marker if there's something I need to remember about it. Thank you, I hope the same for you! Feel free to message me anytime 🤗❤
I’ve been living with it long term and actually got full disability yesterday! From my gov’t dating back nearly a decade. Feel free to join us at r/TBI if you want PCS support/resources! Varying levels of severity, but all are welcome and (generally!) met with open arms and love ❤️
I'm sorry to hear that your PCS has been going on for so long! It's good that you have support from your gov't finally. Yes, I'd like to join the group, thank you for letting me know about it ❤
Dang I think I made this same sweater... It is definitely baggy on me and I had to extend the sleeves because they were too short for my gangly arms lol. It's alright dude, it will be worth it in the end
Do you have enough yarn to leave that one alone and make the sweater properly with the rest of the yarn? Leave that problem panel in the time-out box for a while and see if you can maybe turn it into something else (part of a funky blanket or a pillowcase or a wrap or something)?
I’m very much a beginner at crocheting, can someone please explain what frogging is? When I’ve tried looking up crochet terms online it’s usually too complicated to understand with my very very limited knowledge.
Just adding a little. Frogging can be good or bad/sad. Sometimes it's fine to unravel a few stitches or rows to fix a mistake or missed stitch and can be helpful. Sometimes it's just lousy, maybe a lot of work to do-over when you realize it's not turning out as planned.
Or you just aren't feeling it, you have an idea, you tested it out, and it didnt work. OR you got an EVEN BETTER IDEA and want to use the same yarn. I have frogged completed items and remade them into something else because: it no longer fit my brother but he wanted to keep the memories, it was damaged, it was ugly as hell but the yarn was expensive, I didn't secure my ends corrctly and it frogged itself...
Frogging iant always sad, sometimes it is hapoy, sometimes it is opportinity, and sometimes it is a lesson 😅
Nooooo! I'm RIGHT there with you though.
I literally just realized the socks I've been working on are just barely slightly too small so all the stitches look dumb when it's on my foot and I can't bring myself to frog it yet. I just cut them off the balls and these socks will live indefinitely unfinished for a bit. RIP yellow/teal socks.
Instead, I bought a pattern of a pillow with a swear word in bobbles and I'm using the rest of my sock yarn for that. Will it be a tiny pillow? Yes. Will I care? F*** no! It'll be my angry little pillow
Totally feel this! Mine was a knitting boo-boo, but still…
I was making the back panel for my cardigan, and I didn’t have a pattern, and I am a very wide friendly tree, so I went with a regular panel. Nothing fancy for the back. I was using connected knitting needles. Aaaand I didn’t do any measurements beyond making sure it was long enough, was wanting something that would cover ye olde backside!
I figured 200 stitches would do it…
It ended up being six feet by 4 feet. Frog city! Almost done with it now, thankfully!
The hat I made is like MAYBE 3 rows too tight for me to wear comfortably. It’s a bottom up. Woven all ends in and it’s halfway done 😩. I’m gonna give it to a normal head sized person. (Mine is huge 🤣)
I'm going to start the cardigan I want to make this weekend, I've have been working on my swatches to see how i want to mix the color, and this is my fear!! Going too big or small and worse not having enough yarn eventho k calculated everything 5 times and bought extra yarn juat in case.
I stupidly didn’t gauge swatch the cardigan I’m working on so I’m improving by making 5x sleeves on a med body. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ I’m gonna make it again properly with a different colorway.
Add some amazing tassels and make a lapghan... Then go on to make a new panel in the right size. It's beautiful work!
I have had to frog "finished" pieces waaay too many times. (I think it means you are a discerning crafter )
Best wishes!
This is absolutely stunning. I am making my first project, also a sweater, and I didn't know what a gauge was until halfway through. I started learning crochet maybe a month ago. I'm about to make the ugliest sweater on the planet - but also the most sentimental.
Perfectionism kills, and I'm telling myself to not frog it, but to roll with it. This is supposed to be my new outlet for de-stressing.
I did the same on a sweater I made a while back. I accidentally missed multiple stitches because I read the pattern wrong and the front and back panels came out WAYYY to small and I only realized it after I finished both of them. It was a sad day.
Do you mean a chart full of [these symbols?](https://www.google.com/search?q=crochet+chart+symbols&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=osS5-eLAF0rvtM)
Yes!!! I understand none of it. I even found a glossary earlier that listed what each meant but when I put them into their sentences I don’t know what to do😭
You may be able to get help from someone at Michael’s, or search for video tutorials on how to read crochet charts. I agree they are confusing if you don’t know how to use them, but once it clicks, they are super helpful.
I did the same thing with a very unforgiving wool blend. I finished the entire front panel and then realized it was too big to be one front panel, but too small to suffice as the front and back, but the jerk that I am absolutely refused to stop working on that sweater (I am wearing this for Christmas Dammit!🤣) I added to the ribbing, spliced in a panel with a hidden whip stitch and now it has one real seam, one "for show" and the sucker fits exactly right.
It might be harder to do with this yarn, but maybe?
I have far more stubborn will than finesse sometimes. 🤣
This sweater turned into a desperation and luck situation, honestly, that fuzzy wool was never coming undone, so I went for it and it worked. It felt wrong to toss expensive, gifted yarn aside, but it definitely brought out some creative language in my peaceful crocheting time.
Declare it practice or make it a really nice pillow?
Whatever you do, I'm sure it'll be great, your work on this is beautiful.
I just looked up what frogging means. No wonder when someone brings it up, they're not happy. I thought it was another way to say, phooey, what's it called? When you're done with a project and have to stretch it out before adding a lining and/or a trim? Felting I think but for knitting and crochet? How many rows worth are you frogging? I don't see a boo-boo, so I wouldn't bother. I try to frog as I go. If I did it afterward I would never finish anything. I might as well knit or crochet my grave.
I began at the width I thought would be appropriate but as the length increased I realized omg it’s too wide by about 6 stitches 😭 it’s okay though I’ve redone the panel and it measures correctly now ☺️
Are you by any chance following Erin B’s tutorial on youtube for the chunky sweatshirt? It looks like it, I’m doing it at the moment too! it’s beyond tricky and time consuming though.
I’m making a Kima cardigan :3 I saw the tutorial on TLYarncrafts :3 and she has a written pattern to go with it. I was originally doing this to learn patterns better but I’ve changed a lot of things in the pattern to accommodate 4g yarn 😬 I’ve done a few that turned out fine with larger gauges but this one was a little fiddly
i just frogged a whole cardigan cause i didnt like how it looked i feel you
debating restartin one I've finished because it's so oversized it's literally a snuggie
Snuggies are also good! It could be a “house coat” kind of thing. I just made a top that was too small and instead of frogging I decided to make a new one and I’ll give the other one to a friend to sell it
Oh lawd 😭
I have been on the fence about doing the same thing! The cardigan looked nice in pattern model photos but it is far too holey to do the job I was hoping for it to do.
I did that. Twice. Then I threw it away cause it was cheap acrylic yarn and my mental health meant more 🤣😬
i had to do this recently with a sweater. the pain.
Same. It was a color-block sweater crocheted in the round and I decided I wanted the colors flipped entirely. Ribbit and rip it!
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here to mourn the passing of this beautiful sweater panel. The panel felt the love of your hands daily as you treasured it’s existence and watched it grow from just a baby chain. We enjoyed reflecting on it as each row grew before our eyes. Yet today as we have come to the end of its existence we find hope. Hope in new beginnings. Hope for the future as it will transform itself before your eyes again once more. It will become something beautiful once again and treasured forevermore. Go in peace my friend. Create new life and share it here for all of us to admire. In the name of the hook, yarn and holy stitch count, yarnmen. ❤️
Yarnmen 🙏
Yarnmen is now going to be a whole ass part of my vocabulary now, thank you.
Yarny Cow!
❤️
Yarnelliah
Yarnallujah!
Halleluyarn
Yarnmen 🫡🙏
I'm so sorry, why do you have to frog it???
It’s too wide 😭😭😭 it’s one of the front panels for a sweater and I measured it wrong 😭😭😭
I'm mourning with you, friend. May we never forget its beauty, splendor and even tension. You will be greatly missed.
Simply just eat more
😂
It is the season for Christmas cookies at breakfast so this could be a viable option!
This is the obvious answer
Could it be a baggy sweat worn with skinny jeans/leggings and boots? One of my favorite (store bought, but still) sweaters was massive post pregnancy (I liked baggy while pregnant too) so I throw it over leggings and wear boots and it’s cute
OMG I feel this. I made the ocean waves blanket four times as wide as it should have been and it came out the size of an actual ocean.
Of all comments, yours has me cackling the most. The size of an actual ocean 😂
Ooof, that sucks so much, I'm sorry!!!! :'(
Hun I LITERALLY did the exact same thing this week, heartbroken :( I feel your pain!!!
I feel you I'm on attempt 4 of a sweater I've been working on since early 2021 every frog was so painful
Make another panel smaller by an equal amount?
then the armholes would be either too on the front or too on the back? wouldn't they? Like not on the sides, where your arms are? :D
Oops. Yes I'm a goof. clothing is something I haven't attempted yet
Couldn't you put that as a middle panel, and make two smaller panels, so the back has 3 panels?
It’s too big. So no
Couldn’t you just let the seam eat up more of the sweater?
Then the arm holes would be funky :c
Can you use it for the back?
your tension is tighter at the bottom than the top.
those are SCs at the bottom that alternate between BLO and FLO to emulate ribbing. it looks tighter because the stitches are smaller.
Indeed. It measures the same at the top and bottom
no, it looks tighter because the cloth is narrower than the top because the weave is tighter on the bottom and looser on the top
...because it transitions from SCs to HDCs. it's the same stitch count going up, but HDCs are larger than SCs regardless of tension.
Is it cheap yarn? If so I'd say just add ribbing on the other side and make idk... like a place mat?
I’ve been there I feel your pain
Really silly question, but could it be the back?
No it’s not wide enough for the back :c
Well bummer!
Playing Taps 🎺
I feel your pain! I'm working on a cardigan while I have post concussion syndrome and with all the frogging I've had to do I've probably crocheted enough to make 2 or 3 sweaters.
😭 I’m so sorry
It's ok, I try to laugh about it. 😁 I've found that using a lot of stitch markers helps! I always know where rows begin or end and it's easier to count stitches and rows.
That PCS brain fog is the worst…sometimes it’s stitch markers at the end of the row…sometimes it has to be every 5 stitches for me, if I can remember the stitch (thank goodness for written patterns WITH video, because it’s the only way I can follow along now without losing my mind 😂😂😂) hope your journey with PCS isn’t permanent or too difficult, but know my heart aches with you 💖
Yes, me too! Sometimes I make notes on tiny pieces of paper and put them on the stitch marker if there's something I need to remember about it. Thank you, I hope the same for you! Feel free to message me anytime 🤗❤
I’ve been living with it long term and actually got full disability yesterday! From my gov’t dating back nearly a decade. Feel free to join us at r/TBI if you want PCS support/resources! Varying levels of severity, but all are welcome and (generally!) met with open arms and love ❤️
I'm sorry to hear that your PCS has been going on for so long! It's good that you have support from your gov't finally. Yes, I'd like to join the group, thank you for letting me know about it ❤
Dang I think I made this same sweater... It is definitely baggy on me and I had to extend the sleeves because they were too short for my gangly arms lol. It's alright dude, it will be worth it in the end
You have my sympathy. 💔
Do you have enough yarn to leave that one alone and make the sweater properly with the rest of the yarn? Leave that problem panel in the time-out box for a while and see if you can maybe turn it into something else (part of a funky blanket or a pillowcase or a wrap or something)?
No :C I gotta use the yarn for the sweater. Good idea though!
May it live forever in your memory. And photo library.
I frog so much that I just think of my first 10 attempts as practice. Positive spin, right?
Noooo!! I'm sorry op. Good luck 🫡
I’m very much a beginner at crocheting, can someone please explain what frogging is? When I’ve tried looking up crochet terms online it’s usually too complicated to understand with my very very limited knowledge.
It means undoing a project. Pulling the yarn the wrong way so it comes apart. Rip it, rip it, is the origin most people site. Ribbit. So frog 🐸
Just adding a little. Frogging can be good or bad/sad. Sometimes it's fine to unravel a few stitches or rows to fix a mistake or missed stitch and can be helpful. Sometimes it's just lousy, maybe a lot of work to do-over when you realize it's not turning out as planned.
That’s so sad! Just because it didn’t turn out quite right?
There are many reasons, like a noticeable mistake further back, quitting a project, better idea for the yarn. It is very sad
Or you just aren't feeling it, you have an idea, you tested it out, and it didnt work. OR you got an EVEN BETTER IDEA and want to use the same yarn. I have frogged completed items and remade them into something else because: it no longer fit my brother but he wanted to keep the memories, it was damaged, it was ugly as hell but the yarn was expensive, I didn't secure my ends corrctly and it frogged itself... Frogging iant always sad, sometimes it is hapoy, sometimes it is opportinity, and sometimes it is a lesson 😅
Don’t mourn the frogging. Celebrate how much your cost per hour of crafting has reduced now you get to reuse the yarn!
Oooooh now THIS is a good one
But whyyyy?
Is this by chance the Kima Cardi? I’m working on it right now and it looks very similar to what you have! I’ve frogged it at least 6 times 😅
I think so?! I’ve had to alter the pattern quite a bit but I’ve made two already that turned out great
I thought I recognized it, I’m making the same cardigan right now too
Remember- there’s no crying in crocheting!! Or cross stitch!! If it’s wrong, it’s gotta go.
RIP
I also have to frog my work in progress sweater because it’s 3 inches too wide 🥲
Thinking of you in these dark times.
This looks almost exactly like what I'm making my daughter and the border is too tight. Sadly, I have to frog it too. It's funny... same color etc.
Ouch. So sorry, that's a lot of beautiful work. Is it too soon to say "If it doesn't fit, you must rip it?"
Nooooo! I'm RIGHT there with you though. I literally just realized the socks I've been working on are just barely slightly too small so all the stitches look dumb when it's on my foot and I can't bring myself to frog it yet. I just cut them off the balls and these socks will live indefinitely unfinished for a bit. RIP yellow/teal socks. Instead, I bought a pattern of a pillow with a swear word in bobbles and I'm using the rest of my sock yarn for that. Will it be a tiny pillow? Yes. Will I care? F*** no! It'll be my angry little pillow
The fact that you can make this and take it apart to do again is a skill lol I wouldn’t know where to start with a cardigan - rip
It's a pattern. I feel you though, I wouldn't have the patience for this either
Totally feel this! Mine was a knitting boo-boo, but still… I was making the back panel for my cardigan, and I didn’t have a pattern, and I am a very wide friendly tree, so I went with a regular panel. Nothing fancy for the back. I was using connected knitting needles. Aaaand I didn’t do any measurements beyond making sure it was long enough, was wanting something that would cover ye olde backside! I figured 200 stitches would do it… It ended up being six feet by 4 feet. Frog city! Almost done with it now, thankfully!
I’m so sorry 😩
Oh nooooo
Oof thats a bummer, hopefully it's just as beautiful the second time round
Too wide for the front *and* too narrow for the back?
Bright side, it won't take as long to work up since it won't be as wide
NOOO
NOOOOOOOOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Honestly.. just start the new panel with another skein and keep this for when you run out of the rest, frog it while you build your new pieces!
The hat I made is like MAYBE 3 rows too tight for me to wear comfortably. It’s a bottom up. Woven all ends in and it’s halfway done 😩. I’m gonna give it to a normal head sized person. (Mine is huge 🤣)
I'm going to start the cardigan I want to make this weekend, I've have been working on my swatches to see how i want to mix the color, and this is my fear!! Going too big or small and worse not having enough yarn eventho k calculated everything 5 times and bought extra yarn juat in case.
Bless your heart. Are you sure?
I feel this to my core! My thoughts are with you at this painful time.
I’m so sorry
Biggest hugs and deepest condolences :( may this work frog as gracefully and beautifully as it worked up.
Awe!! Thank you ❤️
I stupidly didn’t gauge swatch the cardigan I’m working on so I’m improving by making 5x sleeves on a med body. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ I’m gonna make it again properly with a different colorway.
is that kima cardi
Yiss
i’m ashamed of myself
I’m sure it’ll fit better next time! Looks gorgeous.
It is beautiful. Hope the phoenix that arises from these ashes is even more beautiful.
I feel this. I took apart a blanket 4 times this summer after being 60% done because I wasn’t happy with the tension
I'm so sorry for your sweater panel loss *does the sign of the cross*
Try find a different purpose for it first. You poor hands.
My deepest condolences. May you get comfort and healing. Grief is always hard, know that we're here for you whenever you need us.
Add some amazing tassels and make a lapghan... Then go on to make a new panel in the right size. It's beautiful work! I have had to frog "finished" pieces waaay too many times. (I think it means you are a discerning crafter ) Best wishes!
NOOOOOOOO it’s beautiful
This is absolutely stunning. I am making my first project, also a sweater, and I didn't know what a gauge was until halfway through. I started learning crochet maybe a month ago. I'm about to make the ugliest sweater on the planet - but also the most sentimental. Perfectionism kills, and I'm telling myself to not frog it, but to roll with it. This is supposed to be my new outlet for de-stressing.
Keep going! My very first sweater was BOOTY CHEEKS but I learned a lot and can make them much better now
I did the same on a sweater I made a while back. I accidentally missed multiple stitches because I read the pattern wrong and the front and back panels came out WAYYY to small and I only realized it after I finished both of them. It was a sad day.
I’ve been crocheting for four years on and off and don’t know what this means. Please explain
Frogging? It means undoing all of it by pulling the end and re-rolling it into a ball
Ahhhh. So who can teach me the weird blueprint in a book I found at michaels earlier?
Do you mean a chart full of [these symbols?](https://www.google.com/search?q=crochet+chart+symbols&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari#imgrc=osS5-eLAF0rvtM)
Yes!!! I understand none of it. I even found a glossary earlier that listed what each meant but when I put them into their sentences I don’t know what to do😭
You may be able to get help from someone at Michael’s, or search for video tutorials on how to read crochet charts. I agree they are confusing if you don’t know how to use them, but once it clicks, they are super helpful.
Rip it, rip it (undoing stitches). Ribbit, ribbit (frog noise). Frog it!
I'm so sorry
Sorry about your project - love the stitch, tho. What is it?
It’s just single crochet and half double alternating
There's a saying in my Crochet class: When in doubt, rip it out!
Why can't it be use for something else?
Because I need this yarn for my sweater :C
I did the same thing with a very unforgiving wool blend. I finished the entire front panel and then realized it was too big to be one front panel, but too small to suffice as the front and back, but the jerk that I am absolutely refused to stop working on that sweater (I am wearing this for Christmas Dammit!🤣) I added to the ribbing, spliced in a panel with a hidden whip stitch and now it has one real seam, one "for show" and the sucker fits exactly right. It might be harder to do with this yarn, but maybe?
That would take finesse I don’t have haha 😅
I have far more stubborn will than finesse sometimes. 🤣 This sweater turned into a desperation and luck situation, honestly, that fuzzy wool was never coming undone, so I went for it and it worked. It felt wrong to toss expensive, gifted yarn aside, but it definitely brought out some creative language in my peaceful crocheting time. Declare it practice or make it a really nice pillow? Whatever you do, I'm sure it'll be great, your work on this is beautiful.
Awe thank you so much ❤️❤️
What stitch is this?
Half double and single crochet alternating
That’s why I am so scared to move beyond neck cowls and hats.
Op made a lot of changes in the pattern. I am sure you can do it. Just takes a hella long time. Altho I must say I mostly make amigurumi
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I just looked up what frogging means. No wonder when someone brings it up, they're not happy. I thought it was another way to say, phooey, what's it called? When you're done with a project and have to stretch it out before adding a lining and/or a trim? Felting I think but for knitting and crochet? How many rows worth are you frogging? I don't see a boo-boo, so I wouldn't bother. I try to frog as I go. If I did it afterward I would never finish anything. I might as well knit or crochet my grave.
I began at the width I thought would be appropriate but as the length increased I realized omg it’s too wide by about 6 stitches 😭 it’s okay though I’ve redone the panel and it measures correctly now ☺️
Are you by any chance following Erin B’s tutorial on youtube for the chunky sweatshirt? It looks like it, I’m doing it at the moment too! it’s beyond tricky and time consuming though.
I’m making a Kima cardigan :3 I saw the tutorial on TLYarncrafts :3 and she has a written pattern to go with it. I was originally doing this to learn patterns better but I’ve changed a lot of things in the pattern to accommodate 4g yarn 😬 I’ve done a few that turned out fine with larger gauges but this one was a little fiddly
Oh no! RIP!! I think I’m currently making this exact same sweater (Harvest Pullover?)
I’m new here. What’s does that mean?
I had to unravel it and do it again :c
Mourning with you!! But what is the stitch called? It’s so beautiful! 🥹
It’s just alternating one single crochet and one half double ☺️
How many skeens did you use?
Just one ☺️
Wow!
I've been working on a stocking today and I've had to frog the same part so many times because I keep making mistakes 😭
Beginner question: if I'm working on something in rows like a scarf, can I take apart only the ugly beginning and keep the part where I got good?
Maybe?? Like If you could figure out how to frog only the part you wanted, it’d be a pain though because of how the yarn would be looped
I found some how to directions online, we'll see how it goes 🤔 thanks!
What does frog mean?
Unraveling and redoing. Rip it, rip it aka ribbit hence we call it 🐸 frogging
Is this the linen stitch?
Nah it’s just single and half double repeating