For most of the projects where I knit without a pattern, I tend to make stuff up as I go, with lots of frogging and\/or ripping back until I get something I'm happy with.<\/p>
This is usually fine cos I tend to me more of a process knitter than a product knitter. I enjoy the process of experimenting, reworking, and tweaking.<\/p>
It's rare that I get a project completely finished, ends sewn in, and blocked before realising that it doesn't work, though.<\/p>
I thought I had knit a sufficiently big swatch and measured it accurately but. Um. This lengthwise old shale scarf has turned out about twice as long as I intended it to be.<\/p>
It's over 3 metres long.<\/p>
Even though there's a *lot* of knitting in this scarf ... I'm seriously tempted to frog the whole thing and start it again with a much lower stitch count.<\/p>
If I frogged it and started again:
- the garter stitch border could be wider
- the borders could be the same width (for the cast-on edge, I ripped back and knitted it after the fact, but ran out of yarn earlier than I wanted)
- it would curl less on the edges (it doesn't curl much, but I still want it to curl less)
- the scarf as a whole could be wider
- I'd be far more likely to wear the finished product <\/p>
Okay I think I've talked myself into it. It's frogging time! <\/p>
But first: gonna figure out how many pattern repeats I actually need for the length that I want. And how wide the garter stitch border should be, too.<\/p>","generator":{"id":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2026-06-28:notice-source:ActivityPub","objectType":"application","status_net":{"source_code":"ActivityPub"}},"id":"https:\/\/blorbo.social\/users\/lookitmychicken\/statuses\/115550227946279824","object":{"id":"https:\/\/blorbo.social\/users\/lookitmychicken\/statuses\/115550227946279824","objectType":"note","content":"
For most of the projects where I knit without a pattern, I tend to make stuff up as I go, with lots of frogging and\/or ripping back until I get something I'm happy with.<\/p>
This is usually fine cos I tend to me more of a process knitter than a product knitter. I enjoy the process of experimenting, reworking, and tweaking.<\/p>
It's rare that I get a project completely finished, ends sewn in, and blocked before realising that it doesn't work, though.<\/p>
I thought I had knit a sufficiently big swatch and measured it accurately but. Um. This lengthwise old shale scarf has turned out about twice as long as I intended it to be.<\/p>
It's over 3 metres long.<\/p>
Even though there's a *lot* of knitting in this scarf ... I'm seriously tempted to frog the whole thing and start it again with a much lower stitch count.<\/p>
If I frogged it and started again:
- the garter stitch border could be wider
- the borders could be the same width (for the cast-on edge, I ripped back and knitted it after the fact, but ran out of yarn earlier than I wanted)
- it would curl less on the edges (it doesn't curl much, but I still want it to curl less)
- the scarf as a whole could be wider
- I'd be far more likely to wear the finished product <\/p>
Okay I think I've talked myself into it. It's frogging time! <\/p>
But first: gonna figure out how many pattern repeats I actually need for the length that I want. And how wide the garter stitch border should be, too.<\/p>","url":"https:\/\/blorbo.social\/@lookitmychicken\/115550227946279824","status_net":{"notice_id":null}},"to":[{"objectType":"http:\/\/activitystrea.ms\/schema\/1.0\/collection","id":"http:\/\/activityschema.org\/collection\/public"}],"status_net":{"conversation":"tag:gnusocial.jp,2025-11-14:objectType=thread:nonce=4b42b3fb6b2fbfec","notice_info":{"local_id":"11518310","source":"ActivityPub"}},"published":"2025-11-14T21:43:37+00:00","provider":{"objectType":"service","displayName":"GNU social JP","url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/"},"verb":"post","url":"https:\/\/blorbo.social\/@lookitmychicken\/115550227946279824"}],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/conversation\/5863422","rel":"alternate","type":"text\/html"}]}