Conversation

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.

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.

It's rare that I get a project completely finished, ends sewn in, and blocked before realising that it doesn't work, though.

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.

It's over 3 metres long.

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.

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

Okay I think I've talked myself into it. It's frogging time!

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.