Better than Therapy

That moment when you are 5 metres from finishing a 700 metre beaded shawl and you decide to frog it all down and start again because you realize you should have done the scalloped lace 6 line repeat pattern because it's prettier.... and you're using an extra fine Americo Royal Alpaca/ Cashmere/ Silk blend so... yeah.

Oh well.

There goes two months worth of knitting....

Still Better Than Therapy

It's scary before you frog it down... and wonderful when you start again.  You feel oddly courageous. How strange that knitting projects can be metaphorical mirrors of real life challenges.  If only everything was as easy as unwinding and restarting. 

As long as  you  understand that the learning experience of the first project was not for naught ... both projects do in fact result in a single finished piece. 

The yarn retains a memory of the first knitted item... 

...and that's not necessarily a bad thing.