Overheard two ladies at the cafe talking about frogging and it hit me different

I was grabbing coffee and this older woman told her friend she frogged a whole sweater because she didn't like the tension after 12 rows. I always thought ripping out work meant you messed up badly. But she said it was about making it BETTER not fixing a mistake. Now I'm halfway through a scarf and I just yanked out 8 rows because the stitch pattern looked off. Has anyone else started treating frogging like a CHOICE instead of a failure?

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perez.barbara29d ago

Darn good approach for LIFE too honestly.

richard13729d ago

I know exactly what you mean about that shift in thinking. Once I started treating frogging as a way to make the final thing look better instead of a failure, it made the whole process way more relaxing. Now I pull out rows as soon as something bugs me, and the finished projects actually look how I wanted them to in the first place.

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