F-Weekend Report
August 26th, 2007 | View Comments
It is done. (She says ominously.)
I don’t know why I thought ripping the sweaters would be a quick job, but I suppose it’s only fair that what takes 100 hours to knit takes at least an afternoon to destroy.
I can’t decide if Hourglass was excited or terrified to be frogged, but when I went to unpick the neck facing I discovered it had already started unraveling of its own accord.
![The Hourglass Sweater, unraveling in anticipation](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/frog2-hourglass1.jpg)
Seamless yoke constructions are pretty easy to frog, unless you mess up the ratio of sweater ripping to yarn containment.
![A knot](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/frog2-hourglass2.jpg)
Three hours and a pile of pill fuzz later, I had four hanks of yarn.
![A knot](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/frog2-hourglass3.jpg)
After a good night’s sleep, I geared up for the frogging of Rogue. The White Witch may have no understanding of Old Magic, but she seems to have frogged a sweater or two in her time. Shaving the victim before doing the deed was a lot easier than removing the pills as I encountered them during the ripping.
![Rogue gets a shave](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/frog2-rogue1.jpg)
Disassembling Rogue proved to be a bit of a challenge. By the time I finished Rogue, I had learned how to properly weave in ends so they stayed put. As I slooowly unpicked all the seams and un-hemmed all the facings, the part of my brain that is perpetually watching Short Circuit kept chanting, “Disassemble! Dead! Disassemble! Dead!”
![Disassembled Rogue, ready for frogging](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/frog2-rogue2.jpg)
Rippity rippity frog frog. I also dug out the original un-gauge swatch from Rogue and frogged that too.
![The reclaimed yarn](http://www.cogknition.org/uploads/frog2-done.jpg)
Whew! All done. That actually was kind of fun. I still need to wash, dry, and wind the yarn into balls before I can cast on, but the scary part is over!
And because I wasn’t already planning on destroying enough knitting this weekend, I threw the Ombre Blanket into the dryer after washing it. On purpose. I seem to have a habit of doing this. I put it in on low for maybe ten minutes. The end result is that it shrunk to being a 6-foot square (instead of being 6.25 feet by 6.5 feet) and it felted ever so slightly. I’m hoping that this will stop the blanket from being a crazy pill-shedding machine.
CogKnition posted this on August 26th, 2007 @ 9:15pm in Yarn | Permalink to "F-Weekend Report"
Squee! I love me a Narnia reference!
And the former sweaters look relaxed and ready to be something new. Good for you!