Perfect enough

There are some things in life that require perfection, and then there is crochet which requires not that something be perfect, but only that it be perfect enough.

Intellectually, I know this.

I understand that the time spent frogging something that is “perfect enough” simply because it is not perfect, is time that could be spent crocheting a second hat, or another shawl, or a blanket for a newborn baby, and while I often succumb to the temptation to pursue perfection, sometimes I am able to let something be so that the viewer can see that sometimes perfect enough is perfect.

At the moment I am working on rehabbing a total of eight crochet remnants. As of my last blog post, I had rehabbed six of them, then over today and yesterday, I not only rehabbed almost all of these three crochet squares:

Three five-inch crochet squares in various stages of crochet rehab
Three crochet squares in various stages of rehab

I also got to work squaring off one of the boho crochet heart medallions I made for the memorial service for my cousins David and Robert. At the time I was really enjoying the process of making the boho crochet harts, but I had no idea what I would do with them.

Then, while searching through Ravelry’s database, I came across directions to square off this crochet heart:

Orange and white textured crochet heart
Orange and white crochet heart

It occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, the techniques underlying this squaring off could be used for on of the many sublime crochet hearts just itching to become a square.

So with hook in hand and coffee at my side, I set to work. I joined with slip stitches, I chainedWhile there were several missteps along the way, eventually, I got the problems sorted out to my satisfaction, and the resulting square not only measured five-inches across:

A five-inch rehabbed crochet square measured from side to side
A five-inch boho heart crochet square measured from side to side

it also measured five inches from North to South:

A five-inch rehabbed crochet square measured from top to bottom
A five-inch boho heart crochet square measured from top to bottom

and even though the edges along the top and bottom were a bit wavy, it was perfect enough:

A five-inch rehab crochet square with boho crochet heart center
A five-inch rehab crochet square with a boho crochet heart center

So tomorrow, whether the sun is able to break through or not, I will look for more wayward crochet boho hearts and ply my trade, one stitch at a time.