Triple your crochet pleasure

After finding a long abandoned project made from a mercerized blue cotton yarn, I frogged the project and used it to get a start on making the Frankston crochet market bag that I had found at Ravelry.

Things were going swimmingly, but before I was halfway done with the project, I had run through one of the two skeins of the yarn. I quickly figured out that I needed to make a modification of some kind, and that modification came in the form of this skein of linen yarn that had been in the same bin of where I had found the unfinished hat:

A taupe linen yarn saves the day
A taupe linen yarn saves the day

Before I frogged all of the work I had done, yet again, I thought I would make sure that the taupe linen yarn would work, and happily, it did:

I begin anew on a Frankston crochet market bag
I begin anew on a Frankston crochet market bag

So I continued on my merry crochet way until I got to the very end of the second skein:

Ready to frog my first Frankston crochet market bag
Ready to frog my first Frankston crochet market bag

At which point I started working from the first skein I had already crocheted into “almost half of a bag,” and for my trouble, I got three times as many crochet stitches from that one skein of yarn that I would have if I hadn’t had to frog it twice.

And, eventually, I did finish crocheting the netted portion of the bag:

A Frankston crochet market bag; all done except fo the gathering and handles
A Frankston crochet market bag; all done except fo the gathering and handles

I decided to use the transition from one color of yarn to transition to another project entirely.

In addition to having found both the cotton and linen yarns in the bin, I had also found a tin of long forgotten yarn scraps. They were quite a mess, and I had been working, slowly, to bring order to them.

Buoyed by my eventual success with the crochet market bag, I managed to get all of the yarn scraps dealt with:

A tin of yarn scraps tidied up and ready for adventure
A tin of yarn scraps tidied up and ready for adventure

I then used the energy generated by tidying the yarn scraps to do more work on the Easter bunny crochet basket I had started, and while I didn’t make as much progress as I had hoped I would, I also didn’t have to frog or redo anything:

Modest progress on a future crochet bunny basket
Modest progress on a future crochet bunny basket

When we begin a project, we don’t always know how it will turn out or what challenges we will encounter along the way, but if we persist, one stitch at a time, we often get to somewhere we want to be.

One thought on “Triple your crochet pleasure

  1. I love your illustration on the trial and error of playing with crochet. While frogging can be frustrating, the opportunity to try, try again without wasting materials is so much of the fun of crochet for me. As soon as you begin to rip something back, it sparks the creative mind. I love the open-ended nature of this process.

    It’s useful to see how other crocheters solve problems when they arise too. Your Easter bunny basket looks cute so far.

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