Crochet Project Frogged

I have been on a basic hat-making spree.

Using various Easy Breezy hat patterns from The Turtle Trunk, I have been making bulky-weight ribbed hats, super bulky-weight ribbed hats, and worsted-weight ribbed hats.

Unlike knit hats, which take a couple to a few days to make, and after one, making a second one would be pushing the limits of my hands and my brain, I was able to make two, or even three hats in a single crochet session. I would be able to get up in the morning and crochet these hats all day long, they are so easy to make. And that is extremely gratifying to both know and to do.

To make up a bunch of hats, we bought several different colors of Lion Brand Re-Spun Thick and Quick yarn in various colors. I also had a stash of Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick and Quick and Big Twist Natural yarns from a hat-making spree last year (although those were knit and took a couple of weeks to manage to complete them all—and I don’t think I did finish all the hats I wanted or had planned to knit back then.)

After I made the first batch of super bulky-weight hats, I dug out the super bulky-weight yarn from last year…and this is where the idea to crochet up a quick raglan sweater using the yarn struck.

I figured it would be a fast project that would look good once I completed it. I was also on a stint where I was working one sweater up in triple crochet, the next in double crochet, and another in half double crochet. The super bulky version happened on the HDC version.

To start a raglan sweater, I crochet a foundation chain and then work single crochets into each stitch. Then I begin working in pattern, whatever that may be.

After working up the first couple of rounds, the sweater looked a bit stiff and … overworked.

I frogged it all the way back to the first row, leaving the single crochet row intact.

Instead of using an HDC, I switched over to the EHDC, which is an extended half double crochet, which I have come to love, especially when making things for our youngest.

The EHDC made the fabric look softer, light, and gave it more motion. I very much liked that and so continued to work on the sweater.

I finished more than half the body before I went to bed that night.

I actually woke up in the middle of the night, jolted by the knowledge that this sweater was going to be thicker than my other sweaters—that it would be heavier—that it would be warmer, much warmer.

It struck me that that would not be the best thing for me to wear as I am typically over-hot.

I don’t want to make a project that will never be used. I don’t want to waste the yarn when that yarn can be made into other projects that will be used.

So, I went back to sleep. The second thing I did once I got up (after moving four little albino cory cats from one tank to a larger tank—long story) was to frog out the sweater. I wound up all the yarn, returned them to their small balls, and stuck them back into the super bulky weight yarn bag that I have.

And that was that.