This evening I frogged the progress I’d made on the shawl for my mom. I knew long ago that my decision to use a size 3 needle made no sense for that yarn. Sure, it looked okay but it didn’t look nearly as beautiful as the designer intended. It looked so odd that I’ve received multiple messages on Ravelry about whether I omitted the yarn overs. Yesterday I decided to swatch for it (done by starting the actual pattern and following it until I’d finished the first repeat) and was very happy with the results. This time it’s going to be done correctly, using size 7 needles. Sure, it seems really stupid to frog a project so close to when it needs to be finished but I’m going to be a whole lot happier with the end result. Thankfully I’ve got almost a month to finish it with lots of free knittting time (and I’ve already got five repeats out of eleven done).
And that, my friends, is why I frogged Tuscany. I’ll post photos later of the size 3 versus the size 7 projects.
