Mary Robinette Kowal: I'm at that awkward point in crocheting a shirt where I know it is too big and also it is nearly finished. So I'm just going to stare sadly at it for days or months before I finally decide to frog the whole thing and start again.

I'm at that awkward point in crocheting a shirt where I know it is too big and also it is nearly finished. So I'm just going to stare sadly at it for days or months before I finally decide to frog the whole thing and start again.

I feel that pain. I had half a sweater on my knitting needles for six months.

It's the worst. I know I'm going to do it and yet it is impossible to do today.

Take your time. It's valid to say "Not this day." ;)

I used to be the “expert” at our knitting group and ripping out almost finished garments was a specialty. You need a friend, who’s skilled with handling fiber to do it for you. It’s way less painful when it’s reduced to balls of yarn and then reskeined.

Or, save it, because one day you might meet a giant who needs a sweater, and you will have one, and it will be just like the Princess Bride and you will be so happy!

Oh that is one of the numbers of making something. Sending you fortitude

I've got novels like that🤣

I have had that happen multiple times and did not frog but I always support frogging!

I feel your pain. I’m knitting a tank top bottom-up and it FEELS too large, but I laid a shirt that is fitting me perfectly over it and the shirt was the same or slightly larger, so I think I’m good? Slightly too early to try it on, I think

This was also bottom-up and I should have known because the hips fit well and there was no taper.

Oh. Woe!

You can't do clever things to it with hot water and blocking?

It is cotton.

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