Ribbit ribbit

Frogging:

"When used this way, the word is slang,

and it is also a play on words.

It pays tribute to our amphibious friends, 

he frogs, and their choruses of "ribbit, ribbit, ribbit".

When you discover a mistake in your crochet work,

you rip it, rip it, rip it – hence, you frog it."

And for an inexpensive, endless source of yarn,

frogging old sweaters is the way to go.

It is environmentally friendly too.

 

A friend asked my if I could recreated something

from this holiday sweater that was once her late mother's.

  

I plan to make Christmas ornaments from the appliques

but in the meantime I frogged the plentiful yarn

from the back and the sleeves.

 I made 3 sweet little red scarves for 

3 sweet little girls, her granddaughters.

 

There are crocheted heart details on one end

with black buttons from the original sweater.

Each scarf is long and narrow

and there is enough yarn leftover to make more.

 

While thrifting last week,

I found three handmade sweater vests 

nd spent all of last weekend frogging them .

(Sorry the colors are so off.)

A sore hand and I now have 11 balls of yarn

waiting for me do decide on new projects.

You also never know what you will get

for cheap (or even free) just for the looking.

My sister was given 4 of these cones of sock yarn

for free at a garage sale recently.

She gave me one of each color.