To Frog or Not to Frog? That is the Question!

:: Hello to you on this beautiful Sunday afternoon.::

Welcome to my new followers and thank you to all of you who left such lovely comments on my Rosey Posey Cozy.

The weather this week has been so lovely it was really hard to look out the office window while at work, see the sunshine and not being able to enjoy it until I got home. All my washing has been line dried this week and sado that I am this makes me VERY happy.

Yesterday we took the Littlies to a place near Frampton-on-Severn to look for fossils. We packed tomato soup in the flask and hot sausages in the food flask for our picnic and off we went....................................

 smallest littlie LOVES dinosaurs so fossil hunting has always been a favourite pass time and the soup and sausages are becoming quite a tradition for picnics along with home made madira cake.

It was sooooooo incredibly muddy that I was sorry they weren't wearing wellies instead of walking boots but you live and learn! We had quite a bit of success.....

ammonites

Gryphaea shells and bi-vavles.

A fun day was had by all.

and now the yarny bit..........................

To Frog or Not to Frog.......................................................

I got this far on Wednesday with the Perfect Cardi

about 28cm of Pefect Cardi. With no real problems.

But suddenly there was a problem!! I seemed to be needing to increase where I should be (and had previously been) decreasing and decreasing where I should be increasing...................you get the picture. I was confused! I just couldn't figure out what the problem was and where I had gone wrong. I thought "I'll leave it and carry on it'll all be fine" but that is my denial of the situation."I'll take it back down and inch and a half until the last button hole and see if I can figure it out!" Anyway before I frogged 1 1/2 inches, which was going to break my heart, I decided I would try slipping the stitches onto a scrap piece if yarn to see what it was like for sizing. Thank goodness I did. I was humungous!!!!!!!!! I could have worn it but so could Mr TB and the Littlies all at the same time. I had over estimated my body size by quite a bit, so that was descision made Frog the lot.

Oh that broke my heart. All that hard work :o(

However if it is to be The Perfect Cardi it has to fit. I couldn't bring myself to do it until yesterday.

I even cast on my next pair of socks so I didn't have to look at it...........

I knew I had to be brave and start ripping out the stitches of the cardi and I winced with each tug of the yarn. It's amazing how quick frogging is but how long it took to put that work there in the first place.

Today armed with a cuppa, sat in the sunshine I cast the blooming thing back on

but a few less stitches than the first time. Lets see how Perfect Cardi Mark II goes!!
ETA: I want to thank Alice for the lovely shout out on her blog. I am chuffed to bits. Cheers matey!!!!

Have a great week everyone. I hope if you make any mistakes they're only small ones ;o)

Love Tickety-boo

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