For the non needleworkers out there, frogging is what you do when you make mistakes - rippit. The knitters like to get technical - if you pull out the needle and just unravel the yarn, you are frogging...if you undo the knitting stitch by stich it is tinking (tink being knit spelled backwards).
Today, I tinked as much as I knit - literally. I've been working on a "mystery knit" at my favorite shop A Good Yarn in Sarasota. Somehow I got 700 stitches into the latest section of the mystery project and realized that something was wrong. So, I undid 600 stitches, reknit them and got back on track. After five hours, I felt as if I had made no progress.
Last week I decided to stitch all night until I finished the 72 rows in the section - and it took me till 2:30 am. I'm not going to do that tonight, it wiped me out for a few days!
However, thinking about the ability to undo and redo one's knitting or needlework made me think of all the times I've said, "if I knew then what I know now", or the times I've wished for a "do over". It is often easy in hindsight to wonder if the choices we made were the "right" ones, and how our life might be different had we made the other choice in a given situation.
But I think that spending too much time thinking about the "would'ves, could'ves, should'ves" of our lives is downright unhealthy. Certainly we need to learn from mistakes (and I will pay more attention to my knitting patterns so that I don't have to frog or tink so much), but it is more important to focus on what lays ahead and what choices are before us. Unlike needlework, we can't frog our way through life.
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