{"id":1702,"date":"2026-01-07T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2026-01-07T12:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T21:45:13","slug":"frogging-my-colorwork-and-other-lofty-pursuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/?p=1702","title":{"rendered":"Frogging my colorwork, and other lofty pursuits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes, a person just has to start over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, however, a digression by way of exposition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The terms \u201cfrogging\u201d and \u201ccolorwork\u201d come from the fine art of knitting. \u201cColorwork\u201d is an un-obtuse term meaning when you make a pattern with different colors and keep having to pick up a different strand of yarn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrogging,\u201d on the other hand, has its own peculiar etymology. It means throwing up your hands on your knitting project and ripping out the entire project by the roots. Why call it frogging? I\u2019ve heard it said that maybe the very first frogger was heard to mutter \u201cRip it! Rip it! Rip it!\u201d while tearing her lovely project all to shreds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Get it? Rip it rip it rip it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, my last bout of frogging got me to thinking of an accounting concept called the \u201csunk cost fallacy.\u201d Briefly this means that the more blood sweat and tears you put into a failing project, the more you want to put into it because you have already put so much. . .as in, I\u2019ve put so much treasure into this; what a waste it would be to quit now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But sometimes, you just have to start over. This is regardless if the project is an exceptionally lumpy piece of colorwork, a business venture, or a drawing of a humanoid snail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When to keep plugging, and when to cut one\u2019s losses? I have no idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have to play it by ear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"467\" src=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1.jpeg 623w, https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-1-300x225.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, a person just has to start over. First, however, a digression by way of exposition: The terms \u201cfrogging\u201d and \u201ccolorwork\u201d come from the fine art of knitting. \u201cColorwork\u201d is an un-obtuse term meaning when you make a pattern with different colors and keep having to pick up a different strand of yarn. \u201cFrogging,\u201d on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[648,647,144,649,650],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings-about-language-and-life","tag-colorwork","tag-frogging","tag-knitting","tag-starting-over","tag-sunk-cost-fallacy"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rightasrainonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}