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undoing crochet, baby blanket help?

I am making my baby blanket, I started out with a double stitch and then decided I wanted a looser single stich.... Can I cut out the beginning? I don't want to mess up all my hard work. I am new at this too. Thanks

Public Comments

1. Welcome to crochet 101 !!!! Rippit is a good thing to remember. If you don't like what you have started with, RIPPIT! then start all over or live with it. My husband and son swear that I cannot use "new" yarn, that it all has to be worked then ripped back out and done again. Sometimes I rippit through most of a project. Unknitting is much harder and so is unweaving!! In knitting one has to pick up every stitch so it doesn't ladder. Unweaving means you have to go back over all the picks you have made exactly as they were made and you never have the correct threading after that. Best bet is to RIPPIT and start over so it is evenly worked throughout. I do suppose you could cut and rip the bottom, but where would your foundation chain be? It won't be so hard to get where you are now if you just rippit and wind up the yarn and start all over again. Or make that part of the pattern and make stripes of tight doubles and looser singles. No one will ever know if you don't tell them that that is what you planned to start with!!
2. Rip it out (pulling the yarn), and start again. I am forever starting a project, deciding I don't like it, and ripping it out and starting over. Correcting mistakes this way is best, also.
3. If you want a different pattern, try this link. Sometimes I pull out what I've done and do something completely different for a fresh look. Don't get discouraged as we have all been there at one time or another.
4. no way to take out the beginning without taking out the end. Rip away! It won't take so long to re-do it... crochet is faster than knitting! (and think of all the practice you'll get!)
5. I have to agree with the others. Also wanted to let you know, a lot of people call ripping it out "Frogging", since rip-it is the sound a frog makes! LOL