First ever Frog

Last night I finished the front band for my hat, and found myself between balls on the sweater.  Wanting to try a new method of joining yarn, but needing to wait for the computer, I finally frogged (unraveled, for you who may not knit) a baby blanket that I had started, oh, perhaps 4 or 5 years ago.  It had a lovely pattern, and was in this beautiful blue cotton yarn.  It was only 3-1/2 inches long, though, put aside long ago after I didn't have the right number of stitches at the end of a row; I unknit and reknit the row, and looked carefully, but just couldn't find the problem, so there it sat.

I came across this UFO (unfinished object) while looking through stash yarn I'd forgotten I had, searching for the right thing to use for a knee-pant trial-run.  Hmm, it's lightweight, cotton not wool, and blue to boot, plus, there are 8 or 9 balls of it - perfect!  However, I cast on some new stitches next to it on the needles to make my gauge swatch, not quite ready to commit to frogging... that was two weeks ago, and today I finally worked up the nerve to slip it off the needles.  Okay, I *would* have slipped it off the needles, but I used to knit *so* tightly, that I had to pry it off!  I don't have a niddy noddy, and my chairs are wider at the top, so I wound it gently around the laptop screen  while I was waiting for it to start up.

Now it's soaking in the water-bath, and after I gently press out the extra water and it hangs to dry, it will be lovely and straight and ready for use!  It's kind of funny, but I feel a sort of peace and calm about it, even a happiness - and why not?  To have such yarn revitalized, no longer languishing in a drawer, and being lovingly created into something new feels so refreshing.  It gets a second chance at life!