Have you been frogging again?

Who, me? Ehehe. Maybe.

Ok, I definitely did unravel the scarf after about 25 rows. No, I have no regrets.

I went through my notes again and noticed I was doing something wrong. I was using only 1 ch to turn to the next row in hdc, instead of 2 ch. Also, my edges, especially in the beginning, were a bit wonky. Plus, the turning chain made the right side of the twist look wider. Just a tad.

Argh!

I toyed with the idea that maybe people wouldn't notice. Or that they would think that's normal for crochet.

Nah.

It had to go.

So I unravelled everything and looked up tutorials for smooth edges. While I was at it, I also looked up the foundation stitches. There were too many chains and I was feeling shackled by them.

I then practised until I got the elements right and went for foundation hdcs, but with a beginning of 3 ch instead of 2. I wanted to count that as a hdc and I needed the little caps to work into. Then I used the stacked sc instead of turning chains on subsequent rows and always counted that as a stitch, since it was bulky enough anyway.

Evenness achieved!

Well, evenness enough for my standards.

Now, will I decide it's too wide and uncomfortable and frog it again? Only time will tell. I will decide when I have enough length to wrap it around my neck. Until then, here's a photo of the beginning twist:

 

'Tis navy blue, I tell you! You just have to take my word for it.