While visiting my sister and knitting coach in South Dakota last week I started leafing through her library of knitting books and stumbled upon Boutique Knits.  I’d packed some Cascade Yarns baby alpaca that I’d gotten on sale and found a pattern that I thought would suit it perfectly.  I may have thought wrong.  

The sideways grand cloche looked perfectly elegant knit in grey. It’s a very unique pattern with a ribbed body, flat top and faux side cable.  In my ambition to finish a vacation knit, I cast on with reckless abandon.  It wasn’t until the next day that I finished up, tried it on, and realized…the look was less boutique and more, beehive.  Maybe it’s the pattern, and maybe it’s the color, but I have to admit I’m having a touch of knitter’s remorse.

So the real question is, to frog or not to frog? 

Frog (verb):  to rip out a knitted project. 

Sure, this sunny yellow yarn was a bargain, but does it really want to stay a hat, or be frogged into something new.  I’m on the fence, so I’m asking for your help. 

Thumbs up or thumbs down?  Be honest, be brutal.  I can take it.