Frog or Finish?! | What to do with all those WIP's

I know I'm not the only crafter who has a pile of WIP's sitting around taunting them. Well, I've decided to do something about mine and I'm inviting all of you along for the journey.
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[@otterwench]

I am 60 years old. I have never regretted frogging something. Life is to short to have extra guilt hanging around waiting to be finished.

[@oliviazelek383]

Agreed

[@SkeinSpider]

That's a great way to look at it. Sometimes, it's too easy to succumb to the sunk cost fallacy when it comes to amigurumi. Better to just rip the band aid of and frog it!

[@chesneymigl4538]

Given how ADHD I am and how many WIP that mentality is so refreshing. I have so many half finished cross stitch projects that I have literally had for decades just guilting myself over them.

[@TheHannahBandana]

Ok but what if instead of finishing them… you combine a bunch of them together into a WIP monster 🤪

[@SkeinSpider]

Hahaha, that would be both ridiculous and awesome!!

[@TvGamerGirl]

@@SkeinSpider What about a franken pattern with your Wips. so you make something from your old shapes then frog the originals for other (or the same) patterns. the franken Wip?

[@ikuni_hattori]

The last time I went through my WIPs stash, I took the weird body parts of the projects I was scrapping and added them to a bin for a Frankenstein project. That charmander body would look great with that duck bill on a different sized head, tbh

[@SkeinSpider]

Ooooh, a Frankenstein project sounds like fun! I could do that with some of the smaller pieces I don't intend to use or finish.

[@dragonskull4102]

"yarn abuse and gross amigurumi negligence" ooomg lolololol

[@SkeinSpider]

;) haha

[@blackcat9703]

Sooo many projects I wanna vote for! The spider, the wolf, LEAFEON!! Funny little frog!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SkeinSpider]

Too many, I know! It's hard to decide what to finish off first.

[@ginnywebb608]

I think finishing the spider would be a nice tribute.

[@SkeinSpider]

Yeah, I agree. Luckily, there's really not much work that needs to be done to finish it.

[@piperrose6837]

Mr Blobfish is innocent!!!! (ngl i like his wonky fin. gives him attitude). also, definitely spidey finish!

[@SkeinSpider]

Justice for Mr. Blobfish lol! And yeah, I think I'll make finishing the spider my next project :).

[@angelwhispers2060]

Yes finish the OG spider in your great aunt's memory. Maybe eventually give it a granny square on the back instead of the pattern you used for yours. I think that would be a cute memorial❤

[@SesshomikuSama]

I would really love to see the finished dragons. The three half done ones look already so cute 😍 For the green worm-dragon I would prefer big wings and no legs😉 And the wolf/bordercollie would be very interesting 🙂

[@angelwhispers2060]

Derp frog 🐸 quick and easy finish 💚

[@UFOCrochet]

Yep finish the spider frog the frog no legs huge wings yes frog your frog pile fun video looking at all your UFOs

[@SkeinSpider]

All the suggestions! Thank you :)

[@jimenalimacherico9398]

I need a tutorial of the frog 🐸 please!!!! So funny and beautiful 😍😄 Nice video, greetings from Bolivia 🙌🏽

[@SkeinSpider]

Cheers. I'll be making tutorials for all those amigurumi at some point and hello from Australia! :)

[@amara560]

This is such a great video! I love this idea. I have a few abandoned WIPs. I'm planning to get back to one I started in 2020 very soon. Finishing the spider is a wonderful idea! Also the legs of the wolf are so shapely. They look wonderful. I'm excited to see your finished Raymond! I think it would be hilarious to take what you have of the little frog now and mount it (like people do animal heads) and stick it on the wall 😂 The LGBTQIA+ insects are SO cute! Can't wait for you to finish those.

[@SkeinSpider]

Omg, I love the mounted frog idea! I might have to find or make myself a little back board and even a tiny plaque to go underneath the frog lol! I could stick up on my pegboard!!

[@LilBlueOnk]

I really hope you finished the OG spider! Knowing the story about how it got started makes it feel more special, and it's basically almost done anyways :P

[@englishpro.laboulaye691]

I have just found out that what I believed to me my personal flaw is nothing but a symptom of the enthusiastic crocheter!😅 I loved this video. Thank you so much!❤

[@zoescott779]

That little orange body could totally be a kobold

[@carinatipton8509]

Maybe the Charmander body could instead become a Charmeleon body? I think you should definitely finish the spider.

[@SkeinSpider]

The Charmeleon body could work! I might have a go at making a head piece and see if that makes the body look any less jacked lol. And yep, totally agree. Spider need to be finished!

[@carinatipton8509]

I know I stuck with the Pokémon theme, but that was literally the only thing that came to mind when I saw the body. I hope it works out well.

[@carefullycrafty8170]

I rarely relate to a video as strongly as I relate to this.

[@mewsli]

Thankyou, thankyou thankyou, Im now going through my immense pile of wips and Ive now got a finish and frog pile! Also thankyou for holding your yarn and hooks the same way as myself. For years Ive been told I hold everyrhing the wrong way. Well Ive been doing things since I was 13 ( Im 66 and a half now) so I doubt Ill change now.

[@angelwhispers2060]

Wyverns have wings and back legs. But the back legs being a contrasting color would look really cool. Maybe a darker green 💚 And whether you do the back legs or not I think it should have medium wings so like a little bit larger than the span of your fingers when your hand is outstretched what kind of be perfect size for him

[@miss.a.crochet]

This makes me feel better about my large WIP pile hahaha! So many cool projects and ideas!

[@angelwhispers2060]

You could turn the Griffin into a centaur if you frog the top of it and made it flush tone... I think it is a good shape for a Centaur❤

[@twigs6628]

Making me want to go through my own guilt stash

[@SkeinSpider]

"Guilt stash", I love that lol.

[@angelwhispers2060]

The overly buff orange body could be altered with a doll head and make it Jack Jack from The Incredibles😂. You might have to frog the hands and feet to put them in a flesh tone color. IDK if it's just my phone screen but it looks very reddish to me. And it could be one of Jack Jack's outfits that is not his incredible suit... I don't know it just feels like that goes with the overly buff body LOL

[@druzybear]

i would add a giant tail to the charmander body

[@druzybear]

Im excited to see the dragon finished! Oh, do finish the frog! A silly loveable guy!

[@SkeinSpider]

I think the dragon should be an easy finish, not much to do on that one. And I think I have to finish the frog, it's too funny not to.

[@missapippin9020]

Definitely finish the spider and the frog. I don’t know many Pokémon so I don’t know about them Great video. Thank you 💚

[@SkeinSpider]

Will do! :)

[@insciencewetrust8829]

The charmander body looks like a baby doll

[@SkeinSpider]

....now I can't unsee it 😂

[@BallsofArt]

Yes mostly quilting wips at mo

[@lhou999]

lol maybe i should do that too, i have a drawer full of wips i started years ago ... When i first started to crochet and didn't know how to manage my time to finish projects xD

[@Err0r._.]

if you run out of the great aunt brown u could just frog n resize the pattern? also plz finish the frogs, n mostly complete dragons (we dont need the 3rd dragon) and the wyvern needs comically tiny wings n skiny legs. also charmander made me think of a baby doll, lol + glacion could be cool for the next eeveelution! :)

[@Outoinen]

I have promised myself I'll only start two at the time. I mean two crochet projects. No one is speaking anything about those other craft projects like cross stitch, embroidery or leather work... 😅

[@SkeinSpider]

Haha, that's clever, spreading your WIP's out across crafts! I've tried to impose a bit of a limit on myself before too....wasn't as successful as I hoped lol.

[@sarablockinger5251]

the blob fish looks like the here and there fish from Disney dreamlight valley

[@FluentInFangirl12]

This came across my feed again so i thought id ask how the progress on these guys is going? Maybe we could get an update video about it lol 😂

[@SkeinSpider]

Not that great unfortunately lol. I just wish I had more time. I've finished a few of the smaller pieces and frogged a couple of others because I needed the yarn. For some of the larger ones like Leafeon, I might end up making a vid about completing them, it'd be a good way to actually motivate me to finish them off.

[@amberbaty4344]

Do you have a pattern for the transforming bug?

[@maryharrison5883]

I must be an odd ball. I limit myself to 2 WIPs. One crochet and one knit. I won't start another project until I finish one because I know I will never get back to it.

[@SkeinSpider]

That's probably the best approach lol. I just find myself losing enthusiasm for projects sometimes and I know if I try and force myself to finish, the quality of my work will suffer. Better (for me at least) to do something else and come back to the original project at a later date.

[@flushedphoenix81]

The Charmander body looks a lot like machop so maybe check the pattern and so for machop

[@SkeinSpider]

That could work! The body-builder like shape might not be useless after all lol.

[@demonkittycreations7855]

I need to know are you planning on releasing the eveelution patterns or the wolf pattern if you finish them? What I saw of leafeon had me dying to make one!

[@bellepoupee61]

Wow some of your stuff are giant!

[@SkeinSpider]

I did go overboard with a few designs lol.

[@20bluelilies]

Charmander is a jelly baby!

[@SkeinSpider]

Hahaha, a very jacked jelly baby!

[@skayc1]

Some Wips are too far completed to simply frog them. I now have 2 Wips that need finishing, which I keep putting off, both cannot easily be frogged. I can't tell you to make time to finish these wips, as the reason why you need to look at why you didn't finish them. My luck dragon I put aside during 2020, & was hurting my back at the time because of the length of it, I now use a different chair, & that might not hurt my back like it did, however I keep creating new wips. The other is a new wip, I made the bottom of a momma turtle from the memory game & decided it was too small, so made a bigger bottom for the memory game, & now have this wip, I just bought the yarn I need for what I envision this wip to be, however I have written 3 patterns that I want to do first. lol that's how it goes.

[@amberbaty4344]

Do you have a pattern available for the blue almost finished dragon? The one sitting up just missing the arm.

[@SkeinSpider]

Not at the moment.

[@redwolf2557]

😄😄😄

[@SkeinSpider]

:)

[@tandy5060]

totally finish og spider!

[@SkeinSpider]

Will do! :)

[@noraneka]

My little pony ?! I honestly thought it was something else 😅

[@Bob-iw6fq]

Charmander body piece --> demolition dummy? Finish the spider. I don't know if you said you've done Vaporeon, but if you haven't do it. FINISH THE FROG. No legs, small wings.

[@carrilyons5304]

Brown spider next

[@SkeinSpider]

Read my mind, I'm working on that atm.

[@cjpietropinto9293]

How's the progress going?

[@SkeinSpider]

.....not as well as I hoped lol. But at least I've finished some of them.

[@chichizekitty5694]

I would say finish the spider.. and if it ends up with like.. 7 legs, thats just how he be

[@chichizekitty5694]

@@SkeinSpider I think you may have replied to the wrong person here? I just meant that its ok if you run out of yarn xD

[@SkeinSpider]

Yes! So sorry! I have no idea why this reply ended up here, definitely not intended for you 😅😬 Edit: Just deleted, sorry again. Now I'm off to check the original and see if they got your reply lol.

[@chichizekitty5694]

@Skein Spider bahaha its okay xD I was just so confused xD I was like "wait but.. I thought my comment was nice.. how did I criticize anything here" xD Have a happy timezone ^^

[@SkeinSpider]

You're all good. Someone was telling me what I "must" do in my vids and I kind of draw the line at that, I'm just sorry you somehow got caught in the crossfire. You have a good one too 🙂.

[@chichizekitty5694]

@Skein Spider ohh yeah, then the first reply makes total sense! There aint nothing you must do xD you're already doing plenty by providing us free entertainment