The dog days of summer are also the dog days of crochet. Here's what data on over a million crochet projects from crafting site Ravelry reveals about when people crochet and the projects they're most likely to abandon.
Some complex projects are especially likely to be abandoned: Fewer than half of the crochet coats and jackets on Ravelry are completed, far lower than longer, simpler projects like blankets and pillows.
A small minority of projects face a fate worse than abandonment: frogging, when a fiber artist unravels a project to re-use the yarn elsewhere or bury it deep in their closet until they find a new purpose for it. Frogging is most common for tops and shawls. Some crafters frog projects because they run out of materials, known as “losing yarn chicken.” Others frog because they just don’t like the finished product. As Ravelry user w00fdawg put it, “I made it, I hated it, I frogged it.”Crocheters are a persistent bunch, though. More than 75 percent of projects started on Ravelry are finished, and the average crocheter finishes about twice as many projects as they abandon.
You don’t need to wait until January to join the thousands of crafters who start crocheting a blanket then. Because crochet is one of the
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