Ribbit, Ribbit ...

... that's what a frog says, right?  Well, in the knitting world, frogs say "rip it, rip it." And that's the reason knitters use the term "frogging" as they merrily unravel their hours worth of knitting. Okay, it's not always a particularly fun thing to do but we've all done it at some time. 

I recently posted on my Facebook a status report that said:  "What to do ... what to do ... the yarn in real life does NOT look as nice as the picture on the pattern. Do I abandon the project to choose new yarn?"  And resounding comments were "new yarn".

This is what I'm making:

I thought the colours were fairly striking, so off I went to buy the EXACT yarn the pattern called for.  Let's just say the picture in the pattern did not have true tones because in real life, this is what it looked like:

A bit garish for my taste.  So on the advice of  ... uh, EVERYONE, I "frogged" all of my work, returned the unused balls of yarn and picked out some new colours.  This is what I chose:

Colourful, yet more subtle and easy on the eyes!  It's knitting fairly fast even though it's on smaller needles.  I've already finished the back and the left front.  It's amazing how much knitting one can get done when glued to the TV every night watching Olympics events!

You tell me:  did I make the right decision?