Oh My Goodness! There Are More!!!!!!

So last night I was cleaning the sewing room--obviously not having yet learned that cleaning is never really a good thing--and I found yet another knitting bag, which was holding this:
Besides a giant yarn snarl, I found this:
an ABC sweater from Debbie Bliss's Nursery Knits that I started for a future niece or nephew who was ultimately miscarried and I put away because I didn't have the heart to work on it any longer. Enough time has passed--and the fact that I now have 8 healthy nieces and nephews plus 2 "honoraries"--to make this an acceptable project again.

I also found two green baby sweater pieces, and my first thought was "Wonderful! It's almost done!" Then I noticed:
Not parts of the same sweater. What possessed me to start & abandon 2 sweaters in the exact same yarn is anyone's guess. I just hope I wasn't making them for specific children, as the intended recipients would now be of school age & way too large for either of them.

So, since I'm keeping score now, that is 24 WIPS without casting on a darn thing. Has anyone else noticed I'm not making any progress here???

Comments

Anonymous said…
I recently found the front of a sweater that I'd utterly forgotten I'd done--to the point I'd given away most of the rest of the yarn. Oops. Better to find the UFOs while they're still finishable!
July 26, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Jillsknit said…
Maybe you can come up with sleeves that would have both patterns of the green pieces so you could create one artistic-creative sweater. (or maybe not.....)
Thanks for the card!
July 26, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Anonymous said…
Oh, Toni, you are making *so* much progress!

1) those finished WIPs are still finished, even if you have found more;

2) you are admitting the problem not only to yourself, but to others, too. Acceptance is good.

(grinning, ducking and running for cover)
July 27, 2008 at 12:57 AM
Anonymous said…
And that's why we should all avoid cleaning, right!?
July 27, 2008 at 2:58 AM
bittenbyknittin said…
The WIPs must be breeding! Run!
July 27, 2008 at 8:34 AM
Anonymous said…
I love knowing that other people's projects in progress look like that too!
July 29, 2008 at 12:47 AM
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