Eeeeeek! Am I becoming a Quitter??

I haven't even picked up the stupid ribbon scarf since the night I wrote the blog about it falling off the needles. Maybe I don't even like knitting any more... at least not when it's annoying. I want it to be relaxing & fun, not challenging and aggravating. I get enough of that at work - not so much the challenging part, but definitely the aggravation. :-p

The item I was working on before this ribbon scarf was a little purse of a thing using very frizzly furry fancy twisted looking yarn. It was lots of different pieces, each about 2 yards long, that were meant for scrapbooking. I'd received them as a part of some scrapbook page kits made by friends from a scrapping forum. (I received them in a swap.)

I'm using the page kits but not the fiber, so thought it'd be fun to make a little change purse out of it. It was all going great until I started binding off & it took on a life of its own and knotted up like crazy... then bleeping BROKE! Aaaaaaaaaaack!

Granted, that's probably to be expected when using so many kinds of novelty yarn all together. I loved how it was looking, but when the big mess formed I just put it away in a basket to "fix later"... and that was several months ago.

I've never been one to have UFOs sitting around, but it sure seems to be happening lately! I have a child's sweater that's in the same (unfinished) category: I started knitting it while in the waiting room when my dad was having heart surgery.

Needless to say, I couldn't concentrate so totally screwed the piece up. When I realized what I'd done I decided to switch to something simpler (this was a long surgery so I had hours) so I whipped out my crochet hook & started a sweater using a different ball of the same yarn.

Well, guess what? Screwed that one up too! Those (2 sweater fronts, one knitted & the other crocheted, both needing to be unravelled and re-done) are both in the knitting bag and have been for several YEARS! :-p They seem, despite their bright colors, to represent how distraught I was while Dad was so very sick. (He, who was given up for dead, is fine now, thank you very much!)

So, here I am with 4, not 1, not 2 not even 3, but I repeat FOUR unfinished knitted items, the same person who would never start a new knitting project until the previous one had been finished! This being said, will I now go in & retrieve those abandoned projects and fix & finish them? Nah, not right now. I think I'll go fix myself a peanut butter & banana sandwich... now THAT I know I will finish! :-)

Lion Brand "Incredible" yarn

Tonight I've been knitting for the first time with "ribbon yarn". I thought it'd be really easy to work with but am discovering that it's SO slippery! Mac the cat hopped up to help me and SWISH a bunch of stitches went shooting off the needle!

Got it all fixed back (sort of) and SWISH there they went again! Aaargh! This time it unraveled a couple of rows down so I've put it away for tonight (it was either that or scram & throw it out the window! LOL)

I'm making the "Shape-it Scarf" from
The Knitting Experience: Book 1: The Knit Stitch (The Knitting Experience) by Sally Melville. Have you used any of the patterns in that book?

She has very detailed directions on how to rescue projects that have gone wrong (like, for instance, something Mac the Cat has tried to help with) so tomorrow I'll be reading that to see what the best way will be to get the scarf all back on the needles. (If it was yarn it'd be easy, but being slippery it's not.) Hopefully it can be rescued! I'd hate to have to start all over!!

Originally I was thinking of making several of these scarves using the ribbon yarn & giving them as Valentine's Day gifts, but the way it's going I may cut it into lengths for scrapbook swaps & use some other yarns instead! ;-p