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! :-)