Mine: A sweater coat that is almost finished- but, I’ve moved several times w/ it… to different countries no less and now one of the knitting needles is lost (It was knit on huge hunking metal needles) and the pattern is now lost too. I think I only need to knit the sleeves, sew it together, add the collar, and buttons?
I used some nice tweedy wool, that I bought in Italy, in shades of dark blue and carried a navy mohair and knitted both together.
I’ve only been knitting since 2004 (I think) so my UFO’s aren’t nearly as old as yours are, and I tend to go on a ripping binge every now and then where I take things apart that are unfinished, that I KNOW will remain unfinished. So at the moment I only have the cabled cardigan that I’m currently working on and am just about finished, then I will go back to a feather and fan throw that hasn’t been worked on since spring. So that makes my oldest UFO only about 6 months old.
I’ve only had the Fabulous Lace Inseton the needles for almost a year…Only the back has been worked on… one day I’ll get back to making it for me…:happydance:
I have a cardigan I started in 1998 that I messed up and need to fix and I need to get more yarn too. I sometimes hear it crying from the back of my closet.
I have a top down pullover sweater that I have been working on for over a year now. It is made out of Cherry Tree Hill Oceania. I bought the yarn because it was a huge (over 1000 yards) hank that is hand painted and has a sparkley little thread spun with it. I started making a Clapotis with it, but soon frogged because the drop stitches didn’t drop very easily.
I had to bring it to my knitting group to get some motivation to continue it. I have had it for so long that I lost my objectivity and started to hate it and not sure if it was pretty anymore. They convinced me to continue on with it. So after my holiday knitting is complete…I will try to finish the dang thing.
Considering that I didn’t knit at all for about 10-12 years, I found a couple WIPs that had been on needles for about 20 years when I started up again and got back to my stash (it was in another state). Of course I don’t quite remember what I was doing with those projects, so I’ll use the yarn for baby stuff once the kids start making them.
I’ve been knitting since I was about 10. Stopped, started etc. I know I have stuff on the needles from about the 70’s! Whenever I start a project I put the pattern, the yarn, and all the unused yarn in one of those plastic bags that has a pull string at the top. I know I could go back to those, but they are all in another state too, sitting in storage. Problem is, I’m now knitting continental…had to make a permanent switch since I found my tension is much more even, but I know I could revert back just for those projects. Gosh I’m getting old!!
I learned to knit when my daughter was a baby and then just sort of quit until about a year ago. I still have that baby blanket I started for her…16 years ago! I have a feeling I’ll never finish it! (I think she might have outgrown it)
I am currently working on a scarf that I knit for my brother 9 years ago. I finished it and realized one side was grossly bigger than the other. He sweetly kept it and even wears it. Last time I was visiting him I stole it, frogged it and am now about a third of the way done. I really want to finish it and put it back without telling him.
I’ve only been knitting a year so I don’t have much. Only a sock that I started about 6 months ago that only has some of the cuff done. I just don’t get the love of sock knitting. Maybe if I ever finish the darn thing I will get it.
But all I could think when doing it was “dang these needles are small.” So I started a sock with worsted weight yarn and bigger needles but after finishing the ribbing I thought it was looking more like a mitten so that’s what I ended up making with that one.
I do have a couple of crochet projects that I haven’t finished. They are afghans and they been sitting around for at least 7 years now.
Since I only joined about a week or so ago today was the first time I checked the ‘oldest project.’ Well, don’t mean to top all of you, but when I was 17 years old I began a pair of argyle socks for my father. My very first attempt at knitting and was doing quite a bang-up job at it. He lived in another state and we informed he was very ill, in the hospital, somehow my mother and I managed to board a two-engined plane from L.A. to Dallas and en route I knitted the whole way - out of fear for my father and also my first flight - which took hours. Unfortunately when met at the airport in Dallas, at Love Field Airport we were informed we did not get there in time. To day those socks are still in a box, one almost finished and will remain that way. That was in 1947. I went on knitting following this, of course, then gave up on it as I was busy working with the day-to-day activities of life. Only recently I decided this was what I wanted to do again and am doing quite well with my first project some 60-plus years later, a nice sweater/jacket pattern from Berroco. Thanks for reading - but those socks? Well, they will stay where they are as a wonderful memory.
I think my eldest project is about half a year old now, but I’m still working on it when I’ve got the concentration and energy (it’s a stranded sweater)
These are great… and don’t you feel better… not so alone? Not such a failure? We all (well, most of us) have one of these projects.
I had my project, the extra yarn… and I assumed the pattern and the other knitting needle w/ it… but, since ‘movers’ pack me up when I move… who knows what they did w/ the pattern (It was just in a knitting magazine and they might not have realized that YES, I DID NEED TO KEEP THE MAGAZINE WITH THE SWEATER/YARN STUFF?) and the other knitting needle?
Sigh… It’s almost finished and I’d hate to take it apart- and I actually like what it’s going to be… but, I’ll do one more search for it… (in the yarn/started projects area) and if it’s not found by the end of December-- I guess I’ll undo the knitting and find something else to make out of the pretty yarn.)
I just figure yarn ‘will call to you’ when it wants to be something… sometimes… it’s not what you bought it for and that might be why it’s still sitting there NOT KNIT up in the intended project???
I only count a project as being ‘unfinished’ if I actually started KNITTING WITH THE YARN to make something.
I finally put all of those items on one place so I could see them and they’d have company together and not get all lonely in their own individual sacks/bags stored here and there… now, they are in their own little plastic bags but… ‘together’… I pretend that they are happier in :roflhard:each other’s company- than being all alone.
Come OK fess up.
